Jerome Cohen has been a Professor at New York University School of Law since 1990 and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations since 1995. Mr. Cohen has special expertise in business and public law relating to Asia , especially China . He teaches courses on Chinese criminal justice and Chinese business law, "Law and Society in China - The Criminal Process" and "International Business Transactions in China" and frequently teaches "International Law - East and West".

Mr. Cohen formerly served as Jeremiah J. Smith Professor, Director of East Asian Legal Studies and Associate Dean at Harvard Law School . He has published several books, including The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949-63, People's China and International Law and Contract Laws of the People's Republic of China, and many articles on Chinese law as well as a general book, China Today, co-authored with his wife, Joan Lebold Cohen. In 1990, he published Investment Law and Practice in Vietnam.

He formerly served as Advisor to the Government of Sichuan Province, China; Chairman of the American Arbitration Association's China Conciliation Committee; a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of both the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and the China Securities Regulatory Commission in Beijing ; a Trustee of the China Institute in America ; and a Director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He currently serves as Chair of the Asia Law Initiative Advisory Council for the American Bar Association and formerly served as Chairman of the New York/Beijing Friendship Committee; a Trustee of The Asia Society, a Corporate Director of the Japan Society, the Vice Chairman of the Advisory Council for The Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Joint Center in China and a member of the Board of Editors of both the China Quarterly and the American Journal of International Law. He continues to serve on the Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch ¨C Asia and is a Trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He also is Honorary Chairman of the U.S.-China Joint Mediation Center and holds an honorary degree from Dickinson College .

Rowland Cheng is the Managing Partner in the Shanghai office of Latham & Watkins and is a member of the Finance Department.

Mr. Cheng's practice involves a wide range of transactions, including private equity and venture investments, acquisitions and joint ventures, and secured and unsecured financings and restructurings. Mr. Cheng has particular expertise in complex corporate and limited recourse financings, including project financings involving projects located in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.

Mr. Cheng began his practice in the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins and was previously resident in the firm's offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and San Francisco (where he was elected partner) prior to his current role as the Office Managing Partner in Shanghai. Mr. Cheng was resident in Shanghai in the early 1990's prior to entering law school.

Mr Cheng received his undergraduate degree from Boston University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Johnson Tan is Partner-in-Charge in Beijing and has practiced in the area of dispute resolution in Asia and England since 1987. He has represented clients ranging from multinational companies and financial institutions to public bodies and governmental agencies in risk avoidance and dispute resolution in Mainland China, the Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, Malaysia, England, and the United States.

Johnson has handled some of the largest disputes in Asia involving shareholders and joint venture disputes, banking and finance transactions, securities, technology agreements, as well as commercial fraud, bankruptcy, and construction. An increasing part of his practice relates to advising on joint venture and investment disputes, fraud, and risk avoidance in China.

Johnson is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and an arbitrator on the CIETAC Panel of Arbitrators. He is a regular conference speaker and has given numerous public seminars in Hong Kong , Mainland China , London , and Tokyo on topics such as arbitration and litigation in the PRC, fraud in Greater China, enforcement of security in the PRC, practical litigation issues for bankers, corporate governance, and managing business risk in China . In addition, he is co-author of the China section of The International Comparative Legal Guide to International Arbitration 2004 and 2005 and co-author of Arbitration in Hong Kong: A Practical Guide and Arbitration in China: A Practical Guide. In 2003, 2004 and 2005 he was named as a "leading lawyer" for dispute resolution in AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers. Johnson is fluent in Cantonese and Putonghua .

Johnson received his LL.B. and LL.M. from the University of London and is admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and Hong Kong.

Mr. Zhang received his B.A. in Shanghai International Studies University and his J.D. in Boston University .

Mr. Daniel R. Fung, the first person of Chinese extraction to serve as Solicitor-General of Hong Kong , doing so in the years 1994 – 8 straddling its reversion to Chinese sovereignty, is Senior Counsel of the Hong Kong Bar specializing in constitutional and commercial law and the Chairman of Des Voeux Chambers. Mr. Fung serves concurrently as the Chairman of the Broadcasting Authority, the government regulator of television and radio broadcasting in and out of Hong Kong being Asia ’s media and communications hub. Mr. Fung serves on the World Bank International Advisory Council on Law & Justice, is special advisor to the United Nations Development Programme on corporate governance in China and on rule of law capacity building in Cambodia and Laos .

A Fellow of University College London where he graduated LL.B. in 1974 and LL.M. in 1978 and a member of Middle Temple since 1974, the English Bar since 1975 and the Hong Kong Bar since 1977, Mr. Fung was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1990. Mr. Fung served from 1985-90 on the Basic Law Consultative Committee leading to the promulgation of Hong Kong ’s constitution, from 1992-94 as Deputy Judge of the High Court and from 1993-94 on the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong Government. Made the last British-appointed Solicitor-General of Hong Kong by Governor Chris Patten in 1994, Mr. Fung went on to serve Chief Executive C H Tung in 1997 as the first Solicitor-General of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of People’s Republic of China.

On leaving public office, Mr. Fung took up successive appointments as Visiting Scholar to Harvard Law School , Senior Visiting Fellow to Yale Law School , and Distinguished Fulbright Scholar for Hong Kong to the United States for the year 2000. Among various publications, Mr. Fung is the Joint General Editor of Arbitration in China (2004) and a contribution author to Democracy & the Rule of Law (2001) and The Confluence of Affluence: The Pearl River Delta Story (2005).

Roberta Lipson is CEO of Chindex International, Inc. a provider of healthcare products and services to the China marketplace, as well as Board Chair of Shanghai United Family Hospital and Beijing United Family Hospital , the first foreign invested hospitals in China . Ms. Lipson has over 25 years of experience in various aspects of the medical industry including pharmaceuticals, medical capital equipment and consumable products marketing and distribution, and hospital management. She holds an MBA from Columbia University and a B.A. in History from Brandeis University .

An active member of the business community in Beijing for more than 20 years, Ms. Lipson is a Director of the U.S. China Business Council, worked on and provided leadership to several committees of the American Chamber of Commerce, as well as acts as an advisor to the medical subgroup of the U.S. Department of Commerce-China JCCT Negotiations. She is also Board Chair of the American Education and Health Foundation, a not for profit providing medical care to Chinese orphans. Native to Long Island , Ms. Lipson is also a co-founder of the Beijing Jewish Community. She currently lives in Beijing with her husband Ted Plafker, a Beijing- based correspondent with The Economist, and her three sons, Jonathan, Daniel and Benjamin.

