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Plenary:
William
H. Overholt
William H. Overholt is a
Senior Fellow with both Center for Business & Government and Asia
Center at Harvard University. He is former Head of Strategy and Economics
at Nomura International in Hong Kong. Dr. Overholt has an extensive background
in international banking and markets, specifically in Asia, having served
as Managing Director and Head of Research for Bank Boston’s regional
headquarters in Asia and as a regional strategist for Bankers Trust. He
is the author of five books, including The Rise of China (1993) and Strategic
Planning and Forecasting (1983). He currently is writing a book contrasting
Chinese and Japanese Reform.
Dr. Overholt received his
B.A. (magna, 1968) from Harvard and his Master of Philosophy (1970) and
Ph.D. (1972) from Yale.
Edward
Steinfeld
Edward Steinfeld is an associate
professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department
of Political Science. Steinfeld is a China specialist, focusing on the
political economy of post-socialist transition. Steinfeld speaks and reads
Mandarin, and has conducted extensive field research in China. For eight
months in 1999 and three months during the summer of 2000 he was a visiting
professor at the China Center for Economic Research at Beijing University.
In 1994 he was a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
in Beijing. From 1989-1990, he served on the faculty of Nanjing University
in Nanjing, China. Steinfeld has also served as a consultant to the United
States Department of Treasury, United States Department of State, and
the World Bank.
Steinfeld’s research
focuses on the intertwined problems of state enterprise reform and financial
restructuring in China. His book on the subject of SOE reform, Forging
Reform in China: The Fate of State-Owned Industry, was published in 1998
by Cambridge University Press.
Hafiz
A.Pasha
Dr. Hafiz A. Pasha is a UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Assistant
Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific.
Dr. Pasha has a M.A. from Cambridge University, England, and a Ph.D from
Stanford University, USA. He has 27 years of experience of research, teaching
and public service. He was the Vice Chancellor/President of the University
of Karachi, Dean and Director of the Institute of Business Administration,
Karachi, and Research Professor and Director of the Applied Economics
Research Centre, University of Karachi.
Dr. Pasha has also held
a number of important public appointments, which has involved high level
inputs into the policy making process in Pakistan. He has served as the
Federal Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Deputy Chairman of
the Planning Commission, with the status of a federal minister, Education
Minister and Commerce Minister in three governments. He has been the chairman
or member of a large number of task forces, commissions or committees.
He has published extensively in the fields of public finance, social development,
and poverty.
Dwight
H. Perkins
Dwight H. Perkins is the
Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy of Harvard University;
he joined the Harvard University faculty in 1963. Previous positions at
Harvard include Associate Director of the East Asian (now Fairbank) Research
Center, 1973-1977; chairman of the Department of Economics, 1977-1980;
and most recently, Director of the Harvard Institute for International
Development(HIID), from 1980-1995. Dwight Perkins has authored or edited
twelve books and over one hundred articles on economic history and economic
development, with special references to the economies of China, Korea,
Vietnam and the other nations of east and southeast Asia. He has served
as an advisor or consultant on economic policy and reform to the governments
of Korea, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, and Papua New Guinea. He
has also been a long-term consultant to the World Bank, the Ford Foundation,
various private corporations, and agencies of the U.S. government, including
the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Dwight Perkins
served in the U.S. Navy (active duty 1956-58), received his B.A. from
Cornell University in Far Eastern Studies in 1956, and his M.A. and Ph.D.
in economics from Harvard University in 1961 and 1964.
Keynote:
MingKang
Liu
Mr. Liu has been Chairman
and President of Bank of China since February 2000.
Mr. Liu joined Nanjing Branch
of Bank of China in 1979. He was transferred to the London Branch of the
bank in 1984 and from 1988 to 1993, he acted as the Deputy General Manager
and General Manager of the Fujian Branch of the bank. In 1993, he was
appointed as Deputy Governor of Fujian Province. In 1994, he assumed the
position of Deputy Governor of the State Development Bank of China. From
April of 1998 to July of 1999, Mr. Liu was Deputy Governor of the People's
Bank of China and the Vice-Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee of
China. Immediately prior to his current position, Mr. Liu was Chairman
of China Everbright Group from July of 1999 to June of 2000.
Mr. Liu is member of several
domestic and foreign professional organizations. He is the Vice Chairman
of Board of IIF, Director of Board of IMC and APBC. He is also the Director
of the Advisory Board of School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua
University; the Adjunct Professor at the Business School, City University
of Hong Kong, Guanghua Management School of Peking University, Fudan University,
etc.
