May 18, 2012—American youngsters want to become lawyers or accountants, but Chinese all want to become financial traders, China watcher Bill Dodson muses on his weblog, after talking to his neighbor's daughter. Where is this country heading for? 
Wendell Minnick
Wendell Minnick is an author, commentator, journalist and speaker who has spent nearly two decades covering military and security issues in Asia. He is an expert on military and security issues in Asia. He travels from Taiwan.
Mark Schaub
Mark Schaub a partner at King & Wood and Mallesons, the largest law firm in China and Australia combined. He is a prolific speaker who wastes no time in avoiding the real challenges in doing business in China.
As a lawyer he had extensive experience in negotiating deals, firing people and otherwise dealing with the ignorance of companies entering the Chinese business minefield. He travels from Shanghai
Jeremy Goldkorn
Jeremy Goldkorn is publisher and editor of Danwei.com, an online TV-personality, and shows the other side of China’s society in an informal tone with both critical and quirky elements. Coming from a solid media and advertisement background, Goldkorn has outspoken viewpoints on China’s media and Internet industries and is frequently interviewed by the Chinese and Western press for his views on media developments, and on Sino-African relations. He travels from Beijing.
Victor Shih
Victor Shih is assistant professor political science at Northwestern University and aleading specialist on China’s financial systems. Victor Shih has also consulted for the US government and the private sector on risk scenarios and “black swan” events related to China. He travels from Evanston, Ill.
Tricia Wang
Tricia Wang is a sociologist, technology researcher, and ethnography who studies how people use digital communication technologies in cities. She investigates the impact of digital computing (mobiles and internet) on our social interaction in and with public urban space. She is passionate about demystifying the ways non-elite or edge communities (i.e. migrants, rural villagers, or informal workers) make use of digital tools in everyday life. She travels from New York, USA
Jasper Becker
Jasper Becker is one of the leading voices on China’s development, setting his reputation as an author with a monumental work “Hungry Ghosts” on China’s secret famines that changed the world’s perception on China. He worked over twenty years as a foreign correspondent in China. He travels from Beijing.
Tom Doctoroff
Tom Doctoroff is the leading authority on marketing in China. His successful book Billions: Selling to the New Chinese Consumer has founds its way to the shelves of almost every company working in China. Mr. Doctoroff switches in his speeches easily from a hand-on approach to a higher level, and prevents any confusion by telling again many real life stories from the dynamic marketing scene in China. He travels from Shanghai.
Matthew Bloomfield
For the “Rapping professor” the key components in his speeches are humor and music. Both are particularly effective at breaking the ice with an audience, and also at getting them involved interactively. For humor, the professor might relate a funny anecdote or have the audience pair up and practice a funny dialogue. He travels from Bali, Indonesia.
Marc van der Chijs
Marc van der Chijs arrived last century as an expat for Daimler-Benz, but booked his largest successes as the co-founder of China’s largest video hosting site Tudou and until February 2011 as CEO for the game developer Spil Group Asia. He is now a serial internet entrepreneur and angel investor. He travels from Shanghai.
William Overholt
William Overholt is a senior research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government. In 2007 he published “Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics.” Dr. Overholt is also the author of the bestseller “The Rise of China,” one of the most compelling books on China’s economic transformation in the 1990s. He travels from Cambridge, Mass.
Howard French
Howard French is associate professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and former New York Times correspondent in Africa, Japan, and China. As correspondent for the New York Times, he was not only an alert observer of the society he was in, but was able to compare and connect between those worlds, much to the benefit of his audience. He travels from New York.
Helen Wang
Helen Wang is a contributor to Forbes and a sought-after speaker. Her book, “The Chinese Dream,” is based on over 100 interviews with the new members of the Chinese middle class. Currently, Wang divides her time between consulting for companies doing business in China and helping non-profit organizations make a difference. She travels from Silicon Valley.
Shaun Rein
Shaun Rein is the Managing Director of the China Market Research Group, the world’s leading strategic market intelligence firm focused on China. He is one of the world’s recognized thought leaders on strategy consulting in China. In 2012 he published the bestseller “The End of Cheap China.” He travels from Shanghai.
Sam Crispin
Director at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and former Principal Crispin Property Consultants. Who wants to know about real estate in Shanghai and the rest of China, turns to Sam Crispin. For almost two decades Mr. Crispin has been part of one of China’s most booming industries, witnessing its ups and downs. He travels from Shanghai.