Li Chen , Ph. D, who has over 12 years of experiences in pharmaceutical research at Roche R&D Center in USA , is now the Chief Scientific Officer, Head of Research, Board Member at Roche R&D Center ( China ) Ltd. and a member of Roche Global Chemistry Team. In his position, Li is responsible for development and implementation of research strategy, creation of new discovery research organization, and management of research programs in China . Before this assignment, Li was Head of High Throughput Chemistry at Roche Nutley in New Jersey and played leader ship role in many drug discovery projects in inflammation/autoimmune diseases, metabolic diseases and oncology. Li and his co-workers discovered the first small molecule inhibitor (IL-2/IL-2R antagonist) and extended their effort later to the discovery of R411, a drug in Phase II trial for treatment of asthma. More recently, he led the efforts in the discovery of GPCR ligand and kinase inhibitors. Out of these, RO0282425 was discovered and is now in phase II clinical trial for MED. Li's professional interests spend from medicinal chemistry , discovery technology to research management. In 2001, Li acted as President of Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association (SAPA), and he is now a member of SAPA Board of Directors. Li was recently elected to the Board of Directors of Pudong Bio-pharmaceutical Association, and a member of Academic Committee of Chemical Genetic Labs at Peking University . Li received Roche Olympia Award 2005 for establishment of Roche R&D Center in China .

Raymond H. Hill is Global Head of IMS's Consulting business. He is based in New York . His consulting work focuses on sales and market strategy issues for companies in the in the pharmaceutical industry. Most recently much of his work has focused on the impact of China on the global economy and the opportunities in the Chinese pharmaceutical industry.

He has lived and worked in Europe and Asia . In Europe , he served as European head (and later global head) of A.T. Kearney's pharmaceuticals and Health Care Practice. He was the co-organizer and founder of the Health Care Future Forces Leadership Roundtable, a group of senior healthcare executives focused on assessing the impact of major changes on the health care value chain. His work on the pharmaceutical industry has been covered in various publications, most recently in The Economist, Business Week, The Financial Times, and Pharmaceutical Executive. He also has spoken previously at a number of analyst and industry conferences.

In addition to his work with IMS, Mr. Hill is listed in Who's Who in the World (1997 edition). He holds a B.S. from Cornell University , and an M.E.M. from Duke University .

Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

Arthur Kleinman has worked for three decades as a medical anthropologist, both in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard and in the Department of Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School . A physician- anthropologist, from 1991 to 2000 he chaired Harvard's Department of Social Medicine. He is presently the chair of the Department of Anthropology. His current research interests include the experience of chronic illness, social suffering, depression, emerging infectious diseases, substance abuse, suicide, political violence, trauma, aging, ethnicity, and disabilities. The author of 5 books, co-editor of 20 volumes, and with more than 180 research and review articles and chapters, he has just completed a new book on moral experience and global social change.

In 1978, Kleinman transferred his research to the People's Republic of China . From 1980-1983, he conducted a study of patients with neurasthenia, pain and depression. Kleinman went on to conduct other studies in China : including, epilepsy among poor peasants in Ningxia and Shanxi ; the elderly in hospice care in Shanghai ; depression in Guangzhou ; and suicide among rural and urban women. These studies involved collaborations with the Hunan Medical University ; the Neurological Research Center , Tiantan Hospital , Beijing ; the Shanghai Mental Health Center ; the School of Public Health , Fudan University , Shanghai . Kleinman was appointed Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, Hunan Medical University and Honorary Consultant, Shanghai Mental Health Center . He was also awarded a Key to the City of Shanghai by the Office of the Mayor of Shanghai.

Mr. Aronsson is the President and Chief Executive of Donna Karan International (Dec. 2003 to present). Prior to taking this position, he was the Chief Executive of Mark Jacobs International, LLC (2003) and the President and Chief Executive of Oscar de la Renta Ltd. (1994-2002). Mr. Aronsson received his undergraduate degree in History from the University of Michigan, his JD from Wayne State University Law School (Law Review), and his LL.M Taxation from New York University School of Law Graduate Tax Program.

Before joining Oscar de la Renta Ltd., Mr. Aronsson was a Partner at Aronsson and Kerker, a boutique firm specializing in legal services to entrepreneurs in need of business advice and solutions with transactions ranging from trademark licensing, to oil and gas operating agreements, to commercial and residential real estate acquisitions and divestitures.

From 1983-1985 Mr. Aronsson was a partner in Fried, Forsyth and Aronsson, managing tax and securities practice for the partnership. He was an Associate Attorney with Snow, Becker, Kroll, Klaris & Krauss (corporate, international and individual tax planning, problem solving and analysis, and legal aspects relating to private equity securities offerings) and with Parker, Duryee, Zunino, Malone & Carter (general tax matters including individual, corporate, estate and trust). Early in his career Mr. Aronsson was Special Clerk to Hon. Judge Lawrence Gubow, Federal Judge Eastern District of Michigan in a law student clerkship.

Executive Director, Global Skincare Marketing Estee Lauder

Susan Baida is Executive Director of Global Skincare Marketing for the Estee Lauder brand. Recently hired in October 2005, she is responsible for repositioning the skincare category to increase its relevancy around the world and compete more aggressively in today’s changing retail climate. She also oversees the development of Asia-specific product initiatives.

Ms. Baida was previously Asia-Pacific Regional Marketing Director for Clinique since September 2001. (Both Estee Lauder and Clinique are Estee Lauder Companies’ two largest brands.) She pioneered this new position at Clinique and lead the task force team charged with re-launching the brand in both China and Japan . These initiatives lead to increased brand relevancy and the reversal of sales declines in Japan . In China in 2005, Clinique was the fastest growing prestige cosmetic brand among the top 10 in the market. Ms. Baida also served on the Estee Lauder Companies’ Corporate Task Force on China in 2005.

Ms. Baida first joined Estee Lauder Companies in September 1998 as International Marketing Manager for Clinique Makeup. Prior to joining Clinique, she worked at Avon Products in the U.S. division as Skincare Marketing Manager. There she oversaw development of commodity and premium skin care product lines and launched Avon ’s first-ever skincare education program for Representatives just as skincare technologies and anti-aging segmentation were burgeoning.

Prior to joining Avon in 1996, Ms. Baida worked for Del Laboratories, a mass-market cosmetic and pharmaceutical company, as International Marketing Manager. There she managed Sally Hansen, Lacross, and Naturistics brands in over 38 countries and launched new markets such as Mexico , Argentina and Taiwan .

Ms. Baida is a member of Cosmetic Executive Women and 100 Hispanic Women. She also serves as executive board member of Manhattan District 5 Community Board and board member of the Marketing Council for the Manhattan Theater Club.

She is a graduate of Emory University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Studies. She is married and resides in New York City.

Jay McIntosh is Americas Director of Retail and Consumer Products for Ernst & Young LLP. He is responsible for the group's strategy, quality initiatives, thought leadership and for developing and overseeing relationships with many of the largest and best-known retail and consumer product companies in the Americas. He is also a member of the firm's Global Retail and Consumer Products Operating Committee. Prior to taking on this role, he was the national director of the firm's retail and consumer products tax practice for several years. As a client-serving partner in Ernst & Young's national tax practice, Jay took a leadership role in developing tax strategies for companies in the retail and consumer products industry.

