The Changing Role of the State Speaker Bios March 18, 2016

Strategies for Growth: The Changing Role of the State Speaker Bios March 18, 2016

Professor Chong-En Bai is Mansfield Freeman Chair Professor, Associate Dean, and Chairman of the Economics Department in the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University. He is also the director of the National Institute for Fiscal Studies of Tsinghua University. He earned his Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics and Economics from UCSD and Harvard University, respectively. Professor Bai is a member of the executive committee of International Economic Association, and also a member of the Scientific Council of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. He currently serves on the editorial board of The World Bank Economic Review and a few top economic journals in China. He served on the editorial board of Journal of Comparative Economics from 2004 to 2006.

Chong-en Bai Professor Bai is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China, the “13th Five-Year Plan” National Development Planning Expert Committee, the Chinese Economists 50 Forum, the China Finance 40 Forum, and Chinainfo 100. He served as Adjunct Vice-President of Beijing State-Owned Assets Management Co., Ltd. from August 2011 to December 2012. He was a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution from 2006 to 2007. Pascal Blanqué has been Global Chief Investment Officer at AMUNDI (formerly known as Crédit Agricole Asset Management, CAAM), Head of Institutional Investors and Third Party Distributors and member of the Executive Committee since February 2005. He was also appointed Chairman of the Board of CPR AM in January 2007. From 2000 to 2005 he was Head of Economic Research and Chief Economist of Crédit Agricole. Before joining Crédit Agricole, Pascal Blanqué was Deputy Director of the Economic Research Department at Paribas (1997-2000) following four years as a strategist in asset allocation at Paribas Asset Management in London (1992-

Pascal Blanqué 1996).

He began his career in institutional and private asset management at Paribas in 1991. As an economist and a financial historian Pascal Blanqué is the author of several contributions. His books include Money, Memory and Asset Prices, The Social Economy of Freedom, Philosophy in Economics and Essays in Positive Investment Management, all published and distributed by Economica and Brookings Institution Press. His publications in international Journals and specialized newspapers include numerous articles concerning financial history, economics and policy making. He taught and carried out research at Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Polytechnique and Paris- Dauphine University. He is a member of the French Société d’Economie Politique.

Susan Dietz-Henderson is the China Affairs Director at Capital Group. She has 20 years of diplomatic experience and has been with Capital Group for seven years. Prior to joining Capital, Susan was the Australian Consul-General in Shanghai, an Assistant Secretary for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra, and had other diplomatic postings in China, the United States, Australia, and Papua New Guinea. She holds a diploma in applied economics from the University of Canberra, a bachelor’s degree in arts and Asian studies from Australian National University, and a Susan Dietz-Henderson diploma in applied linguistics and translation from Wycliffe College. Susan is based in Beijing.

Martin Feldstein is the George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University and President Emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as President and CEO of the NBER from 1977-82 and 1984-2008. He continues as a Research Associate of the NBER. From 1982 through 1984, Martin Feldstein was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and President Reagan's chief economic adviser. He served as President of the American Economic Association in 2004. In 2006, President Bush appointed him to be a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. In 2009, President Obama appointed him to be a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

Dr. Feldstein is a member of the American Philosophical Society, a Martin Feldstein Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Fellow of the National Association of Business Economists. He is a Trustee of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Group of 30, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council of Academic Advisors of the American Enterprise Institute. In 1977, he received the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association. He is the author of more than 300 research articles in economics. Dr. Feldstein has been a director of several public corporations. He is also an economic adviser to several businesses and government organizations in the United States and abroad. He is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and other publications. Martin Feldstein is a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University. Stephany Griffith-Jones is Financial Markets Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, and was Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. She is a member of the Warwick Commission on Financial Regulation. She has published widely on the international financial system and its reform. Her research interests include global capital flows, with special reference to flows to emerging markets; macro-economic management of capital flows in Latin America, Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa; proposals for international measures to diminish volatility of capital flows and reduce likelihood of currency crises; analysis of national and international capital markets; and proposals for international financial reform.

Stephany Griffith-Jones

Bo Guo has been Managing Director of NYC Alliance since 2010. Prior to NYC Alliance, he held a Merchandising / Production position at ITOCHU Corporation in China. Bo grew up surrounded by the apparel business and was groomed by his father from an early age to take over the family factory business. Mr. Guo is a graduate of Saint John’s University – Peter J. Tobin College of Business. Bo is married with 2 children and resides in Long Island, NYC and China.

