Keynote Speakers
Dr. Jisi Wang, Dr. Wang Jisi is the Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University and serves as an advisor on the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Foreign Ministry of China. He is guest professor of the National Defense University of the PLA, president of the Chinese Association for American Studies, founding member of the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles, International Council Member of the Asia Society in New York City, and Advisory Council Member of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies of the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. He is also advisor of the Asia Center at Harvard University and serves on the Board of Directors of the nonprofit organization Teach For China.
Jerome Cohen, Mr. Cohen is a professor at NYU School of Law and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. As an expert in Chinese law, he is also a senior fellow for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He created the East Asia Legal Studies Association during his early career in Harvard University, and he has actively advocated for normalized relations with China. During his sabbatical from Harvard University, Mr.Cohen was offered to teach American contract law to commerce officials in Beijing at the crucial time after China's economic reforms. His influence has extended to Taiwan and Korea, and the current president Ma Ying-jeou .
William Fung, William Fung is the Managing Director of Li & Fung (Trading) Ltd., a privately held business entity founded by Fung’s grandfather in 1906, is one of the largest trading firms in Hong Kong. Fung and his brother, Victor, who is chairman, saw the potential in expanding the middleman-type trading firm to create a “borderless manufacturing” operation to produce apparel plus a variety of hard goods on a global scale. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong and is connected to a network of more than seventy offices in over forty countries. Fung received his M.B.A. from Harvard in 1972. Drawing from his education and business experience and acumen, he co-authored Competing in a Flat World: Building Enterprises for a Borderless World (Wharton School Publishing, 2007).
Ann is also an adjunct professor of economics and finance at New York University and a former visiting professor at Peking University where she taught macroeconomics and financial derivatives. While she was teaching at Peking University, she also acted as an economic advisor to Chinese economic officials as well as to several large Chinese asset management firms.