(Speaker) Jeffrey Bader has served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asian Affairs at the National Security Council since 2009. He served as principal outside advisor to Senator Obama and his campaign on East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2007-2008. From 2005 to 2009, Bader served as the Director of the China Initiative and subsequently as first Director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution, where he also was a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies. During a 27 year career with the U.S. Government, Bader was principally involved in U.S.-China relations at the State Department, the National Security Council, and the U.S. Trade Representative's office.

(Speaker) Iris S. Chan is an Executive Vice President and the Group Head of Wells Fargo's Commercial Banking Group. As the Group Head, she oversees more than 88 commercial banking and loan production offices throughout the United States. Chan is involved in many community and professional organizations. Currently, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Wells Fargo HSBC Trade Bank, N.A.; Board of Trustees of the Fine Arts Museums, and a board member of the Asia Society. She serves as a member of the business advisory board of University of Southern California-Marshall School of Business. Chan is the national spokesperson for Wells Fargo Asian Business Service Program. In 2007 and 2008, she was named as one of the "25 Most Powerful Women in Banking" by U.S. Banker magazine.

(Speaker) Ronnie C. Chan is the Chairman of Hang Lung Group Limited and its subsidiary Hang Lung Properties Limited. Both are publicly listed companies in Hong Kong, with the latter being a constituent stock of the Hang Seng Index. Chan also co-founded the Morningside Group, a global investment firm engaged in both private equity and venture capital. He is Vice Chairman of the Board of the Asia Society and Chairman of its Hong Kong Center, a Director of the Board of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and a Trustee of the African Asian Society. Chan is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee on U.S-China Relations, and the Advisory Board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta. He is also a Trustee of the University of Southern California.

(Speaker) Tim Chen is Chief Executive Officer of NBA China. He oversees the new NBA enterprise that will encapsulate all of the league's businesses in Greater China, including television, digital media, marketing partnerships, global merchandising, events, and new initiatives. Previously, Chen was Corporate Vice President, CEO of the Greater China Region at Microsoft. Under his leadership, sales and revenue grew more rapidly in the Greater China region than in any other markets in the world. The company also significantly increased its investment in R&D and domestic software ventures. From 2001 to 2003, he was the Corporate Vice President of Motorola Inc., Chairman and President of Motorola (China) Electronics Ltd. Chen has served on the LSI Board of Directors and the Economic Advisor of the Jiangsu Provincial Government. In addition to his MBA from the University of Chicago, Chen also has two other masters' degrees, one in computer science and one in mathematics.

(Speaker) Mei Wei Cheng is a consultant to Ford and a retired Group Vice President of Ford Motor Company, and Executive Chairman of Ford Motor (China) Ltd. Prior to his current position, Cheng was a Corporate Vice President of Ford Motor Company, and Chairman & CEO, Ford Motor (China) Ltd. He was instrumental in establishing two major manufacturing joint ventures, a sourcing operation, and a research & engineering center for Ford Motor Company in China. Cheng joined Ford in 1998 from General Electric Corporation where he was a Corporate Vice President of the company and Regional Executive and President of GE Appliance Asia in Hong Kong.

(Speaker) Julie Chon serves as International Economic Adviser to the Senate Banking Committee Chairman. In addition to developing legislation to address the financial crisis (Housing and Economic Recovery Act and Emergency Economic Stabilization Act), her work focuses on international financial markets, regulatory reform, the IMF, exchange rates, and sovereign investments.
Prior to joining the Committee, she advised the Senate Democratic Leadership on economic and banking policy and developed communications for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. From 1998-2004, she structured international debt transactions for sovereign and other issuers at Salomon Brothers/Citi in London and JP Morgan Chase in New York.
Julie is a graduate of Cornell University where she was elected to the Board of Trustees. She also served on the Treasury team for the Obama-Biden Transition Project.

(Speaker) Charlie E. Cook is the Publisher of The Cook Political Report, and political analyst for the National Journal Group, where he writes weekly for National Journal magazine and CongressDailyAM . He is also a columnist for the Washington Quarterly, published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and is a political analyst for NBC News. Widely regarded as one of the nation's leading authorities on U.S. elections and political trends, Cook has appeared on the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news programs, as well as on "Good Morning America," the "Today Show," "Nightline," "Meet the Press" and "This Week...". He has also appeared on MSNBC, C-Span, CNN, and National Public Radio. Before joining the National Journal Group in June of 1998, Charlie wrote for 12 years a twice-weekly column in Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill. Charlie also served as an election night analyst for CBS in 1990 and 1992, and for NBC in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004.