Guo Bo Guo Jian Chairman of the Board, Yunfu Investing Ltd. Dr. Haizhou Huang is Managing Director and Head of Sales and Trading Department of China International Capital Corporation (CICC). He was Co- Head of Sales and Trading Department and Executive Chairman of Capital Market Committee between 2008 and 2010, after joining CICC in December 2007 as a Managing Director. From December 2010 to April 2013, he was Chief Strategist, Co-Head of Research Department and firm-wide Executive Chairman of Research Coordination Committee at CICC.

He was head of Greater China research at Barclays Capital from 2005 to 2007. From 1998 to 2005, he was a senior economist at the International Haizhou Huang Monetary Fund (IMF), and before that taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the London School of Economics.

Dr. Huang holds a Ph.D. degree in business from Indiana University, USA, and a master and bachelor degrees, both in engineering, from China. He has over twenty publications in leading academic and policy journals, including American Economic Review, China Economic Review, European Economic Review, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Monetary Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, etc. He is a Vice President of the China Society of World Economics, and an Academic Committee Member of the China Finance 40 Group (CF40).

For the past 18 years, Merit E. Janow has been a Professor of Practice at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and affiliated faculty at Columbia Law School. Currently, in addition to being Dean of SIPA, she is also Co-Director of the APEC Study Center and Chair of the Faculty Oversight Committee of Columbia’s Global Center East Asia. Previously, she was Director of the Masters Program in International Affairs and Chair of Columbia University’s Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing. She has written several books, numerous articles and frequently speaks before business, policy, and academic audiences around the world.

While at Columbia University, Professor Janow was elected in December Merit Janow 2003 for a four year term as one of the seven Members of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Appellate Body. She was the first female to serve on the Appellate Body.

From 1997 to 2000, Professor Janow served as the Executive Director of the first international antitrust advisory committee of the U.S. Department of

Justice that reported to the Attorney General and the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust. Prior to joining Columbia’s faculty, Professor Janow was Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China (1989- 93). She was responsible for developing, coordinating and implementing U.S. trade policies with Japan and China. She negotiated more than a dozen trade agreements with Japan and China during a period of intense economic and political tension between the United States and both Japan and China.

Professor Janow is on the Board of Directors of several corporations and not for profit organizations. In 2009, she became a charter member of the International Advisory Council of China’s sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation or CIC.

Rob Johnson serves as President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and a Senior Fellow and Director of the Global Finance Project for the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute in New York. Johnson is an international investor and consultant to investment funds on issues of portfolio strategy. He recently served on the United Nations Commission of Experts on International Monetary Reform under the Chairmanship of Joseph Stiglitz.

Previously, Johnson was a Managing Director at Soros Fund Management where he managed a global currency, bond and equity portfolio specializing in emerging markets. Prior to working at Soros Fund Management, he was a Managing Director of Bankers Trust Company managing a global currency Rob Johnson fund.

Johnson served as Chief Economist of the US Senate Banking Committee under the leadership of Chairman William Proxmire (D. Wisconsin). Before this, he was Senior Economist of the US Senate Budget Committee under the leadership of Chairman Pete Domenici (R. New Mexico). Johnson received a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Princeton University and a B.S. in both Electrical Engineering and Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Peter Jungen, Chairman of Peter Jungen Holding GmbH, is co-founder resp. investor in numerous start-ups in Europe and in the US like Idealo GmbH, the leading German comparison shopping platform. He is Founding President of Business Angels Netzwerk Deutschland (BAND) resp. Co-Founder and President (2001-2004) of the European Business Angels Network (EBAN), a founding Board Member of the China Business Angels Network (CBAN), Beijing and a member of the New York Angels. He is a member of the Advisory Council, Deutsche Bank AG, and Board member of the New York Philharmonic. He is Honorary Chairman, “Center on Capitalism and Society”, Columbia University and Advisory Board Member of the Columbia Center for Global Economic Governance, Columbia University. He is a Member of the Board of the Friedrich von Hayek Institute, Vienna, a member of the Peter Jungen International Josef Schumpeter Society and of the Mont Pelerin Society and a member of the OECD Steering Group on SME and Entrepreneurship. He is Governing Board Member of the “Institute for New Economic Thinking” (INET). He is a former member of the Presidency of the Federation of German Industries (BDI). Previously he was CEO of Strabag AG, one of the largest

