Dr. Healey, Kerry, Keynote
Lieutenant Governor, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey brings extensive public policy experience and academic credentials to the Romney Administration.

For nearly a decade, Lieutenant Governor Healey worked as a consultant for Abt Associates, Inc. in Cambridge in the fields of law and public safety. In this capacity, she conducted research for the U.S. Department of Justice in the areas of child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, gang violence, victim and witness intimidation and the prosecution of drug crimes.

She has published four books and is the author of numerous articles. In addition, she was a member of the adjunct faculty at Endicott College and the University of Massachusetts in Lowell.

Lieutenant Governor Healey, who resides in Beverly, has a strong commitment to her community. She served on the Foundation Board of North Shore Community College, co-chaired Beverly's United Way Campaign in 2001 and has served on the Friend's Board of Beverly Hospital. A strong believer in literacy and learning, Lieutenant Governor Healey also co-chaired a campaign to rebuild her city's library, raising more than $1 million in private funds and grants.

Before her election as Lieutenant Governor, Healey served as Chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party, where she restored the party's finances and energized the grassroots activists.

Lieutenant Governor Healey, 43, was raised in Florida, the daughter of a public school teacher and a World War II veteran. At a young age, her parents instilled in her the value of education, hard work and public service. In 1982, Lieutenant Governor Healey graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in government. After receiving a Rotary International Scholarship, she obtained her Ph.D. in political science and law from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

Lieutenant Governor Healey and her husband, Sean, have two school-aged children.

Mr. Wang, Jianxi, Keynote
Assistant Chairman, China Securities Regulatory Commission

Mr. Jianxi Wang has served as the Assistant Chairman for the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) from July 2002 to present. He also served as the Deputy Secretary General of CSRC in August 2000. From August 1998 to August 2000, he worked as the Deputy CEO & Executive director of the Board, and Vice Chairman and CEO of the Bank of China International Holdings, Ltd. (BOCI) in the United Kingdom. He served as the CFO & Executive Director of the Board of BOCI in 1996. From 1992 to 1996, he worked as the Chief Accountant and Director for the General Department of International Cooperation, CSRC. He also worked as the Director of the Auditing Department of the China Consultants of Accounting and Financial Management, Inc from 1985 to 1992.

In addition, Mr. Wang is also a member of the Chinese Accounting Standards Committee (MOF); Executive Director of the Board of CICPA; Arbitrator of the China International Trade Promotion Commission; Commissioner of the United Nations' Compensation Commission; and a guest professor at a number of universities.

Mr. Wang received a Bachelor's Degree in financial accounting from People's University, China in 1982. He then received a Master's Degree in Western accounting at the Institute of Fiscal Science Research of MOF in China in 1985. He finally received his Ph. D. in accounting at the Institute of Fiscal Science Research of Ministry of Finance in China in 1990.

Mr. Alberti, Christopher
Managing Director, Taconic Alliance, LLC

Mr. Alberti formed Taconic Alliance, LLC, in 2001 to facilitate private equity investments and to provide financial advisory services to multinational companies, institutional investors and financial institutions, focusing on investment in the People's Republic of China.

Mr. Alberti was formerly a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, during which time he was seconded to China International Capital Corporation in Beijing, a unique joint venture investment bank with China Construction Bank and Morgan Stanley as the major shareholders. Mr. Alberti ran CICC's investment banking department and directed offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. He oversaw all domestic and international equity, debt and M&A business, including mandates for major Chinese state-owned enterprises and developing private companies, and served as a member of the Management, Operations and Commitment Committees. Mr. Alberti was also a member of CICC's Direct Investment Committee and oversaw monetization of all private equity. In addition to his work at CICC, Mr. Alberti was responsible for primary Morgan Stanley coverage of multinational companies in China, including BASF, Bayer, Cummins Engine, Ericsson, Exxon, General Electric, IBM, Intel, Lincoln National, Microsoft, Motorola, Northwest Airlines, Raytheon, Siemens, United Airlines, and Xin De Telecom (Siemens JV).

Mr. Alberti is a 1975 graduate of Williams College, where he majored in Religion and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a 1978 graduate of Columbia Law School. He is a member of the bar in New York and Massachusetts, Chairman of the Robert L. Gaudino Memorial Fund at Williams College, and a member of the board of the Beacon Hill Civic Association.

Dr. Alexander, Lewis
Managing Director and Global Head of Emerging Markets, Economics and Market Analysis Team, Citigroup

Lewis S. Alexander is a Managing Director and the Global Head for Emerging Markets in the Economic and Market Analysis department of Citigroup. Lewis directs the Firm's economic research across the emerging world, including analyst teams in the Americas, Asia and Europe.

