Advisory Board

Zhang Yichen (Chair)

Chairman and CEO, CITIC Capital Holdings Limited

Yichen Zhang is the Chairman and CEO of CITIC Capital and the Chairman of Trustar Capital.

Mr. Zhang began his career on Wall Street in 1987 at Greenwich Capital Markets. He later joined Bank of Tokyo as Head of Proprietary Trading, and Merrill Lynch as Managing Director of Debt Capital Markets for Greater China. In 2000.he joined CITIC Group as the President of CITIC Pacific Communications and Executive Director for CITIC Pacific (now CITIC Limited).

Mr. Zhang founded CITIC Capital in 2002 and has been involved in all phases of the firm’s development since then, including the establishment of Trustar Capital as its affiliated private equity business. Under his leadership, CITIC Capital and Trustar Capital have led a number of landmark deals, investing in some of China’s leading companies, including McDonald’s China, Alibaba, Sina, Harbin Pharmaceutical, SF Express, Asialnfo and Focus Media. Through these investments, he currently serves as the Chairman of McDonald’s master franchised business in China & Hong Kong, the Chairman of Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Holding Company, as well as the Chairman of GNC. He also sits on the boards of the Hong Kong Exchange and Vanke.

Mr. Zhang is a leader in the alternative investment industry. He is an Executive Committee member and former chairman of the China Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA). He is also a vice chairman in Beijing Private Equity Association (BPEA), Tianjin Private Equity Association, and a vice chairman of the PE and Buyout Funds Committee under the Asset Management Association of China (AMAC).

Mr. Zhang is also a leader in political, economic and social communities. He is a member of the Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth (current) National Committees of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC), Senior Vice Chairman of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a member of the Board of Trustees at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a councilmember of Future Forum, and a board member of Aiyou Foundation.

Mr. Zhang obtained his degree in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A strong believer in education, Mr. Zhang has been supporting Phillips Academy Andover as a trustee, Yale Asia Development Council as a council member, Dalton Foundation as a board member, Duke Kunshan University as the Chair of the Advisory Board, and the Tianjin Juilliard School as an advisory board member.

William C. Kirby (Vice Chair)

T. M. Chang Chair Professor of China Studies, Harvard University

Spangler Family Chair Professor, Harvard Business School

William C. Kirby is the T. M. Chang Chair Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and the Spangler Family Chair Professor at Harvard Business School. Professor Kirby was awarded the title of Distinguished Contribution Professor at Harvard University, and now serves as the chairman of the Harvard China Fund and the Harvard Center Shanghai. At Harvard, Professor Kirby served as Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Chairman of the history department, and Dean of the Harvard College of Arts and Sciences.

As a modern Chinese historian, Professor Kirby’s research focuses on China’s business, economic and political development in an international context. His works cover modern Chinese commercial development (both state-owned and private), the international socialist economy of the 1950s, cross-strait relations, and Sino-European and Sino-US relations. His current research includes contemporary Chinese business studies and comparative studies of higher education in China and Europe. His latest book, Empires of Ideas: Creating Modern Universities from Germany to America to China (Harvard University Press), is now available.

Undraa Agvaanluvsan

President, Green Building Council of Mongolia

Undraa Agvaanluvsan, PhD is a seasoned leader with a diverse background in government, academia, and corporate governance. She is currently the President of the Green Building Council of Mongolia, where she is leading efforts to promote sustainable development and green building practices throughout the country.

Undraa has served as a Member of Parliament of Mongolia from 2016-2020, where she chaired the Parliamentary Subcommittee on Sustainable Development Goals and the Responsible Mining Support Group. Prior to being elected to public office, she has served as the Executive Director of the Strategy Academy and as an Advisor to the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy of Mongolia. In addition, she was Ambassador-at-large for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia and Deputy Director of the Institute of Strategic Studies at the National Security Council of Mongolia.

A nuclear scientist by training with more than five dozen publications, Undraa has served as an Affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University since 2010. Her research interests incorporate sustainable development, interdisciplinary thinking, science policy, and comparative foreign policies of countries that neighbor China and Russia. She has also held positions as Adjunct Professor of Physics at North Carolina State University, as postdoctoral research fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and as Science Fellow and Visiting Professor at Stanford University.

Undraa has extensive experience in corporate governance. She currently serves as the Co-chair of the Mongolia Chapter of Women Corporate Directors (WCD), as a Member of the Advisory Board for Erdene Resources, and the Global Committee on Diversity and Inclusion for Women Corporate Directors. She has also served as a member of the Advisory Board for Rio Tinto Mongolia.

Undraa is highly impactful in her community, as the former President of the Mongolian Association of American Alumni and as Co-founder and President of the Mitchell Foundation for Arts and Sciences. She was also Board Member of the Mongol Ecology Center and a Volunteer Park Ranger at the Bogd Khan Mountain Protected Area. In addition, she has worked as Assistant Director on three documentary films and has served as a judge for the Shanghai International Literary Festival.

Undraa has received numerous awards and honors throughout her career, including the Distinguished Service in Petroleum Industry Award from the Government of Mongolia, the Asia21 Young Leader Award, the Recognition of Excellence from the US Department of Energy. She obtained her BS in Physics and MS in Physics from the National University of Mongolia, as well as a Diploma in High Energy Physics from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. She holds a PhD in Physics from North Carolina State University.

Karim Alwadi

Member, China-Arab States Expo Advisory Committee

Founder, Yuan Li Sports Group

An entrepreneur, scholar and author based in Beijing since 2001. Started up and founded several companies in China spanning sectors from machinery manufacturing, infrastructure investment, and development to the Merchant Banking industry.

He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in International Relations, focusing on Sino-Arab Relations, at China Renmin University. Obtained his Ph.D. degree in International Politics from China Foreign Affairs University. An active member of the Chinese Business and Academic Society.

Karim currently holds the following positions:

China-Arab States Expo Advisory Board Member

Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Governance and Development at Renmin University of China.

Visiting Professor at Ningxia University.

Co-founder of the War Zone Saving Children Program, a charity program initiated in 2017, with a focus on providing aid to families affected by war.

Fellow of the Aspen Institute -Global Leaders Program.

YPO (Young President Organization) member.

Author of the book ChinaPhobia – A Wasted Opportunity by Penguin Publishing Group

Recipient of the 2019 McNulty Prize Catalyst Fund (Aspen Institute).

Dhanin Chearavanont

Senior Chairman, Charoen Pokphand Group

Mr. Dhanin Chearavanont is Senior Chairman of the Charoen Pokphand Group (CP). Founded in the 1920’s in Bangkok, Thailand, CP today comprises of global businesses covering animal protein production, food manufacturing, industrial production, services including financial and international trading, modern trade and retailing, telecommunications, and property development. With 250,000 employees and an annual turnover of US$ 39.4 billion, CP operates production bases in fifteen countries in Asia and Europe. CP’s agribusiness in livestock and aquaculture in Thailand, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Russia is modelled on an integrated chain from primary production to processing to sale and distribution. As the first foreign investor in China, CP has, in the course of over thirty years, enlarged it business footprint across the country in feed production, food processing, retail and financial services, as well as pharmaceutical and motorcycle productions.

