Jane RS 3
  • Founder of The Horan Group
  • Expert in cross cultural and women leaders
  • Author of I Wish I’d Known That Earlier in My Career: The Power of Positive Workplace Politics and How Asian Women Lead: Lessons for Global Corporations
Kaufman1
  • Director for academics at Schwarzman Scholars
  • Former Director, Emerita, Columbia Global Centers | East Asia
  • Lecturer,  Global Health, Harvard Medical School
  • Adjunct Professor of Global Health Policy, Tsinghua University
  • Expert on Globalization and Global Education, Global Health and Development, Women’s Health and Rights, and Population, Family Planning, Reproductive Health (with focus on China)
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  • Chairman and Principal, Wethington International LLC, an investment advisory firm
  • An expert in finance, the global economy, global geopolitical trends and U.S. foreign policy (Asia, Europe, Middle East)
  • Former Special Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary of the Economic Policy Council in the White House; Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury; Special Envoy on China, U.S. Treasury
  • Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Project on Shaping the Asia-Pacific Future, Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security, Atlantic Council
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  • Awarding winning foreign correspondent and author
  • Expert on the political economies and socio-cultural complexities of India, China and Indonesia in a comparative framework
  • Author of Smoke and Mirrors, Chinese Whiskers, New Old World, Babies and Bylines and Choked!
  • Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum
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  • Senior Fellow, Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia.
  • Award-winning journalist and author
Taiya Smith
  • Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s top advisor on China.
  • Designed and managed the U.S.- China Strategic Economic Dialogue, highest level dialogue between the two countries governments.
  • Architect of the U.S-China Ten Year Cooperative Framework on Energy and the Environment, which continues to serve as the foundation of the bilateral relationship on energy and environmental issues. Launched the EcoPartnership dialogue.
  • A leading advisor to international companies and governments looking to engage in China.
  • Founder and CEO, The Green Trust, a platform for innovation in environmental and clean energy technologies.
Ted Plafker Photo
  • Correspondent, Beijing Bureau of The Economist
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  • President and Chief Executive Officer of Barbara Franklin Enterprises
  • An expert in corporate governance, auditing, and financial reporting practices
  • The 29th U.S. Secretary of Commerce for President George H.W. Bush

 

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  • Professor at School of International Studies, and the Director of the Center for International Political Economy, Peking University, China.
  • Professor at Party School of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • Member of Economic Diplomacy Expert Working Group, Ministry of Commerce(MOFCOM).
  • Member of World Economic Forum (WEF)Global Agenda Council (GAC) on the Global Trade System.
  • Commissioner of Asia Pacific Regional Trade Architecture Commission (organized by Asia Society, USA).
Alec Ash
  • Journalist based in Beijing
  • Author of Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China
  • Co-editor of While We’re Here, an anthology of stories from China
  • Founder and editor of the Anthill, a ‘writers’ colony’ of stories from China

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