Archive for the 'China / Asia' Category

Nov 05 2012

Haiyan Wang – Globalization Speaker

Published by under China / Asia,Women Speakers

Co-Founder, China India Institute and Globalization Speaker

Haiyan Wang - Globalization SpeakerHaiyan Wang is Managing Partner of China India Institute, a research and consulting organization with a focus on creating winning global strategies that leverage the transformational rise of China and India. A native of China, she has spent the last twenty years consulting for and managing multinational business operations in China and the US in several different industry sectors.

“It’s India and China, not India or China” Haiyan Wang
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Oct 01 2012

Long Yongtu – Finance speaker

Leading Expert on Chinese Economics, Legal Affairs and Finance speaker

Long Yongtu - Finance speakerMr. Long Yongtu is responsible for trade negotiations and multilateral economic and legal affairs. He is the Chief Negotiator for China’s resumption of GATT contracting party status and its accession to the World Trade Organization.

Mr. Long is also in charge of the multilateral economic and trade affairs between China and the United Nations development agencies. He led the first Chinese delegation to OECD in Paris in January 1995 and established the relationship of dialogue partner with the organization. He is fully involved in APEC affairs and attended the APEC trade ministers meetings and informal meetings of economic leaders held in Seattle, Jakarta, Osaka, Manila, Vancouver Auckland, Brunei and Shanghai.
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Aug 06 2012

Prof. FAN Gang – Finance speaker

Director of the National Economic Research Institute and Finance speaker

Prof. FAN Gang - Finance speakerFAN Gang is a Professor of Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Director of the National Economic Research Institute, China Reform Foundation. He is a highly distinguished economist and an advisor to the Chinese Government and he also works with a number of leading international organisations.

Prof. Gang is renowned as one of China’s leading experts on Chinese economics
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Jul 30 2012

John Thornton – Leadership speaker

Published by under China / Asia,Leadership

Former President of Goldman Sachs and Leadership speaker

Book Leadership speaker John ThorntonJohn Thornton is Professor and Director of Global Leadership at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is a former President and Co-COO of Goldman Sachs. In 1983, Thornton founded and developed Goldman Sachs’ European mergers and acquisitions business. He served as co-CEO of Goldman Sachs International in London from 1995 to 1996 and was Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia from 1996 to 1998. Mr Thornton is a director of Intel, Pacific Century Group, Ford Motor Company, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and News Corporation. He is also Chairman of the Board of The Brookings Institution.

“If I can contribute to the way China evolves and how that relates to the outside world and the US, that would be a good thing”
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Jun 15 2012

Chris Johnson – Asian affairs speaker

Published by under China / Asia

The CIA’s Former Top China Analyst and Asian affairs speaker

Chris Johnson - Asian affairs  speakerChris Johnson is a senior adviser and holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. An accomplished Asian affairs specialist, Mr. Johnson spent nearly two decades serving in the U.S. government’s intelligence and foreign affairs communities and has extensive experience analyzing and working in Asia on a diverse set of country-specific and transnational issues.

“An accomplished Asian affairs specialist”
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Apr 30 2012

Roger Camrass – Finance speaker

Founder & Member of the Fujitsu Executive Institute and Senior Associate at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University and Finance speaker

Book Finance speaker Roger CamrassRoger Camrass is an accomplished author and international business strategist with over 25 years of experience in tackling Innovation in rapidly changing corporate environments. From 1999-2001 Roger headed Ernst & Young’s European electronic commerce practice and in September 2003 he was appointed Executive Director of Fujitsu Plc.

Innovative Strategist in a Connected World

In detail
A graduate of Cambridge University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he became a research fellow at MIT, participating in the early design of the Internet. After numerous senior roles in the UK, Netherlands and the USA, he headed Consulting Operations of Butler Cox plc, followed by appointments as Partner at Arthur D. Little (92-94), and then European President of SRI (the Stanford Research Institute).
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Mar 05 2012

Peggy Liu – Strategy speaker

Strategic Thinker and China Clean Technology Expert and Strategy speaker

Peggy Liu - Strategy speakerPeggy Liu is an internationally recognized expert on China’s energy landscape. She is the Chairperson and co-founder of JUCCCE, the Joint-US China Collaboration on Energy, a non-profit organization dedicated to changing the way China creates and uses energy. She is an advisor to the Katerva Challenge for innovative climate change solutions and an executive advisor to Marks & Spencer on sustainable retailing.

“My life is about bringing everyone to the table – and making sure the table provides the conditions that help get things done.”
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Feb 15 2012

Dr. Florence Eid – Globalization speaker

Founder & CEO of Arabia Monitor and Globalization speaker

Dr. Florence Eid - Globalization speakerFlorence Eid is the Founder & CEO of Arabia Monitor, a research and advisory firm focused on the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region. Previously, Florence was Vice President and Senior Economist for MENA at JPMorgan and Professor of Finance and Economics at the American University of Beirut. Florence appears periodically on CNBC Europe, CNBC Arabia, CNN and the BBC.

“A leading economic expert in the MENA region”
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Jan 23 2012

Ven. Geshe Tenzing Tamding – Spiritual speaker

Tibetan Buddhist Monk, Spiritual Director and Spiritual speaker

Ven. Geshe Tenzing Tamding - Spiritual  speakerVen. Geshe Tenzing Tamding is a Spiritual Director of Buddhist centers in Japan, USA, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Australia, Bulgaria, and sixteen Buddhist centers in Spain. He has received intensive study of Tibetan grammar, literature, religious texts and memorization of basic debates in the monastery of Ganden Shartse, having spent a total of 27 years in a monastery. He has completed all the courses of the five major areas of knowledge such as Buddhist Perfection of Wisdom, Madhyamika, Metaphysics, Logic and Monastic Discipline with distinction, achieving the highest academic honor in the School Gelugpa.

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Oct 10 2011

Professor C. S. Kiang – Climate change speaker

Founding Dean of College of Environmental Science Pekin University and Climate change speaker

Professor C. S. Kiang - Climate change speakerC.S. Kiang is the Founding Dean of the College of Environmental Sciences at Peking University. Currently, he is the CEO of Sustainable Development Technologies and Vice Chairman of Global Urban Development. He is a Councilor of the World Future Council, a member of the Advisory Board of the Climate Change Capital, a member of International Council of Asia Society and a member of the Global Agenda Council of Climate Change of the World Economic Forum among other roles.

“Climate change is an unprecedented crisis for humanity”
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