Jay is a frequent speaker on industry trends and is widely quoted by the media. He has been interviewed for or appeared on "Closing Bell (CNBC)," "Squawk Box (CNBC)," "CNN Headline News," "Market Call (CNNfn)," "MSNBC News," New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, "CBS MarketWatch Radio," CBS Network Radio, AP Radio, Wall Street Journal Network Radio, and Dow Jones News Service. He has presented at events such as The Asia Pacific Fashion Forum, the Wharton China Business Forum and the Annual Conference of the World Future Society.

Jay received his bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Illinois and a master's of science in taxation from DePaul University. He is a former member of the adjunct faculty at DePaul's Graduate School of Business where he lectured on corporate reorganizations. He is a member of the AICPA and the Illinois CPA Society.

Ms. Adrienne M. Ma, Managing Director, joined Joyce Boutique Holdings Ltd. in 1989, and held a number of key marketing and publishing positions prior to assuming her present position in 1998. She played a key role in JOYCE's pioneering move into lifestyle retailing in the 1990's, the introduction of the JOYCE private label card, the Group's extension into new business categories, and its successful entry into the mainland China market through a sub-franchising business model.

As Managing Director, Ms. Ma is responsible for the direction, development and implementation of the Group's corporate, merchandising and marketing strategies.

In 2005, Ms. Ma was selected as one of Asia's young and creative entrepreneurs by Time Style & Design Magazine; she was one of the key speakers at the 2005 International Herald Tribune Global Luxury Forum; and was also nominated for The Veuve Clicquot Award, Hong Kong Business Woman 2005. In January 2006, Ms Ma was awarded as one of the Distinguished CEO of the Year 2005 by Capital CEO Magazine, the most influential financial/economic publication in Hong Kong.

Ms. Ma graduated from Simmons College in the United States with a Bachelor Degree in International Management and Marketing. She is the younger daughter of the Group's co-founders, Mr. Walter Ma, Chairman and Mrs. Joyce Ma, Chief Executive Officer.

Bernd Schmitt is Executive Director of the Center on Global Brand Leadership and Professor of Business at Columbia Business School in New York . He is also CEO of The EX Group, an experience consulting firm.

He has taught, researched and consulted in China since 1991. From 1996-2000 he held the first marketing chair in China at CEIBS ( China Europe International Business School ).

Schmitt has authored or coauthored numerous articles and several influential books that have been translated into 14 languages (including Chinese), such as the best-selling Experiential Marketing (1999) and Customer Experience Managemen (2003). He has been profiled on CCNfn's Business Unusual show and in several articles in business journals around the world. He appeared on BBC, CNBC, CNBC-Asia, CNN, NHK and has contributed articles on business issues to the New York Times, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times.

Mr. Chen is a China ADR specialist and during his 13 years with the Bank he has been engaged in a broad variety of cross-border transactions, advising Chinese corporates and regulators on ADR listings in the international capital markets. He has been involved in numerous initial public offerings and private placements, including PetroChina, China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom and Baidu.com.

A native of the People's Republic of China, Mr. Chen received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Beijing Foreign Studies University and a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Journalism from Ohio University.
He currently lives in Beijing with his wife and three daughters.

Lawrence Pan is the Chief Representative of China and Director of the Asia Pacific Region at Nasdaq. Mr. Pan is also the official spokesperson for Nasdaq.

Mr. Pan has over 15 years of securities and commodities industry experience. Most recently CEO of Asia Pacific Capital, Mr. Pan has previously held senior positions in corporate finance and asset management at Morgan Stanley, providing advice to a variety of Chinese companies and banks seeking to access the US Capital Markets. Additionally, Mr. Pan has held management position and been licensed trader with considerable knowledge of trading platforms and strategies through his experience with HS Securities & Futures and CNIEC.

Mr. Pan has a B.S. and M.S. in Materials Science from BIT, an EMBA in International Business from London University and a Certificate in Financial Analysis from NYU. He is fluent in English and a native speaker of Mandarin. Mr. Pan's hobbies include ballroom dancing, tennis, and traveling.

Joydeep Mukherji joined the Sovereign Group of Standard & Poor's in 1996 and works with credit ratings in Asia and the Western Hemisphere. Prior to joining Standard & Poor's, he worked for five years in both corporate and investment banking in Canada with CIBC Wood Gundy, working mainly with asset securitization. He has also worked as an economic consultant to the Asian Development Bank in the Philippines and briefly as a financial journalist with the Globe and Mail in Canada. After graduation, he worked as an Intern in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and subsequently as an aide to the Treasurer of Ontario.

Joydeep received his B.A. (Economics) from the University of Toronto and his Master's in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in Princeton University. He speaks French, Spanish, and Bengali.

Dr. Li Wei is a Managing Director & Senior Economist at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Dr. Wei's responsibility and research at the NYSE includes market structure, trading mechanism, market regulation, and trading rules. Before joining the Exchange, Dr. Wei had been an Assistant Professor of Finance at Iowa State University, where she was on the faculty since 2000.

Besides her experience in the US, Dr. Wei has worked for the People's Bank of China, the Shenzhen
International Securities Investment Co., Shen Yie (Hong Kong) Co., and the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Dr. Wei has been the lead Senior Financial Advisor at the Shanghai Stock Exchange since 2002. Dr. Wei holds a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Utah, and a M.S. and a B.S. in management engineering and information system from Tsinghua University.

Dr. Peng was graduated from Remin University of China in 1993.He was a member of Guangdong Province's Youth League Association, and won Shenzhen city's outstanding youth award.As a guest speaker,he shared his confindence in China banking industry internationaly on EUROEVENT 2002 ,IBM FINCIENCE BEIJING FORUM IN 2003, THE BANKER BEIJING FORUM 2004,THE SMART CARD FRANCE FORUM2003,UBS BANKCARD NEW YORK FORUM 2005 and GAIM USA 2006.

Xue Lan is a Managing Director and Head of China Research for Citigroup.Prior to joining Smith Barney, she worked for Merrill Lynch holding a similar position as Head of China Research. Lan has over 12 years experience covering China related stocks. Lan has been one of the top ranked China analysts in both Institutional Investors survey and Asiamoney survey since 2000.

Thomas Liaw holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and is Professor of Finance and Chairman of the Economics and Finance Department at Tobin College of Business, St. John's University , New York .