Peter Jungen, Chairman of Peter Jungen Holding GmbH, is co-founder resp. investor in numerous start-ups in Europe and in the US like Idealo GmbH, the leading German comparison shopping platform. He is Founding President of Business Angels Netzwerk Deutschland (BAND) resp. Co-Founder and President (2001-2004) of the European Business Angels Network (EBAN), a founding Board Member of the China Business Angels Network (CBAN), Beijing and a member of the New York Angels. He is a member of the Advisory Council, Deutsche Bank AG, and Board member of the New York Philharmonic. He is Honorary Chairman, “Center on Capitalism and Society”, Columbia University and Advisory Board Member of the Columbia Center for Global Economic Governance, Columbia University. He is a Member of the Board of the Friedrich von Hayek Institute, Vienna, a member of the Peter Jungen International Josef Schumpeter Society and of the Mont Pelerin Society and a member of the OECD Steering Group on SME and Entrepreneurship. He is Governing Board Member of the “Institute for New Economic Thinking” (INET). He is a former member of the Presidency of the Federation of German Industries (BDI). Previously he was CEO of Strabag AG, one of the largest European civil engineering groups.

The leading German business magazine „Wirtschaftswoche“ named Peter Jungen one of the 100 most important personalities who shape the future of the „New Economy“. In 1999 Peter Jungen was awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz) by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Dr. Lawrence J. Lau is the Ralph and Claire Landau Professor of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Economic Development, Emeritus, Stanford University. He received his B.S. degree in Physics, with Great Distinction, from Stanford University in 1964, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966 and 1969 respectively. He joined the faculty of the Department of Economics, Stanford University in 1966 and in 1992, he was named the first Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Economic Development at Stanford University. He has served as a Co-Director of the Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University and the Director of the Stanford Institute for

Lawrence J. Lau Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University. From 2004 to 2010, he was the President and Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. From 2010 to 2014, he served as the Chairman of CIC International (Hong Kong) Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Investment Corporation, the sovereign wealth fund of China. He is the author or editor of seven books and more than one hundred and eighty articles and notes in professional publications. David is the Mansfield Freeman Chair Professor of Economics; Dean of the Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University; Director of Tsinghua University Center for China in the World Economy.

David Li is active in public service. He is currently a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China, a delegate to the Beijing People’s Congress and a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Committee (CPPCC). He is now a member of the Global Agenda Councils and a Rapporteur of the International Financial Institutions Reform Cluster of the Global Redesign Initiative (GRI) of the World Economic Forum based in Davos, Switzerland. 5

David Daokui Li His on-going research projects include the survey of economics research

sponsored by the Ministry of Education and the internationalization of RMB

supported by the National Science Foundation of China. He is also leading a research team working on reevaluating the GDP and economic structure of ancient China, including the Ming Dynasty. Yuefen LI is the Special Advisor on Economics and Development Finance at the South Centre in Geneva. Previously she worked in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) from 1990 to 2014, and was Head of Debt and Development Finance Branch (Deputy Director- General level), senior economic affairs officer as well as Manager of UNCTAD Project on Promoting Responsible Sovereign Lending and Borrowing, the Project on Sovereign Debt Workout Mechanism and the project on globalization. She is guest professor of two universities in China and used to be a guest professor of Tsinghua University.

Yuefen Li Kenneth Lieberthal is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, and also the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. He served as director of the China Center from July 2009 to August 2012. Lieberthal was special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asia on the National Security Council for 1998 through 2000. Lieberthal is professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, where until 2009 he was the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Political Science and William Davidson Professor of Business Administration. He was director of the University of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies Kenneth Lieberthal from 1986 to 1989, and on May 15, 2014, the university’s board of regents renamed the center as the “Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.” He earlier taught at Swarthmore College from 1972 to 1983 before joining the University of Michigan faculty in 1983.

Lieberthal has authored, coauthored, and edited 24 books and monographs, and authored about 75 articles and chapters in books. He has a bachelor’s from Dartmouth College, and a master’s and doctorate in political science from Columbia University. Mr. Lin is professor and honorary dean, National School of Development at Peking University. He is also the Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, 2008-2012. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Lin served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Centre for Economic Research at Peking University and is the author of 24 books.

