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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.

• Professor of political science and Founding Director of the Centre on Governance of China and the World at the University of Hong Kong
• Former Director of Research and Senior Fellow of the John. L. Thornton China Center at The Brookings Institution
• An expert in China’s political science and China-US relations
• A Director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Logan Wright is a Partner at Rhodium Group and leads the firm’s China Markets Research work. Logan is also a Senior Associate of the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Previously, … Continued

• 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

• Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
• Former director of Asian affairs at National Security Council (NSC)
• Member of the American Council on Foreign Relations

• Leading expert on e-commerce and the Internet in China and emerging markets
• Former Vice-President at Alibaba Group (2000-2008) as the company grew from an apartment into the world’s largest e-commerce company
• Entrepreneur, e-commerce consultant and director of award-winning documentary film, Crocodile in the Yangtze: the Alibaba Story

• Economics Professor at Renmin University’s School of Economics in Beijing
• Senior Fellow of the Brooking Institution Foreign Policy program and Acting Director of Tsinghua-Brookings Center
• Expert in Chinese agricultural development and economics

• China Business & Finance Editor for the Economist
• An expert in sustainability, global innovation, technology
• Chairman of the Economist‘s provocative series of conferences on innovation known as the Ideas Economy

• 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

• 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