Associate professor Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism;
Former New York Times correspondent in Africa, Japan, China

Howard French has called Africa, the Americas, Japan and China as his home, and got the best out of it. As a professional photographer he had a very keen eye for those details that matter. As correspondent for the New York Times, he was not only an alert observer of the society he was in, but was able to compare and connect between those worlds, much to the benefit of his audience.

Publisher and editor of Danwei.org

South African long-time Beijing resident Jeremy Goldkorn is a much asked speaker on Chinese media and advertising, Internet business and culture and Sino-African relations. In a witty, sometimes provocative style, Goldkorn engages his audiences. With more than a decade of experience in China's print media, Internet and advertising industries. He has also worked as a media consultant to the South African embassy and writes for publications suchs as the the Far Eastern Economic Review about Sino-African relations and trade.

Executive Director Global Initiative at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), former Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament in the Netherlands and ex‐ Shell

Her well-founded sparkling opinions, clear facts and compelling stories make her an exciting and inspiring speaker and author. She loves to tap into the imagination of the audience. She is a master in showing managers how to apply the new insights to their own challenging business dilemmas. Many business leaders have enjoyed Annette's guest lectures for example at London Business School, the Oxford Saïd Business School, Nyenrode Business University, The European Space Agency, Rabobank, Shell, ABN AMRO, Robeco, DeLoitte , Ernst&Young.

Senior research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard

A highly respected expert and speaker on China and Asia, Dr. Overholt, joined in 2008 as a senior research fellow the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 2007 he published Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics

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Asia-Pacific director IEDE business school, former diplomat

As a former diplomat in Latin America, Xu Ming is not only a fluent Spanish-speaker, but also has a profound knowledge of the intense relations between Chinese politics and international business. He is one of very few Chinese speakers who has been part of China's bureaucracy and can help the business world to deal with it.