He is a member of the Standing Committee and Vice Chairman of Economic Council, Chinese People’s Political Consultation Conference; Counselor of the State Council, Vice Chairman of Peking University Council. He served on several national and international committees, leading groups, and councils on development policy, technology, and environment including: Eminent Justin Lin Persons Council of the World Bank, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Steering Committee, the UN Millennium Task Force on Hunger; the Eminent Persons Group of the Asian Development Bank; the National Committee on United States-China Relations; the Global Agenda Council on the International Monetary System; Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee; and the Hong Kong-U.S. Business Council. He received honorary doctoral degrees from Universite D’Auvergne, Fordham University, Nottingham University, City University of Hong Kong, London School of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of British Columbia, Katholieke University Leuven, and is a Corresponding

Mr. Lin is professor and honorary dean, National School of Development at Peking University. He is also the Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, 2008-2012. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Lin served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Centre for Economic Research at Peking University and is the author of 24 books.

Mr. Lou Jiwei is the Minister of Finance of China since March 2013. Mr. Lou served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of China Investment Corporation from September 2007 to March 2013. At the firm, he looked into alternative investments including private equity, commodities, and hedge funds. Mr. Lou serves as the Governor of Asian Development Bank. He has been a Member of International Advisory Board of Russian Direct Investment Fund since September 16, 2011. Mr. Lou served as the Chairman of Central Huijin Investment Ltd. (also known as China SAFE Investments Ltd.). He was a Deputy Secretary General on the ministerial level of the State Council. Previously, Mr. Lou served as the Executive Vice Minister of Finance, the Vice Governor, Deputy Governor, of Guizhou Province, and a Director General of the Macroeconomic Control Department Lou Jiwei of the State Commission for Restructuring the Economy. He is a Professor and an advisor to Ph.D. students. Mr. Lou holds an M.S. in Economics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a B.S. degree from Tsinghua University. Rakesh Mohan is one of India’s senior-most economic policymakers and an expert on central banking, monetary policy, infrastructure and urban affairs. He is a former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. As Deputy Governor he was in charge of monetary policy, financial markets, economic research and statistics. In addition to serving in various posts for the Indian government, including representing India in a variety of international forums such as Basel and G20, he has worked for the World Bank and headed prestigious research institutes.

Mohan has written extensively on urban economics, urban development and Indian economic policy reforms. His most recent book “Monetary Policy in a Rakesh Mohan Globalized Economy: A Practitioner’s View” focuses on issues relating to the evolution of banking and finance, the conduct of monetary policy, the management of the financial sector, and the role of central banking. Akbar Noman is an economist with wide7 -ranging experience of policy analysis and formulation in a variety of developing and transition economies, having worked extensively for the World Bank as well as other international organizations and at senior levels of government. He combines teaching at SIPA with being a Senior Fellow at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue - a "think tank" headed by Joseph Stiglitz at Columbia University - where his tasks

Edmund Phelps is the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics, Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University, and Dean of the New Huadu Business School. Born in 1933 in Evanston, Illinois, Edmund Phelps earned his B.A. from Amherst in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1959. His career began at the RAND Corporation. From 1960-1966 he held appointments at Yale and its Cowles Foundation, then a professorship at Penn. In 1971 he joined Columbia University. Phelps’s work can be seen as a program to put “people as we know them” back into economic models— accounting for the incompleteness of their information and studying the effects of their expectations on the market. He applies this perspective in studying unemployment and inclusion, economic growth, business swings and dynamism. Phelps was elected Fellow of the National Academy of Edmund Phelps Science in 1982 and made a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 2000. He was greatly honored in 2001 with a Festschrift celebration and resulting conference volume. He has been awarded several honorary professorships in China, including one from Tsinghua Uninversity in 2007. In 2008 he was named Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, awarded the Premio Pico della Mirandola and the Kiel Global Economy Prize. University of Buenos Aires Law School established the Catedra Phelps and the Phelps Medal for Innovation. In 2011, he was named a Full Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and received the Louise Blouin Creative Leadership Award. In 2012, Phelps was elected an Honorary Patron of the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College. He has received many honorary professorships and honorary degrees, the latest a doctorate from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in June 2010. In 2014, he received the Chinese government Friendship Award and the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale University. In 2015, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Federation of Finance Museums in Beijing, China. Yingyu Qian is the Dean of the School of Economics and Management. Professor Qian was born in Beijing and graduated from Tsinghua University in Mathematics in 1981. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University after earning an M.Phil. in Management Science/Operations Research from Yale University and an M.A. in Statistics from Columbia University. He was on the faculty at Stanford University, the University of Maryland, and the University of California, Berkeley. He was appointed as the Dean of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in September 2006.