Prior to joining Citigroup in the fall of 1999, Lewis had a long career at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he served most recently as the Deputy Director of the Division of International Finance. As Deputy Director, Lewis directed the Federal Reserve Board's analysis of foreign financial markets and international banking, represented the Federal Reserve in key international forums, and worked closely with the U.S. Treasury on the policy response to the crises in Asia, Latin America and Russia. Lewis also was an Associate Economist of the Federal Open Market Committee. Earlier, he served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Commerce (1993-96) and was a consultant to the Bank for International Settlements (1988-89.)

Lewis received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1987, after obtaining an M.Phil. there in 1985. Previously, he obtained an A.M. (1979) and an A.B. (1978) in Economics from Stanford University.

Prof. Fewsmith, Joseph
Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University

Joseph Fewsmith is Professor of International Relations and Political Science as well as Director of the East Asia Interdisciplinary Studies Program at Boston University. He is the author of four books: China Since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Elite Politics in Contemporary China (M.E. Sharpe, 2001), The Dilemmas of Reform in China: Political Conflict and Economic Debate (M.E. Sharpe, 1994), and Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China: Merchant Organizations and Politics in Shanghai, 1980-1930 (University of Hawaii Press, 1985). He is very active in the China field, traveling to China frequently and presenting papers at professional conferences such as the Association for Asian Studies and the American Political Science Association. His articles have appeared in such journals as Asian Survey, Comparative Studies in Society and History, The China Journal, The China Quarterly, Current History, The Journal of Contemporary China, Problems of Communism, and Modern China. He is also a research associate of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University. Professor Fewsmith received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago and his B.A. from Northwestern University.

Prof. Goodman, David
Vice President (International) and Professor of International Studies, University of Technology, Sydney

Professor David S G Goodman is Professor of International Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. Educated at the University of Manchester, PekingUniversity and University of London, he researches social and political change in China. His next book [China's Campaign to 'Open Up the West': National, provincial and local perspectives] will be published by Cambridge University Press in September. He is currently working on the role of women in local politics and business in three Chinese counties; and engaged in research on social and political change in Colonial Qingdao.

Mr. Hale, David
Founder and Chairman, Hale Advisors and China Online

David Hale is a Chicago based economist who works with investment management companies and multinational companies in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South Africa. He is the founding chairman of Hale Advisors and ChinaOnline. He formerly worked as chief economist for Kemper Financial Services from 1977 to 1995 and Zurich Financial Services, which he joined as chief economist when it purchased Kemper in 1995. As chief economist for Zurich, he advised the group's fund management and insurance operations on the economic outlook and a wide range of public policy issues.

Mr. Hale is a member of the National Association of Business Economists and the New York Society of Security Analysts. He writes on a broad range of economic subjects and his articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Far Eastern EconomicReview, The Financial Times of London, The New York Times, The Nihon Kezai Shimbun, The Financial Analyst Journal, The Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy and other publications. In 1978, he was appointed a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Task Force on the Conceptual Framework. He has frequently testified before Congressional committees on domestic and international economic policy issues and done briefings for senior officials in the executive branch, including President Bush. Since 1990, he also has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense on how changes in the global economy are affecting U.S. security relationships.

Mr. Hale holds a B.Sc. degree in international economic affairs from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a M.Sc. degree in economics from the London School of Economics.

Mr. Han, Fanghe
CEO, Hua An Fund Management

Mr. Han has more than 15 years experience as a financial professional. He served for 12 years as the Director of Shanghai Price Researching Institute, and in 1996, he joined the Shanghai International Trust & Investment Corporation Limited as Division Head. In 1998, he was appointed CEO of Hua An Fund Management Corporation Limited and is a member of its Board of Directors.

Besides his post at Hua An, Mr. Han also serves as Executive Commissioner to the All- China Federation of Industry & Commerce; Commissioner to the Shanghai Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Office of Economic Committee; Specialist Advisor to Shanghai Senior Business Professional Designation Evaluation Committee, Finance and Securities Group; and Director of Shanghai Price Monitoring Association.

Mr. Han holds a Master of Economics from Fudan University and spent his undergraduate years at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

Ms. Hao, Sherry
Partner, KPMG International

Ms. Sherry Hao is the Partner of KPMG in Beijing. She joined KPMG in New York from 1985-87. She then rejoined KPMG in Los Angeles in 1993. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and California State Society of CPAS.

She received a BA in accounting from the Renmin University of China in Beijing, China. She then received an MBA from Temple University in Philadelphia. She worked as a Certified Public Accountant in China from 1982-89. She also served as a lecturer at the Accounting Department of Renmin University.

Mr. He, Boquan
CEO and Vice Chairman of the Board, Robust Group

HE Boquan was born in Zhongshan of Guangdong Province, China on 7 November 1960. He graduated from the China Central Radio and TV University with a major of Management. In 1989, he started the Robust Healthy Food Incorporation, LTD., which produces yogurt, mineral water, purified water, juice, tea, etc., with 950,000RMB (about $114,457). In 2000, Robust had revenue of two billion RMB and became the largest yogurt producer and second largest bottled water producer in China. It then joint ventured with Danone of France the same year. Mr. He is now Vice Chairman of the Board of the joint venture Robust Group.