He is the author of several books on investment banking and financial markets. His recent book publication is "The Business of Investment Banking: A Comprehensive Overview," second edition, 2006 (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.). He is currently working on a project relating to China 's financial markets and investments. He speaks on various subjects of investment banking and capital markets at executive programs, academic institutions, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, the World Bank symposium, and Information Management Network conference . Professor Liaw has published articles in the areas of Treasury coupon rolls, repurchase agreements, banking, and market risks. His principal areas of interest in teaching and research include capital markets, risk management, and investment banking.

He served as president of the Chinese American Academic and Professional Society for 2005. He is a director of the State Bancorp, Inc. and State Bank of Long Island . He also is a member of the Board of Trustees at Taylor Business Institute. He serves as an advisor to several companies.

Mr. Antoniewicz’s first move into the world of sports came at the Atlanta Olympics working with International Broadcasting. That experience led him to China to invest in that burgeoning sports market in 1998 and since then he has consulted to major multi-nationals including Nike, NFL , US Olympic Committee, Coca-cola, ESPN, Shui On Properties and Electronic Arts. He has an MBA degree from University of Oregon ’s Warsaw Sports Marketing Center where he was the valedictorian of his class.

Entrepreneurial in nature, he co-founded Element Asia Marketing Communications servicing such clients as Nike, IMG, Philips, and the NBA. Later in his career he joined ZOU Marketing as the Director of Operations. He helped grow the company from eight employees and one office to thirty five and four offices with a client list including the NFL, Reebok, Electronic Arts, UPS, and Nokia. ZOU Marketing specializes in providing creative business solutions to clients seeking to grow their brand in China through sports.

He has been featured in articles in USA Today, Business Week, and the San Francisco Chronicle. However, one of the most gratifying experiences came through his research team receiving the cover story of ESPN the magazine (January 2003) for creation of a “Bang for your Buck” metric to measure fan ROI for all major professional teams in the United States.

Wei Lai was appointed as the Deputy Editor-in- Chief of Sina.com in December 2002. He is in charge of Sina.com's Sports Channel, which is ranked number one in Chin ese sports websites. His job includes coverage of all sports events, recruitment and management of the editors, cooperation with the government officials, game organizers, media partners, and corporate clients.

Wei was also an active reporter who gave the on-scene live coverage of Beijing 's bid for the 2008 Olympic Games, the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, and the 2002 Soccer World Cup. In doing so, he and his colleagues endeavored to promote Chinese online sports reporting to a multimedia phase.

Generally accountable for 24-hour online news reporting of Sina.com, Wei lead a team for successful reports on many big events such as the Kosovo War, 9-11 attack, China's launch of first manned spacecraft and so on.

Before joining Sina.com, Wei taught in Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, subordinated to the Chinese State Press and Publications Administration.

Reaching a global audience of hundreds of millions, anchorman Rui Chenggang seeks to redefine international journalism in China through his shows on China Central Television (CCTV). As a co-founder, anchor and director of China ’s first international television channel, Rui aims to restore and promote a balanced global image of Chinese society. A dynamic icon for young Chinese citizens who are becoming increasingly internationalized, Rui seeks to communicate the real China to the rest of the world. Having conducted over 300 interviews with world business, government, and economic leaders, including Bill Clinton, John Snow, and Jack Welch, Rui, 28, is the only Chinese anchorman working on both English and Chinese language programs. In addition to his television career, Rui has been a columnist for Beijing Youth Daily, the most widely read newspaper in Beijing , and a visiting professor at the journalism school of China ’s Central Academy of Drama. Rui has also been named a Founding Fellow of the US-China Young Leaders Forum and a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum.

Chenggang is currently a 2005 Yale World Fellow.

Stephen A. Greyser is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration (Marketing/Communications) Emeritus at Harvard Business School , where he specializes in brand marketing, advertising/corporate communications, sports management,

and nonprofit management. A graduate of Harvard College , he received his MBA and DBA degrees from HBS, where he was the Chirurg Advertising Fellow. Since 1958, he has been active in research and teaching in marketing at HBS. His longtime association with the Harvard Business Review included five years as an editor and research director, and subsequently as

Editorial Board Secretary and as Board Chairman. At Harvard College , he is a Trustee of WHRB, a Faculty Associate of Winthrop House, and a past director of the Harvard Alumni Association; he is also a member of the Harvard Professional Sports Panel advising Harvard undergraduates considering professional sports careers. He is a Hauser Center Faculty Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School. He delivered the invited 2003 Commencement Day address, "A Look at Your Inner Mirror" for Harvard's Extension School . For eight years (to 1981) he was also Executive Director of the Marketing Science Institute, a nonprofit research center which he continues to serve as a Trustee; he is the charter member of MSI's Hall of Fame. In 2005, Boston Latin School , the nation's oldest (1635) public school, named him its Distinguished Graduate of the Year, an honor previously bestowed, among others, on Leonard Bernstein, Theodore White, and Summer Redstone.

Dr. Zhong Yi Tong is Director of Housing Markets and Affordability at the Fannie Mae Foundation, where he also serves as Chairman of Research Review Committee and an associate editor of the Housing Policy Debate. He serves on the board of directors of American Real Estate Society and the presidential council of Asian Real Estate Society. Before coming to the United States , he was a lecturer in law and deputy general secretary for student affairs at East China Normal University in Shanghai .

Dr. Tong’s analyses of U.S. housing price dynamics, trends on housing affordability, housing finance innovations, and government interventions on residential real estate markets have received enormous media attention across the United States, including major news networks (such as Associated Press), TV/radio stations, national trade publications, and newspapers (USA Today and Washington Post, etc.). He is the co-editor of Replicating Microfinance in the United States (the Woodrow Wilson Center Press 2002). Dr. Tong also is one of the earliest and most accomplished observers of China ’s residential real estate markets. His research with Hays, “The Transformation of Urban Housing System in China” appeared in the Urban Affairs Review in 1996, is a widely cited study of housing reform in economies in transition. Most recently, his opinions on China ’s housing market development and systemic differences in real estate between China and US were featured in more than 1,000 Chinese newspapers and websites.

Dr. Tong received the highest honor (medal) as Outstanding Young Professional of Shanghai in 1989 and the first Fannie Mae Foundation Leadership Award in 2001. His doctoral dissertation in homeownership tax credit won an award from HUD and an honorable mention from the U.S. Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. He holds a Ph.D. in Policy Studies from the University of Maryland at College Park , specializing in housing finance policy and economics. His bachelor of law degree was awarded by East China Normal University in 1985.

Rachel MacCleery is the Executive Director of the China Planning and Development Institute, a new not-for-profit organization based in Beijing which promotes the sustainable development of China 's cities through international exchange and cooperation.

Prior to this, she worked for PADCO, a US-based international consulting firm, where she served as urban planner for the Town-Based Urban Urbanization Strategy Study in Liaoning and Shanxi Provinces, PRC, funded by the Asian Development Bank. The project worked with stakeholders to establish sound approaches to the development of small towns. She will present some findings from the study at the conference. Before PADCO, Ms. MacCleery spent three years as a land use and transportation planner for the District of Columbia government. There, she led several major studies and plans for the revitalization of commercial corridors in Washington , DC .