He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a recipient of the 2009 Sun Qian Yingyi Yefang Prize in Economic Sciences. His main research areas include comparative economics, institutional economics, economics of transition, and the Chinese economy. He has published in international journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies.

Gérard Roland is E. Morris Cox professor of economics and professor of political science at UC Berkeley. His expertise is in political economy, comparative economic analysis of institutions and reforms in post-socialist economies. Roland has been a regular consultant to the IMF, World Bank and EBRD in the last 15 years and has also consulted for the European Commission and the Inter-American Development Bank. He is editor of the Journal of Comparative Economics. His book Democratic Politics in the European Parliament received the Richard F. Fenno Prize for the Best Book Published in the Field of Legislative Studies during 2007. Gérard Roland Jeffrey D. Sachs serves as Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, as well as Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Health Policy and Management. He is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Sustainable Development Goals, having held a similar position under former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is co-founder and Chief Strategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, and is director of the Millennium Villages Project. He has authored several books including three New York Times bestsellers: The End of Poverty (2005), Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008), The Price of Jeffrey Sachs Civilization (2011), and To Move the World (2013). Nobel Laureate A. Michael Spence joined New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business as a professor of economics in September 2010. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Professor Spence was chairman of the independent Commission on Growth and Development (2006 - 2010), a global policy group focused on strategies for producing rapid and sustainable economic growth, and reducing poverty. He also serves as a consultant to PIMCO, a senior adviser at Oak Hill Investment Management, and as a member of the board of the Stanford Management Company as well as a number of public and private Michael Spence companies.

A Rhodes Scholar and the recipient of many honors and awards, Professor Spence was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economics Association in 1981. He is the author of three books and 50 articles, and is a member of the American Economic Association and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society. Professor Spence served as Philip H. Knight Professor and dean of the Stanford Business School from 1990 to 1999. Before that, he was a professor of economics and business administration at Harvard University, chairman of its economics department, and dean of its Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Professor Spence earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972, a B.A./M.A. from Oxford University in 1968 and a B.A. (summa cum laude) from Princeton University in 1966.

Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University in New York, where he is also the founder and Co-President of the university's Initiative for Policy Dialogue. He is also the Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information, and he was a lead author of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2011, Time named Stiglitz one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is now serving as President of the International Economic Association.

Joseph Stiglitz Stiglitz was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-95, during the Clinton administration, and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000. In 2008 he was asked by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy to chair the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. He now chairs a High Level Expert Group at the OECD attempting to advance further these ideas. In 2009 he was appointed by the President of the United Nations General Assembly as chair of the Commission of Experts on Reform of the International Financial and Monetary System, which also released its report in September 2009 (published as The Stiglitz Report). Since the crisis, he has played an important role in the creation of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), which seeks to reform the discipline so it is better equipped to find solutions for the great challenges of the 21st century.

Stiglitz helped create a new branch of economics, "The Economics of Information," exploring the consequences of information asymmetries and pioneering such pivotal concepts as adverse selection and moral hazard, which have now become standard tools not only of theorists, but also of policy analysts.

Jan Svejnar is the James T. Shotwell Professor of Global Political Economy and Founding Director of the Center on Global Economic Governance, at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). His research focuses on the effects of foreign investment and government policies on firms and workers; corporate, national and global governance and performance; and entrepreneurship. He has published widely in academic, policy and practitioner-oriented journals in advanced and emerging economies. Prior to joining Columbia, Professor Svejnar taught at the University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, and Cornell.

He received his BS from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and his MA and PhD in Economics from Princeton University. In 2012, he was honored with a Neuron Prize for lifelong achievement from the Jan Svejnar Karel Janeček Endowment for Research and Science. In 2008, Professor Svejnar was one of two candidates for the Presidency of the Czech Republic.

Mr. Edward Tian is the founder and Chairman of China Broadband Capital Partners, L.P. (CBC).