Mr. Liu received his MBA
degree from City University of London. In November 2000, he was awarded
the honorary Degree of Doctor of Science from the university.
Anthony
Neoh
Mr. Anthony Neoh has been
serving as Chief Advisor to the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission
(CSRC) since 1998 and has played instrumental role in the reform and development
of the Chinese financial market. Prior to that, he served as Chairman
of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission and was also elected
Chairman of the Technical Committee of the International Organization
of Securities Futures Commission from 1996-1998. He graduated from London
University and qualified in the UK as a barrister, later becoming a member
of a private bar in Hong Kong, and was also admitted to the California
bar. Currently, Mr. Neoh is a visiting professor at Harvard Law School
and teaches a seminar on Chinese securities market.
Alfred
S. Chuang
Mr. Chuang was named president
and chief executive officer of BEA Systems in October 2001. He founded
BEA in early 1995 with the other two principals of the company, Bill Coleman
and Ed Scott. Prior to his current role, he held the roles of chief operating
officer, president of business operations, president of BEA WebXpress,
executive vice president of product development and chief technology officer
for BEA. Mr. Chuang has managed BEA's global operations, including engineering,
product development, marketing, sales, services, finance, MIS, corporate
development, business planning, developer services and human resources.
Mr. Chuang is a nine-year
veteran of Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he held various senior management
positions including corporate director and chief scientist of SunIntegration
Services. In addition, he was director of the strategic systems group
in Sun's Information Resources Organization, and held other management
positions in the areas of software product development, network and systems
infrastructure implementation, operation management, and systems architecture.
While at Sun, Chuang founded and managed the computer resources for the
Sun Intercontinental Operations. In this capacity, he also assisted in
the establishment of key subsidiaries in the Pacific Rim.
Prior to Sun, Mr. Chuang
spent more than 10 years in commercial computing, software systems research,
and systems consulting. He is a well-known expert on enterprise information
technology rightsizing and distributed data management and has published
many technical papers. Chuang pioneered and prototyped the implementation
of the TCP/IP network on the IBM PC platform.
Mr. Chuang received a master's
degree in computer science with specialization in distributed data management
from the University of California, Davis. His graduate thesis, "Table-Tabular
Data Objects and their Use in Table Editing," which resides at the
California State Library, is one of the most frequently used reference
materials on relational database development.
Chinese Companies Going
Abroad:
Peter
Nolan
Peter Nolan is Sinyi Chair
of Chinese Management in the Judge Institute of Management Studies in
the University of Cambridge and also a Fellow of Jesus College. Prof.
Nolan holds the Directorship of the Chinese Big Business Programme, which
brings together leading international and Chinese firms for regular strategic
discussions based on case studies undertaken within the participating
companies. He has researched and written on economic development, the
Chinese economy, comparative economic systems and transition economies.
He has consulted for national governments, international institutions,
and large corporations. Upon these, Prof Nolan is the author of numerous
scholarly articles and editor of several books.
Jack
Ma
Jack Ma is the founder,
chairman and chief executive officer of Alibaba.com. He was a lecturer
in English and international trade at Hangzhou Electronic & Engineering
Institute from 1988 to 1995. In 1995, Mr. Ma founded a web hosting company
that he built up to annual revenues of RMB 6 million in 1997. Mr. Ma was
then invited by MOFTEC to head the information department of China International
Electronic Commerce Center (CIECC). As president of CIECC's Infoshare
division, Mr. Ma gained important experience about the needs of SMEs,
as well as insights into the development of electronic commerce. He left
MOFTEC in early 1999 to pursue Alibaba.com, an idea that he originated.
Mr. Ma graduated from Hangzhou Teacher's Institute in 1988 with a B.A.
in English.
XiaoLin
Zhou
XiaoLin Zhou is partner
of Jun He Law Office. He is licensed to practice law in China and the
State of New York, and admitted before the United States Federal District
Courts (Southern District and Eastern District of New York). He has 19
years of legal experience both in government and in private practice.
