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<p><strong>Shaun Rein</strong> is the managing director of the China Market Research Group (CMR), the world's leading strategic market intelligence firm focused on China. Before CMR, he was the chief of research for venture capital firm Inter-Asia Venture Management. He also was the managing director and China country head for e-learning software company WebCT, where he also ran the company's Taiwan and South Korean operations. He also served as the assistant director of the Centre for East Asian Research at McGill University.</p> <p>Rein is a columnist for <em>BusinessWeek</em>'s Asia Insight column and is regularly featured in varied publications including <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>, the <em>Harvard Business Review</em>, <em>The Economist</em>, and <em>The New York Times</em>. He is regularly interviewed by American Public Radio's Marketplace and NPR. He frequently delivers commentary on Bloomberg TV and CNN International TV. He earned his graduate degree from Harvard University focused on China's economy and received a BA with Honours from McGill University.</p>

<p><strong>Ronnie C. Chan</strong> is chairman of the Hong Kong-based Hang Lung Group, a leader in real estate development, property investment, and hotel operations. In addition, he is a founder of the Morningside/Springfield Group, a privately-held investment firm which owns and manages industrial and service companies throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Chan is a director of Motorola Inc. and Standard Chartered PLC, and he sits on the governing boards of, among other groups, the World Economic Forum and Asia Society. In Hong Kong, he chairs the Hong Kong-United States Business Council, the Executive Committee of the One Country Two Systems Research Institute, the China Heritage Fund, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, and is a Council member of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.</p> <p>Chan earned his BA and MA in biology at California State University and his MBA from the University of Southern California, where he serves as a member of the Board of Trustees.</p>

<p><strong>Robert Oxnam</strong>&nbsp;is a&nbsp;China&nbsp;scholar and former President of Asia Society. Having obtained his doctorate at Yale as one of the earliest pupils of lauded historian Jonathan Spence,&nbsp;Oxnam has contributed to cross-cultural understanding in myriad ways, including as a tenured professor of Japanese and Chinese History at Trinity College, founder of the China Council at the Asia Society, and later, as president of the Asia Society. Furthermore,&nbsp;he has been frequently consulted by political leaders in matters related to political unrest in China in the late 1980s. He also accompanied former U.S. President George H. W. Bush as an on-the-ground adviser on a goodwill trip to China in the late 1990s. Additionally, he has led&nbsp;financial-cultural tours of China for&nbsp;Bill Gates,&nbsp;and Warren Buffet. He also spent time on the Board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.</p>

<p><strong>Pramit Pal Chaudhuri</strong> is the foreign editor of <em>The Hindustan Times</em> and was the 2006-2007 Bernard Schwartz Fellow at Asia Society New York. He was previously an editorial writer for <em>The Telegraph</em> and <em>The Statesman </em>of Calcutta. He specializes in India&rsquo;s international security and economic policy. Over the past several years he has been a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at the University of Maryland College Park; media fellow at the Fletcher School of Law &amp; Diplomacy; South Asia fellow at the Henry Stimson Centre in Washington DC, and a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University&rsquo;s South Asia department. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, the Liberty Institute of New Delhi, the International Institute for Strategic Studies UK, Asia Society International Council and the Aspen Institute Italia. Last year he was made an Indian delegate to the Indo-US Strategic Dialogue. He also serves as a Senior Associate for the Rhodium Group. He has a BA in history from Cornell University and was born in Calcutta in 1964.</p>

<p><strong>Philip P. Pan</strong> is the Moscow bureau chief for <em>The Washington Post</em> and the newspaper&rsquo;s former Beijing bureau chief. During his tour in China from 2000 to 2007, he won the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in international reporting, the Overseas Press Club&rsquo;s Bob Considine Award for best newspaper interpretation of international affairs and the Asia Society&rsquo;s Osborne Elliott Prize for excellence in journalism about Asia. He is a graduate of Harvard College and studied Chinese at Peking University.</p>

