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(People's Daily Online)    14:15, March 27, 2019

Wang Donghua

Consul General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco

 

London Breed

Mayor of San Francisco

Steven Rockefeller, Jr.

Steven Rockefeller, Jr. serves as Chairman of PFC & SRJ Culture and as Co-Chairman of Chinese Culture & Art Organization. In these capacities, Steven has worked in China to develop city center developments, art trading platforms as well as a series of cultural exchange programs. Steven concluded work in U.S. banking in 2004 as a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank and received his graduate degree in Finance from Yale University. His wife Kimberly and he live in Pleasantville, New York.

 

AnnaLee Saxenian

AnnaLee (Anno) Saxenian is Dean of the School of Information and she holds a joint faculty appointment in the School of Information and the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarship focuses on regional economies and the conditions under which people, ideas, and geographies combine and connect into hubs of economic activity. She is a member of the Apple Academic Advisory Board, and has served as Chair of the Advisory Committee for the National Science Foundation Division of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (NSF-SBE).

 

Jim Wunderman

Jim Wunderman is President and CEO of the Bay Area Council, a CEO-led public policy organization focused on making the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley the most globally competitive and economically productive region in the world. Since becoming President and CEO in April 2004, Jim has honed the Bay Area Council’s regionalist approach to advocacy in the key areas that impact the Bay Area’s economy and competitiveness, including: Business Climate, Education, Infrastructure, Healthcare, Transportation, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Land Use, and Cyber security. The organization has received consistent acclaim for providing business leadership on these and other issues.

 

Luo Hua

Luo Hua, member of the Board of Directors, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of People’s Daily Online.

After graduating from the Chinese Language and Literature Department of Nankai University in 1985, Luo entered the Mass Work Department of People’s Daily. In November 1998, he moved to People’s Daily Online, working successively as Deputy Director of the General Editorial Department, Head of the Technical Support Team, Deputy Director of Jinbao Electronic & Audiovisual Publishing Center, Director of the Online TV Department, President Assistant and Vice President.

Wang Jun

Doctor of Management and Professor of Economics, President of Institute of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences. Dr. Wang Jun also serves as the President of Guangdong Economics Association. His research interests include Transitional Economy, Institutional Economics, Enterprise Theory, and Enterprise Cluster Theory. Mr. Wang Jun has published more than 100 papers and 5 books in domestic and foreign journals and presses. He has conducted more than 20 projects including major philosophical and social sciences projects with the Ministry of Education, the National Natural Science Foundation and the National Social Science Foundation. His researches were awarded many times outstanding achievements in philosophy and social sciences by the Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province.

 

Huangdong

Vice Director of Guangzhou Development District Administrative Committee

Chen Wencong

Director of The Huangpu District People’s Government Office, Guangzhou Municipality

Yan Yibin

Board Chairman of Guangzhou Development District Financial Holdings Group Co., LTD.

Ph.D

 

Ivanhoe Chang

Director

Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, San Francisco

As Director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in San Francisco, Mr Ivanhoe Chang represents the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government in fostering economic ties between Hong Kong and 19 states in the western part of the United States.Mr Chang joined the Hong Kong Government as Administrative Officer in 1995. Throughout his career, he has been posted to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels as Assistant Representative to the European Union, worked on revenue and taxation policy, electoral policy and legislation and constitutional development, as well as telecommunications policy and promoting the development of creative industries and the establishment of the Innovation and Technology Bureau in the Government.

Thomas F. Knapp

Thomas F. Knapp is a New York City-based Fine Art Consultant and Appraiser. His education in history, art, and law was done at Boston College and Columbia University. He has taught and lectured at numerous places including, New York University, and the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT.Working directly with artists and collectors gives him a unique perspective on the current trends in the art world. His appraisal qualifications Enable him to facilitate art Donations. Tom participates In every facet of the art process.

 

Cherry Huang

Mrs. Cherry Huang is a successful serial entrepreneur, an art promoter. Having started the first company in fashion while she studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology. In the midst of successfully running the fashion business she demonstrated her coverage and business savviness by diving into the super competitive American dominated health care industry. She then became the only Chinese who has a seat in the table in the sector and with prospective of further gaining market share. In recent years, she has transferred herself from art collector to an art promter, Art and culture exchange globally has become her third career.Mrs Huang is also the leader of educational non for profit organizations.She has organized many influential events.She enjoys reading and travels.

Jaana Remes

MGI Partner, San Francisco

Jaana is an economist and a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey's business and economics research arm. Since 2003, Jaana has led MGI's research on urbanization, productivity, competitiveness, and growth. Her latest research maps the deployment of smart city solutions and sizes the potential benefits to urban citizens’ health, safety, commute times, and other factors impacting quality of life. Her long term research interests also include productivity prospects in the digital age, global growth prospects in an era of demographic decline, analyses of how different policies have contributed to industry competitiveness and growth; as well as in-depth assessments of the barriers to competitiveness and growth across a range of economies, including the US, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, UK, Finland, Sweden, and South Korea.

 

Dennis Rodriguez

Chief City Executive – Western U.S.

Siemens Cities Center of Competence

Based in Los Angeles, Dennis oversees Siemens’ strategic approach into the major municipal markets in the Western U.S. Dennis is passionate about driving thought leadership and innovation into Cities with a focus on the built environment, energy, mobility and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Dennis has helped champion Siemens solutions across a wide spectrum of infrastructure; including the electrification of buses and cargo trucks, micro grid and battery storage technology, and helping to transition renowned facilities into sustainable and innovative showcases. As the lead city executive in his markets, Dennis is responsible for assembling regional teams, establishing relationships with key city and regional decision makers, and driving Siemens solutions into the respective markets.