Mr. He is married to Li Baoming and they have one daughter and one son.

Mr. Hind, David
Vice President of Business Development, Qualcomm China

David Hind serves as vice president of business development for QUALCOMM Incorporated in China. In this role, Hind develops strategic and operational plans to help accelerate China's adoption of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology for the deployment of next-generation wireless networks and services. Hind oversees the necessary communications and coordination efforts between China government bodies and local manufacturers, to help obtain the proper licensing and IPR approvals from QUALCOMM.

Hind began his career at QUALCOMM in 1991 as director of QUALCOMM Consumer Products (QCP). He has served in various senior roles during his time at QUALCOMM including vice president of manufacturing and director of operations for QUALCOMM Wireless Business Solutions, chief financial officer of QUALCOMM Personal Electronics (QPE), a joint venture between Sony and QUALCOMM, as well as vice president of operations for QCP. Hind also served in management roles at NovAtel Communications Ltd., and Mitel Corporation in Canada.

Hind received his bachelor of science degree in mathematics from Acacia University in Canada.

Prof. Hope, Nicholas
Deputy Director, Stanford University Center for International Development
Former World Bank Country Director for China

Nicholas Hope is Deputy Director of the Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform at Stanford University, where he coordinated the Center's research program on China. Before joining the Center he spent 24 years at the World Bank in Washington, where among other senior management positions he was Country Director for China and Mongolia (1994-1997). Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr. Hope lectured in economics at Monash Universiry in Melbourne, Australia. He holds degrees from the universities of Tasmania, Oxford, and Princeton. His research interests center on the East Asian economics.

Dr. Howe, John P.
President and CEO, Project HOPE

Dr. John P. Howe, III, Distinguished Chair in Health Policy at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, became President & CEO of Project HOPE on May 1, 2001. Project HOPE is an international health foundation, with offices and programs in 24 countries on 5 continents. He is board certified in both internal medicine and cardiovascular disease and a tenured professor in the University's Department of Medicine.

Dr. Howe had been the Health Services Center's chief executive for fifteen years, where he provided leadership to the University's Medical School, Dental School, Nursing School, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences and Doctor of Pharmacy program.

Dr. Howe earned a bachelor's degree at Amherst College and his medical degree at Boston University School of Medicine. He served two years in the Army Medical Corps and later completed the Health Systems Management Program at Harvard Business School.

He has served recent terms as president of both the Texas Medical Association and the Bexar County Medical Society. He is a board member of the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, and the Southwest Research Institute. He is also Senior Advisor to the Chinese Center for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention.

Dr. Howe is Chairman of the Harvard College Board of Overseers Committee to Visit the Medical School and School of Dental Medicine. He is also the founding president of the Texas Society for Biomedical Research, past chair of the American Medical Association's Council on Scientific Affairs, and a member of the 311th Human Systems Wings Advisory Group-United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.

Mr. Howson, Nicholas
Of Counsel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School (Spring 2004)

Nicholas C. Howson is Of Counsel to Paul, Weiss, and previously a partner in the Corporate Department with postings in the firm's Beijing, London and Paris offices, as well as residence in the New York office. Mr. Howson's practice has focused on a broad range of mergers and acquisitions, project finance, foreign direct investment and capital markets transactions, including the first direct IPO from China to the New York Stock Exchange (Shandong Huaneng in August 1994) and the first private placement of equity in a Chinese company limited by shares to a foreign investor (Soros purchase of 25% of the equity in Hainan Airlines in December 1995). Mr. Howson has for many years taught the upper-class course in Chinese investment law at Columbia Law School and published widely on Chinese legal topics in journals such as The Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, the UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal, The China Quarterly (London), Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft (Heidelberg), The Columbia Journal of Asian Law, The China Business Review, East Asian Executive Reports, International Financial Law Review and Infrastructure Finance. He has also acted as a consultant to the Ford Foundation (legal education and reform in China) and the UNDP and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (China's company law and corporate governance reform).

Mr. Howson, who is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and written Chinese, is a 1983 graduate of Williams College. Thereafter, from 1983 to 1985 he was a graduate exchange fellow at Shanghai's Fudan University. He received his juris doctor degree from the Columbia Law School in 1988, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. After spending a further six months in China at Beijing University and the China University of Politics and Law completing research in Qing legal history, he joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

Ms. Hughes, Lyric M.
CEO and Publisher, ChinaOnline

Lyric M. Hughes is CEO and publisher of China Online, an Internet-based news and information service that provides business and economic intelligence about China. She founded China Online in January 1998, and was named one of the “25 Women of Small Business” by FORTUNE Small Business in March, 2001. The rapidly growing Chicago-based company was named in the “Internet Top 10 New Companies” listing by Inc Magazine in May, 1999. Its daily news reports are carried by Dow Jones, The Financial Times and Reuters News Services.

