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  • Correspondent, Beijing Bureau of The Economist
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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  • Navy SEAL combat veteran
  • Successful entrepreneur and expert in leadership and organizational management
  • Undergraduate degrees in Finance & Economics, MBA, degrees in English & History from Oxford University
  • TV personality
  • Philanthropist
David Wolf
  • Managing Director of Allison+Partners’ Global China Practice
  • Specialist in complex communications challenges from foreign business in China
  • Former President and Chief Executive Officer of Wolf Group Asia (WGA)

 

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  • Corporate Entrepreneur
  • Futurist of Work
  • Future Boards
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)
Backaler-SAGE
  • Author of China Goes West: Everything You Need to Know About Chinese Companies Going Global (Palgrave Macmillan)
  • An expert on global branding, and how Chinese companies are reshaping international business
  • Managing Director at Frontier Strategy Group
  • Member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations
Laura Dowling
  • Former White House Chief Floral Designer
  • Author of the book Floral Diplomacy at the White House
  • Distinguished Flower Ambassador (Royal Horticultural Society of Belgium)
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  • The first Chinese woman to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents and to ski to both the North Pole and the South Pole.
  • Expert and Coach on Mental Strength training, Setting Right Goals, Sustainable Motivations, Building a Passionate Team.
M.J. Greeven
  • Academic: Chinese speaking Dutch Professor of Innovation and Strategy with decade long China research
  • Author: Pioneers, Hidden Champions, Change Makers and Underdogs: Lessons from China’s Innovators (MIT Press, forthcoming); Business ecosystems in China: Alibaba and competing Baidu, Tencent, Xiaomi and LeEco (Routledge, 2018)
  • Thinker: Selected on the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 next generation business gurus

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