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<p><strong>Yasheng Huang</strong> teaches political economy and international management at MIT Sloan School of Management. His previous appointments include faculty positions at the University of Michigan and at Harvard Business School. He was also a consultant to the World Bank. Huang is the author of<em> Inflation and Investment Controls in China</em> (1996), <em>FDI in China</em> (1998), <em>Selling China</em> (2003), <em>Financial Reform in China</em> (2005, co-edited with Tony Saich and Edward Steinfeld), and, most recently, <em>Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics</em> (2008).</p>

<p><strong>Roderick MacFarquhar</strong> is the Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University and the director of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. His publications include <em>The Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals</em>, <em>The Sino-Soviet Dispute</em>, <em>China Under Mao</em>; <em>Sino-American Relations, 1949-1971</em>; <em>The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao</em>; the final two volumes of the <em>Cambridge History of China </em>(edited with the late John King Fairbank); <em>The Politics of China 2nd Ed: The Eras of Mao and Deng</em>; and a trilogy, T<em>he Origins of the Cultural Revolution</em>. He was the founding editor of <em>The China Quarterly</em>, and has been a fellow at Columbia University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Royal Institute for International Affairs. In previous personae, he has been a journalist, a TV commentator, and a member of Parliament in the United Kingdom.</p>

<p><strong>George Akerlof</strong> is a nonresident senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at&nbsp;Brookings. He is the Koshland Professor of Economics at the University of California,&nbsp;Berkeley. He was a co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. He is the author of a landmark study on the role of asymmetric information in the market for &quot;lemon&quot; used cars. His research broke with established economic theory in illustrating how markets malfunction when buyers and sellers as seen in used car markets operate under different information. The work has had far-reaching applications in such diverse areas as health insurance, financial markets and employment contracts. His books include&nbsp;<em>An Economic Theorist's Book of Tales</em> (1984), <em>Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market</em> (with Janet Yellen, 1986), and <em>Explorations in Pragmatic Economics</em> (2005). Akerlof has been recognized for his research that borrows from sociology, psychology, anthropology and other fields to determine economic influences and outcomes. He earned his BA from Yale University and his Ph.D. from MIT.</p>

<p><strong>Bao Yujun</strong>, an ethnic Mongolian, was born in 1942 in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1965, and he graduated from the journalism faculty of the People's University of China in 1966. He held high-ranking positions in <em>People's Daily</em>, becoming deputy editor-in-chief in 1988. &nbsp;He is currently the president of the China Private Enterprises Association and the vice-chairman or the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce's Executive Committee. &nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Jacky Jin</strong> is the editor-in-chief for China of two magazines, <em>For Him Magazine</em> and <em>The Robb Report</em>.</p>

<p><strong>Gavin Ni</strong> is the founder, CEO and president of Zero2IPO. In five years, he has built up Zero2IPO into the most influential and active venture capital research and advisory institution, as well as the most extensive venture capitalist and entrepreneur network in China. Gavin is a former president of the Tsinghua Entrepreneurs Club (TEC) from 1998-1999 and the founder and chief organizer of the Tsinghua Business Plan Competition. He also served as the editor-in-chief of <em>China Technology Magazine</em> in 1999. Gavin has been an active promoter of economic change, entrepreneurship and venture capital in China and has written and translated several books including <em>Digital Commerce</em>, published by China Plan Press in 1998, <em>Venture Capital Tide</em>, published by Guangming Daily Press in 1999, and <em>Road to Success</em>, also published by Guangming Daily Press in 2000. Gavin has been invited to speak at many venture capital and hi-tech related events in Silicon Valley, Boston, Taipei, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other cities. Gavin graduated from Tsinghua University with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering in 1999 and studied Finance as a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University from 2000-2001.</p>