As managing partner of the firm’s New York Office, he concentrates
on advising and assisting clients doing business within China and focuses
on international business transactions. Prior to entering private legal
practice, Dr. Zhou served for six years as Head of International Law Division,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. He also served as advisor to the
Chinese Delegation to the UN General Assembly and Chinese delegate to
the UN Legal Committee, Outer-space Legal Subcommittee and UN Charter
Committee. He has participated in numerous international negotiations
and conferences and was involved in handling major judicial and international
arbitration cases for both Chinese and foreign entities. Dr. Zhou received
his Doctor of Juridical Science degree (SJD) from Harvard Law School and
is a graduate of Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
in Beijing.
Wei
Zhang
Wei Zhang is a Senior Manager
at McKinsey and Company and has served clients in China, the U.S., and
other Asian countries. She is an active member of the McKinsey telecom
practice and healthcare
practice. Her telecommunications clients include equipment and component
manufacturers as well as service providers. Her healthcare clients include
biotechnology firms, pharmaceutical companies, and
payors/providers. She helps her clients defining growth opportunities
and resolving critical strategic, organizational, operational, and financial
issues.
Wei holds a B.S. from Beijing
University and a Ph.D. in Immunology from Harvard University.
Venture Capital and Private
Equity:
Michael
G. Brownrigg
Michael G. Brownrigg is
Vice President of ChinaVest. He joined the firm in 1997 and now is based
in ChinaVest’s San Francisco office, responsible for investor relations,
strategic planning, and US deal sourcing and exits. He works closely with
ChinaVest’s Silicon Valley portfolio companies. From 1993 to 1996
he served as chief trade negotiator at the US Consulate General in Hong
Kong and participated in negotiations with China and Hong Kong on such
areas as telecommunications, intellectual property protection, agricultural
market access, civil aviation rights and textiles. ChinaVest is the oldest
U.S. venture capital firm in Greater China. It invests in companies in
the fast-growing economies of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the People's Republic
of China, and US companies that do business with those economies. ChinaVest
organized its first private equity fund in 1983, and since then has raised
and invested five funds with over $300 million in assets. It has made
investments in more than 50 companies in sectors ranging from light export-oriented
manufacturing, consumer services, distribution and information technology.
AsiaInfo (ASIA), Eon Communications (EONC) and Zindart (ZNDT) are examples
of portfolio companies that ChinaVest has recently taken public on NASDAQ.
Yun
Liu
Yun Liu, co-founder of Ark
Pioneer Micro, is now serving as the deputy managing director at Ark Pioneer
Micro. He oversees product engineering, quality control, and IC back-end
design. He is also responsible for sales of the company’s AV product
line.
Prior to founding Ark Micro, Mr. Liu had served in a number of engineering
and managerial functions across the IC industry for more than 10 years.
From 1987 to 1991 he was a senior engineer then section head for process
integration at HKE, a wafer fab based in Hong Kong. From 1992 to 1994
he worked as R&D staff for design of IC assembly machines in PCT group,
a manufacturer of IC assembly equipment based in Singapore. From 1994
to 1998, Mr. Liu worked as staff engineer and manager for IC chip design
at Sintek Semiconductor, a company based in Hong Kong that specializes
in the design of high speed SRAMs.
Mr. Liu earned his master’s
degree in engineering from Chinese Academy of Science and Technology in
1987. He graduated from Tsinghua University with a bachelor degree in
engineering in 1984. His interests span from design of semiconductors,
management of a technology enterprise, to study of global economy.
Ark Pioneer Micro is a fabless
semiconductor company founded in Shenzhen, PRC in 2000. For the past two
years the company has expanded the head count from less than 10 to over
100, major of which are engineers. At present Ark’s products cover
MCUs, CPUs, design services, A/V chip sets and cell phone chip sets, which
are projected to have enormous growth potential in the PRC market in the
foreseeable future.
James
Yao
James Yao is founder and
Managing Partner of AsiaTech Ventures based in Silicon Valley. He has
extensive knowledge and experience of the Internet and information technology
market in both Silicon Valley and Asia. Prior to establishing AsiaTech,
Mr. Yao was Vice President of Marketing, Asia Pacific for Anixter, a leading
US data communications firm. At Anixter, he managed the firm’s Asia
Pacific Network Integration business and was instrumental in transforming
the company from a supplier of local area networks to a leading provider
of world class Internet/intranet solutions, multimedia applications and
high-performance networks. Before joining Anixter, Mr Yao was Managing
Director, Greater China for Banyan Systems, responsible for establishing
the firm’s Greater China operations. This included building a regional
sales force, developing channel partnerships and opening offices in Hong
Kong, Taiwan and China.