Mr. Dhanin Chearavanont is recognized internationally for his efforts in the promotion of national development, people’s well-being and international business understanding and cooperation. Named by China’s national media as one of China’s best-known international friends, Mr. Dhanin is the inaugural president of the officially-sanctioned China Association of Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs organized to network among oversea Chinese investors from all over the world. On May 8, 2014, Mr. Dhanin received the inaugural Jinghuajiang (京华奖) or the “Overseas Chinese of

Beijing” Award from the Beijing government, in recognition of the CP Group’s contribution to Beijing’s economic and social development. For his part in promoting close investment ties with Russia, Mr. Dhanin has been awarded the Order of Saint Nicholas by the Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Charitable Foundation. Mr. Dhanin has been recognized by the President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar for his exemplary services to the Myanmar Government in national economic development. The Harvard Business School in the United States has highlighted Mr. Dhanin’s contributions in the development of China’s rural sector in a recently-published case study on the CP agribusiness involvement in China during the past three decades. Mr. Dhanin has further been recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the world’s philanthropists for several years running. Forbes Asia Magazine in 2011 named Mr. Dhanin its “Businessman of The Year”.

In 2012, Mr. Dhanin received two international awards, the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from by CNBC Asia Pacific, and the “Lifetime Achievement Award 2012” from Bloomberg Businessweek Thailand.

Mr. Dhanin business philosophy is encapsulated in his “Three Benefits Principle” (Benefit to the people, Benefit to the country: and Benefit to the company), which is born of CP’s long business experience particularly among the various developing economies. He sees it as CP’s guiding principle in its continuing mission to become the “Kitchen of the World” to serve surging global food demands.

Chen Dongsheng

Founder, Chairman and CEO, Taikang Insurance Group Inc.

Chen Dongsheng, founder of China Guardian Auctions and Taikang Life Insurance, currently serves as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Taikang Insurance Group.

Mr. Chen is also a Member of Advisory Committee of All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, Economic Adviser of Hubei Provincial People’s Government, President of Yabuli China Entrepreneurs Forum, President of Hubei Chushang Association, and Founding President of Wuhan University Alumni Entrepreneurs Association and formerly served as the third Council-President of China Association of Actuaries, . He earned his PhD in Economics at Wuhan University and is a Lifetime Member of the Board of Trustees of his alma mater and also serves as a doctoral supervisor at Dong Fureng Economics & Social Development School . He is the author of published work entitled Guardian: The Rise of A Chinese Auction Company, Strategic Thinking, The Era of Longevity: On Mankind’s Future From the Perspective of Longevity, Health and Wealth, etc.

In 1993, Mr. Chen founded China Guardian Auctions, China’s first international auction house, where he served as Chairman of the Board and General Manager. In 1996, he founded Taikang Life Insurance (currently known as Taikang Insurance Group, a Fortune Global 500 company since 2018), where he has been Chairman and CEO to this day. Prior to forming China Guardian and Taikang, he worked at Developed Countries Study Department, International Trade Research Institute, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation from 1983 through 1988; and later on, he served as Deputy Editor in Chief, Journal of Management World, Development Research Center of the State Council during which time he spearheaded China’s ranking of Top 500 Chinese companies.

He is a leading figure of “Class of 92” (Business elites who left the government or official research institutes in 1992 to start their own business), and is recognized as “Top 100 Outstanding Entrepreneurs during 40 years of reform and opening up” and awarded the title of “Outstanding Builders of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”. In 2020, under his leadership, both Global Chushang Association and Taikang Tongji (Wuhan) Hospital were merited with the national title of “Outstanding Institution in the fight against Covid-19” and he was awarded the national title of “Outstanding Personnel from the private sector in the fight against Covid-19”.

Chen Xiaohong

Founding Partner, H Capital

Xiaohong Chen is Founding Partner of H Capital, a private equity fund focusing on mid-to-late-stage investments in the Internet and education industries. H Capital currently manages approximately $1.3 billion in total assets. Prior to founding H Capital in 2014, Ms. Chen was at Tiger Global for 8 years responsible for Tiger Global’s investment activities in China. Previous experiences included VP of Business Development at Joyo.com and 9.5 years at Veronis Suhler Stevenson, lastly as Managing Director. Ms. Chen received her Bachelor of Arts degree with major in History from Beijing University and her Masters of Library Science from Rutgers University.

Ding Chen, MH, JP

Chief Executive Officer, CSOP Asset Management

Ms. Ding has served as Chief Executive Officer of CSOP Asset Management Limited since joining the company in 2010, overseeing the formulation of the firm’s overall business direction and setting strategic priorities. Prior to this role, she was the Assistant CEO, Managing Director and member of the Investment Committee at China Southern Asset Management from 2003 to June 2013, accumulating over 30 years of experience in the asset management industry.

Ms. Ding was awarded the Medal of Honour by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in July 2021 and appointed as a Justice of the Peace in July 2024. In April 2025, she was appointed by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited.

Since January 2023, Ms. Ding has held the position of Vice Chairperson of the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council, concurrently serving as Convener of the Mainland Opportunities Committee since 2019. She transitioned to the role of Permanent Honorary Chairperson of the Hong Kong Chinese Fund Association in 2020 after serving as its chairperson. Her current roles also include membership in the Hong Kong Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Appeal Board, Executive Board Member of the Treasury Markets Association Council, Executive Committee of the Investment Management Association of Singapore and non-official member of the HKSAR Government’s Task Force on Enhancing Stock Market Liquidity.

Throughout her career, Ms. Ding has held significant positions including member of the Product Advisory Committee of the Securities and Futures Commission, Process Review Panel of the Securities and Futures Commission, Securities and Futures Appeals Tribunal, Financial Infrastructure and Market Development Sub-Committee of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Co-Chairman of the International Business Committee of the Asset Management Association of China, and the Vice Chairperson of Chinese Securities Association of Hong Kong.

Ms. Ding holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from San Francisco State University in the United States and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Sichuan University in China.

James Ding

Managing Director, GSR Ventures

Mr. James Jian Ding is a Managing Director at GSR Ventures, where he focuses on early-stage companies in the artificial intelligence, big data, IT-related health care, VR/AR and new media sectors.

Prior to GSR Ventures, James co-founded AsiaInfo, which played an important role in the design and construction of China’s Internet infrastructure. From May 1999 to April 1, 2003, he successfully guided the company to the first IPO on NASDAQ by a Chinese high-tech company. He currently serves as Director of the board of AsiaInfo. Prior to that he held various leadership positions in AsiaInfo including Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer and President.

Mr. Ding is also an Independent Board Member of Baidu.com.

He is a graduate of Peking University, and earned his MS degree in Information Science from University of California, Los Angeles.

Victor K. Fung

Group Chairman, Fung Group

Honorary Chairman, Li & Fung Limited

Dr. Victor K. Fung is an international business leader, thought leader and philanthropist, who holds professional and civic appointments in Hong Kong, the Chinese Mainland and overseas.

He is Group Chairman of the Fung Group, a Hong Kong-based multinational which comprises major subsidiaries in trading, logistics, distribution and retailing. They include publicly-listed Li & Fung Limited, Global Brands Group Holding Limited, Convenience Retail Asia Limited and Trinity Limited. Dr. Fung played a leading role in driving the development of the supply chain infrastructure at Li & Fung Limited, which has enabled it to become the leading consumer goods design, development, sourcing, and logistics company for major retailers and brands around the world.

