Duncan Clark
  • 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
Gao Jian
  • Senior Advisor of China Development Bank
  • Senior Economist in China
  • Former Visiting Scholar in the Department of Economics in Harvard
  • Founder of China’s Government Securities Market
Stefen Chow
  • Summitted Mount Everest at 25
  • World Press Photo winning photographer and film maker
  • Inspirational father who solo travels with his toddler children
  • Co- Founded The Poverty Line, a global poverty project that was highlighted by the World Bank and exhibited internationally
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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
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)
Sam Goodman
  • Co-founder and President of Attract China
  • An expert in SME, investment, recruitment and operational landscape in China
  • A seasoned market entry strategist, advisor and highly successful entrepreneur
Victor Yuan
  • Founder and Chairman of the board of Horizon Research Consultancy Group, China’s leading public opinion and polling organization
  • President of the Beijing Consulting Association
  • Vice President for China Marketing Research Association
  • Representative of the Association of Management Consulting Firms in China
Xie Tao
  • Professor of political science at Beijing Foreign Studies University
  • Expert in US-China relations and policy
  • Researches U.S. Congress, public opinion, U.S.-China relations, and Chinese foreign policy
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  • Professor of Economics at China’s Peking University
  • Expert in China’s economic development and prolific journalist/scholar
  • Winner of 2009 Chinese Economic Sun Yefang Award
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