Josh
Lerner
Josh Lerner (moderator)
is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business
School, with a joint appointment in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management
Units. He graduated from Yale College with a Special Divisional Major
that combined physics with the history of technology. He then obtained
a Ph.D. from Harvard's Economics Department. Much of his research focuses
on the structure and role of venture capital organizations. He also examines
policies concerning intellectual property protection, particularly patents,
and their impact on growth and high-technology industries. He is a Research
Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Corporate
Finance and Productivity Programs. In addition, he is an organizer of
the NBER Innovation Policy and the Economy Group, and serves as co-editor
of their publication, Innovation Policy and the Economy. In recent years,
“Venture Capital and Private Equity”, the class he introduced,
has consistently been one of the five largest elective courses at Harvard
Business School. He serves as the School’s representative on Harvard
University Patent, Trademark and Copyright Committee and as Faculty Chair
of the Focused Financial Management Series, a set of targeted executive
education courses on current issues in finance.
FDI:
Victor
G. H. Ho
Partner, China Practice
Group, White & Case LLP
Mr. Ho is a partner of the
White & Case China Practice Group and has been responsible for the
Firm's Shanghai operations since June 2001. With nearly ten years of experience
working on China-related projects, Mr. Ho has substantial experience advising
clients on legal matters relating to foreign investment in the Greater
China area. Mr. Ho's major areas of practice include direct investment,
project finance, mergers and acquisitions, finance, taxation, real estate,
and intellectual property.
Mr. Ho has engaged extensively
in all types of China-related transactions. He has counseled foreign investors
on establishing, restructuring, and disposing of their investments in
the PRC. He has advised foreign banks in Shanghai on syndicated loans,
banking operations, currency hedging, and conversion mechanisms. In recent
years, a substantial portion of his practice focuses on representing clients
in infrastructure projects as well as high tech projects involving venture
capital, start-up operations and, and related mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Ho obtained a B.A. cum
laude from Amherst College, a J.D. from UCLA, and is a member of the California
State Bar Association.
Thomas
Huang
Thomas W. Huang is a Partner
at the Business Law Department of Holland & Knight, LLP where he practices
primarily in the areas of general business law, financing and international
transactions. He is also the Responsible Partner of the firm’s Taiwan
Practice.
Mr. Huang is a frequent
speaker at seminars and conferences sponsored by bar associations, CLE
programs, and universities. He has many publications in leading law journals,
particularly in areas connected with doing business in China.
He has also served on the
steering committee of the International Law Committee of the Boston Bar
Association and was a member of the Massachusetts Governor's Advisory
Council on Guangdong, China. He is one of the founders and the clerk/director
of the Asian American Bank & Trust Company in Boston.
Mr. Huang is from Taipei,
obtained his LL.B. from National Taiwan University, J.D. magna cum laude
from Indiana University Law School, and an LL.M. and an S.J.D. from Harvard
Law School.
Motomichi
Ikawa
Motomichi Ikawa a Japanese
national, joined MIGA as Executive Vice President in July 1998. He heads
the agency's efforts to promote the flow of foreign direct investment
to developing countries through its guarantees and investment marketing
services. Prior to joining MIGA, Mr. Ikawa held positions in the fields
of finance, economics, and private investment, including at the Organization
for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) in Paris and as the director
of the budget, personnel and management systems department at the Asian
Development Bank. His most recent position, prior to joining the Bank
Group, was senior deputy director-general of the International Finance
Bureau of the Ministry of Finance in Japan. There he served as the G7's
deputy's deputy and financial sous-sherpa for the G8 summits, and was
responsible for multilateral and bilateral development finance. Mr. Ikawa
attained his B.A. in Economics from the University of Tokyo and was a
Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley.
Carol
A. Wingard
Carol is currently Director
of the China practice for L.E.K. Consulting, a global strategy and M&A
advisory firm. With fifteen years of strategy consulting and business
development experience, Carol focuses on developing and implementing growth
strategies for multinational corporations in Asia. During this period,
she has lived and worked in Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo. Carol
joined the partnership of Alliance Asia Pacific in 1996 as the Director
of Business Development for this Asian strategy practice. Alliance Asia
Pacific merged with L.E.K. Consulting in September 2000. She was previously
based in Singapore as Director, Greater China, for a U.S. industrial/
energy firm, and as Manager of the Singapore office of a pan-Asian consulting
firm where she specialized in Asian investment strategy. She also served
as Senior Consultant/ Deputy Director based in Beijing and New York for
a China-focused consulting firm where she managed a wide range of market
research, strategy and investment projects. She began her consulting career
in Boston with the US firm Corporate Decisions/ Mercer Management Consulting.