A graduate of the University of Chicago, Ms. Hughes studied in Sendai, Japan as a Rotary exchange student and made her first trip to China in 1979 as a member of a delegation from the states of Illinois and Arkansas. She was the first American to act as the advertising representative for Chinese media such as The People’s Daily and China Central Television. In 1986, Ms. Hughes arranged for the first telecast of the Super Bowl in China. The television spots she produced for the broadcast were the first Chinese commercials ever entered in competition at the International Television Festival at Cannes.

A frequent speaker in the USA, Asia, Europe and Australia, Ms. Hughes has addressed audiences at the World Economic Forum, the Asia Society, the Brookings Institution, the Australia Unlimited Conference, universities, and has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee. Her fields of interest include the development of the Internet in China and the role of the Internet in creating transparency in emerging economies.

Prof. Jefferson, Gary H.
Carl Marks Professor of International Trade and Finance and Chair of the Economics Department, Brandeis University

Gary Jefferson, Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at Brandeis University, studies and writes about institutions, technology, economic growth, and China's economic transition. Jefferson's research, which involves collaboration with Chinese agencies, policy institutes, and universities, has received support from the Ford Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the World Bank. Professor Jefferson's publications include his recent book, Enterprise Reform in China: Ownership, Transition, and Performance (Oxford University Press), “China's State Enterprises: Public Goods, Externalities, and Coase” (American Economic Review, May 1998) “Ownership, Productivity Change, and Financial Performance in Chinese Industry,” Journal of Comparative Economics (2000); “China's Emerging Market for Property Rights: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives,” Economics of Transition (2002); “China's Emerging (Implicit) Economic Constitution,” China Economic Review (2002), “R&D Performance in Chinese Industry” Economics of Innovation and New Technology (forthcoming), and “What is Driving China's Decline in Energy Intensity?” Resource and Energy Economics (forthcoming).

A graduate of Dartmouth College (A.B.), the Fletcher School at Tufts (M.A.L.D), and the London School of Economics (M.S. Economics), Jefferson served as Deputy State Planning Director (Massachusetts) and Staff Director, International Development Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee, before earning his Ph.D. in economics at Yale University. As well as frequently visiting China, Jefferson has lived and taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and at Wuhan University in China.

Mr. Jiang, Peixing
Assistant CEO, China Galaxy Securities Company

Mr. Jiang has been the Assistant CEO at China Galaxy Securities Company since 2000. During this time he has directed the international cooperation and fund management unit, international cooperation unit (QFII), asset management unit, and futures unit. Prior to that he was General Manager at Shenzhen Sunshine Fund Management Company, where he directed the company's asset management and project management businesses and was in charge of management. Prior to Sunshine Funds, he was Vice General Manager of the Futures and Securities Departments of the People's Insurance Trust & Investment Company of China, where he was in charge of futures brokerage and investment.

Mr. Jiang holds an MBA from Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, and an MPA from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs where he studied in the Program in Economic Policy Management. Mr. Jiang received his Bachelor Degree in Engineering from Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management, Department of Management Information Systems.

Mr. Jiang is a committee member on the China Finance Market Committee of Pacific Economic Cooperation Committee; member of Division of Finance Engineering of China Quantitative Economic Institute; and Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Securities Association.

Dr. Kaufman, Joan
Director of the AIDS Public Policy Training Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Joan Kaufman is currently the Director of the AIDS Public Policy Training Program at the Center for Business and Government – Asia Programs of the Kennedy School of Government and Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is also a Senior Scientist at the Schnieder Institute for Health Policy at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Joan works with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative on their China program, and serves as special advisor to the director at the Wellesley Centers for Research on Women. From 1996-2001 she was the Ford Foundation's Gender and Reproductive Health Program Officer for China. Previous positions include Lecturer on Population and Reproductive Health at Harvard School of Public Health, Senior Associate at Abt Associates Inc. and the first international UNFPA program officer for China from 1980-84. She holds a doctorate in population and international health from Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Kaufman spent 2001-2002 as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University and 2002-2003 as a visiting fellow in the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. Her publications include a forthcoming book chapter on China's SARS epidemic, a recent policy forum in Science magazine on the AIDS epidemic in China, several recent articles about the gender impacts of health privatization in China, a book on the history of China's family planning program, and numerous peer review articles, chapters in books, and articles in Chinese journals.

Mr. Knight, Robert
CEO, Standard Life Asia

Mr. Robert Knight joined Standard Life in 1987, and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Standard Life Asia. He is also a Director of the Standard Life Investments SICAV Board and a member of the General Committee of the British Chamber of Commerce. Prior to his current appointment that started in Shanghai in 1996, Mr. Knight was a Project Director and helped established Standard Life in Frankfurt, Germany. He is responsible to for managing the existing Standard Life operations in China, as well as future developments elsewhere throughout the region. Mr. Knight is currently directing the latest regional project in Tianjin to establish a joint venture insurance company with TEDA called Heng An Standard Life.

