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Sean Stein
Consul General at U.S. Consulate General in ShanghaiSean Stein is the Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai. He previously served as Consul General in Shenyang, China. In that role he worked with U.S. states to foster over $1 billion in Chinese investment in the United States – a record at the time – and introduced dozens of U.S. firms to the Chinese market. He also developed a program that became the model for the U.S.-China Tourism Year, a Presidential initiative to attract Chinese tourists to the United States.
As Principal Officer in Medan, Indonesia, Mr. Stein focused on reconstruction in Aceh after the Boxing Day earthquake and created a mission-wide program to double the number of Indonesian students studying in the United States. While serving as the first Deputy Chief of Mission in Dili, East Timor, Mr. Stein oversaw the establishment of a new mission and construction of a new embassy. When large-scale political violence and instability broke out in Dili, he oversaw the evacuation of U.S. citizens from country and the drawdown of the embassy. Mr. Stein has also served tours in Lagos, Jakarta, and Chengdu.
He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and a graduate of Georgetown University. He speaks Indonesian and Mandarin Chinese and is married with three children.
Jeffrey S. Lehman
Chair of Board of Governors at AmCham ShanghaiJeffrey S. Lehman is the founding vice-chancellor of NYU Shanghai, the first “Sino-American joint university.” He previously served as the founding dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law, as well as president of Cornell University and dean of the University of Michigan Law School. Jeffrey was also a tenured professor of law and public policy at the University of Michigan, a practicing lawyer in Washington, D.C., and a law clerk to Chief Judge Frank Coffin of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and to Associate Justice John Paul Stevens of the US Supreme Court.
Jeffrey has served on the boards of many global organizations that share his commitments in the fields of higher education, law, and technology. In the business world, he has served as an independent director on the boards of Infosys, Ltd., and Starr Property & Casualty Insurance (China) Co., Ltd. In the non-profit world, he has served as board chair of Internet 2, as president of the American Law Deans Association, and as a trustee of both Access Health International and the Skadden Fellowship Foundation. In the world of government service, he has served as a member of the US delegation to the China-US Legal Experts Dialogue and as a member of the Planning Committee for President Clinton’s 1999 “Call to Action” to the legal profession. His honors include the Friendship Award from the People’s Republic of China, the Gold Magnolia Award from the City of Shanghai, and the National Equal Justice Award from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. In 2018, China named him one of the 40 most influential foreign experts during the country’s 40-year period of reform and opening up.
Shijun Tong
Chancellor at NYU Shanghai
Robert Daly
Director of the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States
Don Gibbs
Founder of the Department of Chinese and Japanese at University of CaliforniaDon Gibbs began his career in Army Intelligence in the Korean war where he learned Chinese. He has taught at universities in Taiwan, Japan and in Beijing as well as Harvard and the University of California where he founded the Department of Chinese and Japanese.
He served in Beijing as the Director of the UC Education Abroad Program. He subsequently assisted US companies to enter the Chinese market, most notably assisting in the introduction of the insulin pump for Chinese diabetics while representing the MiniMed Corporation. Now Emeritus Professor, he this year celebrates his sixty-third year of marriage to his China-born wife.
John D. Van Fleet
Director, Corporate Globalization of Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityVan Fleet’s Asia career spans ten years in Japan (1991- 2000) and eighteen in China (to present). He has extensive experience throughout the region in corporate strategy, business development, marketing and consultancy.
He currently serves as Director, Corporate Globalization, and adjunct faculty, Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a campus where he’s been based since 2003. For nearly a decade through 2017, Van Fleet also served as Assistant Dean, USC Marshall School of Business, and Executive Director, USC-SJTU Global Executive MBA in Shanghai.
Denis Simon
Executive Vice Chancellor at Duke Kunshan UniversityDr. Denis Fred Simon is executive vice chancellor at Duke Kunshan University and Professor of China Business and Technology at Duke's Fuqua School of Business.
Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Simon has more than four decades of experience studying business, competition, innovation and technology strategy in China. In 2006, he was awarded the China National Friendship Award by Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing.
Prior to Duke, Simon’s career included academic appointments as senior adviser on China and global affairs in the Office of the President at Arizona State University; vice-provost for international affairs at the University of Oregon; and professor of international affairs at Penn State University’s School of International Affairs. He was founding provost and vice-president for academic affairs of the Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce under the State University of New York in New York City.
Simon is the author and co-author of several books including Corporate Strategies Towards the Pacific Rim; Techno-Security in an Age of Globalization; China’s Emerging Technological Edge: Assessing the Role of High-End Talent; and Innovation in China: Challenging the Global Science & Technology System.