Before Mr. Tian founded CBC Capital, he was the Vice Chairman and CEO of China Netcom Group from Nov. 2002 to May 2006. He was the CEO of China Netcom Company Ltd. from Aug. 1999 to May 2002. Prior to joining China Netcom, Mr. Tian was the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of AsiaInfo Holding Inc., the first Internet technology provider in China. AsiaInfo successfully listed in NASDAQ in 2001 under Mr. Tian’s leadership. Mr. Tian also used to be the Vice Chairman of PCCW Limited from 2005 to 2007. He’s now the Independent Director of several multi-national companies, they are Edward Suning Tian including MasterCard International, Lenovo Group Limited and Taiking Life Insurance Company Limited.

Mr. Tian holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resource Management from Texas Tech University, USA. He is also the member of Harvard Business School Asia Advisory Committee, Co-Chair of TNC China Board. Marcos Troyjo is the Co-Director of the BRICLab at Columbia University, a SIPA special forum on Brazil, Russia, India and China. He teaches The Rise of BRIC at SIPA.

Troyjo is the founder of the Center for Business Diplomacy, an independent think-tank on global entrepreneurship. He holds a PhD in sociology of international relations from the University of São Paulo and pursued postdoctoral studies at Columbia University. An economist and political scientist, he is an alumnus of The Rio Branco Institute (Instituto Rio Branco), the graduate school of international relations and diplomatic academy of Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He undertook additional graduate studies Marcos Troyjo at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Troyjo is a lecturer in the graduate programs at IBMEC University, a Visiting Professor at the Centre d`Études sur l`Actuel et le Quotidien, Université Paris Descartes (Sorbonne), and a member of the International Schumpeter Society. He worked as a career diplomat and was Press Secretary at the Brazilian Mission to the United Nations in New York and Chief of Staff of the Science and Technology Department of Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He is the author of such books as: Technology & Diplomacy, Brazil: Competitiveness in the Global Marketplace, Manifesto of Business Diplomacy, Trading Nation: Power & Prosperity in the 21st Century (chosen by Americas Quarterly as one of the best new books on policy, economics and business in the hemisphere in 2007).

Boris Vujcic holds a PhD in economics from the University of Zagreb. He joined the Croatian National Bank in 1997, and was director of the research department for three years before becoming Deputy Governor in 2000, a position to which he was re-appointed in 2006. In July 2012, Mr. Vujcic became Governor of the Croatian National Bank for a six year term of office. Mr. Vujčić started his academic career as an assistant lecturer at the faculty of economics, University of Zagreb in 1989 and became a professor in 2003. He also teaches at the department of mathematics, University of Zagreb. Mr. Vujčić has been a deputy chief negotiator in Republic of Croatia’s negotiations with the European Union from 2005 to 2012. He was also a member of the Global Development Network (GDN) board from 2005 to 2012. Before becoming a Deputy Governor, he was also periodical external consultant to the ILO and the European Commission. Mr. Vujčić’s fields of Boris Vujcic expertise are macro and monetary economics, international finance and labour economics.

Professor Wang Jianye is Managing Director, Silk Road Fund Co., Ltd. and Professor of Economics and Director of the Volatility Institute at NYU Shanghai. He is also a Former Economic Counselor and Chief Economist at the Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim Bank) and Adjunct Professor at the School of Economics of Peking University.

While serving as Economic Counselor and Chief Economist of China Exim Bank between 2008 and 2013, Prof Wang directed the Bank’s economic research and semi-annual publication, China and World Economic Review. Prior to joining China Exim Bank, Prof Wang has held various positions at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), assisting states of the former Soviet Union in their economic stabilization and transition while contributing to the Wang Jian-ye management of debt relief for highly indebted poor countries. During his

time with IMF, Prof Wang also took the lead in IMF policy surveillance and lending missions to member countries. His recent publications include Debt, Currency and Related Reforms (China Financial Publishing House, 2012).

Steven T. Watson is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. He has 28 years of investment experience and has been with Capital Group for 26 years. Earlier in his career, as an equity investment analyst at Capital, he covered Asian property and transportation, as well as European transportation and utilities companies. Before joining Capital, Steve was a buy-side research analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in New York.

Steve Watson He holds an MBA in finance from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration, a master’s degree in French studies from New York University Institute of French Studies and a bachelor’s degree in French from the University of Massachusetts graduating cum laude. He also studied Mandarin Chinese at Wuhan University and the Shanghai Foreign Language Institute in China. Steve is based in Hong Kong.