Mr. Knight graduated from Aston University, Birmingham with a Bachelors Degree in Biochemistry. His hobbies include gliding, sailing, skiing, diving and rugby. He is currently the Chairman of the China Coast Race Committee.

Mr. Laszewski, Robert
Chairman of the Global Medical Forum Foundation for North America and China

Robert Laszewski is Chair of the Global Medical Forum Foundation for North America and China. The GMF is a non-profit group limited to 250 global health care leaders in business, science, and policy, which includes a number of health ministers, CEOs, distinguished scientists, and health policy and market experts.

He is also is President of Health Policy and Strategy Associates, a Washington, DC based health care consulting firm.

Bob had twenty years of experience in the insurance industry, serving as a chief operating officer for nine of those years, before beginning his business in 1992.

He has participated extensively in the nation's health care debate and has been a regular contributor on the issue for a number of the national television and radio networks as well as major newspapers and trade journals.

His marketplace practice concentrates on how health insurance companies, HMOs, Blue Cross plans, workers' compensation carriers and provider organizations come to grips with market change.

Mr. LaViolette, Paul
Executive Vice President, Boston Scientific Corporation

Paul LaViolette is an Executive Vice President of Boston Scientific Corporation; Group President, Cardiovascular; and President of Interventional Cardiology. He brings various international experiences and proven ability to grow, integrate and leverage Boston Scientific businesses and organizations worldwide.
Paul joined Boston Scientific in January 1994 as President of Boston Scientific International. In February 1995, he became Group President for the Nonvascular Businesses, which included Microvasive Endoscopy and Microvasive Urology. In 1998, he again joined Boston Scientific International as its President to help strengthen and stabilize the organization. In 1999, Paul added Group President responsibilities for the Scimed, EP Technologies and Target divisions, and in 2001 also took on the role of President of Scimed.

Today Paul is Group President of Cardiovascular, responsible for the Interventional Cardiology, Peripheral Interventions, Vascular Surgery, Electrophysiology and Neurovascular businesses. He is also responsible for Corporate Sales and National Accounts, Healthcare Strategies and Programs, and Boston Scientific's Federal Affairs.

Paul currently serves on the Board of Directors of AdvaMed (Advanced Medical Technology Association), the New England Health Care Institute, and PVT (Percutaneous Valve Technologies).

Before joining Boston Scientific, Paul spent 10 years with C. R. Bard, where he served as President of Bard's USCI Division from 1993 to 1994 and its USCI Angioplasty Division from 1991 to 1993. Previously, he held several marketing positions at Bard, including Vice President of Marketing for USCI, and was a member of the company's Management Board. Prior to joining Bard, Paul was with the Kendall Company's Hospital Products Division.

Paul graduated from Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT, and earned an M.B.A. from Boston College.

Dr. Liang, Bill
Managing Director, China Healthcare Consulting

Bill Liang is managing director of China Healthcare Consulting. Dr. Liang has 12 years of biomedical research and investment experience in pharmaceutical and financial industries. Prior to joining CHCC, he worked in Convergent Venture LLC, a biomedical venture capital firm in Los Angeles. Before that, he was an equity research associate at Wedbush Morgan Securities, an investment-banking firm in Los Angeles, where he conducted equity research on biomedical companies in the United States. Dr. Liang received a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. He had three-year postdoctoral training at the Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Liang was the recipient of the Best Ph.D. Dissertation award in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Drug Discovery Fellowship in Massachusetts General Hospital. His research experience ranged from plant biology, microbiology and immunology to gene therapy. He was the first author of several research papers in leading biomedical journals and speaker at several international science and industrial conferences. His China venture experiences included the formation of several million-dollar product co-development programs with Chinese healthcare firms, and numerous marketing partnership deals.

Mr. Ling, George
Founder and CEO, Atoz Group

George came to the United States in 1949 to study in Mt. Hermon School (Now Northfield Mt. Hermon School, Mass.) till 1951. And he did pre-architecture at Oberlin College before going to finish his undergraduate work at University of California, Berkeley. Through dealing with the human needs in architecture, George wanted to learn more about the psychological, intellectual and spiritual needs of people, and did his B.D. at Yale Divinity School and one year of research at Yale Graduate School. After working three years in Hong Kong, he went to England and obtained his D. Phil at Oxford University. Afterwards, having gone to live in China for 9 years out of 10 years of the Cultural Revolution, he went back to Hong Kong, only to return to China to pioneer in IT business till now when China opened up in 1979.

