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  • Founder and Creative Director of Ping Pong Productions
  • Member of Forbes NonProfit Council
  • A leading expert on contemporary performing arts and the developing arts market in China
  • A former arts management fellow at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C.
  • Artistic Director at the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority in Hong Kong
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  • Correspondent, Beijing Bureau of The Economist
Ian Johnson
  • A free-lance correspondent based in Beijing and Berlin, accredited in China for The New York Times
  • Writer for New York Review of Books, which is widely recognized as an influential magazine of ideas, The New Yorker, National Geographic
  • An expert in China issues (especially politics, stability, prospects for reform), Islam in Europe, non-fiction writing and problems in journalism
  • 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner for International Reporting (China coverage)
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  • Founder and CEO of Young China Group
  • Author of Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World, which explores a wide and deep range of identity questions impacting the country’s emerging young generation
  • Fluent Mandarin speaker
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  • A worker-turned writer and social commentator
  • An expert on the changing Chinese society
  • Voted one of the 40 Beijing heroes by TimeOut Beijing

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