Carol graduated magna cum
laude from Princeton University, the Harvard University Chinese language
program and the graduate program in international business and Japanese
at Sophia University, Japan, under a Rotary Foundation graduate scholarship.
She speaks Mandarin Chinese and is conversant in Japanese.
Carol is currently based
in Beijing where she manages the L.E.K. Beijing office.
Gary
Jefferson
Gary Jefferson (moderator)
is the Carl Marks Professor of International Trade and Finance at Brandeis
University. His research focuses on technical innovation and institutional
change in China’s enterprise system. Jefferson’s research, which
involves collaboration with numerous Chinese agencies and policy institutes,
is currently supported by grants from the Henry Luce Foundation and the
Department of Energy. Jefferson has consulted extensively with the World
Bank and on commercial projects, including topics on devaluation of the
Chinese currency, long-term scenarios for the Chinese economy, and the
social and economic impacts of enterprise restructuring. Jefferson served
as Deputy State Planning Director (Massachusetts) and Staff Director of
the International Development Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee before earning his Ph.D. in economics at Yale University. He
joined the Economics Department at Brandeis in 1984 and currently holds
joint appointments in the Department and the Graduate School of International
Economics and Finance, where he is Director of the China Economic Research
Program. As well as frequently visiting China, Jefferson has lived and
taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at Wuhan University
in China.
Finance Panel:
Dennis
Zhu
Mr. Dennis Zhu is Managing
Director and Head of Investment Banking China for JPMorgan Chase. Before
he joined JPMorgan in 1999, Mr. Zhu was Director and Head of China at
CSFB where he also served as Head of Equity Syndicate for Non-Japan Asia
between 1995 and 1996. In his investment banking career since 1994, Mr.
Zhu was credited for playing critical roles in many landmark M&A advisory,
capital market and derivative transactions in Asia. Prior to CSFB Mr.
Zhu worked for FMC in Chicago and the Chinese Ministry of Finance in Beijing.
Mr. Zhu has a MBA from the University of Chicago, MA from the Research
Institute of the Chinese Ministry of Finance and BA from Hebei Institute
of Geology.
MengFei
Wu
Mr. Mengfei Wu is a Senior
Vice President of CNOOC Ltd, and had been the first CFO of the company
since its establishment in September 1999 until April 2001 when he went
to MIT Sloan School for Sloan Fellows Program. Mr. Wu joined China National
Offshore Oil Corp. in 1988 and was the general manager of the Planning
and Treasury Department in the company headquarters from 1996 to 1999.
He was also one of the main organizers for the establishment and IPO of
CNOOC Ltd during 1999 to 2001. Mr. Wu had been a faculty member in China
Petroleum Institute and an engineer for petrochemical automation. Mr.
Wu received his B.S. degree from China Petroleum Institute in 1982, and
a M.S. degree from the same institute.
John
D. Langlois
John D. Langlois is a director
of the Bank of Shanghai, Shanghai, China, and also of Nanjing City Commercial
Bank, Nanjing, China. He is a consultant to the International Finance
Corporation, Washington, DC. He is senior advisor to the Global Student
Loan Corporation in New York. He is a director of China Elite Corporation,
Guangzhou, China. He occasionally teaches “Banking in China and Japan”
at Princeton University. From 1983-1999 he worked at J.P. Morgan &
Co., where his last assignment was Managing Director and Chief Representative,
Beijing, China. Earlier assignments included head of Real Estate, Asia
Pacific, based in Tokyo, and head of Real Estate, Europe, based in London.
From 1993-1995, he was head of the Greater China Corporate Finance group
at J.P. Morgan in Hong Kong. He received the Ph.D. in East Asian Studies
from Princeton University in 1974, the MBA from New York University in
1986, the MA in East Asian Languages from Harvard University in 1966,
and the BA from Princeton University in 1964. He is a member of the Council
on Foreign Relations, New York, and has given talks on Chinese corporate
governance there and at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington
DC. He has published in China Quarterly, Financial Times, and Asian Wall
Street Journal.
XueJun
Zhao
Mr. Zhao XueJun has been
the General Manager in Harvest Fund Management company since October 2000.
