Speakers Corner
March 10, 2010
A Chinese patriot, heading for European Parliament
Author Zhang Lijia of the bestseller "Socialism Is Great!": A Worker's Memoir of the New China might be building fame fast outside China, but her interview with the Global Times is a breakthrough. While no political activist, she is also not always toeing the official bureaucracy. But at least in the English-language media, times are slightly changing.
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Hoogewerf, Rupert
Founder and compiler of the Hurun China Rich List
Travels from: Shanghai
Founder and compiler of the Hurun China Rich List, now in its tenth straight year. Curious to know who was behind China's fast-growing private sector, Rupert in 1999 founded the China Rich List with two students from Shanghai's Donghua University, publishing the first four years in Forbes magazine. Since then, the China Rich List has become an eagerly awaited annual event for China's private sector.
A qualified chartered accountant, Mr Hoogewerf was at Arthur Andersen for seven years. He graduated in Chinese and Japanese from Durham University in the UK in 1993.
In 2004, Rupert was named one of the 100 Top Influencers in China's Globalization by Global Entrepreneur magazine. In 2005, China Entrepreneur magazine named the Hurun Report China Rich List as one of the ten most important business events of the past twenty years. In 2002 he was named Person of the Year.
In recognition of his contribution to the understanding of wealth creation in China, Hoogewerf was awarded the prestigious"2002 Person of the Year" by Newweekly magazine. Other winners have included Bora Milutinovic (2001), the coach who steered the Chinese soccer team to its first World Cup Finals; Zhong Nanshan (2003), the SARS whistleblower; Liu Xiang (2004), China's first Olympic gold medalist on the track; Li Yuchun (2005), winner of China's inaugural Super Girl, the Chinese equivalent of Idols in the US; and Yi Zhongtian, for his reinterpretations of Chinese classics.
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Travels from: Shanghai
Founder and compiler of the Hurun China Rich List, now in its tenth straight year. Curious to know who was behind China's fast-growing private sector, Rupert in 1999 founded the China Rich List with two students from Shanghai's Donghua University, publishing the first four years in Forbes magazine. Since then, the China Rich List has become an eagerly awaited annual event for China's private sector.
A qualified chartered accountant, Mr Hoogewerf was at Arthur Andersen for seven years. He graduated in Chinese and Japanese from Durham University in the UK in 1993.
In 2004, Rupert was named one of the 100 Top Influencers in China's Globalization by Global Entrepreneur magazine. In 2005, China Entrepreneur magazine named the Hurun Report China Rich List as one of the ten most important business events of the past twenty years. In 2002 he was named Person of the Year.
In recognition of his contribution to the understanding of wealth creation in China, Hoogewerf was awarded the prestigious"2002 Person of the Year" by Newweekly magazine. Other winners have included Bora Milutinovic (2001), the coach who steered the Chinese soccer team to its first World Cup Finals; Zhong Nanshan (2003), the SARS whistleblower; Liu Xiang (2004), China's first Olympic gold medalist on the track; Li Yuchun (2005), winner of China's inaugural Super Girl, the Chinese equivalent of Idols in the US; and Yi Zhongtian, for his reinterpretations of Chinese classics.
Get in touch with us to check the availability of this speaker
