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<p><strong>Xu Xiaonian</strong> is professor of Economics and Finance at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), an international business school located in Shanghai. He has worked for China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC) since 1999 as Managing Director and Head of Research. Xu was ranked the No. 1 economics researcher among domestic brokerage firms in 2002 by Chinese institutional investors.&nbsp;Prior to joining CICC, Dr. Xu was Senior Economist with Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong, and a consultant for the World Bank in Washington, DC before that.</p> <p>Xu obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Davis and an MA in Industrial Economics from People's University of China. He received the prestigious Sun Yefang Economics Prize in 1996, the highest Chinese award in the field, for his research on China's capital markets. Xu was also named one of China's Most Powerful People by BusinessWeek in 2009. His research interests include: macroeconomics, finance, financial institutions and financial markets, transitional economies, and China's economic reform.</p>

<p><strong>Xiao Qiang</strong>, a Beijing native, is a professional observer and commentator on Chinese Internet, media, and politics. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the &quot;China Digital Times,&quot; an independent China news portal, and, as an adjunct professor at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, directs the Berkeley China Internet project. Xiao also studied physics in China and the US and has been a long time human rights activist. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, and is profiled in the book, <em>Soul Purpose: 40 People Who Are Changing the World for the Better</em>.</p>

<p>Ambassador<strong> Winston Lord</strong> is a United States diplomat and administrator. He served as the president of the Council on Foreign Relations between 1977 and 1985. Lord was a key figure in the restoration of relations between the United States and China in 1972. From 1969-73, as a member of the National Security Council&rsquo;s planning staff, he was an aide to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, accompanying him on his secret trip to Beijing in 1971. The following year he was part of the US delegation during President Nixon&rsquo;s historic visit to China. Later, Lord became the State Department&rsquo;s top policy adviser on China (1973-77), the United States Ambassador to China (1985-1989), and assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs during President Clinton&rsquo;s first term.</p> <p>Lord earned a BA from Yale and an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He has received several honorary degrees, the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award and the Defense Department's Outsanding Performance Award.</p>

<p><strong>Wilbur Ross</strong>, as chairman and CEO of WL Ross &amp; Company, may be the best known turnaround financier in the US, having been involved in the restructuring of over $200 billion of defaulted companies&rsquo; assets around the world. In 1998, Fortune magazine called him &quot;the King of Bankruptcy.&quot; In 1999, President Kim Dae Jung awarded Ross a medal for his help during Korea&rsquo;s 1998 financial crisis. He is a former chairman of the Smithsonian National Board. Earlier, President Clinton had appointed him to the board of the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund, and he served as privatization advisor to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Ross serves on the executive committee of the New York City Partnership and of the Japan Society and is a member of the Chairman&rsquo;s Circle of the US-India Business Council. Ross holds an AB from Yale University and an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard University.</p>

<p><strong>Trevor Houser</strong>, visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies, is a partner at the Rhodium Group (RHG), a New York-based research firm, and adjunct professor at the City College of New York. His work focuses on energy markets, climate change, and the role emerging Asian countries play in both. His publications include <em>China's Energy Evolution: The Consequences of Powering Growth at Home and Abroad</em> (forthcoming, with Daniel Rosen), <em>Leveling the Carbon Playing Field: International Competition and US Climate Policy Design</em> (2008), and <em>China Energy: A Guide for the Perplexed</em> (2007).</p>

<p><strong>Thomas Rawski</strong>&nbsp;is a professor of Economics and History at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively on the economy of China. After completing his doctorate in Economics at Harvard University, Rawski participated in diplomatic tours of China as a member of a delegation dedicated to the study of rural industry and, as such, regularly visited China throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. He joined the University of Pittsburgh's faculty in 1985 after fourteen years at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the nature and implications of recent developments and long term changes in the economy of China.&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Susan Shirk </strong>is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and professor of political science. Shirk first traveled to China in 1971 and has been doing research there ever since. During 1997-2000, Shirk served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia. She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial &ldquo;track-two&rdquo; forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia and the Koreas. Shirk served as a member of the U.S. Defense Policy Board, the Board of Governors for the East-West Center (Hawaii), the Board of Trustees of the U.S.-Japan Foundation, and the Board of Directors of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and an emeritus member of the Aspen Strategy Group. As Senior Adviser to The Albright Group, Shirk advises private sector clients on China and East Asia.</p>

<p><strong>Sun Baohong</strong> is a professor of Marketing at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Southern California. Her extensive consulting experience includes time with major corporations like PNC Bank, Bell South, Tsingtao Beer, and IBM. A member of editorial boards for Marketing Science and Journal of Marketing, Professor Sun has given talks at various top business schools, including the University of Chicago, Wharton and Dartmouth. Additionally, she is a member of the American Marketing Association, and the American Economics Association.</p>

<p><strong>Steve Chapman</strong> has been group vice president of China &amp; Russia at Cummins Inc. since 2009. Mr. Chapman serves as group vice president of Emerging Markets and Businesses of Cummins India Ltd. He served as group vice president of Emerging Markets &amp; Businesses at Cummins Inc. since May 2005 until 2009. Mr. Chapman joined Cummins Inc. in 1985, served as its vice president, International from 2000 to 2005; president, International Distributor Business from 2002 to 2005; vice president, Southeast Asia and China from 1996 to 2000; managing director, Southeast Asia and China from 1989 to 1996; director, Asian Markets (Japan &amp; Korea) from 1987 to 1989; director, International Business Development from 1986 to 1987; and manager, International Business Development from 1985 to 1986. He served as Operations Rep. (China) from 1981 to 1983 and Manager (Taiwan) from 1979 to 1981 of Green Giant. He has been Director of Cooper Tire &amp; Rubber Co. since 2006 and Cummins Westport Inc. since September 20, 2002. Mr. Chapman served as non-executive director of Cummins India Ltd. from 1992 to 2009. He served as an additional director at KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd. from 2005 to 2008. Mr. Chapman received an MPPM Management from Yale University in 1985 and a BA degree in Asian Studies/Political Science from St. Olaf College.</p>

<p><strong>Stephen S. Roach </strong>is chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, a leading global financial services firm. Previously, he was managing director and chief economist of Morgan Stanley. Before joining Morgan Stanley in 1982, Roach was vice president for economic analysis for the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in New York. He also served on the research staff of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. from 1972-79, where he supervised the preparation of the official Federal Reserve projections of the U.S. economy. Prior to that, he was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.</p> <p>Roach is widely recognized as one of Wall Street&rsquo;s most influential economists. His research covers a broad range of topics, with recent emphasis on globalization, the emergence of China, productivity and the macro paybacks of information technology. His work has appeared in academic journals, books, congressional testimony and on the op-ed pages of <em>The Financial Times</em>, <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>The Washington Post</em> and <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>. Roach holds a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University and a BA in Economics from the University of Wisconsin.</p>