Thomas DuBois is a historian of modern China and professor in Beijing Normal University. He was trained at the University of Chicago and UCLA, has taught at universities in the United States, Singapore and Australia. He is highly fluent in Chinese, and since the 1990s has spent about fifteen years in China, including extensive fieldwork from Hulunbuir to Dali. He has received funding from the American Council of Learned Societies, Singapore Ministry of Education, and Australian Research Council, and has published five monographs, eight edited volumes and over fifty articles and chapters, in addition to frequent television appearances and online contributions.

Li Xin, Chair of AmCham Shanghai's Food, Agriculture and Beverage Committee, is Founder/President of Sustenture, a business strategy advisory firm dealing in investment/divestment, M&A, market strategy and sustainability, with a focus on the food & beverage industry as well as industrial manufacturing sectors.

Previously, Li was China President of Sealed Air, a US Fortune 500 Company in food care and product packaging. Li held sales, marketing and management responsibilities in the US and Canada for 13 years prior to his China assignment.