Mr. Wei is the Chief Economist of Asian Development Bank and Director General of its Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department. Mr. Wei is the chief spokesperson for ADB on economic and development trends, leads the production and dissemination of ADB's flagship knowledge products, as well as ADB's support for various regional cooperation fora such as ASEAN+3 and APEC. Mr. Wei, born in the People's Republic of China and a national of the United States, has a long and distinguished career in academia and international finance and trade. Before joining ADB he was the N.T. Wang Chair and Director of the Chazen Institute of International

Shang-Jin Wei Business at Columbia University, Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's working group on the Chinese economy, and a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (Europe).

Prior to Columbia University, Mr. Wei was an Assistant Director and Chief of Division at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) where he led the Fund's policy research and advised on issues in international trade, investment, globalization, and related topics. He was IMF Chief of Mission to Myanmar in 2004. Mr. Wei served as an advisor on anti-corruption policy and research at the World Bank from 1999 to 2000. He was an assistant and associate professor at Harvard University from 1992 to 1999. Mr. Wei earned a PhD in Economics and a Master's degree in Finance from the University of California, Berkeley; a Master's degree in Economics from Pennsylvania State University; and a Bachelor's degree in World Economy from Fudan University in the People's Republic of China.

Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 “for services to financial journalism”. Mr Wolf is an honorary fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, an honorary fellow of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy (Oxonia) and an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham.

He has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos since 1999 and a member of its International Media Council since 2006. He was made a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by Nottingham University in July 2006. He was made a Doctor of Science (Economics) of London University, honoris causa, by the London School of Economics in Martin Wolf, CBE December 2006. He was a member of the UK government's Independent Commission on Banking in 2010-2011. Martin's most recent publications are Why Globalization Works and Fixing Global Finance. Prof. Xue Lan is professor and Executive Associate Dean of School of Public Policy and Management and Executive Vice President of the Development Research Academy for the 21st Century at Tsinghua University. He is also an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a Fellow of IC2 Institute at University of Texas, Austin. His teaching and research interests include public policy analysis and management, science and technology policy, and crisis management. Xue Lan holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and taught at the George Washington University in the U.S. before returning back to China in 1996. He has served as a policy advisor for many Chinese government agencies and has consulted for the World Bank, APEC, IDRC and other International organizations. He is a Xue Lan recipient of the 2001 National Distinguished Young Scientist Award.

Prof. Xue Lan is professor and Executive Associate Dean of School of Public Policy and Management and Executive Vice President of the Development Research Academy for the 21st Century at Tsinghua University. He is also an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a Fellow of IC2 Institute at University of Texas, Austin. His teaching and research interests include public policy analysis and management, science and technology policy, and crisis management. Xue Lan holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and taught at the George Washington University in the U.S. before returning back to China in 1996. He has served as a policy advisor for many Chinese government agencies and has consulted for the World Bank, APEC, IDRC and other International organizations. He is a Xue Lan recipient of the 2001 National Distinguished Young Scientist Award.

He currently serves as a Vice President of China Association of Public Administration, Vice President of Chinese Association of Science of Science and S&T Policy, Deputy Secretary General of the National Steering Committee for MPA Education, member of the Policy Committee on Developing Countries, International Council for Science Unions, Advisory member of Research On Knowledge Systems, IDRC, and others. He is on the Board of SciDev.Net, an international non-profit organization aimed at promoting Science and Technology for international development.

Liqing Zhang is Professor of International Economics; Dean of School of Finance and Director of Center for International Finance Studies at Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing, China. He is author, coauthor or editor of numerous publications on international economics and finance issues, particularly in the areas of capital flows, exchange rate, financial development and economic globalization. Holding a Ph.D. degree in Economics in Renmin University of China, he was senior visiting fellows at World Bank (1995), Tilburg University (1996), Petersons Institute for International Economics (2004) and Columbia University sponsored by the Fulbright Foundation (2005), and Australia National University (2009). He is the vice president of China Society of World Economy. He has advised many governmental departments in China, including People’s Bank of China and Zhang Liqing State Administration of Foreign Exchange over the past decades, and served as the member of Approval Committee of Listed Companies with China Securities Regulation Commission.