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Mattie Bekink
China Director, Economist Corporate Network of The Economist Intelligence UnitMattie Bekink is responsible for the Economist Corporate Network’s China strategy, including programme development and client servicing across China. She also provides support to all Economist Corporate Network programmes worldwide with a China component.
Ms Bekink has extensive experience in the public, private and policy sectors. Prior to joining The Economist Group, she was the Executive Director of the Fulbright Commission in the Netherlands. She also ran an eponymous consulting business, advising senior executives from businesses, universities and non-profit organisations on China policy, strategy, public affairs, and corporate social responsibility. Ms Bekink practiced law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, has worked with the US-Asia Law Initiative at NYU Law School and the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative China Program, and served in the legal department at General Motors China.
Ms Bekink has a BA in International Relations from Stanford University and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Norwell Coquillard
Executive Director of Washington State China Relations Council (WSCRC)Mr. Coquillard’s background includes over 33 years of living in Asia primarily in Japan and China. For the major share of that time he was President of the agribusiness firm, Cargill Incorporated, in those two countries. He moved from Tokyo to Shanghai in 1998 and witnessed the tremendous change and development that China experienced during those 18 years. In his time in China he helped Cargill build a business from one that employed approximately 300 people in four locations to one that had over 5,000 employees in over 40 operations nationwide. Mr. Coquillard served as the Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai (Amcham) from 2008 to 2009. From 2010 until returning to the U.S. in 2016, he ran the China branch of the international non-profit, Enactus.
Wendy Cutler
Vice president at Asia Society Policy InstituteWendy Cutler is Vice President at the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) and the managing director of the Washington, D.C. office. In these roles, she focuses on building ASPI’s presence in the nation's capital and on leading initiatives that address challenges related to trade, investment, and innovation, as well as women’s empowerment in Asia. She joined ASPI following an illustrious career of nearly three decades as a diplomat and negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), where she also served as Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative. During her USTR career, she worked on a range of bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade negotiations and initiatives, including the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, U.S.-China negotiations, and the WTO Financial Services negotiations. She has published a series of ASPI papers on the Asian trade landscape and serves as a regular media commentator on trade and investment developments in Asia and the world.
Yiqin (Karen) Fan
Partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLPYiqin Fan (Karen) is the head of Dorsey & Whitney’s Shanghai office. She joined Dorsey from Fosun International (00656.HK) where she acted as the North American Senior Legal Counsel, advised the board and executives of Fosun on M&A transactions in North American region and oversaw risk management of billion-size portfolio assets in the U.S. Prior to Fosun, Karen has significant private practice experience in Shanghai, Washington D.C. and New York, extending across a full spectrum of corporate transactions, including cross-border M&A, PE & VC investment,
international joint ventures, and business sales and divestiture.
Frequently acting as outside general counsel for international clients in handling various legal and regulatory matters related to different jurisdictions, Karen is experienced and skillful in teaming up with litigators and experts from Dorsey to assist clients in preventing, detecting and solving legal threats, such as the followings, under multi-cultural context: Corporate or commercial dispute resolution, Post-closing risk control and compliance program, Internal investigation, Executive transition, Government enforcement.
Ker Gibbs
President at AmCham ShanghaiKer Gibbs is the president of AmCham Shanghai. He first came to China in 1985 and has worked in various roles giving him broad exposure to US-China relations and business issues facing American companies operating in Asia. In the 1990s Mr. Gibbs worked for the Boston Consulting Group in Shanghai. Since then he has split his time between Asia and Silicon Valley, serving in executive positions with Apple, Disney, and high-growth Internet businesses. He moved to Shanghai in 2002 as head of Asia Pacific for a Nasdaq-listed network security company that was acquired by McAfee. His career in high tech led him to banking; he became head of technology and media in greater China for HSBC. As an investment banker he worked with Alibaba, Baidu, and other firms advising on mergers and cross-border transactions. From banking Mr. Gibbs moved to direct investments. He was a founding investor in the Crystal Orange hotel group, helping grow the company to 130 properties and 1,500 employees in China. He also led successful investments in real estate, e-commerce, and medical technology companies. Before his appointment as president, Mr. Gibbs was elected three times to the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and served as chairman for 2016 and 2017. He also sits on the board of the United Way in China and volunteers with Renewal, a local homeless shelter. He is an op-ed contributor to the Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, and other publications. Ker Gibbs holds a BA in economics from UCLA and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.
