leading author and journalist

Jasper Becker is one of the leading voices on China's development, setting his reputation as an author with a monumental work "Hungry Ghosts" on China's secret famines that changed the world's perception on China. He worked over twenty years as a foreign correspondent in China.

Founder Tudou
CEO Spil Group Asia

One of the most successful foreign business people in China, founder of the country's largest video hosting firm and now heading a leading gaming company. By moving both fast and careful, he is a telling example of successful dealing with China's murky realities.

Managing director of Silk Road advisors

When you want to look beyond Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong, Bob Dodson is your man. With humor he explains in a down-to-earth way how the rest of China is developing and might fit into your plans.

Professor at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD)

Bill Fischer combines an appealing enthusiasm with a thorough knowledge of basis business processes in China. As the former dean of China's leading business school CEIBS he submerged in the often murky dealing and shares as a professional storyteller his experiences in a professional way.

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.

Professor at IMD and Lausanne University.
Director of IMD World Competitiveness Center

Professor Garelli brings in twenty years of experience in competitiveness, making him into one of the leading speakers on the global economy. His annual ranking of countries in the IMD World Competitiveness is watched by countries both with high expectations and fear.

Founder and compiler of the Hurun China Rich List

Now in its tenth straight year, the Rich List has been a benchmark for China's change and the position of its rich. By combining a thorough knowledge of China's society and British flair, Rupert Hoogewerf is a much wanted speaker. He is spearheading a wide number of related initiative and list, making him one of the few foreigners in China who has become a real celebrity.

Managing Director and Head of Research, Dragonomics

A leading economic thinking who brings into the China-debate what is often lacking: facts in stead of emotion. In a humorous style Mr Kroeber brings back cliches and misconception on China to a more realistic proportion.

Professor at the Department Organization and Personnel Management of RSM Erasmus University, organizing its China program

Professor Krug is a leading authority in Europe on China's economic development, particularly its private entrepreneurs. She organizes the China program at RSM, the most prominent business school in the Netherlands, at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

Retired MBA lecturer and China entrepreneur

Warren Liu takes with him the academic rigor of the top-end business schools where he has been teaching. Combined with his practical business experience, and his recent study of KFC in China, he brings a unique set of skills, viewpoints and background, makes him a challenging partner at your next event.

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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Founder and Managing Director of the China Market Research Group (CMR)

An impressive list of media references, Business Week, Forbes, the International Herald Tribune, underlines Mr. Rein's unchallenged position as opinion leader on the Chinese consumer market research. He talks and writes about the mistakes foreign companies make, the Chinese middle class, the Chinese youth culture.

Assistant professor political science, Northwestern University
leading specialist on China's financial systems

What is the People's Bank of China thinking? Victor Shih is one of very few people who can shed so light on the decision making process of some of the world's most important people. The Harvard-educated scholar has a profound insight in the inner workings of China's politics, where others barely scratch the surface.