Dr. Fung holds independent non-executive Directorships with Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited (Hong Kong) and Koc Holding A.S. (Turkey). He is also Chairman of the Asia Advisory Board of Prudential Financial, Inc (USA).

Dr. Fung is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong, a multi-disciplinary think-tank co-established with the Fung Global Institute to assume and carry forward the Fung Global Institute’s mission to generate and disseminate research and ideas on global issues from Asian perspectives.

Also in Hong Kong, Dr. Fung is a member of the Economic Development Commission of the Hong Kong Government, an Adviser of the Infrastructure Financing Facilitation Office of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence Scheme. He is a former Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (1991- 2000); a Hong Kong representative on the APEC Business Advisory Council (1996-2003); Chairman of the Airport Authority Hong Kong (1999-2008), Chairman of the Council of The University of Hong Kong (2001-2009) and Chairman of the Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council (2004-2013).

On the Chinese Mainland, Dr. Fung is a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and an economic advisor to the People’s Government of Nanjing. He also is an Honorary Trustee of Peking University, a member of the Advisory Board of the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University and an Honorary Professor of Renmin University. He was Vice- Chairman of the China Centre for International Economic Exchanges (2009-2014).

Internationally, Dr. Fung played a leadership role from 2007 in the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce, of which he was Chairman from 2008 to 2010. From 2012 to 2013, he was a member of the World Trade Organisation’s Panel On Defining The Future of Trade.

Dr. Fung was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1993 in recognition for his commitment to public service. In 1995, he was voted Businessman of the Year under the Hong

Kong Business Awards Scheme for his success as an entrepreneur and for his contribution to Hong Kong’s economic development. He also was chosen Hong Kong Leader of the Year in 1998 and was named by BusinessWeek as one of the 50 Asian leaders leading the region out of its economic crisis.

In 2001, he was awarded the Harvard Medal for outstanding service to Harvard University. In 2003, the Hong Kong Government awarded Dr. Fung the Gold Bauhinia Star and, in 2010, the Grand Bauhinia Medal for his distinguished service to the Hong Kong community. In 2011, he was awarded the MIT Sloan Dean’s Award for Excellence in Leadership.

The University of Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Lingnan University have each conferred upon Dr. Fung an Honorary Doctorate Degree of Laws. Hong Kong Baptist University and the Open University of Hong Kong have each conferred upon him an Honorary Doctorate Degree of Business Administration.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Dr. Fung holds Bachelor and Master Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After gaining his Doctorate in Business Economics from Harvard University, he taught as a professor at Harvard Business School before returning to the family business in Hong Kong in 1976.

Dr. Fung is married with three adult children.

Gao Xiqing

Trustee Emeritus, Duke University

Former Vice Chairman and President, China Investment Corporation

Gao Xiqing is the former Vice-Chairman and President of the China Investment Corporation. He was Vice-Chairman of the National Council for Social Security Fund of China between February 2003 and 2007, and was Vice-Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) between 1999 and February 2003. He was an adjunct professor at the Law Schools of Tsinghua University, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), and Duke University School of Law. Mr. Gao received his B.A. equivalent in 1978 and a Master of Laws in 1981, both from UIBE. As a Richard Nixon Scholar, he attended Duke University School of Law and obtained his Juris Doctor degree in 1986. From 1986 to 1988, he practiced law with a major Wall Street firm before returning to China. As a co-founder of the Stock Exchange Executive Council, he was instrumental in the founding of the CSRC and the establishment of the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges in the early 1990s. As one of the founding members of the CSRC, Mr. Gao served as its General Counsel and Director of Public Offerings from 1992 to 1995. From 1997 to July 1999, Mr. Gao served as Vice-Chairman and CEO of BOC International, the investment banking arm of Bank of China in Hong Kong. Since 1986, Mr. Gao has served as either a member or the chairman of arbitration panels for hundreds of international trade or investment disputes between Chinese and foreign companies, both under the CIETAC and the Arbitration Institute of Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.

Jin Li

Vice President, Southern University of Science and Technology

Vice President of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Director of International Centre for Higher Education Innovation Under the Auspices of UNESCO, Director of SUSTech Academy of Finance and Economics, Chair Professor at SUSTech, and Visiting Chair Professor at Peking University.

As a distinguished scholar in finance, Professor Jin previously served as Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, Executive Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, Full Professor at Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford, Research Fellow at the University of Oxford China Centre. At Peking University, he held the positions of Chair Professor and Head of the Finance Department, Associate Dean of Guanghua School of Management, Founding Director of the National Center for Financial Research, and Associate Head of the Division of Economics and Management. (Peking University operates under an academic division system, with the Division of Economics and Management overseeing Guanghua School of Management, National School of Development, School of Economics, HSBC Business School, and Institute of Population Research).

Professor Jin is a member of the 13th and 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and a member of its Economic Committee, as well as a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Jiusan Society. His other major social positions include Rotating Chairman of the Global Corporate Governance Colloquia (GCGC), an academic alliance composed of 12 leading universities, including Harvard, Oxford, and Peking University. He is also Vice Chairman of China Management Science Society and Director of its Committee for Financial Management, Vice Chairman of the Advisory Committee of Chinese Academy of Management and Director of its Equity Investment Committee, and Advisor to China Banking Association and the Asset Management Association of China. In addition, he serves as Advisor of China Trustee Association and Director of its Pension Trust Committee. With extensive experience in corporate governance, he was or is currently an independent or external director of several leading Chinese enterprises, including Ping An, SF Express, TCL Technology, Dacheng Fund, AIBANK, Guosen Securities, Zhongtai Securities, Yingda Trust, Haier Venture Capital, Oriza Holdings, Beijing Financial Holdings and Beijing Electronics Holdings.

Professor Jin obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Department of World Economics at Fudan University in 1992, and subsequently joined the faculty of the newly established Department of International Finance at the same institution. In 1994, he went abroad for further studies, and obtained a Ph.D. in Financial Engineering from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001. His research areas include technology finance, pension finance, inclusive finance, digital finance, and family business governance and succession. His research has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the FAME Research Prize, Best Paper Award of the Global Financial Association, Best Paper Award of the European Financial Management Association, the TCFA Best Paper Award, and the PanAgora Quantitative Research Award.

Natalie G. Lichtenstein

Inaugural General Counsel, Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (retired)

Adjunct Professor of China Studies,

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Natalie Lichtenstein is a US lawyer who has specialized in legal issues at international financial institutions and legal development in China since the 1970s.

Until August 2016, she served as the inaugural General Counsel at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Prior to that, she served as the Chief Counsel for the establishment of AIIB, and the principal drafter for the AIIB Charter from 2014.

Her work for AIIB drew on her 30-year career at the World Bank. Joining the legal department in 1980, she advised on lending operations in China and other countries for most of the next 20 years. She served as Chief Counsel, East Asia in the 1990s. She was an early leader in legal technical assistance activities. From 1999-2010, she served in senior positions, specializing in the Bank’s institutional governance issues and reforms. She led the work on reforms to enhance voice and participation of developing countries in the World Bank Group, prior to her retirement from the World Bank in 2010.

Early on in her career (1978-80), she was involved in legal aspects of US participation in international financial institutions as a lawyer at the US Treasury Department. There, she worked on normalization of relations between the US and the People’s Republic of China.

