HONGBIN QU

Managing Director, Co-Head of Asian Economics Research, and Chief Economist for Greater China

HSBC

Qu Hongbin is Managing Director, Co-Head of Asian Economics Research, and Chief Economist for Greater China. He joined HSBC in 2002 and has been an economist in the financial markets since 1994. Hongbin is also a deputy director of research at the China Banking Association. He previously worked as a senior manager at a leading Chinese bank and other Chinese financial institutions.

LINDA YUEH

Adjunct Professor of Economics

LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL

Professor Linda Yueh is Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School. She is a widely published author whose award-winning books include China’s Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower and her latest, The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today. Chinese editions of both books have been published by CITIC Press. Further information is at: 

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BENSON TAM

Chairman and Founding Partner

VENTUROUS GROUP

Benson Tam is the Chairman & Founding Partner of Venturous Group. He has 25+ years of VC/PE experience in China and Asia. He has been identified as First round investor in Alibaba, and early investor in AsiaInfo, WuXi AppTec, iSoftStone; Director of iSoftStone and MoMo (NASDAQ: MOMO); Founding Partner of Fidelity Asia Ventures, etc.

WEIMIN CHEN

Managing Director in Hong Kong Office, Head of China Office

HOULIHAN LOKEY

Weimin Chen is a Managing Director in Houlihan Lokey’s Hong Kong office and Head of China for the firm. He is responsible for overseeing the firm’s investment banking business in the mainland China market, including further developing the corporate finance, financial advisory and financial restructuring businesses in the region.

AMAN WANG

Partner and Head of UK-China Business

KPMG

Aman Wang is a Partner of KPMG UK, specialising in cross-border strategy and M&A between China and Europe. He led and facilitated the development of the FDIs and M&As of major Chinese sovereign funds, Power and Utilities organisations, and nuclear companies into the UK market, with a total transaction value of over £12bn. He also helps UK business with their China strategies, establishing JVs and partnerships, and managing their existing business in China.

DANIEL WIDDICOMBE

Former Head of Investment Banking

CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK LONDON

Daniel Widdicombe is the Former Head of IB at CCB (London). He has worked on numerous ground-breaking transactions for CCB including the first London-listed RMB-denominated Dim Sum bond and ETF. Prior to CCB, he held positions including CFO of Nasdaq-listed Chinadotcom and I-Quest Corporation, Independent NED of Nasdaq-listed Corgi Holdings, Head of Pan-Asian Equity Research at Bear Stearns, and China Investment Analyst at HSBC.

Julian Birkinshaw is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Deputy Dean of Executive Education and Digital Learning at the London Business School.  He is a Fellow of the British Academy.  

He has PhD and MBA degrees in Business from the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University, Canada, and a BSc (Hons) from the University of Durham, UK. He was awarded Honorary Doctorates by the Stockholm School of Economics in 2009 and Copenhagen Business School in 2018.    

Professor Birkinshaw is currently ranked as one of the “Thinkers 50” top thought leaders in the field of Management.  

Arthur is the General Manager of VMware China. He has more than 25 years of experience in the tech industry, working at multinational companies. Familiar with both business and IT practices in China and the global market, he is an expert in creating strategic value for customers in China. Together with his colleagues, he is committed to helping China customers to achieve excellence in both IT and business, accelerating digital transformation and long-term development. 

Dr. Chenyang Xu, based out of Silicon Valley, is a Co-Founder of Silicon Valley Future Academy, a Managing Partner of Guangzhou Perception Vision Medical Technologies, Co. Ltd., an advisory board member of the Johns Hopkins University BME Department, an advisor of UC San Francisco Health Hub, a founding co-chair of Silicon Valley Innovation Executive Forum and Corporate Innovators Huddle, and board directors/venture advisors of AI technology start-ups in US and Asia. He is an elected IEEE Fellow for his significant contribution to AI and healthcare fields with seminal research and commercial impacts. 

Dickie Liang-Hong Ke  a Sloan Fellow at London Business School and has over 30 years of experience in global technology management and advisory. He has held senior leadership roles at Microsoft, Ericsson Business Consulting, and Nokia, where he established numerous globally pioneering technology business ventures, including cloud computing and mobile internet.  

Mr. Ke has co-written many renowned business cases and books, most recently, "Innovation and Agility at Tencent's WeChat" (Harvard Case Center) and “Handbook on China and Globalization” (Edward Elgar).

Alan has worked in Health Care and Medical Research as a front-line Medical Scientist in the UK NHS, and as Chairman and Chief Executive of large multi-national healthcare companies and smaller technology start-ups. He teaches in Universities in UK, Europe, North America and Asia with Professorships in European and Chinese Universities. He has raised and managed an early stage technology Venture Capital Fund, is a Business Angel Investor and Trustee of charities including Chairmanship of the Cambridge Rare Diseases Network. His current work is focussed on the commercialisation of research, technology start-ups, largely in the Bioscience areas, and the development of China - West Trade and Educational Relationships.