Before he jointed Harvest in 2000, Mr. Zhao was the Deputy General Manager
in DaCheng Fund Management Co. where he had took a part in the preparation
of the company. In his investment management career since 1993, he was
credited for his great contribution to the fund industry and the capital
market. Prior his experience in fund management, he had strong background
in future market. Mr. Zhao has a Ph.D. from Guanghua Management School
of Peking University with major of Economics, MSc in Tianjin Finance Institute,
and BSc in Tianjin University.
Tony
Zhang
Mr. Tony Zhang is a Hong
Kong-based investment advisor and consultant.
In 2001, Mr. Zhang co-authored
book “Investment Funds in China” with Mr. Stuart Leckie, former
Chairman of Fidelity Investment (Asia). The book, co-sponsored by Goldman
Sachs, Newport Pacific, Prudential Financial and Schroders, is the first
publication internationally on China’s fund management sector. He
has consulted for a number of global leading financial service firms in
their China entry strategy in fund management. Mr. Zhang is a frequent
speaker and has been interviewed by various publications including Asian
Wall Street Journal on development of fund management in China.
Mr. Zhang was Senior Investment
Officer at San Francisco-based Newport Pacific Management (1993 - 98),
the leading Asian equities investor in the US. During his years at Newport,
he was instrumental in launching and co-managed Newport Greater China
Fund. In 1998, he was invited to present to the China Securities Regulatory
Commission (CSRC) on mutual fund management, when China just launched
its first two mutual funds.
Jiang
Wang
Jiang Wang is the Nanyang
Technological University Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management.
He received his Ph.D. in physics in 1985 and his Ph.D. in finance in 1990,
from the University of Pennsylvania. His research is in the area of asset
pricing, investments and risk management.
Jiang Wang has served on
the editorial board of several academic journals including the Journal
of Financial Markets, Operations Research, Quantitative Finance, and the
Review of Financial Studies. He is the recipient of the Trefftz Award
in 1990, the Batterymarch Fellowship in 1995 and the Leo Melamed Prize
in 1997.
Jiang Wang is also a research
associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, an External Examiner
of Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a trustee of Nanjing University.
He has also consulted for various financial firms.
Domestic Demand:
XiaoNian
Xu
XiaoNian Xu is Head of Research,
China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC).
Dr. XiaoNian (Shawn) Xu
joined China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC) in 1998
as Managing Director & Head of Research Department. Prior to CICC,
Dr. Xu served as Senior Economist in Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific in Hong
Kong from 1996. Before that, he worked as Consultant in World Bank in
Washington DC. From 1991 to 1995, he was the Assistant Professor of Economics
in Amherst College, Massachusetts. Dr. Xu worked for The Development Research
Center of the State Council in Beijing from 1981 to 1985 as Research Fellow.Dr.
Shawn X. Xu obtained Ph.D in University of California, Davis in 1991.
Kebo
Cao
Mr. Kebo Cao is Vice-Chairman
of Mould Plastic Group and General Manager of Jiangnan Mould Plastic Technology
Co., Ltd. Mould Plastic Group is a leading plastic manufacturer in China
and the main supplier of automobile fitting plastics and related products
to Volkswagen, Shanghai GE and Citroen.
Mr. Cao was educated at
School of Foreign Language at Yangzhou Normal College in China. From 1991
to 1992, he completed a business administration and mould technology training
program at Zimmermann Nachf Company based in Germany. Since 1996, he has
served as Vice-Chairman of Mould Plastic Group. Since 1995, Mr. Cao has
received top honor in foreign trade from Jiangyin Municipal government
for 7 consecutive years. In 2001, Mr. Cao was honored as Top 10 Youth
Entrepreneur in the city of Jiangyin where his company is located.
Shi
Wang
Mr. Shi Wang was born in January 1951 in Liuzhou, Guangxi Province. He
graduated from Lanzhou Railway College majoring in water supply and sewerage
works. In 1983, he joined the Shenzhen Special Economy Zone Development
Co. In 1984, he set up the Shenzhen Exhibition Center of Modern Science
and Education Equipment and acted as the General Manager. The Center was
restructured to a joint-stock company in 1988, and was renamed as China
Vanke Co., Ltd. In 1991, the Company was listed in Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
Mr. Wang Shi had been the Chairman and General Manager of the Company
until Feb 1999 when he resigned from the position of General Manager.