Ms. MacCleery has a Masters in Public Affairs and Urban and Regional Planning from Princeton University , and received a Fulbright for studies in Taiwan . She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Mr. Price is a Managing Director with ING Clarion Partners, a position he took up in August 2004. He is a member of the ING Real Estate Investment Management Global Marketing Group, and sits on the ING Real Estate Investment Management Asian Management Board and Investment Committee. He has responsibility for marketing and client relations for ING Clarion’s international, institutional clients investing in the United States and for helping direct business and investment strategy for ING Real Estate Investment Management’s Asian businesses.

From 2000 to 2004 he was responsible for ING Real Estate’s Asian businesses and lived and worked in China ( Beijing and Hong Kong ) from 1993 to 2000, Mr. Price speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese, joined ING in 1996 and has over 12 years of real estate experience.

Megan Hu possesses genuine China real estate development and financing experience. Recently, she has been instrumental in creating Trans-Pacific Development Fund I LP, one of the first private equity funds dedicated for real estate investment opportunities in China . The Fund closed its first investment in Chongqing China in February 2005. The mixed use project is now put into operation, and the Fund is the process of sourcing its second investment. During the past, she has represented international real estate developers, and was involved in successfully negotiating China ’s first equity participation of an international institutional investor in a Chinese development.

Alven Lam is director of international research at the Office of International Affairs, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in Washington D.C. He manages research projects and seminars on international housing and urban policy exchange. In 2001, he managed the U.S.-China Housing Initiative, which is a bilateral exchange between HUD and the Chinese Ministry of Construction with the focuses on housing finance and building technology. Since then, Mr. Lam has hosted many delegations from different parts of China every year on subjects related to housing, urban planning, local governance, and finance.

Mr. Lam specializes in urban development and housing policy, geographic information system, local finance, and property taxation. He has served in the U.S. delegations to major multilateral meetings including the World Urban Forum, UN-Habitat Governing Council and UN Commission on Sustainable Development. In addition to the China project, he also manages international programs with Spain , Mexico , Canada , UK , Africa , and other international organizations. Prior to joining the HUD, he was research fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge , Massachusetts . Mr. Lam received a Doctor of Design degree from Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Richard N. Cooper is Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University . He is Vice-Chairman of the Global Development Network, and a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Executive Panel of the US Chief of Naval Operations, the Aspen Strategy Group, and the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity. He has served on several occasions in the US Government, as chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1995-97), Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1977-81), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Monetary Affairs (1965-66), and senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers (1961-63). He was also chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1990-92). As a Marshall Scholar, he studied at the London School of Economics, and earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University . His most recent books include Boom, Crisis, and Adjustment (with others), Macroeconomic Management in Korea , 1970-1990 (with others), Environment and Resource Policies for the World Economy, and What the Future Holds (with others).

Todd Lee is Managing Director for Global Insight's Country Intelligence Group's Greater China Division. In this role, Lee is in charge of product development and enhancement to meet the surging market interest in China, as well as overseeing all aspects macroeconomic forecast and analysis of the Greater China economies.

An expert China economist, Lee consistently provides insightful analysis and accurate forecast of China's economy. On behalf of Global Insight, Lee regularly speaks to print and electronic media about China-related issues, and makes frequent presentations at seminars and conferences.

Before heading the Greater China Division, Lee served for three years as Group Chief of Global Insight's Asia Macroeconomic Service. He joined Global Insight through Standard & Poor's DRI, one of Global Insight's predecessor companies, as a Senior China economist.

Lee holds a Ph.D. in economics from Brown University. He is fluent in Chinese.

Thomas Liaw holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and is Professor of Finance and Chairman of the Economics and Finance Department at Tobin College of Business, St. John's University , New York .

He is the author of several books on investment banking and financial markets. His recent book publication is "The Business of Investment Banking: A Comprehensive Overview," second edition, 2006 (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.). He is currently working on a project relating to China 's financial markets and investments. He speaks on various subjects of investment banking and capital markets at executive programs, academic institutions, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, the World Bank symposium, and Information Management Network conference . Professor Liaw has published articles in the areas of Treasury coupon rolls, repurchase agreements, banking, and market risks. His principal areas of interest in teaching and research include capital markets, risk management, and investment banking.

He served as president of the Chinese American Academic and Professional Society for 2005. He is a director of the State Bancorp, Inc. and State Bank of Long Island . He also is a member of the Board of Trustees at Taylor Business Institute. He serves as an advisor to several companies.

Anik Bose serves as Vice President of Corporate Business Development at 3Com Corporation. In this role, Mr. Bose is responsible for long-term company strategy formulation, as well as executing on several elements of 3Com strategy.

Mr. Bose has over 17 years of experience working for and consulting to the high tech industry in various business development and strategic planning roles. Companies Mr. Bose has worked for include Cypress Semiconductor, LSI Logic, AMD and Hewlett Packard.

Prior to joining 3Com, Anik Bose was a partner at Deloitte Consulting in their High Tech Strategy Practice in San Francisco .

Mr. Bose received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the Hindu College University of New Delhi in 1983 and his MBA from Boston College in1986.

Duncan Clark is Managing Director of BDA China, a company he founded in Beijing in 1994 and helped build into the leading independent telecoms, media and technology (TMT) advisory firm in China . 

Duncan has advised many leading international TMT companies on their China strategies. Following China ’s accession to the World Trade Organization, Duncan was invited by China ’s Ministry of Information Industry to provide advice to the senior management of China Mobile, China Telecom , China Netcom and China Unicom from 31 provinces at a series of closed-door strategy sessions. Duncan also advises domestic private sector TMT companies and serves as Non-Executive Director of a leading software company invested by the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Duncan has served on the advisory board of leading China portal Netease.com (Nasdaq: NTES).

A frequent commentator on China ’s telecom sector in the international and Chinese media, Duncan is also a regular speaker at corporate and industry events such as the 3GSM World Congress and CTIA. He has presented on China ’s TMT sector at events hosted by the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London as well as leading academic institutions in China , such as the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing , and around the world including INSEAD and the universities of Cambridge , Harvard and Stanford. Duncan has also presented to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on drivers and implications of China 's telecommunications sector growth.

Prior to founding BDA, Duncan worked for four years as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley’s corporate finance department in London and Hong Kong , where he focused on the telecom, media and technology (TMT) sectors.

Shankar Jagannathan is currently the Director of Global Operations and Strategic Businesses for the Information Management Software Group within EMC Corporation. In this role, he has dual responsibility for all Operations (including Global SW Development) and Business Governance and for leading new business incubation and strategic planning activities for the Group.