Tiantian Li (“Stanley Li”) is the Founder and Chairman of DXY, the largest online community for physicians in China. Founded in 2000, and formally became a company in 2006, DXY has already covered over 2 million Chinese doctors, which is about 70% of the nationwide doctors. Stanley Li has a Bachelor’s Degree of Clinical Medicine and Master's Degree of Tumor Immunology. Stanley is a visiting professor at the Navy Medical University and Harbin Medical University. At the same time, he is also the Vice President of Zhejiang Council for Health Services Promotion, the Vice President of Health Industry Association of Heilongjiang Province.

Nicholas is a VC and a health and life sciences sector specialist.  He is a General Partner and Global Head of Health and Life Sciences Investments and a member of the investment committee at the NCL Technology Ventures. As a sector expert, Nicholas has been closely involved in the UK Government’s health and life sciences strategy, innovation policy and health and social care reforms in the past. He trained as a surgeon in London and Oxford Deaneries, with postgraduate clinical research in Neurosurgery in Cambridge. Nicholas also has a master’s degree and DIC in Surgical Technology from Imperial College London and an MBA from London Business School. He is currently an Honorary Visiting Professor at De Montfort University, Honorary Senior Fellow at the Centre of Health Innovation Research at City University of London and was a lecturer and a visiting faculty at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business in the past. 

Xing is the Head of AXA Next Lab Asia. Prior joining AXA Next Asia Lab, she has 13-year accumulative experience in insurance, investment and start-ups across Australia and UK. A firm advocate for idea and cultural exchange, she co-chaired the 2016 China Business Forum and assumed a role of co-president of China Club at London Business School to bridge the dialogue on innovation and entrepreneurship between UK and China. Xing holds an M.B.A from London Business School and a BA in Actuarial Science from University of Melbourne.

JUN WANG

Head of Investment Management

iQIYI

Mr. Jun Wang is the head of Investment and Financing division at iQIYI. During his career at iQIYI, he has led over 50 acquisitions and minority investments. He is also responsible for corporate financing activities such as IPO and convertible bond offering. Before joining iQIYI, Mr. Jun Wang had over 16-year experience in TMT investment and banking, where he assisted a dozen of Chinese Internet companies raising over 20 billion USD through IPOs, bond offerings and syndicate loans. Jun Wang holds a bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University, and an MBA degree from the University of Chicago. 

Deng Yaping, Olympic champion, table tennis grand slam winner, who won eighteen world championships and four Olympic championships during her fourteen years illustrious career. She was the top-ranked woman in the world for eight consecutive years from 1991 (The longest time for continuously top-ranked female table tennis player, the record was kept by her). She was voted Chinese female athlete of the century, and joined the International Table Tennis Federation Hall of Fame in 2003. 

After her retirement, she obtained her bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University, master's degree from the University of Nottingham and doctorate from the University of Cambridge. 

Herminia Ibarra is the Charles Handy Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School. Prior to joining LBS, she served on the INSEAD (2002-2017) and Harvard Business School (1989-2002) faculties.  

An authority on leadership, Thinkers 50 ranks Ibarra among the top management thinkers in the world. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network, a judge for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, one of Apolitica’s 100 most influential people in gender policy, a Fellow of the British Academy, the 2018 recipient of the Academy of Management’s Scholar-Practitioner Award for her research’s contribution to management practice, and serves on the Governing Body of the London Business School. 

She is the author of best-selling books including Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader and Working Identity:  Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Ibarra writes regularly in leading academic journals and business publications including the Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times.  

A native of Cuba, Ibarra received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University, where she was a National Science Fellow. 

Mr. Isbrand Ho is a Senior Director of BYD Company Limited, General Manager of BYD Auto Industry Company Limited and Managing Director of BYD Europe B.V. (located in the NL). Mr Ho, born in Hong Kong, was educated in the US at San Diego State University, California, and held a range of senior management positions in the electronics industry, including four years as a Director of Motorola. A theme of his career has been in delivering energy efficiency solutions to a range of industries. He joined BYD to head up its Europe operation in January 2013 and now heads a multi-skilled and multinational team of people based in Rotterdam. His responsibilities include sales of pure electric vehicles in the bus, taxi and forklift market sectors at present.

Mr. Yang currently serves as a Vice President of Geely Auto Group and an official spokesperson for Geely Holding Group. He is responsible for the public relations and corporate brand management of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, Geely Group Motorsports, Group Corporate Social Responsibility and providing strong support to the coordinated development of multiple brands under the Geely umbrella.  Since joining Geely in January 2010, Mr. Yang has participated in many high-profile deals including the acquisitions of Volvo Cars, London EV Company, and Malaysia’s PROTON. He also served as the Deputy General Manager of Geely Automobile Sales Company and Executive Deputy General Manager of LYNK & CO. Mr. Yang has been instrumental in the creation of the new premium global brand Lynk & Co, pushing Geely into the high-end market segment.

Thomas Luk mainly focuses on large-scale performance transformations and digitalization initiatives in the automotive/ mobility industry as well as advising leading OEMs in product development, procurement, manufacturing to distribution. He is a recognized expert for electro-mobility and has managed countless international projects and various research initiatives in this field. He is also regarded as a specialist for the Chinese market, where he has been active for many years on behalf of global conglomerates, joint ventures, and local businesses.  Before joining A.T. Kearney, Thomas has served as associate principal at Mckinsey & Company and had experience of founding/investing in several internet startups.