(Moderator) Robert G. Eccles received tenure at Harvard Business School in 1989, left in 1993 to start his own boutique consulting firm in corporate reporting, risk management and sustainability and returned to HBS in 2007 as a Senior Lecturer.
With a colleague, Professor Amy Edmondson, Dr. Eccles has started a major research project on "realizing sustainability in the built environment through integrated design." One of their first case studies is on the iconic Water Cube building in Beijing which was built for the swimming competition.
Dr. Eccles has a broader interest in China as part of the School's plans to build its executive education presence there. He is working to offer an adapted version of the executive education "Leading Professional Service Firms" course, as well as a program for CEOs of the largest market cap companies in China.

(Speaker) Ralph B. Everett is the President and CEO of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a leading think tank that focuses on African American issues. Prior to this position, he spent 18 years as a specialist in telecommunications and transportation policy at the law firm of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, where he became its first African American partner. Everett had previously worked in the U.S. Senate for more than a decade, including serving as Staff Director and Chief Counsel of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. He is currently on the boards of Cumulus Media Inc., Connected Nation, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Independent Sector, and the Black Leadership Forum.

(Moderator) Charles W. Freeman III holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. Previous to CSIS, he served as managing director of the China Alliance, a collaboration of law firms that help clients devise trade, investment, and government relations strategies in the United States and China. Prior to the China Alliance, he was assistant U.S. trade representative (USTR) for China affairs, the United States' chief China trade negotiator, and played a primary role in shaping overall trade policy with respect to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and Mongolia. Earlier in his government career he served as legislative counsel for international affairs in the United States Senate. He currently is a senior advisor to McLarty Associates, the global strategic advisory firm based in Washington, DC and serves on the boards of directors of the National Committee of U.S.-China Relations and the Harding-Loevner emerging market fund group.

(Opening Remarks) John L. Fugh is the Chairman of the Committee of 100. He was The Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army, retiring from the position in 1993 after 33 years of service. He was the first Chinese American to attain general officer status in the U.S. Army. As The Judge Advocate General, Fugh was legal advisor to the Chief of Staff of the Army. He directed the Army's worldwide legal organization. After retirement from the Army, Fugh joined as a partner at the law firm of McGuire, Woods, Battle & Booth in Washington, D.C. Later, for five years, he served as Chief Representative for several U.S. companies in Beijing, including McDonnell Douglas, which later merged with Boeing Company.

(Speaker) Banning Garrett is the Director of the Asia Program at the Atlantic Council. Previously, he was the Director of the Initiative for U.S.-China Cooperation on Energy and Climate at the Asia Society's Center for U.S.-China Relations. He is the founding Executive Director of the Institute for Sino-American International Dialogue (ISAID) at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. Before joining the Council in 2003, Garrett was a consultant for 22 years to the Department of Defense and other U.S. Government agencies carrying on a strategic dialogue with China. He was also a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a founding board member of the U.S. Committee for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific.

(Speaker) Antonia Hernandez has been President and Chief Executive Officer of the California Community Foundation since 1994. Established in 1915, the Foundation has assets of $1.3 billion and supports nonprofit organizations and public institutions. Previously, Hernandez served as President and General Counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), as an attorney with the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice and worked as counsel to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. She currently serves as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, member of the Commission on Presidential Debates and John F. Kennedy Library Profiles in Courage Award Committee.

(Speaker) Jimmy Hexter is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company and leads the Firm's Operations Practice in Asia. He is located in the Beijing office, speaks fluent Chinese and has been in Asia for 20 years. In his 15 years with the Firm, he has served multinational, Asian and Chinese companies in many industries, particularly on operations strategy, manufacturing performance, and procurement and supply chain strategy. He has also worked with these companies on global and China strategies as well as organization design. In addition, Mr. Hexter has served a wide range of private equity firms, investment firms and sovereign wealth funds, on investment strategies, due diligence and post investment company management. He is the co-author of Operation China: From Strategy to Execution, which was published by Harvard Business School Press in December, 2007. He has been published in the McKinsey Quarterly, the Asian Wall Street Journal, and other publications, and is a frequent speaker at executive events, such as the American Chamber of Commerce, the Young President's Organization, the Asia Society and other prestigious organizations. Jimmy is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and received the Thomas A. Wolfe and Henry Ford Awards and of Brown University.

