Eric Zheng became the President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai in 2022. He has been involved in the Chamber for over 15 years as a member, committee leader, Board member, Board treasurer, Board secretary, and Board vice chair, and Board chair (2018 and 2019).

Eric brings a unique combination of private and public sector experiences to the presidency. He worked in management consulting with PwC in the U.S. and later served for the U.S. Department of Commerce as the principal commercial officer at the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou. Eric had a long career with AIG in Greater China and held a series of positions that culminated in his service as CEO of AIG China. He then chaired the board of Heng An Standard Life Insurance Company.

In volunteer roles, Eric serves as the Greater China regional chair of the Committee of 100 and as a board director of Shanghai Make-A-Wish Charity Foundation. The Shanghai municipal government has granted Eric its Magnolia Gold Award in recognition of his significant contributions to the city. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Fudan University and an MBA from Georgetown University.

Jeffrey S. Lehman is the founding vice chancellor of NYU Shanghai (the first “Sino-American Joint University”). He was previously president of Cornell University, dean of the University of Michigan Law School, and founding dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law.

Early in his career, he was 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.

He has been Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and co-convener of the US-China Trade Policy Working Group. He was a member of the American delegation to the China-US Legal Experts Dialogue during President Obama’s administration.

His honors include the National Equal Justice Award from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., lifetime membership in the American Law Institute, membership in the Council on Foreign Relations, and membership in the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

He is an honorary citizen of Shanghai and a recipient of China’s Friendship Award. In 2018, China named him one of the forty most influential foreign experts during the country’s first forty years of reform and opening up.

Jeff Yuan is the Head of Tax and a member of the Management Board of PwC China.

Previously, he served as the PwC China Tax Markets Leader and Transfer Pricing Leader, where he oversaw the development and implementation of strategic plans for tax and transfer pricing services.

With more than 20 years of experience in both the U.S. and China, Jeff specialises in providing strategic cross-border tax advice to multinational corporations (MNCs) operating in China and to their overseas headquarters. His experience spans key sectors including automotive, life sciences, chemicals, industrial manufacturing, shipping & logistics, and retail & consumer. His work focuses on helping MNCs design and implement sustainable cross-border transaction structures that align with tax and business strategies at the China, APAC, and global levels.

Jeff is a regular speaker at international professional conferences on topics at the intersection of business strategy, transformation, and the role of tax as a catalyst for unlocking and realising organisational value. He frequently shares insights on China’s evolving role in the global economy and contributes to shaping the global conversation on China’s business transformation, strategic resilience, and tax landscape—empowering businesses to navigate change and seize new opportunities.

Jeff holds a Master’s degree in Business Taxation from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Winona State University. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).

Julius Shen is the Lead Partner with PwC Strategy& China, based in Shanghai. He is also the consulting leader of the industrial products and services sector at PwC China, providing diversified corporate strategy and deal services to the multinational, domestic, and private equity clients.

Julius has almost 20 years of deal and corporate strategy consulting experience and has served over 100 clients. He has extensive experience in corporate growth and transformation strategy, operation/supply chain improvement, deal and M&A strategy, market entry, target search, negotiation support, financial modeling, commercial due diligence and post-deal integration, covering industrials and services, transportation & logistics, food and agriculture, healthcare, consumer products & retail, TMT, regional planning and real estate development.

His project experience include:

--Assisting multinational companies to set up China strategy and search/identify potential cooperation targets in China. The scope includes assessing China market dynamics and trends, regulatory environment, competitive landscape, business model of major players, operation/supply chain improvement etc. He provides systematic solutions to establish an existing player pool, screen and evaluate potential M&A or JV candidates, and advise on acquisition strategies
--Providing corporate strategy, deal and M&A strategy, business unit strategy, operation/supply chain improvement, benchmarking, channel strategy services to China companies (including state-owned and private companies)
--Providing deal advisory services for some leading Chinese companies on outbound investment including greenfield, M&A and JV etc.
--Conducting negotiation support and commercial due diligence for leading foreign and local private equities. Recent projects cover the local targets in industrial products, transportations & logistics, food & agriculture, TMT, consumer products &and retail sectors

Prior to joining PwC, Julius worked at a leading private equity firm and an international consulting firm in different management roles. Before that, he also had four years of technical and management experience at two global leading IT companies.

Julius graduated from Fudan University with a major in Computer Science and Master of Software Engineering. Besides his native language of Mandarin, Julius also speaks fluent English and Japanese, with JEES top-level certification.