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. 1 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 2 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 3 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.