Since 2007, she has offered a course on Law & Society in China at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. She has also taught Chinese law at George Washington University Law School and lectured at law schools in China and the US. Her consulting work for international organizations in China has included a review of the EU-UNDP Governance for Equitable Development Project and a report on Asian Development Bank’s Technical Assistance for Legal Development. She was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Duke-Kunshan University in May 2014, and is a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations.

Ms. Lichtenstein received her A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard University.

Lim Chee Wah

Chairman, VXL Group

Lim Chee Wah is a corporate leader, community builder, and investor with more than four decades of experience. His work focuses on long-term development, institution building, and projects that deliver lasting economic and social impact.

This approach is evident in the development of Yunding Secret Garden in Chongli, Hebei Province. Long before winter sports gained national prominence in China, Lim recognised Chongli’s natural suitability and long-term potential. The project helped transform Chongli from a rural farming town into a leading national and international winter sports and tourism destination. It generated large-scale local employment and supported major infrastructure development and regional growth. Genting Snow Park, part of Yunding Secret Garden, served as an official competition venue for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

Driven by his conviction in the future of winter sports in China, Lim contributed to China’s successful bid for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. He served as the only foreign member of the Bid Committee. During the Games, Genting Snow Park hosted multiple marquee events, including Halfpipe, Slopestyle, Parallel Giant Slalom, Snowboard Cross, Aerials, and Moguls. The successful delivery of these events demonstrated the site’s international standards and operational capability.

Earlier in his career, Lim played a key role in the expansion, diversification, and corporate structuring of Genting Berhad. He helped guide its evolution from a family business into a diversified conglomerate. He was involved in establishing the plantation and property divisions. He also took a leading role in Genting’s early international expansion through Genting International Ltd. As part of the corporate reorganisation team, he was involved in the establishment of Resorts World Berhad, which consolidated the Genting Highlands assets.

Lim led extensive land acquisition efforts that significantly expanded the Group’s land bank, particularly within the plantation business. Genting Plantations was listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange in 1982. The business continued to grow and perform strongly thereafter. This reflected the durability of the foundations laid during its formative years.

Dede Nickerson

Head of Strategy and Producer, Huanxi Media

Advisor, NBA China

Dede Nickerson has been living in China for over 25 years and has been a leading pioneer in China’s film industry. In 2015, Dede founded Infinity Pictures with China Media Capital. Infinity developed and produced a slate of both Chinese films and English language films for the global audience. Dede is currently producing Lu Chuan’s film Bureau 749 and is doing advisory in the sector.

Prior to establishing Infinity Pictures, Dede was the Head of Production and Strategic Development at Sony Pictures China, where she produced Jiang Wen’s Gone with the Bullets, Chen Kaige’s Monk Comes down the Mountain, and the Chinese remake of My Best Friend’s Wedding. Dede was overseeing strategy across divisions for SPE: she established sales relationships with the digital platforms opening a lucrative new revenue stream for the studio’s content in China; leveraged relationships with SARFTT and Film Bureau to increase the number of Sony Pictures released in China; sourced financing for Sony’s studio slate from China Film and Wanda. Before joining Sony Pictures, Dede produced the Chinese remake of What Women Want starring Andy Lau and Gong Li; served as an advisor to Dune Entertainment; and consulted for Paramount Pictures and Paramount Digital Entertainment where she introduced the company to CJ launching their partnership in Korea and developed the company’s digital strategy in China.

From 2000-2005, Dede ran co-productions and acquisitions for Miramax Films in Asia: licensing libraries, remakes and new films from across Asia for global distribution. Key projects she oversaw include: Hero, Shaolin Soccer, The Touch, Infernal Affairs and the licensing of the Shaw Library. She also oversaw the production of Kill Bill and was credited as associate producer. Dede was responsible for the distribution and sales of Miramax Films into China and other Asian territories and managed GR for the company as well.

From 1995-2000 Dede led Warner Bros. initial efforts in China, key achievements include: an 18 picture output deal with Beijing Film Studio; acquisition of the Golden Harvest Library; and overseeing theatrical business and strategy across divisions. Prior to WB, Dede worked in corporate finance with S.G. Warburg in Hong Kong working on the early H-share offerings.

In addition to her career in film and investment, Dede has devoted significant time to addressing education, development and healthcare issues in China. Dede is a board member of Serve for China and is on the advisory board of Duke Kunshan University. Before that she also served on the board of Teach for China and was a founder of Dandelion School for migrant worker children. Dede helped with the initial establishment and program development for the Special Olympics with the China Disabled Persons’ Federation.

Dede graduated with a double major in Political Science and Chinese Studies from Trinity College in Hartford, CT and was a Princeton in Asia fellow at the People’s University in Beijing. Dede is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

David M. Rubenstein

Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, The Carlyle Group

David M. Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity firms. Mr. Rubenstein co-founded the firm in 1987. Since then, Carlyle has grown into a firm managing more than $150 billion from 36 offices around the world.

A native of Baltimore, Mr. Rubenstein is a 1970 magna cum laude graduate of Duke, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. Following Duke, Mr. Rubenstein graduated in 1973 from The University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review.

From 1973-75, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in New York. From 1975-76 he served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. From 1977- 1981, during the Carter Administration, Mr. Rubenstein was Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. After his White House service and before co-founding Carlyle, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in Washington with Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge.

Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, Co-Chair of the Board of the Brookings Institution, and the President of the Economic Club of Washington. He is on the Board of Directors or Trustees of Johns Hopkins University, University of Chicago, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the American Academy in Berlin and Ford’s Theatre.

Mr. Rubenstein is a member of The Business Council, Visiting Committee of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, the Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors, the Woodrow Wilson School Advisory Council at Princeton, the Board of Trustees of the Young Global Leaders Foundation, Advisory Board of School of Economics and Management Tsinghua University, the Madison Council of the Library of Congress, and the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum.

Elected to the Duke University Board of Trustees in 2005, he previously served as chair. He was also chair of the Executive Committee and is a member of the Committee on Trusteeship. He has previously served on the Business and Finance Committee, Academic Affairs Committee, and Institutional Advancement Committee as well as chairing the Committee on Honorary Degrees.

Hugo Shong

Chairman, IDG Capital

Hugo Shong is the Chairman of IDG Capital. In 1993, Hugo Shong assisted IDG’s late Chairman Patrick McGovern to launch China’s first venture investment firm. Mr. Shong completed the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program in the fall of 1996. He conducted graduate studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy 1987-88 and earned his MS degree from Boston University’s College of Communication in 1987.

Adam Silver, ex officio

Chair, Duke University Board of Trustees

Commissioner, National Basketball Association

Adam Silver’s tenure as NBA Commissioner began on Feb. 1, 2014.

Silver presides over a global sports and media organization built around five professional sports leagues: the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League.

Silver joined the NBA in 1992. Prior to becoming commissioner, he served as NBA Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer, President and Chief Operating Officer of NBA Entertainment, NBA Chief of Staff, and Special Assistant to the Commissioner.

Silver has been instrumental to many of the league’s signature achievements, including the development of the WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, and the establishment of NBA China and NBA Africa.

Silver was recognized by the Sports Business Journal as its Executive of the Decade and has been ranked No. 1 on its annual list of the 50 Most Influential People in the Sports Business. He was also named to TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, Fortune’s World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, and The Bloomberg 50. Additionally, he earned Sports Executive of the Year from Sports Illustrated.