Shankar came to EMC from McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm. He was a core member of the Hi-tech Practice within the Firm, and consulted primarily with companies in the telecom and semiconductor sectors.

Prior to McKinsey, Shankar was a group engineering leader at a startup and a researcher at NASA, working on advanced embedded and electromagnetic systems. He holds an MBA in Finance & International Business, and a Ph.D. in embedded systems and optimal control.

Dr. Yun-Fei Zhang, Chairman of DragonFlow Networks Inc and a co-founder of AsiaInfo (NSDAQ: ASIA , www.asiainfo.com). Dr. Zhang is currently a Board Member of IP Dynamics Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Shanghai Information Investment Inc.

Dr. Yun Fei Zhang co-founded DragonFlow Network Inc. in 2000, which has become a leading provider of internet resource management solutions and was recognized by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as Technology Fast 50 China, and Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific in the past two years. Dr. Yun Fei Zhang was also a founding member at IP Dynamics Inc. and served as the CTO till 2001; and as the Chairman of Advisory Board since Nov. 2001. Priori to IP Dynamics , Dr. Yun Fei Zhang is a co-founder of AsiaInfo and served as VP of Engineering, VP of Software and CTO for over five years at AsiaInfo (NASDAQ: ASIA). During his tenure, he built up the teams at AsiaInfo’s Engineering Division, Software Development Division and System R&D Division. He led engineering efforts to construct the three largest national Internet backbone networks in China , namely ChinaNET(owned by China Telecom), UniNET(owned by China Unicom) and CNCNET(owned by China Netcom), which are collectively supporting 75% of Internet population in China . Prior to AsiaInfo, Dr. Zhang spent three years at Harvard University as system analyst for a NASA space exploration project, responsible for its distributed data network subsystem. He holds a Ph.D. from Boston University and a Bachelor from University of Science and Technology of China . From 1998 to 2001, Dr. Zhang also served as a member of the Advisory Board to “Telecommunications Technology”, a magazine published by the Post & Telecommunication Publishing House of China . Dr. Zhang co-authored the Internet IETF RFC 1842 and was a recipient of numerous awards by NASA, Smithsonian Institutes, and Chinese Academy of Science for his outstanding achievements and contributions.

Wei Zhang co-founded Harvard Square Consulting to bridge the U.S. and China markets. She helps US clients explore, enter, invest, and compete in China or Chinese clients in the U.S. Her clients range from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies mostly in four areas - healthcare; telecommunications and technology; manufacturing, and financial services.

Before founding Harvard Square Consulting, Wei spent six years with McKinsey & Company. Prior to McKinsey, Wei was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford Medical School . While at Stanford, she co-founded CNetWork, a non-profit organization providing services to Asian communities in the Bay Area. She holds a Ph.D. in Immunology from Harvard University and a B.S. in Biochemistry from Peking University .

Wei is an editor for Bio/Pharma Quarterly, a publication of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America . She has been a forum panel moderator for Harvard China Review since 2001. She works with the New England Chinese Information and Network Association (NECINA) management team. She is also active in many professional organizations including the BayHelix Group.

Danny Levinson (American) is one of the founding Managing Partners at BDL Media Ltd. BDL Media is a manager for various Chinese online travel, advertising, event management, print publishing, blogging, Internet publishing, and game software businesses. Danny has been working in China since 1997 and graduated from the College of William and Mary with a BA in English Language and Literature. He has studied Japanese, Latin, German, Chinese, and Hebrew through the years and is an avid programmer and writer, and once worked for two years in the United States as a cartoon caricaturist. As part of BDL Media, Danny launched and designed the first browser-based multiplayer online role-playing game in China in 2000 through BDL Media's Moxze Games subsidiary and then launched the country's first multiplayer wireless game with Sohu.com and Moxze a year later. In 1999 he opened, the first RSS, weblog, and news aggregation online value-added service in China . For BDL Media, he is currently the publisher for ChinaCSR.com, ChinaHospitalityNews.com, and ChinaTechNews.com, the largest daily English-language tech website for China . He also oversees southern China operations for BDL Media's Chinese motorsport print publication, "Formula One Emotions". In his spare time he is also the China representative for Spamhaus, the world's largest anti-spam open-source organization, and works directly with the Ministry of Information Industry and the Internet Society of China to track down and eliminate spammers and hackers on the mainland.

In October, 2005, Xiaowei Chen assumed the role of General Manager of China.com Inc., in charge of operations of China 's first Nasdaq-listed portal. She has been conducting operations improvement as well as new business development. Xiaowei became China.com's General Manager of Multimedia in June, 2005. In that role, she developed strategies for China.com's Portal development and new initiatives in mobile value added services (MVAS).

Before joining China.com, Xiaowei served as a consultant in McKinsey's New York office starting September, 2003, focusing on media and pharmaceutical industries. She has worked with leading companies worldwide , including media conglomerates, news agencies, media survey company, business information service company, film studios and pharmaceuticals. Her areas of consulting have included global strategy, growth strategy, merger and acquisitions and post merger integration .

Before joining McKinsey, Xiaowei was an anchor at China Central Television (CCTV), where she presided over live broadcasts of events such as Hong Kong 's Handover, President Clinton's State Visit to China , Macau 's Handover and 2001 APEC summit in Shanghai . She was the host and executive director of interview program Sunday Topics, and interviewed international dignitaries including US President Bill Clinton, Former US President Jimmy Carter, South African President Thabo Mbeki, Mexican President Vicente Fox, Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo and Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Xiaowei entered University of Science & Technology of China at 15. She holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from University of Pittsburgh .

Originally from Auckland New Zealand, Michael has 20 years of advertising and marketing experience across 4 multinational companies in 7 countries.

Starting in Auckland at Bates Advertising, he moved through both the research field (AC Nielsen) and client side (Sara Lee) before returning to advertising at Leo Burnett Auckland. In the subsequent 15 years, he worked at Leo Burnett Wellington before moving to Leo Burnett Chicago as VP on Procter and Gamble. From the US, he moved to start up and run Leo Burnett’s operations in Vietnam. From there it was onto Managing Director of Leo Burnett’s Taiwan operation and then Managing Director of Leo Burnett Canada. After briefly returning to Chicago in 2003, Michael returned to Asia in January 2004 as the CEO for Leo Burnett Greater China responsible for Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China.

During 16 years with Leo Burnett he has worked on all LB key global and regional multinational clients.

Allen Furst is president of Asian Projects Inc., a consulting company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts .

Asian Projects works with business-to-business publishers of print and online content to set up licensing agreements, partnerships and joint ventures around the world. The company helps publishers identify potential partners, conduct due diligence and negotiate agreements. He has been doing business in China since 1982.

His current clients include International Data Group (Beijing), one of the largest consumer and business-to-business publishers in China and a major investor in start-up Internet companies; Nikkei Business Publications Inc. (Tokyo); and TechTarget (Needham, Massachusetts).