(Speaker) Congressman Mike Honda represents the 15th Congressional District of California in the House of Representatives. Honda was elected to the House in 2000, and currently serves on the Appropriations Committee and is the Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. He also serves as Regional Whip for Northern California, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Guam. In 2005, Honda was elected Vice Chair for the National Democratic Party. He continues to be a strong voice for the cause of social justice, cultural tolerance, and civil rights.

(Speaker) Arnold Jackson is the Associate Director for Decennial Census at the U.S. Census Bureau. He provides executive leadership for all decennial census and related programs, and is principal adviser to the executive staff, providing overall direction, planning, and coordination for all decennial census operations. As the Chief Operating Officer for the Decennial Census, Jackson oversees the formulation of the budget and directs the administration of all decennial census and geographic support funds. Previously, Jackson was president and members of the board of directors of an information management consultancy. He is a winner of a Hammer Award for leading a team that launched the Census Bureau website in the mid-1990s. The Award is presented to teams of federal employees who have made significant contributions in support of reinventing government principles.

(Speaker) Beth Keck is Senior Director for International Sustainability and Strategy at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. She leads sustainability strategies for Wal-Mart's international business which operates more than 3,000 retail units in 15 markets. Previously, she was Senior Director for International Corporate Affairs overseeing the Asia-Pacific region. From 1996-2001, Keck was the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's Senior Representative based in Beijing; in this role, she represented the world's leading aviation regular in the North Asia region. Keck was also a Presidential Management Fellow with the U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration where she worked on policy issues with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. She holds a master's degree in international economics and Asian Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and National Committee on US-China Relations.

(Speaker) Mark Kirk represents the 10th Congressional District of Illinois in the House of Representatives. Kirk is a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee and is co-chairman of the moderate GOP Tuesday Group and the bipartisan House U.S.-China Working Group. He works to advance a suburban agenda that is pro-defense, pro-personal responsibility, pro-environment, and pro-science. Kirk began his career on the staff of his predecessor, Congressman John Porter. He later served in the World Bank, the State Department, the law firm of Baker & McKenzie, and the U.S. House International Relations Committee. Kirk, who holds the rank of Commander, is a Naval Reserve intelligence officer. The U.S. Navy named him "Intelligence Officer of the Year" in 1999 for his combat service in Kosovo.

(Remarks) Ron Kirk is the United States Trade Representative. As a member of President Obama's Cabinet, he serves as the President's principal trade advisor, negotiator, and spokesperson on trade issues. Kirk draws upon more than 25 years of diverse legislative and economic experience on local, state, and federal levels. He was the first African American mayor of Dallas from 1995-2001. Before that, Governor Ann Richards appointed him as Texas Secretary of State. He also served as legislative aide to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen. Prior to joining the USTR, Kirk was a partner at Vinson & Elkins, LLP.

(Speaker) Kai-Fu Lee is a Corporate Vice President at Google, Inc. and President of Google Greater China. He is responsible for overseeing the Greater China operations. Prior to joining Google, Lee was a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft and was the founder of Microsoft Research Asia. Before that, he held executive positions at Apple and Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI). Lee developed the world's first speaker-independent continuous speech-recognition system. This system was selected as the "Most Important Innovation of 1988" by Business Week. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

(Speaker) Cheng Li is Research Director and Senior Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of the two nationally acclaimed books Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Reform and China's Leaders: The New Generation. His most recent publication is an edited book, China's Changing Political Landscape: Prospects for Democracy. Li is also William R. Kenan Professor of Government at Hamilton College, a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a trustee of the Institute of Current World Affairs, and a member of the Academic Advisory Group of the Congressional U.S.-China Working Group. Li is frequently called upon to share his unique perspective and insights as an expert on China. He recently appeared on CNN, C-SPAN, BBC, NPR's Diane Rehm Show, and PBS's Charlie Rose Show.

(Speaker) Jeffrey Li is Country President of Novartis China. Novartis is a world leader in offering medicines to protect health, cure disease, and improve well-being. Li joined Novartis in 2004 from the Pritzker family, where he worked in a number of positions of advisory and general management responsibilities for 11 years. In the last five years at the Pritzker family, he was President of Getz Commercial, an international sales and marketing company. Li is member of International Board of Overseas of Illinois Institute of Technology. He is an honorary Vice Chairman of China Charity Federation.