Endymion
Wilkinson
Endymion Wilkinson (moderator)
is currently a Senior Fellow at the Asia Center, Harvard. Prior to that
he was the EU Ambassador to China (1994 to 2001), heavily engaged in the
EU-China WTO negotiations and at the same time overseeing the expansion
of the EU grant aid program to China to $250 million. After gaining his
Princeton PhD in 1970 (published as Studies in Chinese Price History),
he lectured on the History of the Far East at the University of London
before joining the External Relations Department of the European Commission
in 1974. For the next 20 years he worked in different sectors at EU HQ,
including trade policy, political co-operation and development assistance.
Despite busy postings in Tokyo, Brussels, Bangkok, and Beijing he has
published widely on East Asia.
Bucking the Trend: High-Tech
in China
David
C. Wang
David C. Wang served as
Chairman & CEO of GE (China) Co. Ltd from January 1997 to the end
of 2001. He was based in Beijing to lead GE’s business development,
initiatives and government relations activities in China. During his tenure
GE tripled the professional workforce in China and initiated major sourcing
and technology initiatives in addition to traditional investment activities.
He has now returned to the U.S. and currently serves an advisory role
at GE corporate.
Wang has been with GE for
over 20 years. He joined GE Motors, Fort Wayne, IN as Manager of Product
Engineering in 1980, then served various Engineering, Project and Manufacturing
roles until moving to Juarez, Mexico as Plant Manager in 1988. In 1990
he joined GE Medical Systems and moved to Beijing to negotiate and start
up the GE’s first joint venture in China. After the successful jv
startup he led the formation of the first integrated GE business in China
as President, GE Medical Systems China. End of 1993 he returned to GEMS
headquarters at Milwaukee and served on the China Growth Team while negotiating
2 additional jv's. In 1995 David was appointed National Executive for
Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei located in Kuala Lumpur, where he served
for 2 years before moving back to Beijing.
Wang was born on April 28,
1944 in Fujian Province, China, but left China in 1949 with his family.
He then received his primary education in Hong Kong, his secondary education
in Indonesia, and graduated from St. Louis University with a B.S. degree
in Electrical Engineering in 1967. After graduation he ran a family business
in Mfg/ Import/Export in Jakarta for 3 years, then returned to the US
and served in various engineering capacities at Emerson Electric in St
Louis for 10 years before joining GE. During that time he received the
Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri
at Rolla.
Among other recognitions,
Wang won a “Friendship and Great Wall Award” by the Beijing
Municipal Government for his effort to lead GE to contribute to the social
and economic development of the Chinese Capital in 1999. Wang holds 3
patents.
Sonny
Wu
Sonny Wu is the Vice President
of Nortel Networks responsible for Asia wireless business development.
He has been with Nortel Networks for 11 years, with assignments in technology,
marketing, and general management. During 1993-95, Sonny was instrumental
in setting up the joint ventures and the Nortel (China) holding company.
From 1997-98, Sonny Wu was the Managing Director of Shanghai Nortel Semiconductors,
as one of the early “fabless design centers” for local telecom
companies in China.
Most recently, Sonny was
the General Manager of GuangDong Nortel. The JV R&D center had become
a successful “wireless software factory” in China. Sonny was
inducted as an Honorary Citizen of ShunDe City, for his contribution to
the region.
Sonny received his education
at the University of British Columbia, the University of California at
Berkeley (as an exchange scholar in Physics) and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (as a Sloan Fellow). He is actively engaged in wireless
media as well as FeRAM and polymer display technologies for next generation
wireless applications.
J.
Robb Dixon
Associate Professor of Operations
Management
School of Management, Boston
University
Robb Dixon earned his Ph.D.
in Operations Management and his MBA at the University of Virginia and
his BA in biology at Wesleyan University. He teaches courses in Operations
Management, Operations Strategy, Project Management, and Management of
Technology and Innovation in the undergraduate, MBA, EMBA, and doctoral
programs.
Robb’s research and
publications address operations strategy issues. He is currently interested
in the strategic issues involved in the integration of internal capabilities
with external manufacturing partners and in process technology implementation.
He is the author with Alfred J. Nanni and Thomas E. Vollmann of a book
on performance measurement, The New Performance Challenge: Measuring Operations
for World-Class Competition. He has also published articles on business
process reengineering, manufacturing flexibility, performance measurement,
operations strategy and process technology innovation.
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