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Expert on Business Opportunities in China

Dr Xisu Wang worked with the first western companies to establish businesses in China, including EDS, Unilever and Caradon Electric, which has provided him with rare insights into the new and unique challenges involved in forming Sino-US joint ventures. Now based in Beijing and still consulting to foreign companies doing business in China, Xisu provides insightful commentary on socio-economic and geo-political issues in China.

“Xisu Wang’s views on the socio-economic issues and challenges that the Chinese Government faces in satisfying the demands of their vast and diverse population are both insightful and instructive.”

[expand title=”In detail”] He lived his early life under the shadow of the then new Chairman Mao and Communist China. As a young man he realised that China was slowly opening up to the west, he left his position as Associate Professor and Dean of Nanjing University and became the first student from mainland China to complete post graduate studies in America, earning a PhD at Harvard University followed by an MBA at MIT. He returned to China in the late 1980s.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Dr Wang is a personable and knowledgeable individual who speaks with great authority on the evolution and future of China’s place in the world today, from the inside out and the outside in. He provides fascinating insights into working in China and offers organisations invaluable advice and information.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]With meticulous preparation, Dr Wang leaves no stone unturned in his highly informative and engaging presentations which are essential for any company wishing to expand into China.[/expand]

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Director of the National Economic Research Institute

FAN 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

[expand title=”In detail”] Prof. Gang is a prolific author and has written over one hundred academic papers on issues connected with the Chinese economy in addition to eight books. Most recently he was invited by Harvard University to be a visiting fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research
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[expand title=”What he offers you”]Prof. Gang shares with his audiences his unique insight into China’s economy and guides decision makers through the intricate processes involved in successfully expanding into the Chinese Market. He also offers a trenchant account of China’s recent performance and an upbeat assessment of its ability to maintain its high growth rate.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]His invaluable presentations are filled with examples and information from his experience in China and he is in great demand as a keynote speaker at leading economic summits the world over.
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Co-Founder, China India Institute

Haiyan 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

[expand title=”In detail”] Haiyan Wang received a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade and a master’s degree in International Business from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. She also holds an M.B.A. from The University of Maryland at College Park. Her opinion pieces have appeared in top international media such as The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, CEO Magazine, The Economic Times, China Daily, The Times of India, as well as other outlets. In the late 1980s, she worked for Minmetals, one of the 20 largest enterprises in China and a global Fortune 500 company. In the US, she began her career working as a management consultant with Kepner-Tregoe, Inc. and served as Director of Business Development at E-Steel Corporation. She also served as a senior marketing and operations executive at PTI Inc.[/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Haiyan Wang presents an insider’s perspective on how people from various social layers of China see the shifting landscape and their role in it. She will bring alive the hot button issues facing people from different walks of China that matter to government and business decision makers both within China as well as outside. Drawing on her broad international experience, she consults with clients and speaks at conferences on building and exploiting global presence, especially in China.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Shedding light on the brutal competition for today’s markets and resources in China and India, Haiyan Wang’s fascinating and informative presentations give deep understanding and insight in a clear and easily digestible style.[/expand]
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Former President of Goldman Sachs

John 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”

[expand title=”In detail”] Mr Thornton earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Oxford University, and a master’s degree from Yale School of Management. Mr. Thornton joined Goldman Sachs in 1980 in the Mergers Department. He became a partner in 1988 and co-chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs International in 1995. He was named president and co-chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs in 1999.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]In his presentations John Thornton explains his decision to leave Wall Street and teach the Chinese elite at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He also offers audiences an insider’s view of the future of China and the vast opportunities that Asia presents to companies wishing to expand their international operations.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]An accomplished teacher, Mr Thornton’s invigorating presentations are immaculately prepared and tailored to fit individual client’s needs.[/expand]
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The CIA’s Former Top China Analyst

Chris 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”

[expand title=”In detail”] Chris worked as a Senior China Analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he played a key role in the analytic support to policymakers during the 1996 Taiwan Strait missile crisis, the 1999 accidental bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, the downing of a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft on Hainan Island in 2001 and the SARS epidemic in 2003. Chris served as an intelligence liaison to two secretaries of state and their deputies on worldwide security issues and in 2011 was awarded the U.S. Department of State’s Superior Honor Award for outstanding support to the secretary and her senior staff. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Chris offers unrivalled expertise in dealing with Asia. His knowledge of China’s internal dynamics helps provide leading analysis to audiences who want to expand into China and Asia.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]An informative and direct speaker, Chris Johnson’s presentations are tailored made to suit individuals clients needs and are based on his extensive research and ongoing research.[/expand]
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Founder & Member of the Fujitsu Executive Institute and Senior Associate at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University

Roger 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

[expand title=”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).[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]An innovative and provocative thinker with unequalled practical experience, he demonstrates how to channel the ever more disruptive and radical forces of change in the connected world to your company’s advantage. His expertise on organisational structure and innovation in today’s business environment expands into consumer trends and individual development within the corporation.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]A highly provocative and inspiring speaker, Roger is in great demand as an advisor, speaker and facilitator for senior executives around the globe.[/expand]
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Strategic Thinker and China Clean Technology Expert

Peggy 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.”

