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.

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.

General Manager, Shanghai Campanile

Calling Gabor Holch a dynamic speaker would be an understatement. His driven style - "I'm a compulsory speaker," he says himself - he eloquently addresses cross-cultural issues, both political and economic affairs in an engaging way. Mr. Holch has been working on both institution building and cross-cultural cooperation.

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.

Chairman and CEO at The MacLellan Group

Douglas MacLellan has been working in China since 1983 (26 years) and is a recognized authority on joint venture and wholly foreign owned enterprise (WFOE) structuring. Mr. MacLellan is currently Chairman & CEO of AMDL, Inc. a U.S. based Pharma business with significant operations in China. He is also Chairman & CEO of the MacLellan Group an international advisory business focused on China business development. Mr. MacLellan is a senior international business executive, economist, venture capitalist and merchant banker. MacLellan has been a catalyst for the development and financing of global businesses in the United States and throughout the world in countries that include: Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Hungary, India, Korea, Madagascar and Russia over the past 17 years. Throughout his professional career, as a senior international business executive and or as a member of the board of directors of numerous companies, he has provided management, advice and counsel on strategic planning, operational activities, corporate finance, economic policy, asset allocation and mergers & acquisitions. He has helped raise over US$715 million for development stage, start-up and mid-cap companies.

Senior Fellow at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, Canadian Ambassador to the WTO (1999-2004)

An extensive career in government and business places Ambassador Sergio Marchi in an excellent position to explain China to the outside world. He served as a Canadian Ambassador to the World Trade Organization and UN, in Geneva; as a Canadian Cabinet Minister of International Trade, the Environment and Immigration; and in a range of private sector advisory positions. From 2004 to 2008 he was the President of the Canada-China Business Council.

Asia bureau chief Defense News

Author, commentator, journalist and speaker who has spent nearly two decades covering military and security issues in Asia.

Focuses on conflict scenario's at the Taiwan Strait and Chinese espionage.

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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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

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.