<p><strong>Pallavi Aiyar </strong>spent more than six years in China writing for <em>The Hindu </em>and the <em>Indian Express</em> newspapers. She was the only Chinese-speaking Indian foreign correspondent to be based in the country. Aiyar is the winner of the 2007 Prem Bhatia Memorial Award for excellence in political reporting and analysis, the youngest ever recipient of the prize. Aside from her work as a journalist, she has taught news writing to students at the Beijing Broadcasting Institute and served as advisor to the Confederation of Indian Industry on China-related issues.</p> <p>Aiyar holds degrees from St Stephen&rsquo;s College, Delhi University, Oxford University and the London School of Economics.</p>

<p><strong>Michael Pettis</strong> is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a finance professor at Peking University&rsquo;s Guanghua School of Management, where he specializes in Chinese financial markets. He has also taught at Tsinghua University&rsquo;s School of Economics and Management and at Columbia University&rsquo;s Graduate School of Business.</p> <p>Pettis has worked on Wall Street in trading, capital markets, and corporate finance since 1987, when he joined the Sovereign Debt trading team at Manufacturers Hanover (now JP Morgan). Besides trading and capital markets, Pettis has been involved in sovereign advisory work, advising a number of countries on restructuring their banking systems and debt.</p> <p>Pettis is a member of the Institute of Latin American Studies Advisory Board at Columbia University as well as the Dean&rsquo;s Advisory Board at the School of Public and International Affairs. He received an MBA in Finance in 1984 and an MIA in Development Economics in 1981, both from Columbia University.</p>

<p>Dr. <strong>Melissa Chiu</strong> is director of the Asia Society Museum in New York and vice president of the Society's Global Arts Programming. She has spoken at numerous American universities, including Harvard University. She was a Getty Research Fellow (2003-2004) and has served on grant and policy advisory committees for the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Chiu is a member of the Academic Advisory Board, Asia Art Archives, Hong Kong and is a founding member of the Asian Contemporary Art Consortium in New York, a group serving the interests of Asian art and culture at the world's leading museums and galleries. She is an active member of the American Association of Art Museum Directors. She has served as an editor for Asian contemporary art for <em>The Grove Dictionary of Art,</em> published by Oxford University Press in London and New York, and is the author and editor of many books, monographs, and anthologies.</p> <p>Prior to joining Asia Society, Chiu was founding director of the Asia-Australia Arts Centre in Sydney, Australia (1996&ndash;2001). She earned her Ph.D. in Art History and MA in Arts Administration in her native Australia.</p>

<p><strong>Mao Yushi</strong>, is the chairman of Beijing's Unirule Institute of Economics. In 1958, he was labeled a rightist and later was sent to labor at the Datong Locamotive factory during the Cultural Revolution. In 1975, he started research in Macroeconomics and in 1979 he worked out the mathematical method of the Principle of Optimal Allocation. Professor Mao currently holds various titles including: certified consultant for the Asia Development Bank; consulting editor for the China Economic Review; and Honorary Professor at Mineral College in Shandong, Foreign Language and Trade University in Guangdong, and Northwest University in Xi'an. Professor Mao has run a poverty alleviation mini-credit foundation in Shanxi since 1993, and a Vocational Training School since 2003 for rural girls seeking employment in Beijing.&nbsp; Mao&rsquo;s areas of research focus on institutional economics, energy and environmental economics, transportation, policies on economic reform and poverty alleviation.</p>

<p><strong>Luo Yan</strong> is a popular actress in China. She was twice nominated for the Hundred-Flower Award, China&rsquo;s equivalent of the Oscars, for the films <em>The Student Dormitory</em> and <em>The Girl in Red</em>. She got her BA from the Shanghai Drama Institute in China and her MFA from Boston University. She produced, wrote and starred in <em>Pavilion of Women</em>, based on the book of the same name by Nobel Prize winning author, Pearl S. Buck. The film was also successfully distributed by Shanghai Moonstone International, a distribution company owned by Luo since 1995, in 888 theaters in China and received the highest box office record for China co-produced films for the year. Due to the film&rsquo;s success, Luo founded a film marketing and distribution company in China, Moonstone China.</p>