Paul French
Paul French is founder of market research company Access Asia. As a China specialist he has been quoted in a wide variety of publications including the Financial Times, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal Asia, the South China Morning Post and the LA Times. In 2012 he published the very popular book “Midnight in Peking.” The rights for a TV-show on the book have been sold He travels from Shanghai.
Arthur Kroeber
Arthur Kroeber is a respected writer and commentator on Chinese economy and Chinese companies. He has been the managing director and head of research at Dragonomics since 2002. He is also a regular contributor to the opinion page of the Financial Times and a consultant to Oxford Analytica. His articles have also appeared in the Economist, the Far Eastern Economic Review, Wired, and other publications. He travels from Beijing.
Bill Dodson
Bill Dodson is the author of “China Inside Out: 10 Irreversible Trends Reshaping China and its Relationship with the World.” A highly animated and energetic speaker, he presents in a clear way the trends impacting China’s markets, business interests invested in the country and international relations with other nations. In the summer of 2012, his new book is expected: China Fast Forward: The Technologies, Green Industries and Innovations Driving the Mainlands Golden Future. He travels from Suzhou.
William Bao Bean
William Bao Bean is managing director of Singtel Innov8 since the end of 2010. Singtel Innov8 is focused on investing in and driving innovative services and technology from around the world, especially China, to its 350m subscribers in Asia and Africa. He travels from Shanghai.
Rupert Hoogewerf
Rupert Hoogewerf is founder and compiler of the Hurun China Rich List. The list is the flagship product of Hurun Report, a luxury publishing and events company founded by Hoogewerf in 1999, which produces 20 Chinese-language magazine issues a year aimed at China’s wealth creators. Hoogewerf’s close personal relationship with many of China’s leading entrepreneurs provides the basis for the company’s busy calendar of events. He travels from Shanghai.
Ben Cavender
Ben Cavender is a senior analyst with The China Market Research Group (CMR) focusing on strategic planning and brand positioning. He graduated from Cornell University with a BA in Government and Asian Studies. He travels from Shanghai.
Zhang Jun
Zhang Jun is the Chang-Jiang Professor of Economics at Fudan University and Director of the China Center for Economic Studies. Prof. Zhang is a respected scholar and commentator on China’s economic reform who speaks regularly on Chinese TV stations and publishes dozens of articles in papers annually. He travels from Shanghai.
Bill Fischer
Bill Fischer is a Professor at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he specializes in issues relating to corporate strategy, particularly in technology-related organizations, and in the management of operations and technology, as well. He is former dean of CEIBS in Shanghai. In 2012 Bill Fischer co-published The Idea Hunter: How to Find the Best Ideas and Make them Happen. He travels from Lausanne, Switzerland
Kaiser Kuo
Kaiser Kuo is an American-born writer, rock musician, technology watcher and cultural commentator. In June 2010 he became director international communication at China’s largest search engine, Baidu.com. Baidu was the first Chinese company to become part of the NASDAQ-100 index. He travels from Beijing.
Paul Denlinger
Paul Denlinger’s life reads like a Who Is Who of business in China. As a senior manager he worked in the past two decades both Chinese and Western companies — including Shanda, Unilever, Philips, TSMC, Acer, Walt Disney, McDonald’s, BMW and even the state-owned newswire Xinhua is on his reference list. Paul Denlinger travels from Beijing.
Xu Ping
Xu Ping is a senior partner at, King & Wood and Mallesons, the largest law firm of China and Australia combined, and head of the firm’s Foreign Direct Investment Group in Beijing. Ms. Xu specializes in foreign direct investment, mergers and acquisitions, technology transfer and international arbitration. She travels from Beijing.
Wang Jianmao
Jianmao Wang is professor of economics and associate dean at China Europe International Business School. He analyses the political choices the Chinese government is making, and sometimes its inability to execute them. Professor Wang gives us a peek behind the doors that mostly remain closed for the outside world. He travels from Shanghai.
Zhang Lijia
Zhang Lijia is a writer, journalist, and social commentator. She is the author of the popular memoir “Socialism is Great!” She is currently working on a book on prostitution in China. She travels from Beijing.
Annette Nijs
Annette D.S.M. Nijs, currently Executive Director Global Initiative of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), is a former Cabinet Minister for Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands and a former member of the Dutch Parliament. Before joining CEIBS, Annette established the Europe China Institute at Nyenrode Business University where she held the position of Managing Director of the institute. She travels from Amsterdam.