Silver was appointed to Duke University’s Board of Trustees in 2015 and currently serves as chair. He was presented with Distinguished Alumni Awards from the Duke Political Science Department and the University of Chicago Law School and received the University of Chicago’s Professional Achievement Award. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the Board of Trustees for the Rockefeller Foundation, the Paley Center for Media, and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and is Vice Chairman of the Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation.

Before joining the NBA, Silver was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and previously served as a law clerk to Federal District Court Judge Kimba Wood in New York. Silver is a graduate of Duke University and the University of Chicago Law School.

David S. Taylor

Senior Advisor, Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC.

Former Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Procter & Gamble Company

David Taylor is the former Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of P&G.

David is a proven leader with 36 years of experience across many of P&G’s core categories and markets. He and P&G’s leadership team are driving the transformation of P&G to return the company to sustainable, balanced growth and value creation. Prior to becoming CEO, he was Group President of P&G’s Global Beauty, Grooming and Health Care sectors with a portfolio of leading brands such as Crest, Oral-B, Head & Shoulders, Olay, Pantene, SK-II, Gillette, Fusion, Mach 3 and Vicks. David also led P&G’s Family Care and Home Care businesses, both of which delivered consistent profit and sales growth under his leadership.

David spent the first decade of his career in P&G’s Product Supply organization where he managed production and operations at a number of plants. His time in Product Supply gave him broad experience in manufacturing, logistics, engineering and supply chain operations. His track record of rigorous operational excellence is grounded in these pivotal early assignments.

In the early 1990s, David transferred to P&G brand management, where he helped build many of the Company’s core businesses including Baby Care, Family Care, Hair Care and Home Care. He has led global businesses, living and working in North America, Europe and Asia.

David is passionate about addressing food insecurity in the U.S. For eight years, he served on the Board of Directors for Feeding America, including two years as board chair. He continues to serve as a member of the Cincinnati Freestore Foodbank.

In addition, David serves on the boards of the U.S.-China Business Council, the Consumer Goods Forum, and Catalyst. He is a member of the Business Roundtable, and a member of the Board of Visitors at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Earlier in his career, David was vice chair of the Greater China Quality Brand Protection Committee, a collaboration among top companies and the Chinese government.

David graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering. David and his wife reside in Cincinnati, Ohio, and have three sons.

Lawrence Tian

Chairman, Mevion Medical Systems Inc.

Founder, Yuanming Capital

Dr. Lawrence Tian is Chairman of Mevion Medical Systems Inc., Founder of YuanMing Capital, Founder and Chairman of China Entrepreneurs Forum and China-U.S. Business Leaders Roundtable. As a core organizer of various high-end meeting for entrepreneurs of both countries, Dr. Tian is an influential figure in the Sino-China business scene and has extensive social influence.

In 2015, Dr. Tian founded YuanMing Capital, a leading venture capital firm which focuses on the investment in pharmaceutical research and development, innovative medical devices and high-end medical services in both China and the United States. In 2018, YuanMing Capital and its partners completed acquisition of Mevion Medical Systems, Inc., a global leader in the field of compact proton therapy. Dr. Tian was appointed as Chairman of the company. Led by Mevion, the world’s leading compact proton system has developed into a mainstream technology for precision radiotherapy in the global scene. It is being applied in hospitals worldwide and will benefit thousands of cancer patients in China.

Prior to YuanMing, Dr. Tian has had successful career as a serial entrepreneur with a strong track record of success. In the financial markets, he founded China International Futures Co., Ltd. (CIFCO) in 1992. CIFCO grew into a leading brokerage firm and achieved the largest market share in China during his 15 years of chairmanship. He also co-founded Wumart Group in 1994, which is one of the earliest and biggest retailers in China and the largest supermarket chain in Northern China. Dr. Tian is a member of the Advisory Committee of All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC), Vice Chairman of Investment Committee of China Pharmaceutical Industry Research and Development Association, Vice Chairman of China Association of Medical Equipment, member of the Biotech Advisory Panel of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. He obtained his master’s degree and doctoral degree in economics from Wuhan University. He received the China Economics Theory Innovation Award, China’s highest prize for economics.

Daniel M. Tsai

Chairman, Fubon Bank (Hong Kong)

Daniel M. Tsai is the chairman of Fubon Bank (Hong Kong). Originated in 1961 when Fubon Insurance was founded, Fubon Group offers the most comprehensive financial services in Taiwan, and is also involved in property development, telecommunications and media services, e-commerce, the cultural and creative sector, and charitable activities. Group members Fubon Financial Holdings, Taiwan Mobile, and Momo.com Inc. are TWSE-listed companies and hold leading positions in their respective fields.

Mr. Tsai joined the Fubon Group in 1981, and has managed several different financial services businesses during his 37-year tenure. He is now the vice chairman of Fubon Financial Holdings, and has pursued a strategy focused on building a balanced network of subsidiaries that now includes Taipei Fubon Bank, Fubon Bank (China), Fubon Bank (Hong Kong), Fubon Insurance, Fubon Life and Fubon Securities. They are all ranked among the top companies in their sector and make Fubon the most comprehensive financial institution as well as the most profitable financial holding company in Taiwan.

Mr. Tsai also involved in the telecommunications and cable TV sector by holding the position as chairman of Taiwan Mobile, a leading convergent services provider in Taiwan involved in mobile communication, cable television, fixed network, and digital content. Particular emphasis has been put on creating new innovative services and content with digital technology to expand the company’s digital convergence base and improve people’s lives. Mr. Tsai believes that such innovative technologies as cloud computing, the Internet of Things and big data will be important drivers of global economic growth in the future and propel Taiwan Mobile into the digital convergence era.

Institutional Investor magazine named Mr. Tsai as the “Best CEO in Taiwan” in 2003. Euromoney honored him in 2009 with “Outstanding Contribution to Greater China Financial Services” for his efforts to integrate financial services in the region. He has received “Asian Corporate Director Recognition Award” from Corporate Governance Asia for seven consecutive years beginning in 2010, and was recognized as one of “Taiwan Top 50 Best-Performing CEOs” by Harvard Business Review in 2016.

Mr. Tsai graduated from National Taiwan University in 1978, and received his master’s degree in law from Georgetown University in 1979. He has served on the USC Board of Trustees since April 2012, the Asia Business Council Board of Trustees since March 2013, and the Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society’s Board of Trustees since 2014, and has become DKU Advisory Board member since 2017.

Wang Huiyao

Founder and President, Center for China and Globalization

Former Counselor of China State Council

Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang is Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), Former Counselor to China State Council appointed by Chinese Premier. In addition, he is a former Vice Chairman of China Association for International Economic Cooperation (CAIEC) under the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), former Vice Chairman, China Talent Research Society under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. He is also a former Vice Chairman of China Public Relations Association; currently he is Standing Director of China Institute of International Economic Relations under PBOC, and a Director of Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs and a Director of China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, both organizations under the supervision of Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Dr. Wang is a Steering Committee Member of Paris Peace Forum and Metropolis International and was an Advising Board Member for International Organization of Migration (IOM) of the UN. He is a Distinguished Professor of China Foreign Affairs University and sits on the Advising Board of Richard Ivey Business School of Canada, Advisory Committee for Global Competence Development of Tsinghua University. He was the former Dean of the Institute of Development at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in China.