A former business journalist, Mr. Furst was also Founding Publisher of Electronic Business China magazine (Beijing), Electronic Business Asia (Hong Kong), and Lightwave Europe (London). He also co-founded EDN Asia (Hong Kong) and EDN China (Beijing).

Prior to founding Asian Projects, Mr. Furst was the Director of New Business Development for Cahners Business Asia, now Reed Business Information, and was Director of Sales, Asia , for IDG World Expo.

Mr. Furst is a frequent speaker at publishing industry events. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from Northeastern University .

Bill has been a design principal in HOK's St. Louis office for many years. For the last three years, he has directed the HOK Science + Technology Group, which specializes in the design of research facilities and other high-performance buildings. He also helps direct HOK's sustainable design effort and has co-authored two books on sustainable design. Bill is a frequent speaker on design, sustainable design, and the future of the profession.

Dennis is Sasaki's President and plays a leading role in the firm's planning and urban design practice. His 20 years of national and international experience encompass a diverse range of project types that include design for urban districts, new communities, campus environments, and waterfront regeneration projects.

Educated at the Harvard Design School and the University of Toronto School of Architecture, Dennis brings a collaborative approach to his urban design work, integrating landscape, planning and architecture with a critical understanding of the forces that shape contemporary cities.

He led the urban design effort for the firm's first-place-prize-winning Olympic Green, the master plan for the main site of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and was design principal for the 2003 AIA Honor Award-winning urban design plan for the Schuylkill Gateway District in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

His design leadership has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects, the American Society of Landscape Architects, Progressive Architecture, The Waterfront Center, and The Boston Society of Architects.

Dennis speaks regularly at conferences and academic institutions and teaches in the Professional Development program at the Harvard Design School. He received the degree of Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Design School and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Toronto.

Richard Marshall is a Principal and Regional Director of Urban Design ( Asia ) responsible for directing EDAW’s urban design practice in China and throughout Asia . He has worked as an urban designer and architect for 1 5 years conducting architectural and urban design projects in Australia , the United States , Singapore , Thailand , Malaysia , China , as well as other parts Asia . Prior to joining EDAW Mr. Marshall was Associate Professor and Director of Urban Design Programs at the Harvard Design School. He has authored three books: Emerging Urbanity - Global Urban Projects in the Asia Pacific Rim (2003), Waterfronts in Post Industrial Cities (2001) and Designing the American City (2003). Mr. Marshall is a member of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.

After graduating with a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California , Berkley , Dr. Levine worked as a senior energy policy analyst in California before beginning at the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (LBNL) in 1978. He continues there today as the Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD). Dr. Levine has led the China energy research group within the EETD since 1988, and was one of the founders and a trustee of the Beijing Energy Efficiency Center (BECon), a Chinese-run organization that has become a leading center performing analysis on energy efficiency and providing management for major internationally funded energy efficiency programs. Dr. Levine designed and initiated the China Sustainable Energy Program, was Chairman of the China Sustainable Energy Program Committee at the Energy Foundation from 1997-2000, and has been the Vice Chairman of the Consortium on Electricity Reliability Technology Solutions since 1999. He is the co-leader of a major China scenarios project that created over a three year period, a new model of China 's energy system which was adopted by the State Council as the analysis basis for the national energy policy strategy in 2003. He was also the co-creator of an energy efficiency program in China (End-Use Energy Efficiency Program EUEEP) and has been a member of the National Academy of Science Committee on Co-operation on Energy Futures of China and the United States since 2000. He has been the technical advisor to U.S. delegations to China since 1999, and has been the chairman of the Sino-U.S. Working Group Task Force on Energy Efficiency Policy since 1995. He is the co-chairman of the World Energy Council (WEC) Working Group on Advanced Technologies for Energy Efficiency.

Michelle Addington is Associate Professor of Architecture. She teaches courses and seminars in energy/environmental systems and building technology, as well as in new materials.

Addington is both an architect and an engineer whose teaching and research explore the re-conceptualization of the human thermal environment. Originally educated as a nuclear and mechanical engineer, she began her career with NASA, where she was a structural analyst designing components for satellites and rockets, and she later worked in the chemical industry for many years as a thermal process designer, power plant engineer, and, eventually, a manufacturing manager.

In the late 1980s, she temporarily set aside her engineering career and began studying architecture. After earning a professional degree in architecture, she joined a small Philadelphia firm as a project architect. She also was an adjunct professor of architecture at two different schools in Philadelphia , initially teaching design courses, but later asked to teach courses in building technology and building mechanical systems. While teaching these courses in technology, she became increasingly concerned with not only the representation of the thermal environment in architecture, but with its fundamental conceptualization. In 1993, she resumed the role of student yet one more time to investigate the potential for architecture afforded by new scientific theories in heat transfer and fluid mechanics coupled with emerging technologies. Her resulting dissertation, “Boundary Layer Control of Heat Transfer in Buildings,” put forth the proposition that tiny and discrete thermal interruptions could significantly affect the resulting heat transfer from any entity, including the human body.

Addington researches discrete phenomena and smart materials, and has begun to develop a theory regarding the strategic intersections between the relevant physical scales of energy phenomena and the possible interventions from the limited domains of building construction.

Alex St. John is the CEO and co-founder of WildTangent, the leading online game publisher and creators of the Web Driver platform, the most ubiquitous gaming platform on the Internet today.

Prior to founding WildTangent in 1998, St. John was responsible for Microsoft's multimedia strategy which led to the creation of Microsoft's DirectX technology, which become the foundation for all Windows multimedia applications, 3D graphics, media players, as well as thousands of PC and Xbox games. Several books have been written about St. John's exploits at Microsoft including Renegades of the Empire by Michael Drummond, Opening the Xbox by Dean Takahashi, and Masters of Doom by David Kushner.

St. John is widely considered to have his finger on the pulse of cutting edge technology trends in the gaming industry and is a frequent speaker at major media & technology events as well.

Duncan Clark is Managing Director of BDA China, a company he founded in Beijing in 1994 and helped build into the leading independent telecoms, media and technology (TMT) advisory firm in China . 

Duncan has advised many leading international TMT companies on their China strategies. Following China ’s accession to the World Trade Organization, Duncan was invited by China ’s Ministry of Information Industry to provide advice to the senior management of China Mobile, China Telecom , China Netcom and China Unicom from 31 provinces at a series of closed-door strategy sessions. Duncan also advises domestic private sector TMT companies and serves as Non-Executive Director of a leading software company invested by the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Duncan has served on the advisory board of leading China portal Netease.com (Nasdaq: NTES).

