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<p><strong>Liu Xiaobiao</strong> is a media analyst and editorial writer. He worked for the Shanghai-based <em>Waitan Huabao</em> newspaper, where he has written extensively about economics and politics. Liu has won awards for his work from the National Social Science Foundation of China and from the Chinese Association for Middle East Studies. His Master&rsquo;s thesis in history was on the Islamic civilization and globalization.</p>

<p><strong>Yu Jinghui</strong> is a student majoring in Chinese literature. She was born in 1981 in Fenghua, Zhejiang Province. She received a BA from Zhejiang Normal University and continued on to pursue an MA at Beijing Normal University&rsquo;s Chinese Language department before transfering to the Philosophy department.</p>

<p><strong>Lei Bo</strong>, from Taiyuan, in Shaanxi Province, is a student majoring in Chinese philosophy. He also holds a BA in Chemistry from Nankai University and an MA in Chemistry from Peking University. His father is a scholar studying the energy economy of Shaanxi Province and his mother is a retired librarian.</p>

<p><strong>Kaiser Kuo</strong> is an American-born writer, rock musician, technology watcher and cultural commentator. He is currently director of international communications, responsible for international media relations under the Investor Relations group at Baidu.com, China's leading search engine.&nbsp;He is a former consultant for China's leading Internet video site, Youku.com, where he focused on international trade marketing, media relations and multinational advertiser/agency relations. In his one-and-a-half decades in China, he has worked as a technology and business writer for such publications as <em>Time</em>, <em>China Economic Review</em>, <em>Asia Inc</em>., and the <em>South China Morning Post</em>.</p> <p>Kuo is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and holds an MA in East Asian Studies from the University of Arizona. Kuo was co-founder and lead guitarist of one of China's earliest and most successful rock bands, Tang Dynasty. He continues to be active in Beijing's rock scene as lead guitarist of Chunqiu. He lives in Beijing with his wife and two young children.</p>

<p><strong>Joseph Hoo</strong> is the vice president of advanced technology and China affairs at the General Bearing Corporation, and spearheaded its expansion into China beginning in 1987. A metallurgist by training, he has been working in the steel bearing business for over 50 years.</p> <p>Hoo, who was born in China in 1934, is a graduate of the National University of Japan, where he received his BS in Engineering. He is also a graduate of the University of Michigan where he received his MSE in Metallurgy and Engineering.</p>

<p><strong>John Bussey</strong> is the Washington bureau chief of <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>. He is responsible for the team of reporters covering the nation's capital, foreign and domestic policy, regulation, and national politics. Bussey has worked for the <em>Journal</em> since 1983 in positions that included deputy managing editor, foreign editor, economics editor, Tokyo bureau chief and editor in chief of <em>The Far Eastern Economic Review</em> and <em>The Wall Street Journal Asia</em>.</p> <p>In 2002, <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, which was across the street from the <em>Journal</em> headquarters. Bussey wrote a front-page, first-person account of the attack that was part of the prizewinning package. During his tenure overseeing foreign coverage, the <em>Journal</em> won three Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting, the first in 1999 for coverage of Russia's financial crisis, the second in 2001 for coverage of China's dissident Falun Gong movement, and the third in 2007 for coverage of the social and environmental consequences of China's rapid economic growth.</p>

<p><strong>Jin Canrong</strong> is currently a senior fellow at the Institute of American Studies (IAS) at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Trained in political science, Jin got his Ph.D. from Beijing University, his MA from the Graduate School of CASS, and his BA from the Department of International Studies at Fudan University. He has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University and at Rutgers University. His research interests include the US Congress, intergovernmental relations in America, civil society and democracy, and Sino-US relations.</p> <p>He has also served as Deputy Director of the Beijing Pacific Institute for International Strategy Studies, the first non-governmental research institute in the field of international relations in China; Deputy Director of the Center for American Studies at the People&rsquo;s University of China; Special Adviser for the Research Bureau of the National People&rsquo;s Congress of China; and Executive editor-in-chief of the <em>Pacific Journal</em>, an academic quarterly published by the Pacific Society of China.</p>

<p><strong>James Rice</strong>, the CEO of CSM Global in China, has lived and worked in China since graduating college in 1991. Prior to his posting at CSM, Rice was vice president and country manager of Tyson Foods in China. He has also played a key role at numerous brand-name companies including Danon, Kimberly Clark, and Tyson, by designing and executing successful strategies for doing business in China. Rice is a governor of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and has also served as a member of the Food Processing Editorial Advisory.&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>James Miles</strong> has been the China correspondent for <em>The Economist</em>, based in Beijing, since 2001. Before that, he held many positions with the BBC, including Beijing bureau chief for BBC News and Current Affairs, from 1988 to 1994, Hong Kong correspondent for BBC World Service, from 1995 to 1997, and senior Chinese affairs analyst for BBC News London from 1997 to 2000. Miles has also worked at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, where he was editor of its journal, <em>Strategic Comments</em>, and research fellow for Asia from 2000 to 2001. Miles has reported on everything from the 1989 democracy uprisings, for which he won the prestigious Sony Radio Reporter of the Year award, to the handover of Hong Kong, the SARS outbreak, and the Beijing Olympics.</p>

<p><strong>Henry S. Tang</strong> has a long-standing commitment towards advancing Asian economies through public policy. He has been active as a governor and chairman of the Committee of 100, a non-governmental public policy organization which he founded in 1989, alongside I.M. Pei and Yo-Yo Ma. The committee, composed of prominent Chinese-Americans, addresses issues facing the Chinese community in America and US-China Relations. Mr. Tang has spent 35 years as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers, Prudential, and Jefferies &amp; Co. He is a founding partner of the Carnegie Towers Group, a global strategic investment advisory.&nbsp;His assignments have taken him all over the world. In Asia, he has worked in Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and China. He studied Asian and International Affairs at Columbia University before receiving an MBA from Columbia Business School.</p>