Kenneth Jarrett
Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge GroupKenneth Jarrett, based in Shanghai, is a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group, where he draws on decades of business and diplomatic experience in China and across East Asia to provide perspective and advice to businesses, investors, and other organizations with interest in the region.
Most recently, Mr. Jarrett spent five years as President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. Under his leadership, the Chamber helped hundreds of companies establish and grow their networks in China and navigate operational and regulatory challenges.
Previously, Mr. Jarrett was a distinguished diplomat whose positions included service as Consul General in Shanghai, and as Deputy Consul General in Hong Kong. His 26-year foreign service career also included postings in Beijing, Chengdu, and Singapore. His government roles in Washington, D.C, included serving as Director of Asian Affairs at the White House National Security Council. Following his government service, Mr. Jarrett served as Chairman of Greater China for APCO Worldwide.
Mr. Jarrett is a frequent commentator on the business environment in China, and he has been quoted in outlets including Bloomberg, the Economist, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, among others.
He is the recipient of the Magnolia Award (Silver) from the Shanghai government and is a member of the National Committee for U.S.-China Relations.
Mr. Jarrett earned an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University and an M.A. in National Security Studies from the National War College. He received a B.A. in History from Cornell University. He speaks Mandarin Chinese.
Rick Larsen
US RepresentativeRick represents Washington state's Second Congressional District, which includes portions of Snohomish, Skagit and Whatcom counties and all of Island and San Juan counties.
Rick serves on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the House Armed Services Committee. These committees enable Rick to focus on creating jobs and opportunity to meet the local needs of Northwest Washington.
As a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Rick is committed to investing in transportation to drive job growth and keep the economy moving. Rick will continue to fight for strong investments in roads, bridges, highways and transit to build a foundation for future economic growth. Rail safety is another priority issue for Rick, and he has worked hard to push for better safety standards for crude oil traveling by rail.
Rick is the Chair, the most senior Democratic member, of the Aviation Subcommittee. The work of the Subcommittee is critical to jobs and the economy in Washington state and the Second District. He says, "the Pacific Northwest is the aerospace capital of the world, and I will work hard to make sure the United States invests in our aviation future. Aviation means jobs in Northwest Washington. Anything I can do to support the growth and safety of air travel will bring good jobs to our communities."
The Second District is home to Naval Station Everett and Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, which are vital to the region’s economy and national security. As a member of the House Armed Services Committee, Rick works hard to support these military bases. He is pushing to make sure our men and women in uniform get the pay and benefits they have earned and the equipment they need to keep our country safe. Rick is also focused on ensuring that veterans have access to the resources and health care they need to help them be successful in civilian life. Rick worked hard with local veterans to open a Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Mount Vernon to make health care and services more accessible for veterans in the Second District.
Northwest Washington is one of the most beautiful areas of the country, and Rick is committed to protecting our natural resources for recreation and tourism, a major economic driver. He has led efforts to preserve public lands, restore critical salmon habitat, and combat climate change through investments in clean energy.
Rick is the co-chair of the bipartisan U.S.-China Working Group, which educates Members of Congress about U.S.-China issues through meetings and briefings with academic, business and political leaders from the U.S. and China. China is the largest and most rapidly growing export market for Washington state. Forty percent of all jobs in Washington state are tied to trade, and from 2000 to 2009, Washington state exports to China grew by 379 percent. Rick has visited China nine times.
Rick also co-founded the Congressional Arctic Working Group, a bipartisan group to help bring more focus to U.S. policy issues related to the Arctic. Rick is a leader on this issue because he recognizes that other countries are rapidly building their capacity to traverse icy Arctic waters with commercial, research and tourism vessels. As the U.S. prepares to take the chairmanship of the Arctic Council in 2015, Rick is committed to making sure our country lives up to its environmental, economic and strategic commitments as an Arctic nation.
Jeffrey S. Lehman
Vice Chancellor at NYU ShanghaiJeffrey S. Lehman is the founding vice chancellor of NYU Shanghai, the first “Sino-American Joint University.” He has previously been founding dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law, president of Cornell University, dean of the University of Michigan Law School, 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 U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and to Associate Justice John Paul Stevens of the U.S. Supreme Court.
He 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 not-for-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 U.S. delegation to the China-U.S. 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.
Jeffrey is currently AmCham Shanghai Board member.
James McGregor
Greater China Chairman at APCO WorldwideJames McGregor is chairman of APCO Worldwide’s greater China region and author of two highly regarded books: No Ancient Wisdom, No Followers: The Challenges of Chinese Authoritarian Capitalism, and One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China. He also wrote the noted APCO monograph China’s Drive for Indigenous Innovation—A Web of Industrial Policies.
