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Biography (In Alphabetical Order of Surnames) Prof. Zhiwu Chen
Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory, securities valuation, emerging markets, and China's economy and capital markets. He is a frequent contributor to top economics and finance journals with research papers ranging from novel means of valuing stocks and pricing options, to studies of foreign exchange, market integration, mutual funds and profitable investment strategies. In the last few years, Dr. Chen has been actively doing research on market development and institution-building issues in the context of China's transition process and other emerging markets. Dr. Chen's work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Barron's, Far-Eastern Economic Review, and many newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong and China. He is also a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines in China, on economic policy and legal reform issues. Sir Howard Davies
Howard Davies is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was previously Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, the UK's single financial regulator since 1998. He has served as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (1995-97), Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (1992-95), Controller of the Audit Commission (1987-92), a director of GKN plc, and a member of the International Advisory Board of Natwest. He is a Trustee of the Tate, a member of the governing body of the Royal Academy of Music; Patron of Working Families; and in 2004 was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at Merton College. He is a member of the International Advisory councils of the China Banking Regulatory Commission and the China Securities Regulatory Commission. He serves on the boards of Morgan Stanley and Paternoster plc, and is an advisor to the Government Investment Corporation of Singapore. He holds degrees from Merton College, Oxford, and Stanford Graduate School of Business, California. He has written two books: "The Chancellors' Tales" (2006) and "Global Financial Regulation: The Essential Guide" (2008, co-authored with David Green). Mr. Ken Davies
Ken Davies is Senior Economist and Head of Global Relations in the Investment Division of the Directorate of Financial and Enterprise Affairs in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), where he has worked since March 2002. Dr. James A. Dorn
James A. Dorn is vice president for academic affairs at the Cato Institute and a China specialist. He is editor of the Cato Journal, one of the leading policy journals in America. From 1984 to 1990, he served on the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. He was a visiting scholar at the Central European University, Prague, and at Fudan University, Shanghai, and is currently a professor of economics at Towson University, Maryland. In 1998, he received the University System of Maryland's highest honor, the USM Regents' Faculty Award for Excellence in Research/Scholarship. Dorn has edited ten books, including China's Future: Constructive Partner or Emerging Threat? (with Ted Galen Carpenter), China in the New Millennium, and Economic Reform in China (with Wang Xi). His articles have appeared in numerous publications. Dorn holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia. Mr. Jeremy Gordon
Jeremy has focused on China business issues for the past 15 years, half of them based in the region. In addition to holding directorships with companies operating in the UK and China, he has developed and managed highly regarded China-focused consulting firms in Hong Kong and the UK, and has acted as an advisor and resource for some of the leading international industrial and service firms in the market. Mr. Charles Haswell
Charles Haswell is HSBC’s Head of China Affairs. In 2004, he joined the Group Strategy function of the RBS, responsible coordinating RBS’s partnerships with the Bank of China. He spent 25 years as a career diplomat with the British Foreign Office, and studied Chinese for two years before a first posting to the Commercial Section of the British Embassy in Beijing from 1982-1986. He was seconded to IFSL (International Financial Services London, formerly known as British Invisibles) from 1998-2000 to help establish a new strategy for the global promotion of the UK’s financial services industry, and joined the organisation’s Board in December 1998. In 2000 he returned to Beijing as the British Government’s Director of Trade and Investment for China, responsible for the Commercial offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing. His China career with the Foreign Office spanned the beginning of the “Reform and Opening” policy of Deng Xiaoping, through to China’s entry into the WTO and emergence as a significant global economic power. Prof. Athar Hussain
He has served as consultant on a wide range of economic and social policy issues to numerous international and national organisations, including the World Bank, UNDP, ILO, Asian Development Bank and the Department of International Development of the UK. He has worked on various World Bank projects in China including those on ‘Reform of State Enterprises’, ‘Reorganisation of the Electricity Industry’, ‘Western Region Development’ and ‘Regeneration of the North-East’. He was the team leader for an Asian Development Bank study on ‘Urban Poverty in China’. He was a member of the ‘International Committee for Economics Education and Research in Vietnam’ and served as a consultant for a study on the ‘Pakistan Planning Commission’. He has been engaged in research on various aspects of Chinese economy and society. He is the author of numerous books and papers including ‘Chinese Economic Reforms from a Comparative Perspective’, ‘Social Welfare in China in the Context of Three Transitions’, Urban Poverty in China, ‘Chinese Economic Reforms from a Comparative Perspective’ and ‘Social Implication of China’s Membership of WTO’. The books authored or edited by him include ‘The Chinese Economic Reforms’, ‘Transforming China’s Economy’ and ‘Political Economy of Hunger’. Mr. Guy de Jonquières
Ms. Bernice Lee
