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.

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.

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.

Frmr CEO of Roche China
Advisor of the government of Pudong special economic zone

William Keller, former China CEO of Roche, is one of Shanghai's key advisers on innovations in life sciences and has been instrumental in developing its high-tech zone in Pudong. He now supports also Chinese companies in their investments abroad.

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.

Technology observer, cultural commentator, and rock musician

Kaiser Kuo is an American-born writer, rock musician, technology watcher and cultural commentator. He currently divides his time between consulting for China's leading Internet video site, Youku.com, where his brief includes international trade marketing, media relations, and multinational advertiser/agency relations.

Chairman of Andrew Leung International Consultants

Mr. Leung's impressive resume reflects a forty-year long engagement with business and China. A much asked professor and China expert with a solid international reputation.

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)

Shaun Rein is the Managing Director of the China Market Research Group (CMR), the world's leading strategic market intelligence firm focused on China. He is one of the world's recognized thought leaders on strategy consulting in China.

Partner at King&Wood, China's largest law firm

Mark Schaub was the first foreign lawyer to join a Chinese law firm and that gave him a close insight in the way Chinese and foreigners conduct business in China. His experiences, varying from funny to hilarious, offer a great opportunity to learn about the do's and don't's in China.

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.

Associate dean of CEIBS
professor in Economics

As a sharp observer of China's political and economic developments, professor Wang Jianmao, has outspoken viewpoints on what direction China should be taking in the future. Veiled with a touch of humor he analyses the political choices the government is making, and sometimes its inability to execute them. Professor Wang gives us a peek behind the doors that mostly remain closed for the outside world

Chang-Jiang Professor of Economics at Fudan University and Director of the China Center for Economic Studies

Who thinks that Chinese academics cannot be provocative, has not met Zhang Jun yet. A sharp analytic of China's economics and decision making process, he is a much asked speaker.

Deputy Director General, Institute of Population and Labor Economics , Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Zhang Juwei is a leading expert at one of China's most prominent think tanks on China's economic development and its implications on labor. In his position he advises the central and provincial governments on their policies and the future of the country.

Writer, journalist, social commentator

Zhang Lijia became the Chinese equivalent of a self-made woman, escaped from the state-owned enterprise where she worked, to a UK-educated commentator on contemporary issues in China.