(Speaker) Dr. Kenneth Lieberthal is for the 2008-09 academic year a Visiting Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution. At the University of Michigan he is William Davidson Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Political Science. Dr. Lieberthal served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asia on the National Security Council from August 1998 to October 2000. His books and monographs include, among others: Overcoming Obstacles to US-China Cooperation on Climate Change (with David Sandalow) (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, Jan. 2009); and Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform (W.W. Norton, second revised edition 2004). Dr. Lieberthal has consulted widely on Chinese and Asian affairs.

(Speaker) Justin Yifu Lin is Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the World Bank. He is the author of 16 books, including The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform and The State-Owned Enterprise Reform. Previously, Professor Lin was Vice Chair, Committee for Economic Affairs of Chinese People's Political Consultation Conference (CPPCC) and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. In 1993 and 2001, Professor Lin was awarded the Sun Yefang Prize (the highest honor for an economist in China). He has served on several committees and councils on development policy, technology, and the environment including: the United Nations Millennium Task Force on Hunger, the Eminent Persons Group of the Asian Development Bank; the National Committee on United States-China Relations; the Hong Kong-U.S. Business Council; the Working Group on the future of the OECD; and the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee.

(Speaker) Christopher P. Lu is the White House Cabinet Secretary in the administration of President Barack Obama. Previously, he was Legislative Director and Acting Chief of Staff in Obama's Senate office. He left his post in the office to serve as Executive Director of the Obama-Biden transition project. In 2005, Obama hired Lu away from his job as Deputy Chief Counsel to Rep. Henry A. Waxman on the staff of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Before taking his first job on Capitol Hill, Lu spent five years in the Washington office of the law firm Sidley Austin.

(Speaker) Qingyun Ma was named Dean of the USC School of Architecture and holder of USC's Della and Harry MacDonald Dean's Chair in Architecture since January 2007. After practicing architecture with Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates in New York City, Ma founded the Shanghai architectural firm MADA s.p.a.m. (for strategy, planning, architecture and media) in 1996, creating award-winning projects such as the Longyang Residential complex in Shanghai and the Silk Tower in Xian. Ma also coordinated Rem Koolhaas's first Harvard Project on Cities, which yielded the 1993 book The Great Leap Forward. The two collaborated on the Central China TV headquarters in Beijing and the Stock Exchange Building in Shenzhen as well.

(Speaker) Karen K. Narasaki is President and Executive Director of the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC), one of the nations' leading voices advocating for the rights and interests of Asian Americans. As a widely renowned leader in the Asian American community, she serves in a number of leadership positions in the civil rights and immigrant rights communities. Narasaki is Vice Chair of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the nation's oldest and broadest civil rights coalition. She chairs the Rights Working Group, serves on the board of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and is a past-board member of the Independent Sector. Narasaki also serves on the National Commission on Adult Literacy and is a member of the Asian Pacific American Advisory Council.

(Speaker) Douglas H. Paal is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He previously served as unofficial U.S. representative to Taiwan as director of the American Institute in Taiwan from April 2002 to January 2006. He was on the National Security Council staffs of Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush and between 1986 and 1993 as director of Asian Affairs, and then as senior director and special assistant to the President.
Mr. Paal held positions in the policy planning staff at the State Department, as a senior analyst for the CIA, and at U.S. Embassies in Singapore and Beijing. He has spoken and published frequently on Asian affairs and national security issues. He studied at Brown and Harvard Universities.

(Speaker) John M. Papadopulos is the President of the Retirement Services Group at Wells Fargo. Specifically, his group drives the sales of IRAs and annuities through the company's bank and brokerage channels, manages the institutional retirement plan business, and leads the company's reinsurance practice. He assumed this position in 2008. Previously, Papadopulos worked in the Capital Management Division at Wachovia. There, he was responsible for the company's investment banking business with insurance companies, banks, and large cap financial institutions globally. Papadopulos started his career with the Continental Bank in Chicago.