[expand title=”In detail”] Peggy was honoured as a Time Magazine Hero of the Environment in 2008, an energy adviser to the Clinton Global Initiative in 2008, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2009, the Hillary Laureate of 2010 for climate change leadership, a Forbes “Women to Watch in Asia” in 2010, a Huffington Post “Greatest Person of the Day” in 2011, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on New Energy Architecture 2011. She is the winner of The Economist debate “Why China is doing more than the US in climate change leadership. She has extensive non-profit management experience in a wide range of sectors and has a passion for making the world a better place. [/expand]

[expand title=”What she offers you”]Peggy offers fascinating insights on how China is transforming itself from the factory of the world into the Cleantech laboratory of the world. She is a dynamic speaker and can address a wide range of topics relating to the environment and climate change. She has extensive knowledge of developments in China, both on the ground and at the policy level, and links this to the broader global agenda.[/expand]

[expand title=”How she presents”]Peggy is a lively, engaging and charismatic speaker, who is passionate about changing the world to create a more sustainable future.[/expand]
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Tibetan Buddhist Monk, Spiritual Director

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.

[expand title=”In detail”] Geshe Tenzin has been the personal translator for His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama to the Chinese in teaching important spiritual and religious ceremonies. Having received the highest ranking as Geshe Lharampa and being the youngest Geshe Lharampa, SS Dalai Lama sent him to spread the authentic dharma to monastic institutions and Buddhist centers around the world. He has created a foundation called Chu Sup Tsang Foundation for the preservation of Tibetan culture, art and Buddhism. The main objective of the foundation is to recreate the main Gelugpa monastic universities. [/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”] Geshe Tenzing Tamding offers an interesting perspective of the corporate world challenges and management, utilizing century tested principles of the Buddhist approach. He talks about the balance between the material and the spiritual world outside and in each person individually.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Geshe Tenzin conveys the Dharma in a clear and straightforward way. His lessons can be easily understood and applied by his audiences in everyday life.[/expand]
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Founding Dean of College of Environmental Science Peking University

C.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”

[expand title=”In detail”] Professor C. S. Kiang received a B.S. in Physics from National Taiwan University and PhD in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He spent more than 30 years in the United States, where he worked at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the School of Geophysical Sciences, Georgia Tech, and other institutions. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Kiang has played a very active role in assisting China in the development of a modern and sustainable economy.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Prof. Kiang explains to his audiences around the world how his vision is to set up the basic infrastructure for the development of leadership in sustainable development, exploring the world impact of what China can do for the world in the 21st century.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]His speaking style coupled with an incisive understanding and enlightened capacity to explain and discuss global issues has contributed to his high popularity and reputation.[/expand]
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Chairman of the IPCC and Director-General of TERI (Tata Energy Research Institute) speaker

Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri is an economist and environmental scientist of immense repute who has served as the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002. Pachauri is also the director general of the The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, an institution devoted to researching and promoting sustainable development. In 2007, he received the shared Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC (together with Al Gore).

Few speakers are as well-suited to tackling the challenges and potential risks posed by global climate change than Dr. Pachauri”

[expand title=”In detail”] Dr. Pachauri has been a Visiting Professor, Resource Economics at the College of Mineral and Energy Resources, West Virginia University; Senior Visiting Fellow, Resource Systems Institute and Visiting Research Fellow with The World Bank, Washington DC. He also joined the North Carolina State University where he obtained an MS in Industrial Engineering and a PhD in Industrial Engineering and as well as in Economics. He was appointed as the Member, Board of Directors of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Environment Agency, Government of Japan, and as a member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]Dr. Rajendra Pachauri addresses world and industry leaders on the impact of climate change on urban development in the 21st Century, environmental issues and the problem of global warming. He is renowned for his work in the areas of energy, environment, forestry, biotechnology, and the conservation of natural resources to government departments, institutions and corporate organizations worldwide. He has also authored 21 books and several papers and articles.[/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]Rajendra K. Pachauri’s presentations provide invaluable wisdom gained from his extensive knowledge and expertise. He is also part of our Top Indian keynote speakers.[/expand]
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