Bernice Lee is Research Director of Energy, Environment and Resource Governance for Chatham House, an expert on China and climate security, EU-China relations on energy and climate change and sustainable development governance. She has served as Policy and Strategy Advisor at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (2002 – 2006) and Officer of Strategic Planning Unit at UN Secretary-General’s office (1999 - 2000). In 1998, she joined the Rockefeller Foundation as Warren Weaver Fellow on International Security. She was Research Associate at International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) between 1997 and 1998. Mr. Mike Mason
Mike Mason founded Climate Care in 1997 pre-Kyoto. Since then the company has become a market leader in the origination, development and retail of voluntary and compliance carbon offsets, pioneering methodologies and project standards in a number of areas and supplying everyone from consumers to some of the world’s largest brands. In April 2008 Climate Care was acquired by JP Morgan. Mike also founded and continues to run Biojoule, a company developing new ways to use biomass for energy that doesn’t compete with food. Mike qualified as a mining engineer initially and worked mostly in Africa. He then gained an MBA and moved to business development in the oil industry. He left the oil industry to set up a computing consultancy and a number of healthcare ventures. In 1994 Mike went to Oxford to study Environmental Change and Management, where he also taught Environmental Economics for several years. Mr. Jim O'Neill
Jim O´Neill is Head of Global Economics, Commodities and Strategy Research for Goldman Sachs. In this role, he manages the firm’s economics, strategy and commodity research and the output of these teams around the world. He worked briefly with Bank of America and International Treasury Management before joining Swiss Bank Corporation (SBC) in 1988 and becoming Head of Research, globally, in 1991. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1995 as a partner, co-head of Global Economics Research and chief currency economist, becoming Head of Global Economics Research in 2001. Jim is the creator of the acronym BRICs, which has become synonymous with the emergence of Brazil, Russia, India and China as the growth opportunities of the future. He has an economics degree from Sheffield University and a PhD from the University of Surrey. He serves on the boards of the Royal Economic Society in the UK, Bruegel and Itinera. He is a member of the UK-India Round Table. Jim is a founding trustee and chairman of the London-based charity SHINE. Mr. Stephen Perry
Stephen Perry is the Chairman of the 48 Group Club, the oldest Western trading partners with the People's Republic of China. He studied law at University College London and started his career with Brown Shipley Bank. In 1973 he joined London Export Corporation and rose to become Chairman. Stephen has made over 200 trips to China and negotiated many joint ventures with a value in excess of 1 billion dollars; as a result of this experience, he is often interviewed on television, radio and newspaper on developments in China. In 1992 Stephen was elected Chairman of the 48 Group Club. He pioneered Chinese New Year Dinners all over the United Kingdom, Icebreaker Lectures, and Icebreaker Awards. Stephen is the Vice Chairman of the China-Britain Business Council, a Fellow of University College London, a Trustee of the Needham Research Institute at Cambridge, and a member of the Chairman's organising Committee of CHINA NOW. Dr. Razeen Sally
He is Senior Research Associate at the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Institut D’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Hong Kong, and Director, Trade Policy, at the Commonwealth Business Council in London. He is on the Academic Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs in London, and on the Advisory Board of the Cato Centre for Trade Policy Studies in Washington DC. Dr. Sally’s research focuses on trade policy in Asia, the WTO and preferential trade agreements. His new book on trade policy will be published in 2008. He has also written on the intellectual history of political economy, especially the theory of commercial policy. He lectures and consults for governments, business and international organisations, and comments regularly on international economic policy issues in the media. Sir Malcolm Williamson
Sir Malcolm is Chairman of Clydesdale Bank PLC / National Australia Group Europe Limited, Signet Jewelers Limited, The Prince’s Youth Business International and Cass Business School’s Strategy and Development Board. He is also a Non-Executive Director of National Australia Bank Limited, J.P. Morgan Cazenove, Friends Provident and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the International Business Leaders Forum. He was also previously Chairman of CDC Group plc, a Non-Executive Director for, Resolution plc, G4S plc and the National Grid Group plc. His career began with Barclays Bank before becoming a member of the Post Office Board and Managing Director of Girobank. He then joined Standard Chartered Bank where he became Group Chief Executive, before moving to San Francisco, USA, when he was appointed President and CEO of Visa International. Mr. Martin Wolf
Martin Wolf is associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 “for services to financial journalism.” He is a visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, an honorary fellow of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy, and a special professor at the University of Nottingham. He is a forum fellow at the World Economic Forum in Davos and a member of its International Media Council. Over the years Mr. Wolf has won a number of prizes for his journalism. He won the AMEC Lifetime achievement Award for 2007 at the Workworld Media Awards, the “Commentator of the Year” award at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards of 2008, and the Ludwig Erhard Prize in 2009. His most recent publications are Why Globalization Works (2004) and Fixing Global Finance (2008). Prof. Alyson Warhurst
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