Prior to founding CCG, Wang worked in both the public and private sectors at home and abroad. He was a former official at the then Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC), and later served as Chief Trade Representative for the Canadian Quebec Government Office in Hong Kong and Greater China, Managing Director of Asia at SNC-Lavalin, and Vice President at AMEC-AGRA in Canada.

Dr. Wang pursued his PhD degree at University of Western Ontario and University of Manchester. He was a Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution, a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a Senior Fellow at Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada. He has taught at Peking University, Tsinghua University and the University of Western Ontario as an adjunct professor. He has published over 100 books in English and Chinese along with hundreds of journal articles and opinion pieces on international relations, global governance, global migration, China outbound and inbound investment and trade, Chinese Diasporas and Chinese think tanks etc.. He is the Chief Editor of 12 Springer Nature Series books China and Globalization and his other books,Escape the Thucydides Trap in Dialogue with Graham Allison on US-China Relations (Palgrave 2023); The Globalization of Chinese Enterprises: Trends and Characteristics (Springer, 2020); Handbook on China and Globalization (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019).

Dr. Wang is a frequent speaker at international events such as the World Economic Forum, Munich Security Conference, Paris Peace Forum, WTO Public Forum, Global Solutions Summit, Athens Democracy Forum, Munk Debate, Berlin Foreign Policy Forum, and Milken Global Forum.

Wang Jingbo

Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Noah Holdings

Ms. Jingbo Wang is Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Noah Holdings. Ms. Wang has over 20 years of experience in the asset and wealth management services industry. From May 2000 to September 2005, Ms. Wang worked in several departments and affiliates of Xiangcai Securities, a securities firm in China. Ms. Wang served as the head of the private banking department at Xiangcai Securities from August 2003 to September 2005, where she established the securities firm’s wealth management business. Prior to that, she worked as a deputy head of ABN AMRO Xiangcai Fund Management Co., Ltd., a joint venture fund management company, from February 2002 to August 2003, and as the head of the asset management department at Xiangcai Securities from May 2000 to February 2002. Ms. Wang was the financial controller and general manager for the settlement center of Chengpu Group from September 1994 to December 1999.

Ms. Wang received her master’s degree in management and her bachelor’s degree in economics from Sichuan University in China. Ms. Wang also graduated from the Global CEO Program of China Europe International Business School in 2009.

Grace Wang

Founder, Chairman and CEO, Luxshare Group

Ms. Grace Wang, graduated with EMBA from Tsinghua University. She is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Luxshare Group.

Grace has worked at Shekou Sanyo between 1984-1986 and worked at the Cable subsidiary BU of Taiwan Hon Hai since 1988 for nearly a decade before starting her own company in 1997. She has invested in Luxshare Limited with her brother in 1999, and has been acting as the Chairman of Luxshare-ICT since 2004.

Grace has been working as an entrepreneur for nearly 30 years, and has always stayed at the forefront of the market, so that she could fully understood market demand and customers’ pain points. She is particularly good at identifying potential opportunities and risks. Under her leadership, the senior management team continuously refine company strategy and plan for the future, as a result, the company enjoyed rapid growth over the years. As a high-tech precision intelligent manufacturing enterprise, Grace places great importance on R&D and innovation, where the company continues to invest heavily in research and development, and invest for the future.

The company has evolved from a traditional cable and connector manufacturer, to module design and development, and became a holistic system solution provider. Its product portfolio covers Consumer Electronics, Communication and Automotive. Example products includes smartphones, watch, audio equipment, AR/VR, LiDAR, wire harness, sensor, smart interior etc.. Company also has high level vertical integration capability, providing one stop shop for customers. Grace believes the people are core to our success, and works hard to build a culture of excellence, where people are treated as part of the big family, yet are fully empowered to make decisions and do what’s best for the company.

For the past decade, the company grew at a CAGR of close to 60%. In 2024, under Grace’s leadership, Luxshare Group’s (including non-public companies) revenue is expected to reach 450B CNY ($64B).

Grace’s leadership and social contribution has been widely recognized by the public. Among them, Forbes China named Grace first place on China’s Outstanding Businesswomen in 2024, three years in a role. The Fortune magazine named Grace the first place in 2024 China’s Most Influential Business women. Forbes named Grace as the best CEO in China in 2024.

Wang Peng

Co-Founder and CEO, Synear Food

Wang Peng is Co-founder and CEO of Synear Food. He holds a Master of Business Administration from China Europe International Business School.

Over the past 24 years, Wang Peng has led the team to make continuous innovation and promoted Synear Food brand influence with forward-looking thinking and international vision. Synear Food takes nearly 30% China domestic market share. He not only built the company into the leading enterprise of domestic fast-frozen food and the most valuable brand of fast-frozen food industry, but he was the earliest to go abroad to explore overseas markets. He made Synear become the first and top brand of fast-frozen food industry to build overseas business territory. In 2015, he led the company to create a precedent in the industry by setting up a world-class fast-frozen food production base in the United States in Los Angeles, radiating to North America. He realized “where there are Chinese there is Synear. “

He is keen on public welfare. Over the past 20 years, he has made a total of more than 70 million RMB in social charity and public welfare. In 2018, he was awarded Science and Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.

Wang Xiaodong

Director and Senior Investigator of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing

Dr. Xiaodong Wang was born in 1963 in Wuhan, China. He is currently the Director and Senior Investigator of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing. He received his B.S. degree from Beijing Normal University and his Ph.D. degree of Biochemistry from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Since 1995, Dr. Wang’s research has mainly focused on the biochemical study of cell apoptosis in the human body. Apoptosis is a special physiological function of cells that plays a crucial role in the human body’s development and the removal of damaged cells. The defect of cell apoptosis is a key step in formulating tumorigenesis. Over the past decades, the laboratory led by Dr. Wang has discovered the biomechanical pathway and its mechanism of action of cell apoptosis. Dr. Wang has developed novel experimental tumor therapy drugs based on these research outcomes that target the treatment of tumor cell apoptosis.

Dr. Wang was named to be a member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA in 2004, a Foreign-associate member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013, and a foreign member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2014. He has received multiple international biological research awards throughout his career, including the Shaw Prize in Life Sciences & Medicine in 2006.

Frank Wei

Former Head of China, Warburg Pincus

Frank Wei joined Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm in 2002. Prior to his private equity career, Frank was with the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong during the late 1990’s, and McKinsey & Company in Shanghai during the mid-1990’s. He sits on the boards of 58.com Inc and Anjuke Inc. Frank received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Asia-Pacific council of The Nature Conservancy. He sits on the international board of advisors at UT Austin, and the advisory board of Duke Kunshan University.

Elizabeth Yang

Chairman, Country Garden Holdings

Ms. Elizabeth Yang was born in September 1981 in Shunde, Guangdong Province. In 2005, Ms. Yang graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Logistics.

From March 2005 to December 2006, Ms. Yang worked as a procurement manager in Country Garden Group. In December 2006, she was appointed executive director of Country Garden Holdings. From March 2012 to December 2018, she served as vice chairman of Country Garden Holdings. From December 2018 to February 2023, she served as the co-chairman. In this role, Ms. Yang assists the board chairman in managing the Group. She also oversees the Group’s strategic investment and is responsible for exploring new businesses, new retail for example, that complement the Company’s existing operations. She was appointed board chairman of Bright Scholar Education Holdings in February 2017 and executive director in April of the same year. In March 2018, she was named board chairman and non-executive director of Country Garden Services Holdings.