Prior to joining APCO, Mr. McGregor was the founder and CEO of a China-focused consulting and research firm for hedge funds, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and a chief executive of Dow Jones & Company in China. Mr. McGregor is also a former chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, and has long served as a leader of AmCham’s U.S, government relations. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, the International Council of Asia Society and a board member of the U.S.-China Education Trust.
David Messenger
CEO of LianLian GlobalDavid Messenger is CEO of Hangzhou-based LianLian Global, part of the LianLian Group. LianLian Global helps merchants around the world successfully grow their cross-border eCommerce businesses. LianLian Global strengthens the growth of 200k+ merchants across the globe through its platform, which provides payments, financing, and other services, including logistics, marketing, and compliance services.
A veteran of scaling and transforming organizations during disruptive industry transitions, he previously founded Nuna Network and Mast Mobile (both acquired) and held senior roles at American Express, Virgin Mobile, Towers Watson, and Price Waterhouse.
Eric Phillips
Partner at NBBJAs partner-in-charge of NBBJ’s Shanghai and Hong Kong offices, Eric Phillips oversees day-to-day business operations, business development opportunities and long-term growth strategy for the firm’s Asia offices. In addition, he serves as the firm’s International Practice Leader, Commercial Practice Leader, and a regional market leader throughout Asia and the western United States. In these positions, Eric helps guide NBBJ’s global practice strategies.
Eric’s expertise has been integral to the firm’s diverse Asia practice, where he has spent the last 15 years practicing in China, Hong Kong, Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. His work includes the design of corporate headquarters, mixed-use developments, five-star hotels, high-end residential buildings and large-scale urban design projects. His leadership is defined by a command of design excellence and passion for high quality delivery. As represented in his projects, Eric approaches his work with a rigorous and collaborative design process to ensure client aspirations directly connect with high performance design outcomes.
In addition to his duties at NBBJ, Eric is an active participant in the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). With a passion for mentoring the next generation of design leaders, Eric has also served as a visiting professor of architecture at Tongji University in Shanghai and adjunct professor of interior design at the Seattle Art Institute and Bellevue College. As an expert in corporate and commercial building types, Eric is a frequent speaker at leading design events, conferences and summits throughout Asia.
Michael Rawding
Founding Partner at Geofusion- Panel: The China Tech Landscape: Opportunities in a Decoupled World
- PANEL: THE CHINA TECH LANDSCAPE: OPPORTUNITIES IN A DECOUPLED WORLD
Michael previously served as the President of Microsoft Greater China, Microsoft Japan, and Microsoft Asia. He has also worked on a variety of cross-border leadership assignments during his tenure at Spencer Stuart, gaining an appreciation of both recruiting and developing local talent. Michael was previously Chairman of the Washington State China Relations Council, served on the Board of Governors at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and is a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations.
Gary Rieschel
Founding Managing Partner at Qiming Ventures- Panel: The China Tech Landscape: Opportunities in a Decoupled World
- PANEL: THE CHINA TECH LANDSCAPE: OPPORTUNITIES IN A DECOUPLED WORLD
Gary Rieschel is the Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners, a firm he launched in Shanghai in 2006. Qiming invests in technology and healthcare and has 70 staffs in China and the U.S. Qiming has over $5B USD in assets under management. Many of our portfolio companies are today’s most influential firms in their respective sectors, including Xiaomi (SEHK:1810), Meituan Dianping (SEHK:3690), UBTech, Bilibili (NASDAQ:BILI), Roborock (SHSE:688169), Tigermed (SZSE:300347), Zai Lab (NASDAQ:ZLAB), Venus MedTech (SEHK:2500), CanSino (SEHK:6185), Schrödinger (NASDAQ:SDGR), Sanyou Medical (SHSE:688085), AmoyDx (SZSE:300685), Berry Genomics (SZSE:000710), WeDoctor Group among many others.
Prior to founding Qiming, Mr. Rieschel was a senior executive at Intel, Sequent Computer, Cisco Systems, and Softbank Corporation. Gary started his VC career by creating Softbank’s U.S. venture group in 1995 (SBVC), and while at Softbank he invested in twelve companies which grew to over $1B USD in market capitalization and served on Softbank’s board of directors. Gary was early in the emergence or venture capital in China, through sponsoring and founding several of China’s early VC firms, including Softbank China Ventures (2000), SAIF Partners (2001), and Ceyuan Ventures (2004), before moving to China to create Qiming.