Prof. Liu Yuanli
Assistant Professor of International Health, Harvard University School of Public Health

Dr. Yuanli Liu is assistant professor of international health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has been teaching health financing and health system analysis at Harvard since 1994. In the latest annual report of the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Liu is named one of the six “Future Leaders in Public Health”. He has conducted extensive studies on health system reforms in developing countries, particularly in China. Dr. Liu served as a coordinator of the Global Health Equity Initiative. He currently serves on the United Nations Millennium Development Taskforce on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Basic Medicines. He is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Global Equity Gauge Alliance. He is a member the World Health Organization Health Matrix Network Task Force. He served as a consultant to various international agencies including the World Bank, UNICEF, WHO, UNDP, and Asian Development Bank. Dr. Liu is also Vice-President of the China Foundation, Inc., a US-based non-profit organization dedicated to assist China in it’s social development.

Mr. Parker, Jesse
CEO, Changsha Consulting
Executive Director, Hitachi Center, Tufts University Fletcher School

Jesse Parker, is currently CEO, Changsha Consulting, Inc and Executive Director of the Hitachi Center at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. His firm specializes in assisting North American and European companies with their China strategies. Mr. Parker is also an angel investor in promising Chinese startup companies. He was Vice President, Business Development for SOFTBANK International Ventures.. During this time Jesse led SOFTBANK's expansion into a number of international territories including the United Kingdom, Europe and India, through joint ventures with Vivendi and News Corp. Prior to joining SOFTBANK, he was Vice President of Marketing & Sales at CommQuest, IBM's first wireless semiconductor acquisition, and before that Director, Worldwide Marketing, at IBM Microelectronics. Mr Parker has a BA from Hobart College and an MBA from Northeastern University and speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Dwight H. Perkins
Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor Political Economy, Harvard University; Director, Harvard University Asia Center

Dwight H. Perkins is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy of Harvard University and Director of the Harvard University Asia Center. 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 Director of the Harvard Institute for International Development, the University's former multi-disciplinary institute for research, teaching, and technical assistance on development policy, 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. Topics include the transition from central planning to the market, long-term agricultural development, industrial policy, the underlying sources of growth in East Asia, and the role of economic and legal institutions in East Asian growth.

He has served as an advisor or consultant on economic policy and reform to the governments of Korea, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, 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. He has been a Visiting Professor or Scholar at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, the University of Washington, and Fudan University in Shanghai.

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.

Prof. Polenske, Karen R.
Professor of Regional Political Economy and Planning, MIT

Karen R. Polenske, Professor of Regional Political Economy and Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), has been at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 1972. Professor Polenske, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, is head of the International Development and Regional Planning (IDRP) group in DUSP. Her current research includes (1) a comparison of industrial technology options in the People's Republic of China (China) for cokemaking and steelmaking, (2) the socioeconomic effects in the North of China of Yellow Dust, (3) the productivity impacts of federal investments in the two-millimeter technology on the U.S. automobile, (4) socioeconomic impacts of the silent aircraft initiative in the United Kingdom, and (5) spatial dispersion of innovation.

Since 1997, she has been team leader for 15 faculty and students who are conducting the Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS) energy-efficiency research in China. The participants include chemical engineers, economists, physicists, and planners who are from China, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States.

She has been director of the multiregional planning (MRP) research team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 1972. She is past President of the International Input-Output Association. She won the 1996 North American Regional Science Distinguished Scholar Award and the 1999 Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning Margarita McCoy Award for outstanding service. Her publications include six published books, the latest of which is Chinese Economic Planning and Input-Output Analysis (coedited with Chen Xikang), a forthcoming book on the cokemaking sector in China, and numerous articles in key economic, energy, environmental, and planning journals.

Mr. Prasad, Eswar
Division Chief, China Division, International Monetary Fund

Mr. Eswar Prasad is Chief of the International Monetary Fund's China Division. Immediately prior to his current role Mr. Prasad was Chief of IMF's Article IV Consultation mission to Myanmar. He also participated in other Article IV Consultation missions to the United States, Canada, the Bahamas, Japan, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Mr. Prasad founded the IMF Research Bulletin, a quarterly report on research activities of the IMF, and edited it between June 2000 and December 2002. Currently he is co-editor of the IMF Staff Papers. Mr. Prasad has also been a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany, since March 2002.

Mr. Prasad has extensive experience in issues concerning business cycles, labor markets, international trade, exchange rates, and monetary policy. He has authored a number of policy-oriented background papers on these topics for the IMF country reports. Technical versions of many of these papers have since been published in academic journals, and his work has been quoted extensively. Mr. Prasad is a reviewer for the National Science Foundation's grant proposals.

Prof. Qian, Jun
Professor of Finance, Boston College

Professor Qian received his Ph.D. from The University of Pennsylvania in May 2000 and joined the faculty of Boston College in the same year. He received his B.S. degree from University of Iowa and also attended Fudan University in Shanghai, China.

Prior to coming to Boston College, Professor Qian had teaching experience in finance and economics at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania. He served as an analyst and administrator at the Iowa Electronic Markets from 1993 to 1994. He is currently a member of the American Finance Association, Western Finance Association, and European Finance Association. He is also a Fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center.

