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Ben Harburg is a Managing Partner at MSA Capital, a global investment firm with over $2 billion in assets under management. Mr. Harburg also leads MSA Novo, the emerging markets focused franchise of MSA. Ben has significant investment and operations … Continued

• Founder and Chairman, BDA China, a leading investment consulting firm.
• Author of “Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built”
• Founder, investor and leading advisor on China’s dynamic technology and consumer sectors.
• Recipient of the 2016 Book of the Year award by The Economist for ‘Alibaba‘

• Founder of Bearapy
• Leadership Consultant at INSEAD Global Leadership Center (executive education).
• Speaker for Gen Y / Millenial women personal and professional development.
• Widely published author on topics of mental & emotional well-being, self awareness,
  creativity, and women issues.
• Avid writer on NochNoch.com.

● Chief Macro Investment Strategist, Private Capital Limited
● Global economist based in Hong Kong or 25+ years
● Chief Regional Economist: Smith New Court Far East Ltd., SG Warburg Far East Ltd., ABN-AMRO Ltd.
● Iconoclastic predictor of national and global trends

• 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)

• 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

• 63rd Superintendent of the US Naval Academy, the nation’s premier leadershipdevelopment institution
• Over 4000 flight hours and command- level leadership at the Squadron, Air Wing, and three higher- level organizations culminating with command of the US FOURTH Fleet.
• Having commanded six times in the military, he has tremendous applied-leadership experience at the highest levels of military and government as well as specialization in strategy and policy development and international affairs.
• Ashore, he had over a decade of service in the Pentagon on multiple tours of duty with the Navy Staff as well as the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During these tours he specialized in strategy and policy development, international affairs, as well as personnel management.

• 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

• 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)