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.

Author and consultant

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.