Country Garden is committed to its mission: make the world a better place for having us in it. Both Country Garden and Ms. Yang personally have been actively contributing to the public good, having donated over 5.5 billion yuan for education, poverty reduction, and disaster relief among other endeavors.

Yang Yuanqing

Chairman and CEO, Lenovo

Mr. Yuanqing Yang joined Lenovo Group in 1989.

Mr. Yang has played a key role in Lenovo’s transformation into a global company. Under his leadership, in May 2005, Lenovo completed the acquisition of IBM PC business. In October 2014, Lenovo completed the acquisitions of IBM x86 server business and Motorola Mobility. Now, Lenovo is not only a leading PC company in the world but also one of the major players in global server market and smartphone market.

In 2011, Finance Asia voted Mr. Yang the Best CEO in China. In 2004 and 2012, Mr. Yang was named “CCTV China Annual Economic Figure”. He was in Barron’s Best CEOs list in 2013, 2014 and 2015. In 2014, Mr. Yang won Edison Achievement Award.

Mr. Yang was born in Anhui Province of China in November, 1964. He graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China (“USTC”) in 1989 with a Master’s degree in Computer Science. Mr. Yang serves as the deputy to the 13th National People’s Congress of China; a member of the International Advisory Council of Brookings Institute; and a board member of Baidu, Inc.

Michael Yu

Co-Founder, CEO and President, Innovent Biologics

Dr. De-Chao Michael Yu (“Dr. Yu”), is the founder, an Executive Director, the Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of the company. He is responsible for the overall strategic planning and business direction of the Group and management of the Company. Dr. Yu received his doctoral degree in Molecular Genetics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai, China) and completed his post-doctoral training at the University of California San Francisco (San Francisco, USA). Prior to founding Innovent in 2011, Dr. Yu was President, CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of Chengdu Kanghong Biotech from 2006. Previously, Dr. Yu was Vice President of Research and Development at Applied Genetic Technology Corporation (Nasdaq: AGTC) and Calydon which was acquired by Cell Genesys (Nasdaq: CEGE) in 2001. After the acquisition he worked at Cell Genesys for more than three years. He has aspired to develop and commercialize high quality biopharmaceuticals that are affordable to ordinary people.

Dr. Yu has engaged in innovative research on biopharmaceuticals for more than 20 years, who has invented three Class I new drugs and has promoted their development and commercialization. Dr. Yu invented the world’s first commercialized oncolytic virus-based immunotherapeutic product, Oncorine® (recombinant human type-5 adenovirus injection), creating a precedent for the use of viruses to treat tumors. Dr. Yu co-invented and led the development of China’s first monoclonal antibody-like new drug with global intellectual property rights, Langmu® (Conbercept eye injection) which has changed the history of zero domestically developed medicine for Chinese patients with blindness caused by fundus diseases. Dr. Yu also co-invented and led the development of Tyvyt® (sintilimab injection) which is domestically-developed innovative PD-1 inhibitor with international quality and has been approved for marketing in China for relapsed or refractory classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma (r/r cHL) on December 24, 2018.

Dr. Yu is an inventor of over 60 issued patents and patent applications, and has published more than 50 SCI scientific articles and book chapters. He was recognized as “Top Ten Persons in Innovation in China” in 2014, “The E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year in China” in 2015 and “Distinguished Entrepreneur of Jiangsu Province” in 2016. In 2017, Dr. Yu was selected as “Person of the Year in Innovation for Science and Technology in 2016”, “2017 China Person of the Year in Pharmaceutical Economics” and “The Most Influential Person of the Year in Life Science in China in 2017”. In 2018, Dr. Yu was awarded the First Prize of “The Seventh National Overseas Returnee Contributions Awards” etc.

Dr. Yu has served different roles in many committees and associations. Dr. Yu is a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at Sichuan University, an adjunct research professor at Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Research of Chinese Academy of Sciences, a visiting professor at Zhejiang University and an adjunct professor at Suzhou University. Dr. Yu has been the chairman of the board of the Chinese Antibody Society since 2017, a deputy director of the National Technical Committee on Biochemical Products and Testing Technology of the Standardization Administration of China since 2008, a deputy director of Drug Research & Development Special Committee of the China Pharmaceutical Innovation and Research Development Association since 2015, a deputy director of the Committee of the Cancer Immunology and Cancer Biotherapy of the Chinese Society for immunology since 2016, a managing director of the Chinese Association for Medicinal Biotechnology since 2014, a member of the Special Committee of Cancer Biotherapy of the China Anti-Cancer Association since 2012 and a Member of Experts Committee of State “Mega Innovative Drug Program” Special Assessment, etc.

Dr. Yu has been an independent non-executive director of BabyTree Group (a company listed on Main Board of the Stock Exchange with stock code: 1761) since June 2018.

Yuan Ming

Honorary Dean, Yenching Academy of Peking University

Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University

Professor Yuan Ming is Honorary Dean of Yenching Academy of Peking University, Associate Dean of Peking University’s Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Director of its Center for American Studies, and Professor of its School of International Studies.

Yuan Ming received her bachelor’s degree in Western Language and Literature from Peking University in 1968, and Master of Laws in International Laws from Peking University in 1982. She started working at the University afterward. Yuan also spent time at the University of California, Berkeley as a visiting scholar from 1983 to 1985, and at the St. Antony’s College in Oxford University as a senior associate member from 1989 to 1990. Since 1993, she was invited to work as a Senior Research Scholar at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. In October 2015 she was appointed as an Honorary Professor by Hong Kong University.

Professor Yuan teaches the History of International Relations and Western Classics of International relations at Peking University. Her publications include: A History of International Relations (1648- 1989) ; Cross-Century Challenges: International Relations Studies in China, and many other books and frequently-cited academic papers in influential international and domestic academic journals. Prof. Yuan is also the co-editor of Sino-American Relations (1945-1955) with Harry Harding, and The Golden Age of U.S.-China-Japan Relations (1972-1989) with Ezra Vogel and Tanaka Akihiko.

Since 1985, Professor Yuan has organized a series of globally significant academic symposia on Sino- American relations and international relations in China, and has wide links in Asia, North America, Europe and Oceania. She travels often and is also a frequent speaker at various internationally influential conferences and forums, including the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Club of Rome, and the Trilateral Commission, etc.

Professor Yuan was a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference from 1998 to 2012, and was also a member of its Foreign Relations Committee. She sits on the boards of a number of institutions in China, and is an active contributor to cultural and international exchange between China and the rest of the world. She was a trustee of the Asia Society in New York from1998 to 2004. She joined the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in 2004, and the Board of the United Nations Foundation in 2007. At the invitation of the Hong Kong SAR government, Professor Yuan served as a member of its University Grant Committee from 2008 to 2014. Since 2014, she has been a member of the Duke Kunshan University International Advisory Group.

Denny Zhang

Chairman of the Board, Red Avenue New Materials Group Co., Ltd.

Founder and Honorary Chairman, Red Avenue Foundation

Ms. Zhang Ning is Chairman of the Board of Red Avenue New Materials Group Co., Ltd., Founder and Honorary Chairman of Red Avenue Foundation, and Honorary Trustee of Peking University.