Janet Carmosky
Janet Carmosky is one of the leading voices on China business in the US. With a heavy experience of a wide range of industries in China, its culture and way of dealing with the people. In a hands-on way she has a very convincing story for both beginners and veterans in dealing with China. She travels from New York.
Sam Flemming
Sam Flemming is co-founder and CEO of CIC, the first and leading Internet Word of Mouth (IWOM) research and consulting firm in China. CIC is at the forefront of exploring Chinese digital culture, helping leading brands in China such as Pepsi and Nike understand how the Internet Word of Mouth is impacting and can be used to impact marketing communications, product research and development, reputation monitoring and public relations. He travels from Shanghai.
Mark Obama Ndesandjo
Building bridges between China and the US has become his passion, ever since Mark Obama Ndesandjo lost his job after 9/11 and found a new homeland in China. As an accomplished business man, he decided that there is more into life than making money. He started to teach piano at orphanages and has been heavily involved in charity events in China. He travels from Shenzhen.
Reuben F. Johnson
Reuben F. Johnson is a more than twenty-year veteran of analysing and writing about defence technology, weapon systems, procurement networks and political-military affairs in Russia/Former USSR, China, Latin America and the Middle East. He travels from Kiev, Ukraine.
Zhang Juwei
Zhang Juwei is the Deputy Director General of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is a leading expert at one of China’s most prominent think tanks on China’s economic development and its implications on labor. He travels from Beijing.
Ambition: getting filthy rich – Bill Dodson
May 18, 2012—American youngsters want to become lawyers or accountants, but Chinese all want to become financial traders, China watcher Bill Dodson muses on his weblog, after talking to his neighbor's daughter. Where is this country heading for? Why Facebook won’t work in China – Benjamin Joffe
May 18, 2012—Facebook's IPO forced this other question upon us: is the company ready for China? Forget it, tells internet expert Benjamin Joffe of the digital research & strategy firm +8* (Plus Eight Star) in Techcrunch. Ten popular misconceptions about China – Tom Doctoroff
May 18, 2012—Hard landing of the economy or no hard landing. Getting the China story right is tough for Western observers, says China-watcher Tom Doctoroff, author of What Chinese Want: Culture, Communism and China's Modern Consumer. Forbes lists his ten popular misconceptions. China becoming a mainstream wine drinking nation – Rupert Hoogewerf
May 17, 2012—The wine market in China is still dominated by crazy prices for crazy bottles, but Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf expects the madness will phase out, and China will become a mainstream wine drinking nation, he tells The Telegraph. Jiang Zemin still in the succession game – Victor Shih
May 17, 2012—Former China president Jiang Zemin made a surprise appearance in Beijing last month and is certainly a complicating factor in the ongoing succession games, tells political analyst Victor Shih in Today Online. Art and wealth management will dominate Shanghai rich – Rupert Hoogewerf
May 17, 2012—In Shanghai 370,000 residents are millionaires in US-dollars in 2012, and although most still get their fortune from real estate Rupert Hoogewerf of the Hurun Rich list estimates art and wealth management will take over as sources for wealth in the city, he tells the Jing Daily. “Foreigner hunt” nothing new – Jeremy Goldkorn
May 16, 2012—China's capital Beijing has set off a hunt against illegal, jobless foreigners. Actually, nothing really new, says Beijing veteran Jeremy Goldkorn, who has seen it all before, he tells the Wall Street Journal. What Chinese want – Tom Doctoroff
May 14, 2012—China advertisement guru Tom Doctoroff dives in his upcoming book What Chinese Want: Culture, Communism and China's Modern Consumer into one of the crucial questions concerning China. The Star-Telegram summarizes the key issues. A government-organized slowdown – Shaun Rein
May 12, 2012—The latest data from China signal a slowdown of the economy. Is this the hard landing, economists have been predicting? No, says business analyst Shaun Rein in CNBC. This is exactly the scenario the central government has been wanting to see. Most of Shanghai’s rich are business owners – Rupert Hoogewerf
May 12, 2012—The number of rich and super rich is growing fast in Shanghai, tells Hurun founder Rupert Hoogewerf in The China Daily. But unlike their global colleagues, Shanghai rich tend to be business owners, and to a lesser degree real estate developer.
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