(Moderator) John Podesta is the President and CEO of the Center for American Progress. Under his leadership, the Center has become a notable leader in the development and advocacy for progressive policy. Prior to founding the Center in 2003, Podesta served as White House Chief of Staff to President William J. Clinton. He served in the President's Cabinet and as a Principal on the National Security Council. While in the White House, he also served as both an Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff, as well as Staff Secretary and a senior policy advisor on government information, privacy, telecommunications security, and regulatory policy. Most recently, Podesta served as co-chair of President Obama's transition, where he coordinated the priorities of the incoming administration's agenda, oversaw the development of its policies, and spearheaded its appointments of major cabinet secretaries and political appointees.

(Moderator) John Pomfret is an award-winning journalist and the Outlook Editor for The Washington Post. He has been a foreign correspondent for 15 years, covering big wars and small in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Congo, Sri Lanka, Iraq, southwestern Turkey and northeastern Iran. Pomfret has spent seven years covering China - once in the late 1980s during the Tiananmen Square protests and then from 1998 until the end of 2003 as the bureau chief for The Washington Post in Beijing. He is also the author of Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China. In 2003, Pomfret was awarded the Osborne Elliot Award for the best coverage of Asia by the Asia Society.

(Moderator) Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy retired from the Foreign Service in January 2001 after a career spanning 45 years with the U.S. Department of State. Mr. Roy rose to become a three-time ambassador, serving as the top U.S. envoy in Singapore (1984-86), the People's Republic of China (1991-95), and Indonesia (1996-99). In 1996, he was promoted to the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest rank in the Foreign Service. Ambassador Roy's final post with the State Department was as Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research. In 2001 he received Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Public Service. In January 2001, Ambassador Roy joined Kissinger Associates, Inc., a strategic consulting firm, as Managing Director and later Vice Chairman. In September 2008 he became the first director of the newly-establish Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, while continuing as a Senior Adviser to Kissinger Associates.

(Speaker) Adam Schiff represents the 29th Congressional District of California in the House of Representatives. His focus is on bolstering national security, strengthening communities, and introducing a "Kids First" agenda of initiatives to improve education, safety, and health care for kids. He serves on the House Appropriations Committee, House Judiciary Committee, and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Additionally, Schiff is the co-founder of the Congressional Caucus for Freedom of the Press and the Democratic Study Group on National Security. Prior to serving in the House, Schiff served with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles.

(Speaker) Jake Schmidt is the International Climate Policy Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). He leads NRDC's policy development and advocacy on international climate change, focused on the development of the post-2012 international response to climate change and the actions in key regions of the world to deliver on that agreement. Prior to joining NRDC, Schmidt was Director of International Programs at the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP), a leading environmental think-tank. He has led a long running forum, the Future Actions Dialogue, that brought together senior climate change negotiators from more than 30 developed and developing countries to discuss options for the future international climate change regime.

(Speaker) Yeohlee Teng is an award winning designer who established her fashion house, YEOHLEE Inc., in 1981. She believes that design comes from serving a function and is refined through time and process. Teng's designs are driven by material, maximizing the use of each fabric by thoughtful consideration of weight, texture, color, cut, and finishing. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions internationally and is part of the permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Teng is the recipient of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Fashion 2004.

(Moderator) Robert Thomson is the editor-in-chief of Dow Jones & Company and the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. As the senior news executive at Dow Jones, Mr. Thomson directs the news operations of the Journal, WSJ.com, MarketWatch.com and Dow Jones Newswires. Before joining Dow Jones in December 2007, Mr. Thomson was editor of The Times of London where he presided over a significant expansion of its readership in print and on the Web. He was named U.S. Business Journalist of the Year in 2001 by the influential trade journal TJFR. Thomson had been a correspondent in Tokyo (1989-1994) and in Beijing (1985-1989), where he reported on the country's economic and social reforms, and the crushing of the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square. He is the author of The Judges: A Portrait of the Australian Judiciary (Allen & Unwin) and co-author of The Chinese Army (Weldon Owen).

(Moderator) Calvin Tsao has emerged as one of the most thoughtful and original voices in contemporary design since co-founding Tsao & McKown Architects, with partner Zack McKown, in 1985. Drawing his inspiration from a dazzling spectrum of cultures and art forms spanning time and place, Mr. Tsao deftly interweaves diverse elements, forging a style that eludes categorization. He eschews the high-profile habit of imposing an aesthetic "brand" upon his projects, instead advocating an approach that looks beyond the building, to considerations of the behavior it inspires. His firm's portfolio runs the gamut of typology and scale, from Suntec City, a 6-million square foot mixed-use complex dubbed the "Rockefeller Center of Singapore," to museum exhibitions; from an urban plan for the ancient Chinese city of Chengdu, to a lipstick case. Mr. Tsao currently serves as President of the Architectural League of New York, and as a member of the Visiting Committee to Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he has taught at Harvard and at the Parsons School of Design.