Ms. Zhang Ning, an authority in the field of material development, founded Red Avenue Group as the world’s largest tire manufacturer of phenolic resin. Red Avenue has consecutively been the global leader in many tire-related chemical products. At the same time, she continues to pay attention to the sustainable development of various fields around the world. Such as plastic pollution, integrated circuit development, renewable energy, etc., and is actively seeking solutions.

The Red Avenue Foundation founded by Ms. Zhang Ning is based on SDGS, which gathers the strength of outstanding entrepreneurs in various fields and is deeply involved in education, medical care, sustainable development, and other fields. The foundation has supported several public welfare projects around the world, with more than one million beneficiaries.

Ms. Zhang Ning graduated from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and later obtained a DBA degree from Arizona State University.

Jim Zhang

Chairman, Knicks Capital Co., Ltd

Chairman, The Forever Nature Capital Foundation

Mr. Jim Zhang used to hold senior management position in government agencies, state-owned enterprises, transnational corporations and American public companies, he has extensive and strong experience in company management.

Mr. Jim Zhang is not only an active venture capitalist and also an active social entrepreneur. He has inspired groups of prominent Chinese entrepreneurs to join the cause of environmental protection. He is Co-founder of “China Entrepreneurs Club”, “China Entrepreneurs Forum”, “SEE Conservation” and “The Future Forum”. Mr. Zhang also holds several NGO titles, such as Chairman of The Laoniu Foundation and Chief Representative of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Asia Pacific Region.

In the past 20 years, Mr. Zhang received several honorary titles due to his contribution on environment protection area. He initiated a well-recognized environment protection program named” Kekexili Tibetan Antelope Protection Project” as early as 2001, supporting state and local government’s measures on setting up a protection zone to save the endangered Tibetan antelopes from massive blood killing by smugglers. This project has been successfully implemented and today the antelopes have been well-protected and recommended as the mascot of Olympics 2008. Due to his significant contribution, Mr. Zhang was awarded as “Honorary Guard of Kekexili Tibetan Antelope Protection”. Mr. Zhang has been playing major role in global shark protection activities, Mr. Zhang successfully made Chinese legislation changes to reduce shark-fins consumption in China. Mr. Zhang receives several honorary titles due to his contribution on global shark protection.

Mr. Jim Zhang graduated from Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, and holds the MBA degrees from Norwegian School of Management BI and Management School of FUDAN University.

Zhang Youjun

Chairman, CITIC Securities Co., Ltd.

Mr. ZHANG Youjun, serves as secretary to the Communist Party Committee of the Company, an Executive Director, Chairman and a member of the Executive Committee of CITIC Securities Co., Ltd. (the “Company”). Mr. ZHANG joined the Company at the time of the establishment of the Company in 1995, and was appointed as an executive Director of the Company on 19 January 2016. During the same term, he was elected as the Chairman of the Company. Mr. ZHANG also serves as assistant to the general manager of each of CITIC Group, CITIC Limited and CITIC Corporation Limited, the chairman of each of Goldstone Investment, CITIC Securities Investment, CSI and CLSA (i.e. CLSA B.V. and its subsidiaries), a director of each of CLSA Limited, Sailing Capital Management Co., Ltd. and Sailing Capital International Investment Fund (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., and the chairman of Shenzhen Qianhai Zhongzheng Urban Development Management Co., Ltd. Mr. ZHANG had worked as a general manager of the trading department of the Company, an assistant manager and a deputy general manager of the Company since 1995, and was appointed as a Director of the Company from September 1999 to June 2012 and the general manager of the Company from May 2002 to October 2005. Mr. ZHANG previously worked as the general manager of Changsheng Fund Management Co., Ltd. from 1998 to 2001 and successively served as the general manager and the chairman of CSC from 2005 to 2011, a director of the board office of CITIC Group from December 2011 to December 2015 and a director of Zhongzheng International Company Limited from April to December 2020. Mr. ZHANG obtained a Bachelor’s degree in economics (majoring in money and banking) in 1987 from Renmin University of China and a Master’s degree in economics (majoring in money and banking) in 1990 from Central University of Finance and Economics.

Zhou Xuzhou

Chairman, the Board of U-Home Group and Meilleure Health International Group (02327.HK)

Chairman, ZhongJia Capital

Mr. Zhou Xuzhou graduated from Wuhan University with a Master of Arts degree. During his study, he has published more than 30 translated papers in provincial and national academic journals. In late 1992, Mr. Zhou founded U-Home Group and has led the group to develop into a large comprehensive enterprise group since then, investing in more than 30 cities at home and abroad, covering real estate development, medical health, new energy, investment and other sectors. The group is an important investor in Xiaomi Group, Gongniu Group, Shenzhen S.C, EVE, Blue Moon Group and Seraphim. The group was awarded the honors of “China’s Top 100 Enterprises with Comprehensive Strength in Real Estate Development”, “National Excellent Foreign Enterprise”, “National Excellent Private Enterprise in Anhui Province”, “Top 10 Real Estate Development Enterprises in Anhui Province” and so on.

Mr. Zhou Xuzhou has been awarded the honorary titles of “China Excellent Private Entrepreneur”, “National Outstanding Entrepreneur of Foreign Investment Enterprises”, “Outstanding Contribution Figure of Chinese Charity”, “Responsible Hunan Businessman”, “Outstanding Alumnus of Wuhan University” and so on. From 2018 to 2020, he was selected as one of the Forbes China Philanthropy 100 List for three consecutive years and one of the 100 Chinese Entrepreneurs in 2019.

Mr. Zhou Xuzhou held the following social positions: Senior Board Member and Adjunct Professor of Wuhan University, Vice chairman of Wuhan University Alumni Entrepreneur Association, President of Yangtze River Delta Branch, Chairman of Wuhan University Talent Introduction Fund Council, Adjunct Professor of Anhui University, Vice Chairman of Anhui University Education Foundation, Honorary Lifetime President of Hunan (global) Chamber of Commerce Association, Founding President of Hunan Chamber of Commerce in Jiangsu Province, etc.

Zhou Yahui

Founder, Kunlun Tech Co., Ltd.

Chairman, Opera Ltd.

Chairman, OPay

Founder, Kunlun Capital

Zhou Yahui is the founder of Kunlun Tech Co., Ltd., a China A-share listed company; Chairman of Opera Ltd., a U.S.-listed company; Chairman of OPay, a fintech unicorn; and founder of Kunlun Capital.

As an entrepreneur, Mr. Zhou founded Kunlun Tech in 2008 and led the company to its public listing in 2015. Kunlun Tech is one of China’s leading artificial intelligence technology companies.

In 2016, Mr. Zhou completed the acquisition of Opera and led the company to its listing on NASDAQ in 2018. Opera has since grown into a company with annual revenue exceeding US$1 billion.

In 2018, Mr. Zhou founded OPay with the mission of advancing financial inclusion through technology. OPay has since become one of the most influential fintech unicorns in Africa.

As an investor, Mr. Zhou founded CVC Kunlun Capital and has invested in more than 100 companies since 2015. His portfolio includes Grindr (NYSE: GRND), Musical.ly (later acquired by ByteDance), Pony.ai (NASDAQ: PONY), Dreame Technology, Qudian (NYSE: QD), and Inke (HKEX: 3700). Mr. Zhou has been recognized by Forbes and Zero2IPO Group as one of the “Top 100 Venture Capitalists” and “Top 100 Investors.”

Mr. Zhou received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Department of Precision Instruments at Tsinghua University.