Mr. Rieschel is well regarded as a mentor to entrepreneurs and other venture capitalists. He helped found the China Greentech Initiative, and he sponsored the Rocky Mountain Institute’s entry to China (Re-Inventing Fire – China). Gary actively supports the Asia Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, The Nature Conservancy, PERC (free market environmentalism), the Climate Leadership Council, the U.S. Olympic Foundation, .and the Fudan University International Advisory Board.
Mr. Rieschel attended Reed College (BA Biology) and Harvard Business School (MBA). Mr. Rieschel was based in Shanghai from 2005 through 2016 when he relocated to Seattle, WA to launch the Qiming U.S. operations.
Stapleton Roy
AmbassadorAmbassador J. Stapleton (Stape) Roy is a Distinguished Scholar and Founding Director Emeritus of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Stape Roy was born in China and spent much of his youth there during the upheavals of World War II and the communist revolution, where he watched the battle for Shanghai from the roof of the Shanghai American School. He joined the US Foreign Service immediately after graduating from Princeton in 1956, retiring 45 years later with the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the service. In 1978 he participated in the secret negotiations that led to the establishment of US-PRC diplomatic relations. During a career focused on East Asia and the Soviet Union, Stape’s ambassadorial assignments included Singapore, China, and Indonesia. His final post with the State Department was as Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research. On retirement he joined Kissinger Associates, Inc., a strategic consulting firm, before joining the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in September 2008 to head the newly created Kissinger Institute. In 2001 he received Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Public Service.
Pete Sweeney
Asia Economics Editor at Reuters- Panel: The China Tech Landscape: Opportunities in a Decoupled World
- PANEL: THE CHINA TECH LANDSCAPE: OPPORTUNITIES IN A DECOUPLED WORLD
Asia Economics Editor Pete Sweeney joined Reuters Breakingviews in Hong Kong in September 2016. Previously he served as Reuters' chief correspondent for China Economy and Markets, running teams in Shanghai and Beijing; before that he was editor of China Economic Review, a monthly magazine focused on providing news and analysis on the mainland economy. Sweeney came to China as a Fulbright scholar in 2008, and in that role conducted research on the Chinese aviation industry and outbound M&A. In prior incarnations he helped resettle refugees in Atlanta, covered the European Union out of Brussels, and took a poorly timed swing at craft-beer entrepreneurship in Quito even as the Ecuadorean currency collapsed (not his fault). He speaks Mandarin Chinese, at the expense of his Spanish.
Dan Wang
Technology Analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics- Panel: The China Tech Landscape: Opportunities in a Decoupled World
- PANEL: THE CHINA TECH LANDSCAPE: OPPORTUNITIES IN A DECOUPLED WORLD
Dan Wang is the Shanghai-based technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, the Beijing-based economics research firm. He tracks the prospects of China's industrial policy, US regulatory measures and the activities of multinationals in China. Dan has given keynotes for organizations and his work is widely cited in the press. He previously worked in Silicon Valley and studied philosophy at the University of Rochester. Dan's essays have been published in Foreign Affairs and New York Magazine, and he is a contributor to Bloomberg Opinion.
Jamie ZHANG
Vice President and head of Corporate Affairs and Patient Services at Takeda (China) Holdings Co., Ltd.Jamie Zhang is Vice President and head of Corporate Affairs and Patient Services at Takeda China, a global, top 10 biopharmaceuticals company with focus areas in oncology, gastro-enterology, rare diseases, neuroscience, plasma derived therapies and vaccines.
With nearly 15 years of experience in government affairs and market access in China and the Asia Pacific region, representing Baxter and then Takeda, Jamie has worked closely and extensively with central and local level officials, think tanks, trade associations in order to advance policies to accelerate patient access to innovative therapies. Jamie also led Takeda’s participation in China Development Forum, CIIE, Bo’ao Forum and World Economic Forum in China.
Jamie is committed to patient services, an increasingly important field in China. She leads Takeda China’s efforts in collaborating with NGOs and healthcare community to provide patient education, patient assistance programs, multi-party financing and innovative aftercare programs that support Chinese patients suffering from life-threatening and life-debilitating conditions and the families who care for them. To date, these efforts have helped more than 40,000 patients and their families.
Headquartered in Tokyo, Takeda has nearly 20,000 employees in the US generating approximately $15 billion in annual revenue. Takeda maintains two global business unit headquarters and a global R&D center in the Greater Boston Area as well as US manufacturing facilities in California, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Minnesota.
A graduate of Fudan University in Shanghai, Jamie received her master’s degree in Health Economics, Policy and Management from the London School of Economics.