Professor Qian has research interests in theoretical and empirical corporate finance: specifically, CEO compensation, employee stock options, and contract theory; fee structure and the performance of mutual fund and hedge fund; security analysts and their impact on trading and returns; and mergers & acquisitions and corporate governance. He also applies corporate finance theory to the development of financial intermediation and the design of financial systems in emerging markets.

Professor Qian's teaching interests lie in corporate finance (Undergraduate, Master and Ph.D. levels).

Prof. Saich, Anthony
Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University

Tony J. Saich is the Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Faculty Chair of Asia Programs and the China Public Policy Program. From 1994 until July 1999, he was representative for the China Office of the Ford Foundation. Prior to this, he was Director of the Sinological Institute at Leiden University, the Netherlands. His teaching and research focus on the interplay between state and society in Asia and the respective roles they play in determining policymaking and framing socioeconomic development. Saich has written several books on developments in China, including Governance and Politics of China (2001);China's Science Policy in the '80s (1989); Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's China (1994, with David E. Apter); and The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party (1996). He studied political science in the U.K. and has taught at universities in England, Holland, and the United States.

Dr. Tang, Mark
President and Managing Partner, World Technology Ventures, LLC

C. Mark Tang is a managing partner of World Technology Ventures, LLC; an international merchant banking and venture capital firm specializing in financing and advising healthcare and biotechnology startups.

With an over a decade of experience in the biotech Industry, Dr Tang has held positions as a senior biotech analyst, a biotech investment banker and venture capitalist. Dr. Tang has also published the Bio/Medical Technology Stock Newsletter (BMTS), which has been acquired. During his career Dr. Tang has co-founded three successful ventures. Most recently he was a director and co-founder of Aegisoft Corporation, a digital right management (DRM) technology company which was acquired by RealNetworks Inc. Dr. Tang's experience has come from working at such global investment banks as PaineWebber and Morgan Stanley. Currently Dr. Tang is a co-founder and Chairman of the World Bio-technology Forum (Non-Profit).

In addition to authoring the book The Essential Biotech Investment Guide, Dr. Tang is a frequent contributor to numerous trade and technical publications. Included in his writings are: “Strategies of risk management in equity” (June 2002), and “State of Asian Bio-entrepreneurship” (May 2003) in Nature/Biotechnology. He is also a consultant, lecturer, and frequent international speaker on various investment topics in the United States and Asia. Dr. Tang also successfully invests in and consults high tech startups.

Mr. Tian, Xiaobao
President, Chinese Academy of Labor and Social Security

Mr. Tian is currently the President of Chinese Academy of Labor and Social Security, the Executive Director of China Association for Labor Studies, and Guest Professor at the Capital University of Economics and Trade. From 1994 to 1998, he was the Vice President and Deputy Editor-in-chief for the China Labor News. Prior to that, he held the office of Deputy Director-General of the Department of Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of Labor. Mr. Tian's work involves theoretical and policy research, administration and journalism. His research interests include labor, wage-distribution, pension, and Social Security System Reform in China. He was one of the establishers of Labor Science as a branch of Social Science in China. In addition, Mr. Tian has organized cooperative projects between China and international organizations such as UNDP, the World Bank, the International Labor Organization, and ADB.

Mr. Wang, Yimin
Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, Guotai Junan Securities Co., Ltd.

Mr. Wang joined Shanghai Branch of China Construction Bank (CCB) in 1979 and acted as Regional Deputy Chief and Department Deputy Chief successively. In 1990, He was transferred to Pudong Branch of CCB and was appointed Deputy Governor of the branch. In 1992, Mr. Wang assumed the position of Executive Director and Deputy General Manager of China Guotai Securities Co., Ltd. Since August 1999, he has been Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of GTJA Securities Co., Ltd, and he has also been Vice-Chairman of the Risk Control Committee of the company since June 2003.

Mr. Wang is a member of several domestic professional organizations. He is the Vice-Chairman of Shanghai Securities Association, Deputy Director of Shanghai Joint-Stock Enterprise Association, Vice Chairman of Shanghai Finance & Law Society. He is also a Visiting Professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

Mr. Wang obtained his Master Degree of Economics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in December 1996 and EMBA degree from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in March 2000. He has also been awarded the Degree of Doctor of Management from Tongji University in March 2001.

Dr. Wei, Li
Director of Research and Senior Economist, New York Stock Exchange

Dr. Li Wei is a Director of Research and a Senior Economist of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) since in 2002. 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. Dr. Wei's research concentrates on market microstructure. She has done a number of academic studies, and has published on the Journal of Finance.

Prior to her experience in the US, Dr. Wei has worked for the People's Bank of China, the Shenzhen International Securities Investment Co., ShenYie (Hong Kong). Co., and the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Dr. Wei has been the first Senior Financial Advisor at the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SHSE) since 2002.