(Speaker) Dennis C. Wilder is a Visiting Fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. Wilder served on the National Security Council first as China Director and then as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asian Affairs from 2004-2009. During his NSC tenure, Wilder organized the President Bush's visits to China, including the President's visit to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics. From 1995 to 2005, Wilder served as the chief of China analytic studies at CIA. In 1996, he led the Interagency Task Force dealing with the Taiwan Strait missile crisis. He also had a leading role in the analytic support to policymakers on the accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in 1999 and the downing of a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft in 2001.

(Speaker) Benjamin H. Wu is President of the U.S.-Asia Institute, a non-governmental organization that promotes the U.S. relationship with Asian nations. Professionally, Wu has led presidential, gubernatorial, and congressional initiatives and has worked in all three branches of the federal government. He helps to develop the technology strategy for the State of Maryland and has served as its highest ranking Asian Pacific American. Wu was also nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate. In the first and second terms of the George W. Bush administration, he served as the Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology and as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy. Prior to his presidential appointments, Wu held senior staff positions in Congress for 13 years, as both Counsel to Congresswoman Constance Morella of Maryland and on the House Science Committee.

(Moderator) Frank H. Wu is a legal and racial scholar and author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White and co-author of Race, Rights, and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment. He was Dean of Wayne State University Law School from 2004 to 2008 and is currently teaching at the University of Maryland and George Washington University. Professor Wu serves as a Trustee of Gallaudet University, the only university in the United States serving primarily deaf and hard of hearing students; he became Vice-Chair of the Board in 2006. Professor Wu was honored for leadership in higher education as the recipient of the Chang-Lin Tien Award from the Asian Pacific Fund. He is on the Board of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund, is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

(Speaker) Jianmin Wu is a senior Chinese diplomat of 42 years' experience with 25 years service at overseas posts. He was the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry from 1991 to 1994. From 1994 to 2003, he served as China's Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Permanent Representative and Ambassador to the United Nations Office in Geneva, and Ambassador to France. In 2003, Wu was awarded Grand Officier, Légion d' Honneur by President Jacques Chirac in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the relations between China and France. Wu became the President of the China Foreign Affairs University in 2003 and retired from this post in 2008. He also served as President of International Bureau of Exhibitions and Under-Secretary-General and Spokesman of National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

(Moderator) Sheryl WuDunn is co-author of the forthcoming Half the Sky, a book about women in the developing world, to be published by Alfred Knopf this September. She worked as a vice president at Goldman Sachs & Co. and held various roles at The New York Times: in news, as editor for international business and markets, energy and industry; in corporate management, as a director in both strategic planning and in circulation; and as a foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Beijing. With her husband, Nicholas D. Kristof, she has co-authored two best-selling books, Thunder from the East and China Wakes. Ms. WuDunn won a Pulitzer Prize with her husband for covering China - she was the first Asian-American to win a Pulitzer.

(Speaker) Ya-Qin Zhang is Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Corporation and Chairman of Microsoft China R&D Groups (CRD). He is responsible for driving Microsoft's overall research and development efforts in China. In addition to this role, Zhang serves on Microsoft China's Executive Management Committee providing leadership and governance across all of Microsoft's organizations in the Greater China region. Zhang is a Fellow of IEEE. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Video Technology and editorial boards of seven other professional journals and over a dozen conference committees.

(Speaker) Yi Zhou is Design Director for Converse Apparel. Based in NY, the new brand is currently being launched globally with stores in China already open. Prior to that she was Senior Designer at Martin + Osa, a new lifestyle brand launched by American Eagle.
Born in Qingtian, China, Yi Zhou moved to the Netherlands at the age of 10. She studied at the Fashion Academy Montaigne in Amsterdam, graduating Cum Laude with the Best Student of the Year Award. After graduating she moved to Hong Kong anddesigned for several fashion brands such as Reebok and Mexx.
In January 2000, she launched her own ready to wear Yi Zhou Collections which were sold in cutting edge local boutiques. In 2001 she joined Nike to design sportswear for the Asian market before moving to New York in 2005.