Prior to joining Siemens, Dennis spent nearly a decade working in local politics as a Senior Aide to an elected official at Los Angeles City Hall. Active in his communities, he serves as a Director for numerous organizations; including, the LA Area Chamber of Commerce and the Bay Area Council, as well as serving as a fellow to the Jesse Unruh School of Politics at USC. Dennis is a graduate of California State University of Northridge and received his Juris Doctorate from University of Notre Dame Law School.

Scott Mauvais

Director, Technology & Civic Innovation, Microsoft

Matt Middlebrook

Public Policy Lead, Airbnb

Sean Randolph

Senior Director, Bay Area Council Economic Institute

Sean Randolph is Senior Director of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a public-private partnership of business, labor, government and higher education that works to foster a competitive economy in California and the San Francisco Bay Area, including San Francisco, Oakland and Silicon Valley. The Economic Institute produces authoritative analyses on economic policy issues affecting the region and the state, including infrastructure, globalization, energy, science, and governance, and mobilizes California and Bay Area leaders around targeted policy initiatives.

Robin Kim

Global Practice Chair, Technology & Innovation, Ruder Finn

Global Practice Chair, Technology & Innovation

Ruder Finn

Robin is Global Chair of the Technology and Innovation Practice at Ruder Finn, a leading global marketing communications firm that is dually headquartered in Shanghai and New York. She is a 25-year communications veteran whose experience spans Fortune 50 multinationals, government organizations, NGOs, and high-growth startups. Much of her work has focused on economic development and public-private partnerships, and her work as won multiple industry awards. She has lived and worked in 9 markets across 5 countries in the U.S., Western Europe, and the Middle East.

Robin is also Board Vice Chair for UNICEF USA in the Pacific Northwest region, where among other roles she helps supports the organization’s advocacy efforts in California and Washington, D.C.

Prior to Ruder Finn, Robin was at Edelman in Silicon Valley where she led the agency’s work for technology multinationals across more than 50 countries in addition to overseeing Edelman’s enterprise technology portfolio. Prior to Edelman, Robin held executive leadership roles across WPP network of PR firms for 17 years in Qatar, Germany, Switzerland, U.K. and the U.S. Robin also worked for BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom and founded an award-winning not-for-profit program in California.

Robin received her B.A. in literature from the University of California at Berkeley and her M.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in San Francisco.

David Hetherington

Director & Senior Fellow, PerCapita

"David Hetherington is a Senior Fellow and Director at Per Capita, a progressive think tank, and Executive Director of the Public Education Foundation. He spent 10 years as Per Capita's founding Executive Director, and has also worked at the UK’s Institute for Public Policy Research and with LEK Consulting in Sydney, Munich and Auckland. David has authored over 100 reports, book chapters and opinion pieces on a wide range of economic and social policy issues. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Economist, The Sydney Morning Herald, Quartz, and The Australian, and he is a regular panellist on ABC TV’s national current affairs program The Drum. David holds a BA (First Class Honours) from the University of NSW and an MPA (Distinction) from the London School of Economics.”

 

Tim Ole Jöhnk

Director, Northern Germany Innovation Office

Xi Ye

Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Chris Lo

Director, LA, Hong Kong Trade Development Council

As Director of Los Angeles, Chris leads HKTDC’s trade program and operation in the West Coast, facilitating enterprises and traders in the United States to invest, trade and do business in Asia, particularly in China and ASEAN, through partnership with Hong Kong.

Chris joined the HKTDC in 2000 and has proven experience in directing trade and investment promotion for prioritized manufacturing sectors, tech commercialization, financial services, infrastructure and development-related services and investment etc. Prior to his current role, Chris led HKTDC’s promotion for Hong Kong’s creative industries, and was actively engaged in capacity building program for both Hong Kong-based start-ups and mainland Chinese enterprises to upgrade and transform.

Chris also worked for the United Nations, the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Hong Kong Tourism Board specializing in trade development, city branding and development. He was posted to HKTDC Paris Office from 2005-07 as Marketing Manager.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Chris earned a master’s degree in public affairs (MPA) from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and a master in e-business degree from Curtin University Australia. He is an amateur trail-runner, cyclist and an enthusiast in design, film and wine.

Slav W. Hermanowicz

Professor

Associate Co-Director, Tsinghua Berkeley Shenzhen Institute

Slav Hermanowicz is a professor at the University of California at Berkeley where he has conducted research and teaching in the area of environmental protection with special emphasis on physical sustainability, water and wastewater treatment, and water management. The focus of his research is on metrics of sustainability, integrated water management, water reuse, biological processes in water and wastewater, membrane bioreactors, and biostability of drinking water. Slav is an Associate Director and a founding Core Principal Investigator at the Tsinghua Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI), a collaborative project between Berkeley and Tsinghua University with 60 faculty and 350+ graduate students. He was also a National High-End Foreign Expert of China at the Tongji University in Shanghai where he currently manages projects on wastewater treatment and water reuse as 111 Program Honorary Visiting Professor and the Shanghai 1000 Talent Expert. He was a Fellow at the Institute of Earth System Preservation of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Among his most important awards was the inaugural Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Sustainability at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna. Slav is also involved in entrepreneurship both as an academic activity in teaching entrepreneurship and as a practitioner. He was educated in his native Poland (M.Sc.) and at the University of Toronto (Ph.D.).

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