Dr. Wei has been studying policy issues in the Chinese capital market. In May 2002, she suggested that the two Chinese stock exchanges should cut the minimum price variation (tick size) of closed-ends funds to a tenth of penny. Her proposal has been approved by the China Securities Regulation Commission (CSRC) and adopted by the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange on March 3, 2003. Since then, all closed-end funds traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges have tick sizes of a tenth of a penny instead of a penny used before.

Dr. Wei holds a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Utah, and a M.S. and a B.S. in management information system from Tsinghua University.

Ms. Xu, Rebecca
Investment Officer, Private Equity and Investment Funds Dept., International Finance Corporation

Rebecca Xu joined IFC in 1999, and is currently an Investment Officer at the Private Equity & Investment Funds Department primarily covering East and South Asia. Prior to IFC, she was a consultant at the Washington DC office of McKinsey & Co. between 1997 and 1999, where she worked on various client engagements in the financial service industry and the area of strategy. Rebecca's professional experience also includes being a Credit Manager at HSBC in HK between 1993-1995, and an Executive Assistant to the President of CMC, one of the top ten Chinese trading houses, in Beijing between 1991-1993. Rebecca has a BA in International Relations/English from the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Ms. Yuen, Nicole
Managing Director, Head of China Equities, UBS

Nicole Yuen joined UBS in 1994. She is now Head of China Equities, responsible for developing UBS' securities business in China. Nicole was instrumental in helping UBS to become the first Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to invest in China's domestic securities market. UBS currently has the largest investment quota under the QFII regime.
Prior to this, Nicole was Head of Equity Corporate Finance for Asia and was responsible for the execution of equity and equity-linked transactions in Asia. She has extensive experience in equity capital markets in Asia, in particular, the Greater China region. Recent transactions included the listings and initial public offerings of the Bank of China (Hong Kong) and of the MTR Corporation in Hong Kong. Previously, she led various H share offerings from China, included the initial public offerings of Beijing Yanhua Petrochemical, Harbin Power Equipment, Yizheng Chemical Fibres and other GDR transactions from Asian companies.

Before joining UBS, she was a partner at Clifford Chance, Hong Kong. She has practised law in the US, UK, the Netherlands and Hong Kong, specialising in corporate and securities law.
In December 2003, The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) appointed Nicole Yuen to its 25-member listing committee. Nicole is the first overseas banker to be named to the vetting body.

Nicole Yuen graduated from Harvard Law School and the University of Hong Kong. She is a qualified lawyer in the US, UK and Hong Kong.

Dr. Zhang, Nathan
President, Chipscreen Biosciences

Dr. Nathan Xin Zhang is the President of China ChipScreen Bioscience, the largest research based Chinese biotech company. Prior to joining Chipscreen, Dr. Zhang was the Managing Director at Delirium, a global strategic consulting company in New York. Dr. Zhang was a senior consultant at KPMG LLP's New York office before Delirium. Prior to joining KPMG, Dr. Zhang also worked for investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston's investment banking group in New York. Dr. Zhang was a co-founder of CDR Therapeutics, Inc., a Seattle-based bio-pharmaceutical startup that develops products for the treatment of AIDS, psoriasis, corneal healing after laser keratotomy, and breast cancer. Dr. Zhang is the inventor of several U.S. patents and author of three nature biotechnology papers. Dr. Zhang was awarded James A. McLaughlin Award from American National Student Research Forum for his research in the Field of Immunology and Infectious Disease. Dr. Zhang was also awarded Brupbacher Young Investigator Award for his novel approaches to cancer therapy from Charles Rudolph Brupbacher Foundation in Switzerland. China Medicine Economic News recognized Dr. Zhang as one of “China's New Strength, Top Individuals of China Pharmaceutical Industry” in 2003.

Dr. Zhang received his M.D. from Tianjin Medical University. Dr. Zhang also holds a Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Chicago with a concentration in Finance and Accounting.

Mr. Zou, Lan
Senior Fellow, Public Policy Unit, China Development Institute

Lan Zou is currently a Senior Fellow at the Public Policy Unit in the China Development Institute. His research interests include coastal-inland economic relations, Southern China development, and regional economic cooperation in East Asia. Prior to his current post Zou served as Senior Program Officer for the United Nations Development Programme's China Economic Reform Portfolio; Senior Fellow at the Institute of Economic Systems and Management; Senior Research Fellow at China International Trust and Investment Corporation; Researcher at China Institute for Economic Reform, State Commission for Restructuring of the Economic Systems; and Researcher at the Institute of West European Studies. Mr. Zou has also made several visits to the University of Birmingham as a visiting fellow.

Mr. Zou has published extensively. Some of his recent work include the Lame Leg of the Giant: Studies on West China Poverty, Entrepreneurship in Political Transition: the Chinese Experience, WTO and China's Manufacturing Industries, Underdevelopment in West China and the Regional Policies, and a Lone Journey to West China: Collection of Essays and Travelogue.

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