A frequent commentator on China ’s telecom sector in the international and Chinese media, Duncan is also a regular speaker at corporate and industry events such as the 3GSM World Congress and CTIA. He has presented on China ’s TMT sector at events hosted by the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London as well as leading academic institutions in China , such as the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing , and around the world including INSEAD and the universities of Cambridge , Harvard and Stanford. Duncan has also presented to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on drivers and implications of China 's telecommunications sector growth.

Prior to founding BDA, Duncan worked for four years as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley’s corporate finance department in London and Hong Kong , where he focused on the telecom, media and technology (TMT) sectors.

Etan J. Ayalon is a technology analyst and Managing Director and founder of GlobalTech Research LLC, a provider of integrated data tools and services to catalyze innovation and growth for leading technology and biotech companies, research institutions, government offices and industry professionals. An integral part of GlobalTech Research’s mission is to facilitate sustainable economic development, and to advance science and innovation education and narrow the digital divide. Mr. Ayalon is completing a comprehensive cross-industry reference on emerging technologies and technology convergence, including ubiquitous computing, digital multimedia, wireless communications, life sciences, nanotechnology and MEMS, alternative energy and green technologies and other high growth technology fields for international publication. He has participated in over 130 technology and vertical industry summits and met with hundreds of industry leaders in two years of conducting research for the reference. Previously, Mr. Ayalon worked on Morgan Stanley’s Technology Team, ING Barings Furman Selz’s Internet, Media & Telecom Group, Jefferies & Company’s Internet, Media & Telecom Group and First Albany’s Technology Team focused on Pervasive Computing and Wireless, with an emphasis on software infrastructure, application software and services, and embedded systems. His report, “Pervasive Computing and the Wireless Internet – A Comprehensive Guide,” was considered to be the most comprehensive investment and industry reference on the subject and attracted international publishing offers from McGraw Hill and John Wiley & Sons. Before his career on Wall Street, Mr. Ayalon graduated from Cornell University and served with distinction as an elite airborne unit commander and Special Forces instructor.

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Founder & CEO, Froghop (moderator)

Bobby Chao is the founder and the Managing Director of DFJ DragonFund. The fund is focusing on the early stage investment in IT business in China . Before that, he is the co- founder and Chairman of DragonVenture, Inc. Bobby began his career as one of the five original founders of Cadence Design Systems. A year after Cadence's successful IPO, Bobby founded Ocron, a leader in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology and document management software. Bobby was Chairman and CEO of Ocron until Umax Technologies, Inc. acquired it. He served as Senior Vice President of Marketing in charge of corporate marketing and investment. Bobby was previously General Partner for Technology Associates Management Company and has served as Chairman and CEO of VA Linux Systems. He has been Chairman and board director of several companies in China and in the U.S. He is on the board of several professional associations as well. Bobby holds an MS in Physics from Georgia State University and an MS in Aeronautics Engineering from Stanford University .

Stella has 18 years of experience in operations, consulting and technology investments in cross-Pacific businesses.

She has been responsible for IDGVC's Silicon Valley investment operations since 1999. Stella advises and assists portfolios with their business expansion and growth strategies targeting Greater China and works closely with management teams and boards in their corporate structuring, team building, business development, marketing, sales, partnerships and fund raising. Prior to joining IDGVC, Stella was co-founder and partner at Vantone Investment Group and Vantone International Group for 7 years where she did seed investments as well as U.S.-China consulting.

Stella has sponsored a series of investments including AsiaInfo (Nasdaq: Asia), EachNet (eBay), 3721 (Yahoo!), Aicent, China-Edu, InnoPath, Ipedo, MedSphere, Spreadtrum and Tele-Nav, and serves on the board of Banian Tech, CMR, MobilePeak, VeriSilicon, and Analogix Semiconductor (as board observer).

Prior to that, Stella was co-founder and vice president at Lorrex Health Products and was in charge of operations and sales for 14 western States. Earlier in her career, Stella was a consultant at Electric Power Research Institute and project manager at Unison International.

Stella has an M.A. in Economics from the University of California at Davis and a B.A. in Economics from San Francisco State University. She attended Beijing Foreign Languages University. Stella serves on the board of Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association, the largest Mainland Chinese American professional group in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Chuan brings over ten years of experience as a venture capitalist and international business executive to the firm. At Highland , Chuan will focus on new investment opportunities and apply his business development expertise to help Highland-backed companies expand into Asia .

Prior to Highland , Chuan was a Partner at JAFCO America Ventures, responsible for JAFCO's venture investment operations on the east coast. He divided his time between venture investments and Asia business development activities, with a particular focus on telecommunication technologies and services. During this period, Chuan actively worked with Pirus Networks (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Crescent Networks (acquired by Marconi)  and edocs (acquired by Siebel).

Earlier in his career, Chuan worked at the headquarters of JAFCO Group in Japan as an investment professional for its International IT Investment Group. While at JAFCO Tokyo, Chuan has worked on several data communications and telecom investments in China , Japan , and North America . He also helped US-based portfolio companies establish alliances and strategic partnerships for entering the Asia market, working with such organizations as Ciena, Brocade, Nvidia and GoDigital Networks.

Darren Ho is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Hidden Jade Partners based in Shanghai, focusing on earlier stage companies providing Technology enabled Services to the Chinese domestic market. Prior to founding Hidden Jade Partners, Darren was Managing Director of Venture TDF China based in Shanghai , and Investment Director of Venture TDF Pte Ltd, based in Singapore . Venture TDF China is one of the best performing funds in China with 8 exits to date, including Baidu, Alibaba, Focus Media and China Netcom. Darren was also an ASIC Design Manager with Tritech Microelectronics Pte Ltd. Darren holds a MBA from Nanyang Technological University and a Bachelor of Science in Electronics (Highest Honors) from University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign.

For more than 35 years, Dixon has influenced and guided entrepreneurs, investors and executives in the communications industry. In recognition of his accomplishments, Dixon was named by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 100 venture investors on the Midas List for the past four years, and by Upside Magazine as one of the top 100 personalities involved in creating the information highway. In April 2005, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association, where he also serves on the Executive Committee.

Since the early 1980s, Dixon has been a telecom and Internet venture capital pioneer, launching funds that resulted in companies such as Alantec, Bridge Communication, Centillion Networks, Network Equipment Technologies, Optilink, Picturetel, Polycom, and UUNet. In 1996 he founded DCM - Doll Capital Management, an early stage technology venture capital firm which currently has more than $1 Billion under management. DCM is widely recognized as one of the top Silicon Valley venture firms actively investing in China and Japan , and has backed Asian successes such as AllAbout.com, 51job, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, and Vimicro.

Dixon is a trustee or board member of numerous philanthropic and educational organizations, including the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco , the San Francisco Symphony, Kansas State University , the University of Michigan Business School, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and the University of San Francisco , where he chairs the Investment Committee. He received his B.S.E.E. degree (cum laude) from Kansas State University , and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees