Professor Chong-En Bai is Dean of the School of Economics and Management and Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences of Tsinghua University. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Economics from Harvard University. His research focuses on the relationship between economic institutions, policy, and development, and from this perspective, the Chinese economy.

Professor Bai is Vice-Chairman of the 13th All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the “15th Five-Year Plan” National Development Planning Expert Committee, the Chinese Economists 50 Forum, the China Finance 40 Forum, and Chinainfo 100. He was a member of the monetary policy committee of the People’s Bank of China and of the executive council of International Economic Association, a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution, and Adjunct Vice-President of Beijing State-Owned Assets Management Co., Ltd..

Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky is Chair of Parkside Global Advisors in Washington, DC advises multinational companies on global market access, investment and negotiation. Prior to this, Ambassador Barshefsky was the United States Trade Representative from 1997-2001 and Acting and Deputy USTR from 1993-1996. As a member of President Bill Clinton’s Cabinet, she was responsible for the formulation of US trade policy and the negotiation of hundreds of complex trade, market access and investment agreements, including China’s historic WTO agreement, and global agreements in financial services, telecommunications, high-tech products and cyberspace. She is the recipient of numerous academic, industry and professional honors, and has been ranked as one of the most influential lawyers in the United States. She serves on the boards of the Estee Lauder Companies and Stagwell Global, and previously on the Boards of Intel Corporation, Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, and the American Express Company. She is a Trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Chair of the National Committee on US China Relations.

Benjamin Hung is the President, International for Standard Chartered. He sits on the Group's Management Team and is the Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited, Standard Chartered Bank (China) Limited and Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Limited.

Ben joined Standard Chartered in 1992 and has held a number of senior management positions spanning corporate, commercial and retail banking.  Prior to the current role, he was CEO, Asia, overseeing the Bank's presence in 21 Asian markets.

He is the Co-Chair of B20's Finance and Infrastructure Taskforce. He serves as an economic advisor at the International Consultative Conference on the Future Economic Development of Guangdong Province, Mainland China. Ben is also a visiting lecturer at the Princeton University.  

In Hong Kong where he is currently based, Ben is the Chairman of the Financial Services Development Council, a member of the Chief Executive's Council of Advisers, Exchange Fund Advisory Committee, General Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority Board.

Ben was previously the chairman of the Hong Kong Association of Banks, a board member of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, the HKSAR's Airport Authority and Hospital Authority, and a Council Member of the University of Hong Kong. 

He holds a Master's degree in Business Administration.

Agnès Bénassy-Quéré is Deputy-Governor at Banque de France, on leave from University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris School of Economics where she is a Professor of economics. Prior to joining the Banque de France, she was Chief economist at the French Treasury (2020-2023). From 2012 until 2017, she chaired the French Council of Economic Aanalysis. Prior positions include Director of CEPII, the French research institute in international economics (2006-2012), and academic positions at the Universities of Paris-Nanterre, Lille and Cergy-Pontoise, as well as at École Polytechnique. She was also a Member of the French macro-prudential authority, the tax advisory council, the productivity council, the Franco-German council of economic experts, and the Banque of France general board. She was in charge of the CEPR European Economic Architecture Research and Policy Network, and was a non-resident fellow at Bruegel. Her research interests focus on the international monetary system and European macroeconomic policy. 

Sarah joined MAP following a distinguished 23-year career in the US Foreign Service, most recently serving as Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Beijing.

She led strategic preparations for multiple heads-of-state summits, negotiated the reopening of senior diplomatic channels with Beijing, and helped forge the first US-China understanding on AI safety in the context of nuclear command and control.

Over the course of her 23-year career in the US Foreign Service, Sarah also served as former US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s Deputy Executive Secretary for the Indo-Pacific, led the office responsible for US engagement in APEC and served as former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s Director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs. She was posted overseas in Beijing, Islamabad, Jerusalem and Quito.

In her role as MAP Partner, Sarah will provide clients with nuanced and informed counsel on the strategic, political and regulatory challenges shaping today’s macro environment. Her experience at the highest levels of government, and her engagement on the frontlines with firms making critical business decisions driven by government policy – uniquely positions her to counsel corporate leaders, investors and foundations navigating evolving US-China relations, supply chain vulnerabilities, and the shifting global regulatory landscape.

Mr. Suman Bery is currently Vice Chairperson, NITI Aayog, in the rank and status of a Cabinet Minister. An experienced policy economist and research administrator, Mr. Bery took over as NITI Aayog Vice Chairperson from 1 May 2022. At the time of his appointment, he was a Global Fellow in the Asia Programme of the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington D.C.; and a non-resident fellow at Bruegel, an economic policy research institution in Brussels. He was also a member of the Board of the Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, New Delhi.

From early 2012 till mid-2016, Mr. Bery was Royal Dutch Shell’s global Chief Economist based in The Hague. In this capacity, he advised the board and management on global economic and political developments. He was also part of the senior leadership of Shell’s global scenarios group. During his time at Shell, he led a collaborative project with Indian think tanks (later published) to apply scenario modeling to India's energy sector.

Before his appointment at Shell, Mr. Bery served as Director-General (Chief Executive) of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) in New Delhi-one of India’s most respected institutions of empirical socioeconomic research. During his tenure, NCAER greatly extended its global links and was recognized as one of India’s leading think tanks by the independent global Think Tank Initiative. In his decade leading NCAER, Mr. Bery was at various times member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council; of India’s Statistical Commission; and of the Reserve Bank of India’s Technical Advisory Committee on Monetary Policy. He commented extensively in the media on economic issues, and contributed a monthly column to an Indian business newspaper.

Prior to NCAER, Mr. Bery was with the World Bank in Washington D.C., which he joined through the Young Professional Programme. His career at the World Bank spanned research on financial sector development and country policy and strategy, notably in Latin America and the Caribbean. His country experience included Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru. His experience on financial sector reform in Latin America led to an appointment as Special Consultant to the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between 1992 and 1994.

His professional writing includes contributions on the political economy of reform, financial sector and banking reform, and energy trends and policy. He has a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and an undergraduate degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Magdalen College, University of Oxford.

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi is currently the President of the Euro50 Group, which comprises eminent European economists, Honorary Professor at University College London’ Policy Lab, non-resident Fellow at Bocconi University’s Institute for European Policymaking and CEPR Distinguished Fellow. He is Honorary President of the Italian Alumni of the University of Chicago.

He is also the Chairman of the Pecci Museum of Contemporary Art in Prato. He is member of the Board of Trusties of Scope, the European rating agency, the Board of Directors of the Bretton Woods Committee and the Advisory Boards of Akbank, Euroclear, SAFE – Goethe University and Oxera.

He was previously Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank. He held several positions as Chairman of the board (Italgas, SNAM and SACE) and member of the Board (Finmeccanica, MTS, the European Investment Bank, Morgan Stanley International and Tages Holding). He was Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the first Chairman of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, a cultural institution in Florence.

He started his career in 1983 as an Economist in the Research Department of the Banca d’Italia. He moved in 1994 to the European Monetary Institute to head the Policy Division, preparing for the creation of the ECB.  In 1998 he was appointed Director General for International Affairs in the Italian Treasury.

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), a Master’s degree from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Chicago.

He is author of several articles and books on international and European monetary and financial issues, in particular "Austerity: European Democracies against the Wall" (CEPS, July 2013), "33 false verità sull'Europa" (Il Mulino, April 2014) and "La tentazione di andarsene: fuori dall’Europa c’è un futuro per l’Italia?" (Il Mulino, May 2017).

Olivier Blanchard, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, is the Robert M. Solow Professor of Economics emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  After obtaining his PhD in economics from MIT in 1977, he taught at Harvard University and returned to MIT in 1982. He was chair of the economics department from 1998 to 2003. From 2008 to 2015, he served as chief economist of the International Monetary Fund where he stayed until 2015. He then joined the Peterson Institute.

Blanchard has worked on a wide set of macroeconomic issues, including the role of monetary and fiscal policy, speculative bubbles, determinants of unemployment, economic transition in former communist countries, and the Global Financial Crisis.

Blanchard is the author of many books and articles, including two textbooks on macroeconomics, one at the graduate level with Stanley Fischer and the other at the undergraduate level. He is a past editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the NBER Macroeconomics Annual and founding editor of American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. He is a former Council member of the Econometric Society, a past president of the American Economic Association, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Klemen Boštjančič was born on 1 September 1972. He graduated in Economics at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics, in 1996.

Before becoming Minister of Finance, he has led his own consulting firm, Brio consulting Centre d.o.o., which is specialised in financial and business restructuring (primarily of companies in difficulties), business model analysis, acquisitions and mergers, licencing and recruitment.

He was involved in several projects carried out by banks and other financial institutions. He has managed numerous restructuring projects, and cooperated with many investors, such as banks, financial funds, natural persons and the state.

He has also performed several managerial and supervisory functions. He was the president of the management board at Sava d.d. (2016-2022), the president of the supervisory board at Sava Turizem d.d. (2017-2022), and a member of the management board at the Slovenian Directors’ Association (2020-2022).

In the past, he was also president of the supervisory boards at Vegrad d.d. (2010) and Intereuropa d.d. (2013-2017), and a member of the supervisory board at Merkur Trgovina d.d. (2014-2017).

He was a procurator at Trimo d.d. and president of the board at Adria Airways d.d. for two years (2011-2012), which managed to successfully complete its financial restructuring during his presidency and began performing a restrictive and very ambitious plan of operational restructuring. He left Adria due to the different views he had from the supervisors regarding the restructuring strategy, as well as the measures and their intensity.

Prior to Adria, he was a member and then president of the management board at Mineral d.d. (2007-2011) where, during the financial crisis which had a very heavy impact on civil engineering, managed the company through a compulsory settlement from the edge of bankruptcy to profitability.

He became Minister of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia on June 1, 2022. As the Minister of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia he holds the positions of: Governor at the World Bank Group, Governor at the Inter-American Development Bank, Governor at the IDB Invest, Governor at the European Investment Bank, Governor at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. He was elected new chair of the EBRD's Board of Governors in 2024.

Dr. Fang CAI is the Chairman of CF40 Academic Committee, and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He is the President of the China Association of Labor Economics (CALE), the Vice President of the World Association for China Studies (WACS), and a member of the World Bank High-Level Advisory Council on Jobs. His research focuses on various aspects of China's economy, including economic reform and development, population and labor economics, economic growth, income distribution, and poverty reduction. He has published extensively on these topics. Among his recent publications are “New Employment Trends in China: How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping the Labor Market” (CITIC Press, 2025), “The Era of Population Decline” (CITIC Press, 2023), “China's Economic Development: Implications for the World” (Taylor & Francis, 2023), and “China's Economic Growth Prospects - From Demographic Dividend to Reform Dividend” (Edward Elgar, 2016).

Bonnie Y Chan was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited on 1 March 2024. 

Ms. Chan brings more than 30 years of global capital markets leadership and expertise. Ms. Chan has held leadership roles in legal and financial services with Asia-Pacific and global responsibilities. Before becoming CEO, Ms. Chan was HKEX’s Co-Chief Operating Officer, where she oversaw the Group’s key operational and strategic functions. Ms. Chan first joined HKEX as Head of IPO Transactions in 2007 from Morgan Stanley, where she spent four years leading the legal function for the investment bank’s Asia capital markets business. She rejoined HKEX in 2020 as Head of Listing, after serving as a partner at international law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell focusing on capital markets between 2010 and 2019. 

In Hong Kong, Ms. Chan served as a member of the Financial Services Development Council between 2015 and 2018, and was a member of its Board of Directors between 2019 to 2020. She was also a member of the Standing Committee of Company Law Reform and the Disciplinary Panel of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. 

Ms. Chan was recognised as one of the World Federation of Exchanges’ Women Leaders between 2021 and 2023. She is a frequent contributor to the World Economic Forum and is a member of the Forum’s Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems Advisory Council. 

Ms. Chan holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Hong Kong and a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School. She is admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong and an attorney at law in New York State. 

Martin Chorzempa, senior fellow since January 2021, joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics as a research fellow in 2017. He gained expertise in financial innovation while in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar and researcher at the Association of German Banks. He conducted research on financial liberalization in Beijing, first as a Luce Scholar at Peking University’s China Center for Economic Research and then at the China Finance 40 Forum, China’s leading independent think tank. In 2017, he graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government with a masters in public administration in international development.

Chorzempa is author of The Cashless Revolution: China's Reinvention of Money (Public Affairs, October 2022). He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, MIT Technology Review, and Foreign Affairs.

Wei DA is the Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University, and a professor in the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua. His research expertise encompasses China-US relations and US security & foreign policy. Wei Da has been working in China’s academic and policy community for nearly 3 decades. He had worked at China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) for more than 20 years and his last position there was the director of the Institute of American Studies from 2013 to 2017. After that, he served as the Assistant President of University of International Relations (UIR) from 2017 to 2020. In addition to his current positions, Wei Da serves as a vice president of the Chinese Association of American Studies and is on the boards of various other academic organizations and associations, including senior advisor of China-US Exchange Foundation. He earned his BA and MA from the University of International Relations and his Ph.D. from CICIR. Wei Da was a senior visiting scholar at the Atlantic Council of the United States (2006-2007), Johns Hopkins University (2007-2009), Stanford University (2024), Nanyang Technological University (2025), and Yale University (2025).

Monica is Head of the Amundi Investment Institute, which was created in February 2022, and a member of Amundi's Executive Committee. Monica's team offers geopolitics expertise, quantitative research, macro and market strategy and asset allocation advisory activities. She leads the creation of engaging and accessible proprietary research that delivers cross-asset thought leadership and investment strategy ideas to internal and external clients.

A distinctive feature of her approach is the close collaboration that she has forged with the investment division to generate actionable investment ideas. She is also director of Amundi Japan, member of Amundi Japan and Amundi SGR Advisory Boards. Monica has led research strategy functions since 2001. Before becoming the head of the Institute, Monica was Global Head of Research, a member of the Global Investment Committee and the Advisory Board at Amundi. She was appointed Deputy Head of Group Research and a member of the Global Investment Committee of Amundi in 2017, and was responsible for defining Amundi’s investment strategy on financial markets.

Prior to that, she was Global Head of Asset Allocation Research and previously Head of Quantitative Research at Pioneer Investments.

Monica started her career in the investment industry in 1997 following a role as University teaching assistant for the Advanced Econometrics department at Bocconi University.

Monica graduated at Bocconi University (DES). She holds a Masters' degree in Economics (Bocconi University) and a Masters' degree in Financial Economics from the London Business School and Bocconi University. She was selected for the UniCredit Young Talents Program and the Management and Banking Academy, obtaining an MBA award at the London Business School.

Benjamin Deng is President of Asia Asset Management at Sun Life and a member of the Asia Executive Team.

He is responsible for leading Sun Life's asset management function across Asia, overseeing the company's investment management strategy and operations to deliver high-performing investment strategies for Clients and support the growth of Sun Life's insurance and asset management businesses in the region.

Prior to Sun Life in January 2025, Benjamin was the Group Chief Investment Officer at Ping An Insurance, where he was responsible for managing group-wide insurance investments with US$740 billion in assets under management. His previous roles include Chief Investment Officer at China Pacific Insurance, Group Head of Investment Solutions and Derivatives at AIA, and Regional Head of Market Risk Management Asia-Pacific (ex-Japan) at AIG.

He was Vice Chairman of the Investment Research Committee and the Asset-Liability Management Committee of the Insurance Asset Management Association of China and has lectured in the Master of Financial Engineering Program at Baruch College of the City University of New York. He is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at the City University of Hong Kong.

Benjamin graduated from Baruch College with an MBA in Finance and MS in Quantitative Method & Modelling, and the University of International Business & Economics with a Bachelor of Economics in International Business. He is a CFA Charter Holder and Financial Risk Manager.

Ekkehard Ernst is Chief of the Macro-economic policies and jobs unit at the International Labour Organization where he signs responsible for flagship reports on global labour market developments such as ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook Trends report. He publishes regularly on the implications of artificial intelligence, demographic change and globalization for the future of work, including in developing countries, as well as on the transition to a sustainable society. His latest publications focus on developing solutions for a Just Transition in a world of labour shortages where he focuses on innovations that help mobilise resources to accelerate the UN Sustainable Development Goals agenda. Ekkehard has international experience at the OECD and the European Central Bank. He is member of various advisory boards, including the European Parliament’s International Advisory Board of the Science and Technology Committee, the UK’s Productivity Insight Network, Pillars, CEPS, The Conference Board, and the Economists Network of the German Ministry of Collaboration and Development. He holds a PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).

Jens Eskelund is President of European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. He holds an MA in philosophy and has studied at University of Aarhus and University of Texas at Austin. He has also pursued studies in Chinese at Renmin University in Beijing. Coming to Beijing as a student in 1998, Jens Eskelund began his career in China as Commercial Officer at the Danish Embassy to China before taking on a position in marketing for Maersk Line in Beijing in 2000. Today, he serves as Chief Representative for Maersk in the Greater China Area and North-East Asia. Jens Eskelund has also served as Chairman of the Liner Shipping Working Group of the EU Chamber of Commerce (EUCCC) in China for a decade and was elected president of the EUCCC in May 2023. EUCCC is a leading business organization in China representing 1700 European companies through nine offices in the country. Jens was re-elected president of the EUCCC in May 2025.

Dr. Xinghai FANG is former Vice Chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). Before joining the CSRC, he was a Bureau Director at the Office of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs. Prior to that, he successively served as Director-General of Shanghai Municipal Financial Services Office, and Assistant President and Vice President of Shanghai Stock Exchange. Earlier in his career, he worked as Director of Group Coordination Office at China Construction Bank and Secretary-General of Management Committee of China Galaxy Securities.

Dr. Fang holds a PhD and Master's degree in Economics from Stanford University and a Bachelor's degree from School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University.

Hanting Fang, Ph.D. in Economics, Grade II Research Professor at the Ministry of Science and Technology, is currently a Research Fellow and Leading Scholar at the National High-End Think Tank of Zhejiang University, an Adjunct Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the University of Science and Technology of China, a recipient of the State Council Special Allowance, an honoree of the Outstanding Course by the Central Organization Department, a National Leading Talent in Journalism, Vice Chairman of the China Association for Urban Development, Vice President of the Beijing Dacheng Enterprise Research Institute, and Executive Editorial Board Member of the China Soft Science Magazine. He previously served as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Science and Technology Daily, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development, Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Fund Supervision Center, and was responsible for financial supervision and evaluation of the National Major Science and Technology Programs and International Science and Technology Cooperation Programs.

His main research areas include innovation economics, science and technology finance, and innovation policy. He is one of the pioneering theorists in the field of science and technology finance in China. His representative achievements include the STFE Innovation-Driven Development Model, the Xirang Capital Theory, and the Root Technology Innovation Paradigm. He has led over 30 national and provincial-level research projects, published 26 monographs, more than 120 academic papers, and over 400 policy recommendations and think tank reports. From 2006 to 2020, he was a key contributor to the strategic research, drafting, and implementation of supporting policies for the National Medium- and Long-Term Science and Technology Development Plan, and served as a strategic advisor for the National Major Science and Technology Programs. He has received more than 10 academic awards.

Marcel Fratzscher is a researcher, author, and columnist on economic and socio-political topics, President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), and Professor of Macroeconomics at Humboldt University Berlin. Among other things, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and the Association of the Euro50 Group.

His work focuses on macroeconomics and financial markets, inequality, and the globalization and integration of Europe. He is a columnist for DIE ZEIT and regularly publishes commentaries in German and international media such as the Financial Times and Project Syndicate.

His latest book “Nach uns die Zukunft” is a forward-looking plea for a new intergenerational contract and was published by berlin-Verlag in August 2025. His book “Geld oder Leben – Wie unser irrationales Verhältnis zum Geld unsere Gesellschaft spaltet”(Money or Life – How Our Irrational Relationship to Money Divides Our Society) dispels long-held myths in our dealings with money—with saving, debt, inflation and interest—and presents an analysis for future financial risks, provision, and wealth creation. His previous books “Die Deutschland Illusion”, “Verteilungskampf – Warum Deutschland immer ungleicher wird”, “The Germany Illusion”, and “Die neue Aufklärung – Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft nach der Corona-Krise” focus on the transformation of the economy and society and Germany’s role in Europe and the world.

Dr. Jacob A. Frenkel is Chairman Emeritus of the Group of Thirty (G-30) and Chairman of the financial firm Plus 500. Previously, he was Chairman of JPMorgan International (2009-2020), Vice Chairman of AIG (2004-9), Chairman of Merrill Lynch International (2000-2004), and two-terms Governor of the Bank of Israel (1991-2000). Previously, he was the Economic Counselor and Director of Research, at the IMF (1987-1991), and Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago (1973-1987). He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the CEPR, a Global Member of the Trilateral Commission, and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (1995-1996), and as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1999-2000). During 2009-19 he served on the corporate boards of Boston Properties Inc., and of Loews Corporation.

Dr. Frenkel is a Laureate of the 2002 Israel Prize in Economics, and is a   recipient of several Honorary Doctoral degrees, decorations and awards from various governments and universities.

Jason Furman is the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy jointly at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Furman engages in public policy through research, writing and teaching in a wide range of areas including U.S. and international macroeconomics, fiscal policy, labor markets and competition policy.

Previously Furman served eight years as a top economic adviser to President Obama, including serving as the 28th Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from August 2013 to January 2017, acting as both President Obama’s chief economist and a member of the cabinet.

In addition to articles in scholarly journals and periodicals, Furman is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal and Project Syndicate and the editor of two books on economic policy.

Furman holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

Ignacio Garcia Bercero was active at the European Commission from 1987 to 2024.

Among his various responsibilities, he participated in the Uruguay Round negotiations and was subsequently posted in the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York. Upon his return to Brussels he worked in the preparation of what eventually became the Doha Development agenda and was head of unit for legal affairs and WTO dispute settlement.

From 2005 until 2011 he was Director responsible for the areas of Sustainable Development, Bilateral Trade Relations (South Asia, South-East Asia, Korea, Russia and ex-CIS countries, EuroMed and the Middle East). He was also the Chief Negotiator for the EU-Korea and EU-India Free Trade Agreements. From 2012 he was responsible for overseeing EU activities in the field of Neighbouring countries, US and Canada and was Chief negotiator for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. He headed the Directorate for Multilateral Affairs and Trade Strategy from 2021 to 2024. Ignacio Garcia Bercero retired from the European Commission in April 2024 and is now senior fellow at Breughel, Brussels as from September 2024.

In 2020 he has completed a Fellowship at Saint Anthony’s College Oxford where his research focused on WTO reform. Since 2021 he is Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science of the University College London and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Ideas, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mr. Garcia Bercero holds a Law Degree from the Law Faculty of Universidad Complutense, Madrid and a Master of Laws Degree (with Distinction) from University College, London. He has written several papers and publications on WTO matters, including WTO reform, Dispute Settlement, Competition Policy and Regulatory Cooperation.

Kai Guo is Executive President and Senior Fellow of CF40 Institute. Before joining CF40 Institute, Dr. Guo was an economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC and then worked at the People’s Bank of China in various capacities, including in the Monetary Policy Department and the International Department. His main research areas include the Chinese economy and its macroeconomic policies as well as international finance. Dr. Guo is the author of three popular Chinese economics books and multiple academic papers in various English and Chinese journals.

Dr. Guo holds a Ph.D. degree in economics from Harvard University.

Michael Hart is President of the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham China), based in Beijing. He has over 25 of business experience in Asia, including more than 20 years in mainland China.

As President, Michael oversees all advocacy, programs, partnerships, and insights provided by the Chamber to support the business growth of around 800 foreign corporations operating in China, including most of the US Fortune 500. The Chamber's advocacy includes the American Business in China White Paper and China Business Climate Survey, each published annually, as well as numerous interactions with both the US and Chinese governments on behalf of our members.

Prior to joining AmCham China, Michael spent most of his career in commercial real estate in Taipei, Shanghai, and Tianjin, including almost 20 years for NYSE-listed property services firm, JLL. He started in the research division briefing real estate owners, occupiers, and investors on transactions and macro trends, before opening, building, and leading a company branch office in Tianjin, one of China's largest cities, for over a decade. Following this, Michael opened a private consulting and investment firm that invested in quick service restaurants, among other projects.

In addition to this work, Michael has been a long-term AmCham China member and served on the Tianjin Chapter's Executive Committee for nearly 15 years, including several terms as Chair.

Michael holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a focus on finance and banking from the University of Missouri-Columbia in the US.

Mr. Dong He is AMRO’s Chief Economist responsible for country and regional surveillance, as well as research on the ASEAN+3 economies.

Prior to AMRO, he served as Deputy Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), shaping its global financial stability agenda.

Mr. He started his career as country economist in 1993 at the World Bank through the Young Professionals Program. He later joined the IMF, covering Article IV consultations, Financial Sector Assessment Programs, and technical assistance missions. Mr. He subsequently took up senior positions at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), serving as HKMA’s Executive Director of Research and Director of the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research from 2009-2014.

Mr. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

Robert Holzmann is an Austrian economist and since October 2025 Vice President of Emerald Horizon, a small reactor start-up. He is the former Governor of the Austrian Central Bank und member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (2019-2025), and elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 2014).He holds honorary positions at the South-Western University in Economics and Finance, Chengdu, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur and University of New South Wales, Sydney.Before his return to academia in 2011, he held various positions at the World Bank including for 12 years Sector Director and acting Senior Vice President. Before joining the World Bank in 1997 he was academic in Austria and Germany, and senior economist at the IMF and OECD. He has published 42 books and over 200 articles on financial, fiscal and social policy issues.  He has travelled to around 100 countries in the world.

Patrick Honohan was Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland and a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank from September 2009 to November 2015.

He is an honorary professor of economics at Trinity College Dublin, a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (Washington, DC) and a trustee and research fellow of CEPR (London and Paris).

Previously he spent twelve years on the staff of the World Bank.

During the 1990s he was a research professor at Ireland’s Economic and Social Research Institute.  In the 1980s he was Economic Advisor to the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Garret FitzGerald.

A graduate of University College Dublin, he received his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1978.  He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2002.

His latest books are Currency, Credit and Crisis: Central Banking in Ireland and Europe; Europe and the Transformation of the Irish Economy (with John FitzGerald) and The Central Bank as Crisis Manager.

Svend E. Hougaard Jensen is a professor of economics at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). He is also director of the Pension Research Centre (PeRCent) at CBS and non-resident fellow at Bruegel. He holds an MSc (Econ) degree from the University of Aarhus, an MA (Econ) degree from the University of Manchester and a PhD (Econ) degree from the London Business School. His research has focused on generational and macroeconomic effects of changing demographics, public and private pensions, fiscal policy in the EU, sustainability and management of public debt, financial stability, and macroeconomic policy in general. He has published widely on these issues in scholarly journals and books. He has served as a member of the Systemic Risk Council in Denmark, and he has been a consultant to the World Bank, the European Commission, and other government agencies. Currently, he is an advisor to the London-based Coller Pensions Institute (CPI) and a member of the Scientific Council of the Dutch Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement (Netspar).

HUANG Yiping is Peking University Boya Distinguished Professor, Dean of the National School of Development, Dean of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development and Director of the Institute of Digital Finance, Peking University. In March 2024, he was reappointed as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China. Currently he is also a guest research fellow of the Councilor’s Office of the People’s Bank of China, a member of the China Finance 40 Forum, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Society of Finance and Banking, Chairman of the Special Committee on Fintech Development and Research of the National Internet Finance Association of China, an Associate Editor of Asian Economic Policy Review.

His key research interests are macro economy, financial policy and digital finance.

Previously, he served as a member of the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee between 2015 and 2018. He was also a policy analyst at the Research Center for Rural Development of the State Council, Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, General Mills International Visiting Professor of Economics and Finance at the Columbia Business School, Managing Director and Chief Asia Economist for Citigroup, Managing Director and Chief Economist for Emerging Asia for Barclays, research fellow of the Financial Research Center of the Councilor’s Office of the State Council, and the editor-in-chief of China Economic Journal.

Prof Huang received his Bachelor of Agricultural Economics from Zhejiang Agricultural University, Master of Economics from Renmin University of China and PhD in Economics from Australian National University.

Zhuo HUANG is Deputy Dean, Professor of Economics and Fashu Endowed Scholar of the National School of Development at Peking University, Deputy Dean of Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development at Peking University, Dean of BiMBA Business School at the National School of Development, Deputy Director of the Institute of Digital Finance at Peking University, and Deputy Dean of the Changsha Institute of Computing and Digital Economy at Peking University. 

Xiaojuan Jiang, a Ph.D. in Economics, has been engaged in research work at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for 15 years, serving in various research and administrative positions. Prior to her transfer, she held the positions of Director, Party Secretary, Researcher, Professor, and Doctoral Supervisor at the Institute of Finance and Trade Economics. Her research achievements have won multiple awards, including the Sun Yefang Economic Science Award four times. She has worked in government institutions for 14 years, serving as Deputy Director of the Research Office of the State Council and Deputy Secretary-General of the State Council. Currently, she is a Professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In recent years, her research has focused on digital economy, macroeconomics, international economics, public administration, and policy issues.

Dr. Zhongxia Jin is the Director General of Treasury and Portfolio Management Department of the New Development Bank. He holds a Ph.D. in economics. He was formerly the Director of Research Institute of the People’s Bank of China, the former Director-General of International Department at the People's Bank of China and the Executive Director for China at the International Monetary Fund.

Dr. Zhongxia Jin is the Director General of Treasury and Portfolio Management Department of the New Development Bank. He holds a Ph.D. in economics. He was formerly the Director of Research Institute of the People's Bank of China, the former Director-General of International Department at the People's Bank of China and the Executive Director for China at the International Monetary Fund.

Michael I. Jordan is the Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

His research interests bridge the computational, statistical, cognitive, biological and social sciences. Prof. Jordan is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was the inaugural winner of the World Laureates Association (WLA) Prize in 2022. He received the Ulf Grenander Prize from the American Mathematical Society in 2021, the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 2020, the IJCAI Research Excellence Award in 2016, the David E. Rumelhart Prize in 2015, and the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award in 2009. He gave the Inaugural IMS Grace Wahba Lecture in 2022, the IMS Neyman Lecture in 2011, and an IMS Medallion Lecture in 2004. He was a Plenary Lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2018.

In 2016, Prof. Jordan was named the “most influential computer scientist” worldwide in an article in Science, based on rankings from the Semantic Scholar search engine.

He received his Masters in Mathematics from Arizona State University, and earned his PhD in Cognitive Science in 1985 from the University of California, San Diego. He was a professor at MIT from 1988 to 1998.

Mr. Kuroda was Governor of the Bank of Japan from March 2013 to April 2023. Prior to his position at the BOJ, Mr. Kuroda served as President of the Asian Development Bank from 2005 to 2013. He was also Special Adviser to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Koizumi, while he was Professor at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo from 2003 to 2005. During his career at Japan's Ministry of Finance from 1967 to 2003, Mr. Kuroda's responsibilities encompassed fields including international finance and tax policies. From 1999 to 2003, he represented the Ministry as Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs at numerous international monetary conferences such as the G7 and G20 meetings. He has assumed professor and senior fellow of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) after retiring from the BOJ and was visiting professor of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University from January to May 2024. He also serves as distinguished professor of the Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University.

Mr. Kuroda holds a Bachelor of Arts in Law from The University of Tokyo, and a Master of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Oxford.

Xiufu Lai holds a Master's degree in Economics and is a Senior Economist. He currently serves as Director General of the Asset and Wealth Management Institution Supervision Department at the National Financial Regulatory Administration(NFRA). Previously, he served as Director General of the Xinjiang Bureau and Hubei Bureau of the former China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), and as Director General of the Trust Department at the former China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC).

Mr. Lai has extensive regulatory experience in the banking and asset management sectors. Over the years, he has led multiple major financial reforms and risk resolution initiatives. His policy focus covers financial regulation and reform, the development of financial rule of law, and financial market  governance.

He is the author of A Comprehensive Theory of Banking Governance and other works, and is widely recognized as a seasoned expert that combines extensive local supervisory experience and strong central policy-making experience.

Howard Lee is responsible for reserves management, financial infrastructure and fintech. He is also an Executive Director of the Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited. He joined the HKMA in 2009 as a Division Head and has worked in various areas including monetary management, financial stability surveillance, corporate services and banking policy. He was appointed as a Deputy Chief Executive on 1 January 2018. Prior to joining the HKMA, Mr. Lee worked in the Hong Kong SAR Government in areas relating to economic development, financial services and other public policies.

Mr. Junjie Li has been serving as the President and Executive Director of Guotai Haitong Securities Co., Ltd., concurrently as the President of Wealth Management Committee, effective April 3, 2025. Previously, he held several key leadership roles at the former Guotai Junan Securities, including President (from January 23, 2024), Vice Chairman and Executive Director (from March 20, 2024), and President of Wealth Management Committee (from May 2023).

Mr. Li's extensive career includes senior positions at China UnionPay Co., Ltd. As the Assistant Chief of the Office; at Shanghai International Group Co., Ltd. as Assistant General Manager of the Administrative Management Headquarters and Deputy General Manager of the Financial Management Headquarters; and at the former Guotai Junan Securities as Deputy Director and later Director of the Board Office, concurrently serving as Securities Affairs Representative. He also served as General Manager, Vice Chairman, and Chairman of Shanghai Securities Co., Ltd., and as Vice President and Human Resources Director of the former Guotai Junan Securities, during which he concurrently held the roles of President of the Investment Banking Division and Chief of the Executive Committee.

Chao Li is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of DEEP Robotics, one of Hangzhou's renowned "Six Little Dragons." He holds a Ph.D. from the College of Control Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University, and is recognized as a Category B High-Level Talent of Hangzhou. He also serves as an Off-Campus Mentor for master's students at Zhejiang University and as an Industry Professor at Tianjin Polytechnic University.

In 2018, Dr. Li received the Youth Award at the inaugural 2050 Conference, and in 2020, he was selected as one of Huawei's first Global Ascend AI Experts. With more than 15 years of experience in robotics technology and product development, Dr. Li has been deeply engaged in research on key technologies in motion planning and control for humanoid robots.

He has served as a core researcher in multiple national and provincial projects, including the National 863 Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China project, as well as various provincial and enterprise initiatives. To date, he has published over 20 SCI/EI papers and holds more than 20 invention patents, 10 utility model patents, and 5 design patents.

Mr. Ning LIU is Director General Level Officer at Department of Nature Ecology Conservation of Ministry of Ecology, and Environment of China responsible for biodiversity policy and CBD conventions; Negotiator for CBD COP15 and Deputy Representative of the COP15 President; Former Deputy Permanent Representative of China to United Nations Environment Programme（UNEP）in Kenya (2014-2018); Former Director of Division of European Affairs, Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Environmental Protection China (2003-2013). Former Core Staff seconded by Chinese Government to the Asia-Europe Environmental Technology Center (AEETC) in Thailand (1999-2002); Former Consultant, National Institute for Coastal and Marine Reserach in the Netherlands. In 1995, he became a Visiting scholer, Air Quality Laborary, Gorgia Institute of Techgnology in USA; Engineer & Senior Engineer, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences in China (1986-1998).

Shijin Liu is the Vice Chairman of the Committee on Economic affairs of the 13th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), former Vice President of the Development Research Centre of the State Council (DRC), Chief Advisor of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), and is concurrently a research fellow and doctoral supervisor. He has long been committed to research on economy theory and policy issues, mainly in the fields of macroeconomics, industrial development, and economic system reform. He has published more than 200 academic papers and other articles in important journals at home and abroad, and authored, co-authored and edited more than 20 academic works. He is the direct leader and principal author of a series of research results that have had a wide influence in recent years, including “China 2030: Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative High-Income Society” and “Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Urbanization” which are co-authored with The World Bank, “Traps and High Walls: The Real Challenges and Choices Facing the Chinese Economy” which proposes that China’s economic growth rate will slow down and enter the growth stage transition, and “Formation of a New Growth Model in the Reform” which is an early work that introduced important views on the new normal of China’s economy. He participated in the drafting of the Third and Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and the report of the 19th CPC National Congress. He is a member of the Expert Committee for China’s 15th Five-Year Plan, a member of the Expert Committee for Climate Change, a member of the Chinese Economy 50 Forum, and was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China. He has received several nationally influential academic awards, including the Sun Yefang Economic Science Award, the highest award in the field of economics research, and the Special Prize for China Development Research.

Yuanchun LIU is President, Professor of Economics, and PhD Supervisor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE).

He also serves as Vice President of the China Society of Macroeconomic, Researcher of the Institute of Finance of Counsellors’ Office of the State Council, Member of Chinese Economists 50 Forum (CE50) and China Finance 40 Forum (CF40). His research interests include open economy macroeconomics, monetary policy and inflation, and China’s economic growth. He has published nearly 300 academic papers in leading Chinese journals such as Social Sciences in China, Economic Research Journal, Journal of Management World, People's Daily, Qiushi, and authored over 20 books. Professor Liu has attended a series of socio-economic expert forums and economist forums hosted by the Chairman and the Premier of China.

Mr. Xiaochun Liu joined Shanghai Finance Institute as Vice President in January 2019. Mr. Liu received a bachelor’s degree from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

Mr. Liu spent more than 30 years at the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), and served as Deputy General Manager of the International Business Department, Vice President of ABC Zhejiang Branch and President of ABC Hong Kong Branch. From July 2014 to April 2018, he was Vice Chairman and President of China Zheshang Bank (CZB).

Bin liu, PhD in Management, member of the CPC State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) Leadership Group, and Deputy Administrator of the SAFE.

Mary E. Lovely is the Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute. She served as the 2022 Carnegie Chair in US-China Relations with the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Lovely is professor emeritus of economics at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, where she was Melvin A. Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar from 2010 to April 2022. She was coeditor of the China Economic Review during 2011-2015.

Her current research projects investigate the effect of China's foreign direct investment policies on trade flows and entry mode, strategic reform of US tariffs on China, and recent movements in global supply chains. Lovely earned her PhD in economics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a master's degree in city and regional planning from Harvard University.

Cewu LU, CEO of Noematrix Intelligence and cofounder of Flexiv, is a Professor and Vice Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has been recognized as a Chang Jiang Scholar, a recipient of the Young Talent Program of the Overseas High-Level Talent Introduction Plan, and has been awarded the Science Exploration Prize. Additionally, he has received the Wu Wenjun Natural Science First Prize and Best Paper Awards at top international robotics conferences, including IROS and ICRA.

Jean Lu is the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice Chairperson of Standard Chartered Bank (China) Limited.  In her role, she is responsible for shaping and executing the Bank's strategic vision in China, overseeing business development, and managing daily operations.

Since joining Standard Chartered in 2014, Jean has held pivotal roles, including Head of Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) and Deputy CEO of Standard Chartered China. With 30 years of experience in the banking industry, she has been instrumental in driving the growth of the Bank's CIB business. Under her leadership, CIB China has made significant strides in areas such as the opening of China’s financial markets, green and sustainable finance, trade corridors, and RMB internationalization. CIB China has consistently been the largest contributor to network income within the Group, securing a leading market position among international banks in China. Before joining Standard Chartered, Jean held senior management roles at both major Chinese and international banks, bringing a wealth of banking and leadership experience.

Jean is a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion. She has served as Co-Chair of the Group CIB Diversity and Inclusion Council, where she leverages her professional expertise to mentor and advise university entrepreneurship programs and support the career development of female employees.

In recognition of her contributions to the development of Shanghai as a financial hub, Jean was honored with the "2022 Shanghai Financial Leader" award.

Xin MA currently serves as vice president of the CPIC Group, chairman of CPIC Health, and director of CPIC Life. Mr. MA is in charge of building an ecosystem of health service & elderly care, which is one of the key strategies of CPIC.

Gene is the Chief Representative for APAC and the Head of China Research at IIF. His work is to help global financial institutions and policymakers better understand China’s economy and financial market. He also manages IIF’s offices in Singapore and Beijing. Prior to joining IIF, Gene was the China Strategist at Tudor Investment. He also served as an MD at ISI Group (now Evercore ISI), chief macro analyst at Citic Securities. He was elected to the Bretton Woods Committee, a group of financial professionals dedicated to the research of today's most important economic and financial issues. Gene graduated from Peking Univ. and Cornell Univ.

Mr. Jianyang Ma holds a PhD in economics and is an associate researcher. Before becoming the Chairman of Shanghai Clearing House since January 2024, he worked in People's Bank of China starting from July 2004, and has served as the Deputy Director and Director of the Financial Market Department. In January 2017, Mr. Ma was appointed as the Deputy Head of the Financial Market Department. In August 2022, he started to oversee the work of the Financial Market Department.

Mr. Ma presided over the formulation of financial market reform, opening up and development plans, organized the implementation of macro credit guidance policies, promoted the healthy development of Internet finance, local financing platforms, and the real estate market, continued to improve the quality and efficiency of financial services for the real economy, comprehensively strengthened financial market supervision and deepened reforms, supported high-quality development and high-level opening of the financial market. Mr. Ma has published over ten academic papers in journals such as Financial Research, China Finance, and Financial Times, demonstrating his profound theoretical foundation and rich experience in market construction.

Michala Marcussen started her career in 1986 as a part-time statistical assistant at Danske Bank and joined European Commission as an administrative trainee in 1991. She rejoined Danske Bank in November 1991 as a Fixed Income Analyst and then in Fixed Income Sales.

Michala Marcussen assumed the role of Société Générale’s Group Chief Economist in September 2017 and leads a team of over 30 economists and sector engineer’s in her role as Head of Economic and Sector Research in the Risk Division. She is a member of Société Générale’s Group Management Committee and has been with the Group since 1994.

With over 30 years of experience in the financial industry, she is a frequent commentator in the economic debate. Michala Marcussen holds a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Copenhagen and is a CFA charterholder. Michala Marcussen is also Vice President of the SUERF (European Money and Finance Forum) Council of Management.

Timothy Massad is a Research Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the Director of the Center’s Digital Assets Policy Project. He is also a nonresident scholar at the Brookings Institution and a consultant on financial regulatory and fintech issues. Mr. Massad’s articles and podcasts on crypto and financial regulation can be found at Brookings as well as the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Bloomberg and other outlets.

Mr. Massad served as Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2014-2017. Under his leadership, the agency implemented the Dodd Frank reforms of the over-the-counter swaps market, harmonized many aspects of cross-border regulation and was the first U.S. regulator to take action with respect to cryptocurrencies.

Previously, Mr. Massad served as the Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that capacity, he oversaw the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the principal U.S. governmental response to the 2008 financial crisis. During his tenure, Treasury recovered more on all the crisis investments than was disbursed. Mr. Massad was with the Treasury from 2009 to 2014 and also served as a counselor to the Treasury Secretary.

Prior to his government service, Mr. Massad was a partner in the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP. His practice included corporate finance, derivatives and advising boards of directors. He managed the firm’s Hong Kong office from 1998 to 2002 and represented governments and corporations on transactions in China and throughout Asia.

Mr. Massad received a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Harvard College. 

Hui Meng, Ph.D. in Economics, is currently Director of the Financial Stability Bureau of the People's Bank of China. He graduated from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and joined the People's Bank of China in 2005. With long-term engagement in theoretical research and practical work on financial stability, he has participated in numerous major financial reforms and risk disposal tasks, and published papers in various core journals at the national and provincial ministerial levels. He has also participated in compiling several professional books in the financial field.

Dr. Yanliang Miao joined CICC in March 2023 as Chief Strategist and Executive Head of Research Department. He has long been at the forefront of policy and market developments, possessing deep research and practical experience in macroeconomics, financial markets, and central banking. He also leads the largest aggregate research team in the entire market.

Before that he has served for 10 years at China State Administration of Foreign Exchange, including as its Chief Economist since May 2018. He joined in 2013 as Senior Advisor to the Administrator and then Head of Research. He helped formulate global macro views and built a top-notch research platform for the world’s largest sovereign wealth manager. As Chief Economist, he also advises the senior management of PBC/SAFE on a range of economic and policy issues. Before SAFE, he was an economist with the IMF where he worked on emerging markets and then the euro area crisis including as policy coordinator for the Portugal program. Before the IMF, he was visiting the Bank of Israel in 2007 as special assistant to the Governor and taught economics at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University.

Mr. Miao is an adjunct professor of Peking University’s National School of Development, a member of China Finance 40 Forum, a trustee of Shanghai University and an external member of the Academic Committee of China Development Bank. He publishes extensively on global macro and occasionally as a columnist for Project Syndicate. He holds a Ph.D., an M.A., an M.P.A., all from Princeton University, and an M.A. in economics from Fudan University.

Mr. Takehiko Nakao is currently Chairman, Center for International Economy and Strategy. He is also an executive board member (external) of the Daiichi Life Insurance, Ltd.

Concurrently, he teaches as Visiting Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) and Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo.

He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, Board of Governors of Asian Institute of Management (Manila), the Japan Corporate Governance Network, and several other international and Japanese non-profit organizations.

Before assuming the current job on August 1, 2024, he was Chairman of the Institute at Mizuho Research & Technologies, Ltd. From April 2013 to January 2020, Mr. Nakao served as President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which is based in Manila with membership of 69 countries including 46 regional developing countries.

Mr. Nakao was the Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs between 2011 and 2013, and in charge of foreign exchange markets, G20 and G7 processes, ASEAN+3 financial cooperation, and bilateral financial relations with the US, Asian, and others.

Mr. Nakao has gained extensive experience in international finance, budget, tax policy, and financial market since he joined the Ministry of Finance in 1978. He was assigned as Minister at the Embassy of Japan in Washington D.C. between 2005 and 2007, and worked as advisor at IMF's Policy Development and Review Department between 1994 and 1997.

His memoir “The Rise of Asia: Perspectives and Beyond” covering his ADB days as well as those of Vice Minister was published by ADB in July 2022 (available on ADB HP). He also took an initiative and was a lead editor for “Asia’s Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology over 50 Years”, published by ADB in January 2020 (available on ADB HP).

Mr. Nakao holds a BA degree in Economics from the University of Tokyo (1978) and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California-Berkeley (1982).

Mr. Ning was appointed as Chairman of the Board and Secretary of the Leading Party Group at Sinochem Holdings Corporation Ltd. in April 2021.

Previously, Mr. Ning served as Vice Chairman and General Manager at China Resources Enterprise Limited, concurrently as Chairman at China Resources Enterprise, Limited, China Resources Snow Breweries Co., Ltd., China Resources Land Limited and China Resources Power Holdings Limited, China Resources Vanguard Limited, and sat on the Boards of Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited, SAB Miller Corporation and Hongkong International Terminals Limited.

In December 2004, Mr. Ning was appointed as Chairman and Party Secretary at COFCO Corporation, and he concurrently worked as Chairman at China Foods Limited, COFCO Property (Group) Co., Ltd., Noble Agri, Nidera Company and China Mengniu Dairy Company Limited.

In December 2015, Mr. Ning was appointed as Chairman and Secretary of the Leading Party Group of Sinochem Group Co., Ltd., and he concurrently worked as Chairman at China National Chemical Corporation Ltd., Syngenta Group Co., Ltd., Syngenta AG, Pirelli & C. S.p.A., Sinochem Corporation, Far East Horizon Limited, China Jinmao Holding Group Ltd., Luxi Group Co., Ltd. and Sinochem Hong Kong (Group) Co., Ltd., and sat on the Board of Adama Agricultural Solutions Ltd.

In addition, Mr. Ning is Former Standing Committee Member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Sustainability Working Group Chair of APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), and Chair of APEC China Business Council.

Mr. Ning had been named China Economic Person of the Year by CCTV three times, China’s Annual Top 25 Most Influential Business Leader Awards by China Entrepreneur for ten consecutive years, China's Most Influential Business Leaders by Fortune, Asia Business Leader Awards by CNBC, and Asian Corporate Director by Corporate Governance Asia, and CEO Lifetime Achievement Awards by Fortune.

Mr. Ning earned his MBA degree from the Business School of the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. He is a Certified Senior International Business Executive.

Jiahua PAN, Professor of Economics and Director of Eco-civilization Studies, Beijing University of Technology. Vice Chair, National Expert Panel on Climate Change in China, IGS (Independent Group of Scientists, appointed by UN Secretory-General for drafting GSDR2023) member, and lead author, IPCC Working Group III on Mitigation. Former director-general, Institute of Eco-civilization Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Science, member of Foreign Policy Advisory Group, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Senior Economist, IPCC Working Group III, Senior Programme Officer, UNDP Beijing Office. Areas of research include sustainable urbanization, energy and climate policy, and new ecological economics. Prize winners of Sun Yefang Prize of Economic Sciences(2011), China Green Person of the Year 2010/2011. China Environment Prize (2016).    

George Papaconstantinou is a former Greek Finance Minister and currently Professor of International Political Economy at the European University Institute. He holds a Ph.D from the London School of Economics and has worked for 10 years as a senior economist at the OECD. After being elected to the Greek Parliament and the European Parliament, in 2009 he was appointed Finance Minister and from that position played a key role in the Greek crisis, negotiating the first Greek bailout. Subsequently, as Minister of Environment and Energy, he pursued policies to advance Greece’s sustainable growth agenda. His book Game Over: The Inside Story of the Greek Crisis, has been published in Greek, English and German. His book Whatever It Takes – The Battle for Post-Crisis Europe debates the lessons from the Eurozone crisis. His recently published book New World New Rules – Global Cooperation in a World of Geopolitical Rivalries (with Jean Pisani Ferry) examines governance in key policy areas in the context of current challenges. His research focuses on the economics and politics of crises, the political economy of European integration and the transformation of global governance.

Lucio Pench is a Non-resident Fellow at Bruegel. He was director for macroeconomic policies in the European Commission from 2011 to 2023. In particular, he was responsible for the elaboration of the Commission position on the design of the framework for the EU surveillance of budgetary policies, including in relation to national frameworks and the long-term sustainability of public finances, and the monitoring of macro-fiscal issues, including in relation to monetary policy. Having joined in 1989, prior to his appointment as director Mr. Pench held a number of positions in the Commission, mainly in the field of macroeconomic policies, including a stint in the group of the President’s policy advisors.

His research interests focus on issues of economic governance, particularly in the context of European integration, from a macroeconomic and institutional perspective. Mr. Pench holds degrees from the University of Pisa and the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa as well as a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Jean Pisani-Ferry is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel, the European think tank, and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute (Washington DC). He teaches at Sciences Po (Paris). He serves as non-executive chair of I4CE, the French institute for climate economics. He is a Distinguished Fellow of CEPR. 

Pisani-Ferry served from 2013 to 2016 as Commissioner-General of France Stratégie, the ideas lab of the French government. In 2017, he contributed to Emmanuel Macron’s presidential bid as Director of programme and ideas of his campaign. He was from 2005 to 2013 the Founding Director of Bruegel. Beforehand, he was Executive President of the French PM’s Council of Economic Analysis (2001-2002), Senior Economic Adviser to the French Minister of Finance (1997-2000), and Director of CEPII, the French institute for international economics (1992-1997).

His publications include numerous books and articles on economic policy, European policy issues and international topics. He has also been an active contributor to public debates with regular columns in Le Monde and for Project Syndicate. His latest books are The Green Frontier, Peterson Institute 2024 (co-edited with Adam Posen) and New World, New Rules (with George Papaconstantinou, Agenda Publishing and Columbia University Press, 2024.

Adam POSEN has been president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics since January 2013, after joining in July 1997. Over his career, he has contributed to research and public policy regarding monetary and fiscal policies in the G-20, the challenges of European integration since the adoption of the euro, China-US economic relations, and developing new approaches to financial recovery and stability. In September 2009, Posen was appointed by the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer to serve a three-year term as an external voting member of the Bank of England's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).

He received his PhD and BA from Harvard University, and now serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Trilateral Commission. Posen has been the recipient of major grants and research fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin, the Bank of England, the Brookings Institution, the European Commission, the Ford Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the US National Science Foundation.

Mr. Bin Qian is Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Bank of Communications (BOCOM). He has extensive experience in Fintech, digital transformation of the retail sector, and Internet finance. He lead BOCOM’S implementation of the 14th Five-Year Plan for Fintech development, promoted digitalization in BOCOM and reform of technology governance. He headed a number of major projects such as enterprise architecture modeling, mid-end system construction and integrated transformation of service branches. He is a recipient of special allowance of China’s State Council.

Professor QIAN graduated from Tsinghua University in Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University after earning an M.Phil. in Management Science/Operations Research from Yale University and an M.A. in Statistics from Columbia University.

He was on the economics faculties at Stanford University, the University of Maryland, and the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Dean of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in 2006-2018.

Professor QIAN was elected as Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2012 and as inaugural Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsinghua University in 2018. He was a recipient of the Sun Yefang Prize in Economic Sciences in 2009 and 2021 and the inaugural China Economics Prize in 2016. His main research areas include comparative economics, institutional economics, economics of transition, the Chinese economy, and the education in China.

He is the author of the book How Reform Worked in China: The Transition from Plan to Market (The MIT Press, 2017) and has published articles in international journals such as The American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Review of Economic Studies.

Raghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth. He was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between September 2013 and September 2016. Between 2003 and 2006, Dr. Rajan was the Chief Economist and Director of Research at the International Monetary Fund.

Dr. Rajan’s research interests are in banking, corporate finance, and economic development. The books he has written include The Third Pillar: How the State and Markets hold the Community Behind 2019 which was a finalist for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year prize and Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, for which he was awarded the Financial Times prize for Business Book of the Year in 2010.

Dr. Rajan is Chair of the Group of Thirty. He was the President of the American Finance Association in 2011 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In January 2003, the American Finance Association awarded Dr. Rajan the inaugural Fischer Black Prize for the best finance researcher under the age of 40. The other awards he has received include the Infosys prize for the Economic Sciences in 2012, the Deutsche Bank Prize for Financial Economics in 2013, Euromoney Central Banker Governor of the Year 2014, and Banker Magazine (FT Group) Central Bank Governor of the Year 2016.

Mr. Monale Ratsoma is appointed as Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of the New Development Bank in July 2024. In this role he is responsible for the treasury, portfolio management, finance, and accounting functions of the Bank.

From 2018-2024, Mr. Ratsoma served as Director-General of NDB’s Africa Regional Centre (ARC), overseeing ARC’s operations, including project origination, preparation and implementation efforts for the NDB’s African regional portfolio.

Before assuming his role as DG ARC, Mr. Ratsoma served in various capacities within the South African National Treasury. These roles include Head of Economic Policy, Acting Head of International and Regional Economic Policy and Chief Director: Debt Issuance and Liability Management. In these roles he was responsible for shaping economic policies for the South African economy and matters related to international economic cooperation and regional economic policy. He managed South African government’s issuance of debt instruments in both domestic and international capital markets.

Prior to his Public sector experience, Mr. Ratsoma worked in the private and corporate sector, as Chief economist and Acting CEO at Thebe Stockbroking. He was a Macro Strategist at Absa Capital. He also worked in the capital markets divisions at Standard Bank and Calyon Corporate and Investment Bank.

Hélène Rey, O.B.E., F.B.A.  is Lord Raj Bagri Professor of Economics at London Business School.  Formerly, she was Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. Her research focuses on external imbalances, monetary policy and the financial sector and the international monetary system. She introduced the idea of a global financial cycle and qualified the idea of the Mundellian Trilemma. She received numerous prizes including a Sloan Fellowship, the Bernácer Prize, the Yrjö Jahnsson Award and the inaugural Birgit Grödal and Carl Menger Awards. She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association. She is a correspondante of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. She is an editor of the Annual Review of Economics and a vice president of CEPR. She is a member of the Bellagio Group, of the Group of Thirty and of the external advisory group to the managing director of the IMF. She was a member of the Haut Conseil de Stabilité Financière French Macroprudential Authority between 2014 and 2024. She has been elected the 2025 President of the European Economic Association.

Stephen Roach has been a member of the Yale faculty since 2010.  After thirteen years as the first senior fellow of Yale’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, he joined Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center in 2022. He was formerly Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm’s Chief Economist for the bulk of his 30-year career at Morgan Stanley.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1982, Stephen Roach served on the research staff of the Federal Reserve Board and was also a research fellow at the Brookings Institution. Mr. Roach is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Investment Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Economics Advisory Board of the University of Wisconsin, and the Advisory Board of NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Roach’s current research program focuses on the conflict-prone US-China relationship. His latest book, Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives (Yale University Press, 2022) examines the ominous trajectory of conflict escalation between the United States and China and a provides a unique roadmap for conflict resolution.  His 2014 book, Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China explored the risks and opportunities of the world’s most important economic relationship of the 21st century.

He holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University.

Robert E. RUBIN served as the 70th Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. He began his career in finance at Goldman, Sachs & Company and served as vice chairman and co-chief operating officer. Rubin joined the Clinton Administration in 1993 as the first director of the White House National Economic Council. He served as a member of the board of directors at Citigroup and as a senior advisor to the company. In 2010, he joined Centerview Partners as senior counselor. In June 2017, he concluded his 10-year term as Co-Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and now serves as Co-Chairman Emeritus; is Vice Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of the Mount Sinai Health System; and is Chairman of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation. From 2002 to 2014, he was a member of the Harvard Corporation, and from 2016 to 2022, he served as a member of its Finance Committee. He is one of the founders of The Hamilton Project, an economic policy project housed at the Brookings Institution. Rubin is the author of The Yellow Pad: Making Better Decisions in an Uncertain World (2023) and In An Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington (2003), which was a New York Times bestseller as well as being named one of Business Week’s ten best business books of the year.

He graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude and received an LL.B from Yale Law School. He has received honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and other universities.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he directed the Earth Institute from 2002 until 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Co-Chair of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican, and Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor at Sunway University. He has been Special Advisor to three United Nations Secretaries-General, and currently serves as an SDG Advocate under Secretary General António Guterres. He spent over twenty years as a professor at Harvard University, where he received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. Sachs has received 42 honorary doctorates, and his recent awards include the 2022 Tang Prize in Sustainable Development, the Legion of Honor by decree of the President of the Republic of France, and the Order of the Cross from the President of Estonia. His most recent books are The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020) and Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development (2022).

Alfred Schipke is Professor of the Practice of International Finance at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and the Director of the East Asian Institute (EAI) at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on macroeconomic and financial sector issues, with a special emphasis on China and India. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the National School of Development, Peking University, and regularly teaches international finance at the Harvard Kennedy School. Professor Schipke has authored and co-edited several books and articles, including Africa-China Economic Partnership, India’s Financial System: Building the Foundation for Strong and Sustainable Growth, The Future of China’s Bond Market, and Modernizing China: Investing in Soft Infrastructure. Before his current appointments, he was the Director of the IMF–Singapore Regional Training Institute and held various senior positions at the IMF, where he provided strategic policy advice and led missions in Asia and the Pacific. His experience also includes negotiating IMF programs in Latin America.

Jeffrey J. Schott joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in 1983 and is a senior fellow working on international trade policy and economic sanctions. During his tenure at the Institute, Schott was also a visiting lecturer at Princeton University (1994) and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University (1986–88). He was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1982–83) and an official of the US Treasury Department (1974–82) in international trade and energy policy. During the Tokyo Round of multilateral trade negotiations, he was a member of the US delegation that negotiated the GATT Subsidies Code. He previously was a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and cochaired the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee for the US Trade Representative.

Schott is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books on trade, including Trans-Pacific Partnership: An Assessment (2016), Local Content Requirements: A Global Problem (2013), Understanding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (2012), NAFTA and Climate Change (2011), Figuring Out the Doha Round (2010), Reengaging Egypt: Options for US-Egypt Economic Relations (2010), Economic Sanctions Reconsidered, 3rd edition (2009), Trade Relations Between Colombia and the United States (2006), NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges (2005), Free Trade Agreements: US Strategies and Priorities (2004), Prospects for Free Trade in the Americas (2001), Free Trade between Korea and the United States? (2001), NAFTA and the Environment: Seven Years Later (2000), The WTO After Seattle (2000), Restarting Fast Track (1998), The World Trading System: Challenges Ahead (December 1996), The Uruguay Round: An Assessment (1994), Western Hemisphere Economic Integration (1994), NAFTA: An Assessment (1993), North American Free Trade: Issues and Recommendations (1992), Economic Sanctions Reconsidered: History and Current Policy (second edition, 1990), Completing the Uruguay Round (1990), Free Trade Areas and U.S. Trade Policy (1989), and The Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement: The Global Impact (1988), as well as numerous articles on US trade policy and economic sanctions.

Schott holds a BA degree magna cum laude from Washington University, St. Louis (1971), and an MA degree with distinction in international relations from the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University (1973).

Prof. Moritz Schularick is president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy since June 2023 and Professor of Economics at Sciences Po (Paris). His research includes financial markets and asset prices, issues in monetary macroeconomics, and the causes of financial crises and economic inequality.

Prior to his appointment in Kiel, Moritz Schularick was Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Bonn, Director of the MacroFinance Lab there. He is also a Fellow of the DFG-Excellence Cluster ECONtribute and a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Academia Europea. Previously, he conducted research at New York University, the University of Cambridge, Freie Universität Berlin, and in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, among others.

He is a recipient of the 2022 Leibniz Prize, Germany's most prestigious research prize, awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 2018, he received the Gossen Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik, the most prestigious award given to German economists. He is editor of the most important European journal for economic policy, "Economic Policy."

He regularly advises central banks, ministries of finance, investors, and international organizations.

As the BIS Economic Adviser, Hyun Song Shin leads the economics work at the BIS and is Head of its Monetary and Economic Department.

Mr. Shin has a background in academia. Before coming to the BIS in May 2014, he was the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University, having previously held appointments at Oxford University and the London School of Economics. He has been an intellectual leader in the fields of banking, international finance and monetary economics, topics on which he has published widely, both in leading academic and official publications.

One area of recent focus has been in developing the BIS's work agenda on digital innovation and the financial system, laying out the implications for users, financial intermediaries and the central bank. Mr. Shin was part of the BIS management team that developed the BIS Innovation Hub, and served as its Interim Head at its launch in 2019.

Mr. Shin is a Korean national. In 2010, while on leave from Princeton University, he served as Senior Adviser to the Korean president, taking a leading role in formulating financial stability policy in Korea and developing the agenda for the G20 during Korea's presidency.

Mrs. Laura May-Lung Cha is Chairman of HKEX’s International Advisory Council. She served as Chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd from April 2018 to April 2024.

Mrs. Cha currently serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Ant Group Co. Ltd. and is a member of the Hong Kong-United States Business Council. She is a director of the board of the Bretton Woods Committee, a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, and a member of Sotheby’s International Advisory Board. In addition, she is Vice Chairman of the International Advisory Council of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, a member of the Global Leadership Council of Oxford University's Said Business School, a director of the Yale Asia Development Council, and an advisory council member of the Yale Beijing Centre.

Mrs. Cha became the first, and to-date, the only person outside Mainland China to join the Central Government of the People’s Republic of China at the vice-ministerial rank when she was appointed as Vice Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (“CSRC”) in January 2001. She served in that position until 2004. Prior to that, Mrs. Cha practiced law in the US and in Hong Kong. She worked her way through the ranks at the Securities and Futures Commission (“SFC”) in Hong Kong from 1991 to 2000, becoming its Deputy Chairman in 1998.

Mrs. Cha has been active in public service in Hong Kong over the last 30 years, having been the longest-serving member of the Executive Council of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) from 2004 to 2022. She was Chairman of the Financial Services Development Council from 2013 to 2018, and Chairman of the University Grants Committee from 2007 to 2012. Mrs. Cha has also served as director on the boards of HSBC Holdings plc, Unilever plc, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Johnson Electrics Ltd., and China Telecom Ltd., and as an international advisor to Foundation Assets Management AB in Sweden.

Mrs. Cha received her BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her JD from Santa Clara University in the US. She was awarded a Silver Bauhinia Star in 2001, a Gold Bauhinia Star in 2009 and a Grand Bauhinia Medal in 2017 by the Hong Kong Government in recognition of her public service.

Masaaki Shirakawa was previously Governor of the Bank of Japan. He was appointed as Governor in April 2008, and left the Bank in March 2013. He was also Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements—an organization often described as the central bank of central banks—between January 2011 and March 2013. Currently, he is Distinguished Guest professor of Aoyama-Gakuin University (Tokyo) and a member of the Group of Thirty—a private, non-profit, international body composed of senior policymakers from central banks, supervisory agencies, the financial sector, and academia.

Masaaki Shirakawa joined the Bank of Japan (Tokyo) in 1972. At the Bank, he held various key positions, including the Bank's Chief Representative in the Americas and Executive Director in charge of monetary policy. Other professional experiences include professorship at the Kyoto University School of Government from July 2006 to March 2008.

Michael Spence is the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an Adjunct Professor at Bocconi University in Milan, and an Honorary Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford University. In 2001, he received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in the field of information economics. 

He is a Senior Advisor to Jasper Ridge Partners and a Senior Advisor to General Atlantic Partners. He chairs  the Advisory Council of the Asia Global Institute, and was the Chairman of The Independent Commission on Growth and Development (2006-2010). He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Luohan Academy in Hangzhou. He served as Dean of the Stanford Business School from 1990 to 1999 and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University from 1984 to 1990.

He was awarded the John Kenneth Galbraith Prize for excellence in teaching and the John Bates Clark Medal for a "significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge."

Krishna Srinivasan is the Director of the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department (APD). In this capacity, he oversees the institution’s work on all countries in the Asia-Pacific region. He was previously a Deputy Director in the Western Hemisphere Department (WHD), where he supervised the institution’s work on several countries in the Americas, including Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador and the island economies of the Caribbean, the department’s research activities, and its flagship product, Regional Economic Outlook (REO) for Latin America and the Caribbean. He also co-edited several books, including Brazil—Boom, Bust and the Road to Recovery; Unleashing Growth and Strengthening Resilience in the Caribbean; and Challenges for Central Banking: Perspectives from Latin America. Prior to joining WHD, Krishna was in the European Department, where he served as the IMF’s mission chief for the United Kingdom and Israel, and before that in the Research Department, where he led the IMF’s work on the G-20 in the context of the global financial crisis. In the context of the work on the G20, he edited a book titled Global Rebalancing: A Roadmap for Economic Recovery. Krishna has been with the IMF since 1994 and has served in several departments across the institution.

He secured his PhD in International Finance from Indiana University and a post-graduate degree from the Delhi School of Economics, India, and has published several papers both at the IMF and in leading academic journals.

Sean Stein is the president of the US-China Business Council. He most recently served as the board chair of the American Chamber of Commerce in China and is the chair emeritus of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. He also co-chaired the China Public Policy Practice at Covington and Burling where he advised international businesses on political risk, public affairs, communications, and US and China government relations. He regularly assisted companies to resolve acute or long-term issues in China and to navigate challenges caused by conflicting policies and perceptions.

Sean previously served for nearly three decades as a US diplomat, including as Consul General in Shenyang and Shanghai. He also served on the China desk at the State Department, at the former consulate general in Chengdu, and in other positions around the Indo-Pacific. Sean speaks Mandarin and Indonesian and is a graduate of Georgetown University.

Dr. Mingchun SUN is a member of China Finance 40 Forum, a Vice Chairman of the Chinese Financial Association of Hong Kong and the Chairman of the latter’s Green & Sustainable Finance Committee.

He also serves as an adjunct professor at Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), a senior economic advisor at Tencent Group, and a member of the Sustainable Development Committee of Silk Road Fund.

Previously, Dr. Sun served as chief China/Asia economist at global investment banks such as Lehman Brothers, Nomura, Daiwa, and Haitong International. He also worked as an economist at China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange in the 1990s.

Dr. Sun obtained his doctorate degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and his bachelor’s degree in international economics from Fudan University.

Jean-Claude Trichet was elected chairman of the French “Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques” (2023). He is honorary chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bruegel Institute (Brussels), honorary chairman of the Group of Thirty (Washington) and former European chairman of the Trilateral Commission.

Jean-Claude Trichet was President of the European Central Bank (2003-2011). He was  Governor  of  Banque  de  France  (1993-2003)  and  Undersecretary  of  the  French Treasury (1987-  1993).  He was President of the Paris Club  (debt rescheduling) (1985- 1993),  President  of the  European  Monetary  Committee  (1992-1993),  President  of the Group of 10 Central Banks Governors and President of the Global economy meeting in Basel (2002-2011). He was President of Sogepa (Société de Gestion des Participations Aéronautiques) (2012-2013) and Director of Airbus Group  (2012-2018). He was named “Person  of the  Year”  by  the  Financial  Times  in  2007  and  ranked 5th among the  “World  Most Powerful” in the Newsweek list (2008).

Born in Lyon in  1942, Jean-Claude Trichet is  an honorary inspecteur général des Finances and ingénieur civil des Mines. He is a graduate of the Institut d’études politiques de  Paris,  of  the   Université   de  Paris  (in  economics)  and  of  the   École   Nationale d’Administration. Jean-Claude Trichet has been awarded honorary doctorates by several universities.

Mr. Tu Guangshao is Chairman of the Executive Council Chairman of Shanghai Finance Institute, and Founding Chair of the Board, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SAIF). He is former Vice Chairman and President of China Investment Corporation. Immediately prior to this, he served as Executive Vice Mayor and Vice Mayor of Shanghai. He held several positions in China Securities Regulatory Commission, including Vice Chairman, Secretary-General, General Manager of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, Director General of the Department of Trading. He also acted as Deputy Director of the National Financial Market’s Quotation and Trading Information System Center of People’s Bank of China, Director and Deputy General Manager of the China Securities Trading System Corp.

Mr. Hong Tu, has been Chief Business Officer (Inter-bank and Market Business Sector) of BoCom since September 2018. Mr. Tu held various positions in the Bank, including President of Shanghai Branch of BoCom, Chairman of BoCom Asset Management Limited Liability Company, General Manager of the Financial Institution Department of the Bank’s Head Office, Chief Executive Officer of the Asset Management Business Center, Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Market Business Center, Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Market Business Centre/Precious Metal Business Centre, General Manager of the Financial Market Department, General Manager of the New York Branch, Deputy General Manager of the International Business Department of the Bank's Head Office, Executive Vice President of the Guangzhou Branch, serving the Bank for 35 years.

Lord Turner chairs the Energy Transitions Commission, a global coalition of companies, NGOs, and experts working to achieve a net zero economy by 2040.

He is Chairman of insurer group Chubb Europe, and on the Advisory Board of Shanghai energy group Envision. From 2008-2013, Lord Turner chaired the Financial Services Authority, leading the redesign of global banking and shadow banking regulation. 

Alongside a business career, he has held a number of public policy roles: he was Director General of the Confederation of British Industry (1995-2000); chaired the Low Pay Commission (2002-2006), the Pensions Commission (2003-2006), and the Climate Change Committee (2008-2012).

Ángel Ubide is a Managing Director and Head of Economic Research for Fixed Income and Macro at Citadel.

Prior to joining Citadel in 2018, Mr. Ubide held senior positions at Goldman Sachs, D.E. Shaw and Tudor Investment Corporation. He began his career as an Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1996.

In parallel to his financial services career, Mr. Ubide has been deeply involved in the global policy discussion, largely as a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is a member of the Advisory Council on Economic Affairs of the Spanish Government, of the New Bretton Woods Advisory Committee, of the Steering Committee for the Euro 50 Group, of the Scientific Committee of the Real Instituto Elcano, and of the Economic Club of New York.

Mr. Ubide has published extensively on financial markets, fiscal and monetary policy, inflation, and European policy issues. He writes a column on global economics in El Pais, and has been a contributor to leading global newspapers, including The Economist, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Il Corriere della Sera, and Handlesblatt. In 2016 he received the Abramson Scroll from the National Association of Business Economics for his paper “The case for an Active Fiscal Policy in the Developed World”. His book on economics, monetary policy, and markets, The Paradox of Risk, was published in 2017.

Mr. Ubide received a bachelor's degree from the University of Zaragoza in Spain and a M.A. and PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Marc Uzan is the Executive Director and founder of the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee.  He has edited several books on international finance including most recently Regional Integration in Central Asia United Nations University 2024, The new Kazakhstan  2023,  “Bretton Woods: The Next 70 Years” (2015, English edition and 2016 Chinese edition) and “The Ten Years After” (2018) a compilation of essays on the implications of the great financial Crisis. Mr. Uzan has authored academic papers on the new architecture for the international financial system and has written extensively about economics and finance in the popular press. 

Mr. Uzan holds a Master Degree in International Economics and Finance from the Université de Paris IX Dauphine. He has been a visiting scholar at the Department of Economics of the University of California, Berkeley and a visiting fellow at Harvard University.

Nicolas Véron cofounded Bruegel in Brussels in 2002-05, joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC in 2009, and is currently employed on similar terms by both organizations as a Senior Fellow. A graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines with earlier experience in the French government and private sector, he is also an independent board member of the global derivatives trade repository arm of DTCC, a financial infrastructure company that operates on a non-profit basis. Véron’s policy research focuses on cross-border finance. He has long advocated supervisory integration in Europe, including banking union, anti-money laundering, and capital markets supervision.

Mr. Shuguang Wang has successively served as Head of the Growth Enterprise Investment Banking Department, Co-Head of the Capital Management Department, Head of the Investment Banking Department, Party Committee Member, and Management Committee Member of China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC). He is currently Deputy Party Secretary, President and Member of the Management Committee of CICC. Mr. Wang has participated in the reforms and restructurings of enterprises in finance, energy, telecommunications, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, etc., and has long served China’s new economy sectors and emerging enterprises. He has led numerous landmark capital market transactions.

Mr. Wang holds a Master’s degree in Engineering as well as Bachelor’s degrees in Science and Economics from Tsinghua University.

Dr. Haiming WANG has been President of China Finance 40 Forum (CF40), a leading independent think tank in China, since 2008. Concurrently, he has also served as President of the Bund Summit Organizing Committee since 2019.

Dr. Wang was appointed Executive President of Shanghai Finance Institute in July 2016 after the role as Executive Vice President from 2011. He was named the Executive Deputy Director of the Institute of Digital Finance (IDF) at Peking University in October 2015 and later Chairman of its Council in April 2023.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Wang served in a number of roles at 21st Century Business Herald, a leading Chinese economic news agency, as a reporter, commentator, researcher, and convener and head of its editorial committee. He initiated the “21st Century Beijing Roundtable” series in 2003 and chaired 450 episodes of discussions.

Dr. Wang received his BA and PhD in Political Science from Peking University.

Prof. Luolin Wang is Honorary Chairman of Pu Shan Foundation. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. From 1961-1993, he taught at the Department of Economics and Department of International Trade of Xiamen University. During that time he also acted as Director of the Department of Economics, Deputy Principal and Secretary of the Communist Party Committee of the University. From 1993 to 2007, he served as Vice President and Executive Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Prof. Wang was elected an alternate member and member of CPC Central Committee in the 13th, 14th and 15th Party Congresses. He participated in the drafting of economic documents for Party Congresses, Plenary Sessions of the Central Committee and the Central Economic Work Conferences.

Prof. Wang is a recipient of Sun Yefang Economic Science Award.

Xin WANG is the Director General of Research Bureau of People’s Bank of China (PBC)，Co-chair of the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group, special adviser at the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development. He served as a Director of General Affairs Department (Policy and Regulation Department) at State Administration of Foreign Exchange, Deputy Director General of the Financial Research Institute of the PBC, Head of the PBC Representative Office in Frankfurt, Deputy Director General of the Research Bureau, President of the PBC Nanchang Provincial Branch, Director General of the Currency, Gold and Silver Bureau and Director of the State Council’s Joint Conference on Combating Currency Counterfeit. His research focuses on sustainable Finance, International Finance, Financial System Reform, and Social Security. One of his paper was awarded with Sun Yefang Best Economics Paper.

Mr. Wang received his M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School and was honored for his contribution to the Edward S. Mason Program. He earned his M.A. in economics from the Graduate School of People’s Bank of China and B.A. from Peking University.

Michael G. Wang is the anchor of Global Business and BizTalk on China Global Television Network (CGTN), the international network of China's largest media organization, the China Media Group.

Michael has interviewed numerous business executives and policymakers in his decade of experience in financial media and is passionate about fostering understanding between China and the world.

He has also covered numerous news-making events such as China’s annual “Two Sessions,” special coverage of the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China, special coverage of the 40th Anniversary of China’s Reform and Opening-Up, the 25th Anniversary of Hong Kong’s Return to China, the APEC Leaders’ Summit, the BRICS Summit, the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting and Annual Meeting of the New Champions, the annual China International Import Expo, the Boao Forum for Asia and more.

He holds an MBA from the University of Cambridge and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Mr. Yi Wang, a Ph.D. in Economics, currently serves as Executive Vice President and Secretary-General of the Insurance Asset Management Association of China (IAMAC) from August 2024. Prior to this, he held the position of Director-General of the Administrative Penalty Bureau at the National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA) from November 2023.

Mr. Wang has extensive experience in financial regulation. He previously served as Director-General of the Tianjin Administration of the former China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC), and later as Director-General of the Financial Consumer Protection Bureau of the CBIRC.

His earlier roles include Commissioner of the Chongqing, Shanxi, and Hebei Administrations of the former China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC). He also held various positions within the CIRC, including, Deputy Director of the General Office, and Director of the Reform Coordination Division of the Development and Reform Department.

His career started as the Deputy Division Director in the State-Owned Enterprises Working Commission, Central Committee of the CPC, the predecessor of The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC).

Prof. Dr. Axel A. Weber is President of the Center for Financial Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of RAISIN SE, Chairman of the VISA Economic Empowerment Institute, Chairman of the Trilateral Commission Europe and a Member of the Group of Thirty. He also is a Member of the TEMASEK International Advisory Council and Senior Advisor to CVC Advisors Limited and Boston Consulting Group.

He was Chairman of UBS Group AG in Zürich (2012 – 2022) and Chairman of the Institute for International Finance (IIF). He served as President of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt (2004 – 2011), during which time he also served as a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, as a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, as German governor of the International Monetary Fund, and as a member of the G7 and G20 Ministers and Governors. He was a member of the steering committees of the European Systemic Risk Board and the Financial Stability Board.

His academic career encompasses professorships in international economics, monetary economics and economic theory at the universities of Cologne, Frankfurt, Bonn and a Visiting Professorship at the University of Chicago Booth School. He holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Constance and a PhD in economics from the University of Siegen, where he also received his habilitation. He holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Duisburg-Essen and Constance.

Beatrice Weder di Mauro holds the André Hoffmann Chair in Climate and Nature Finance and is co-director of the Hoffmann Center at the Geneva Graduate Institute.  She is President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Visiting Professor at INSEAD. She has served as high-level advisor on economic policy to governments and international institutions for three decades. Her research focuses on international macroeconomics, financial crises, as well as on climate and nature finance, including the European Commission, IMF, World Bank, ECB, and Deutsche Bundesbank. Recently she was a member of Switzerland’s COVID-19 economic task force, and part of the expert group on financial reforms after the Credit Suisse collapse. She currently sits on the board of Bosch in Stuttgart. Her academic research focuses on international macroeconomics, financial crises, sovereign debt and currency crises, banking regulation, and the economics of climate and nature finance.

Darrell M. West is a Senior Fellow of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He holds the Douglas Dillon Chair in Governance Studies.  Previously, he was the John Hazen White Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University.  His current research focuses on media, artificial intelligence, and democracy.

West is the author of a number of books including  Lies That Kill:  A Citizen’s Guide to Disinformation (Brookings, 2024 with Elaine Kamarck); Power Politics:  Trump and the Assault on American Democracy (Brookings, 2022); Turning Point:  Policymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (Brookings, 2020; with John Allen),  Divided Politics, Divided Nation:  Hyperconflict in the Trump Era (Brookings, 2019), The Future of Work:  Robots, AI, and Automation (Brookings, 2018); Megachange: Economic Disruption, Political Upheaval, and Social Strife in the 21^st Century (Brookings, 2016), Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust (Brookings, 2014), Digital Schools (Brookings, 2012), The Next Wave:  Using Digital Technology to Further Social and Political Innovation (Brookings, 2011), Brain Gain:  Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy (Brookings, 2010), Digital Medicine:  Health Care in the Internet Era (Brookings, 2009), Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance, (Princeton University Press, 2005), and Air Wars: Television Advertising in Election Campaigns (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2013), among others.

He is the winner of the American Political Science Association’s Don K. Price award for best book on technology (for Digital Government) and the American Political Science Association’s Doris Graber award for best book on political communications (for Cross Talk).  His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and he has delivered lectures in numerous countries around the world. 

Johannes Wiegand joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2000. He served as the IMF’s Lead for Climate and Development Policy (2017–2023), Director of the Regional Studies Division in the Asia and Pacific Department (2023–2025), and assumed the role of Director of the IMF Shanghai Regional Center in 2025.

Martin Wolf is Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000. He was a member of the UK government’s Independent Commission on Banking between June 2010 and September 2011. He is an honorary fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and King’s College, London.  He has received honorary doctorates from six universities, including the London School of Economics. He is a University Global Fellow of Columbia University, New York. Mr Wolf won the Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic commentary for 2009, the 33rd Ischia International Journalism Prize in 2012, the Overseas Press Club of America’s prize for “best commentary on international news in any medium” for 2013 and the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gerald Loeb Awards. His most recent publication is The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism  (London and New York: Allen Lane, 2023).

Qian XIAO is the Deputy Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) and Vice Dean of the Institute for AI International Governance (I-AIIG) at Tsinghua University.

From 2003 to 2014, she served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as the Chinese Embassies in Russia and in the UK. She joined the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) in 2015, where she contributed to parliamentary engagement and work related to the NPC Spokesperson’s Office.

In January 2019, Xiao Qian joined Tsinghua University and helped to establish CISS and I-AIIG. She follows closely on China-US relations and global governance of AI. She was one of the key organizers for the International Forum and AI Cooperation and Governance of Tsinghua University. In 2019, she initiated CISS-Brookings Track II Dialogue on AI and International Security. She now serves as a RAISE member of UNIDIR and has attended Global Conference on AI, Security and Ethics. 

She also initiated to launch CISS Youth Program, and Tsinghua Student Association of International and Strategic Studies.

Xie Wei has a Master's degree, and is a Senior Economist. He previously acted as General Manager of Corporate Banking Department of CCB Henan Branch, Party Committee Secretary and General Manager of CCB Xuchang Branch, General Manager of Development Management Department of Corporate and Investment Banking Headquarters of SPD Bank, Deputy General Manager of Corporate and Investment Banking Headquarters of SPD Bank and concurrently General Manager of Investment Banking Department, Development Management Department and Key Client Department, Party Committee Secretary and General Manager of SPD Bank Fuzhou Branch, General Manager of SPD Bank Treasury Headquarters, General Manager of SPD Bank Asset Management Department, General Manager of SPD Bank Financial Markets Department, and Director of Financial Market Business at SPD Bank Head Office. He currently works as Party Committee Member, Vice President and Secretary to the Board of SPD Bank, and Chairman of AXA SPDB Investment Managers Co., Ltd.

Professor Wei Xiong is the Trumbull-Adams Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University. He is also Academic Director of Shenzhen Finance Institute, Academic Dean of School of Management and Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Professor Xiong has published in top economics and finance journals on a wide range of research topics, such as speculative bubbles, financial crises, behavioral finance, financialization of commodity markets, China’s financial markets, and data economy. He has received multiple prestigious awards, including the 2012 Smith Breeden Award (first prize) from the American Finance Association, the 2013 NASDAQ OMX Award from the Western Finance Association, and the inaugural Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Award in 2014 and the China Economics Prize in 2018. In 2016-2022, he served as Co-Editor of The Journal of Finance, the flagship journal of American Finance Association.

He received his Ph.D in Finance from Duke University in 2001. Prior to that, he earned Bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China and Master's degree from Columbia University, both in Physics.

Qiyuan XU is Deputy Director and senior fellow at the Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Research areas: China’s macro economy, China–U.S. economic and trade relations, global supply chain restructuring, RMB internationalization, and exchange rate issues. Representative works include Reshaping Global Value Chains: China’s Choices, Facing the China–U.S. Trade Conflict, and China’s Financial Opening Report: Sensing the Temperature of Policy.

Previously served as a member of the Academic Advisory Committee for the World Bank’s flagship report World Development Report 2024. Currently serves as a member of the Advisory Council of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), co-convener and member of the Expert Group on Updating Strategic Directions for ASEAN+3 (10+3) Finance Process, and a member of the Bretton Woods Committee. In 2025, he was selected by Project Syndicate as one of the 30 “Forward Thinkers.”

Dr. Bin YANG, Vice Chancellor of Tsinghua University Council, Professor of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. He is serving as the Secretary General of China National MBA Education Supervisory Committee, contributing for the development of business education in China.

Prior to his role as Tsinghua University’s Vice President (2014-2025), he served as Dean of the School of Public Policy and Management, Party Secretary of the School of Economics and Management, Dean of Graduate School, Dean of the Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School within Tsinghua. He was the Chairman of the Tsinghua University Education Foundation (2015-2022), helping the fundraising efforts of Tsinghua University.

During his tenure as Provost of Tsinghua University, Professor Yang actively promoted professional degree educational reforms and required ethics courses for all Tsinghua students. He has also served as Vice President of the China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Association for 10 years.

Professor Yang is an active contributor of international education collaborations and has led many initiatives for Tsinghua Global Strategy. He currently serves as the Co-Chair of Board of Trustees of Tsinghua Southeast Asia Foundation, President of UK-China Humanity Alliance, Executive Chairman of Global Alliance of Universities on Climate, and Secretary General of the World Peace Forum. He is also the trustee member of Tsinghua Schwarzman College since its beginning. In addition to his international roles, Professor Yang is a member of the China National MBA Education Supervisory Committee, and a member of the drafting team for the first Academic Degrees Law of the People’s Republic of China. He serves as the Director of the Research Center for Leadership Development and Research, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, as well as the Director of the Institute for Sustainable Social Value, Tsinghua University. His contributions to education have earned him the Grand Prize in the National Teaching Achievement Award. In addition, Professor Yang serves as the Chair of the Tsinghua Higher Education Forum.

Professor Yang Bin earned his​ Bachelor (1992) and Ph. D (2000) in Management Science and Engineering from School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University.

His primary research interests include: Organizational Behavior & Leadership, Business Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility, Higher Education Innovation. Additionally, he served as​ Co-Academic Director of the SEPC (Senior Executive Program for China)​​, a collaborative executive education program among Harvard Business School, Tsinghua SEM, and CEIBS for 8 years.

Yanqing YANG is Director of Center for education, innovation and sustainable development in Shanghaitech University, Researcher. Executive Director of China International Finance Society，Director of China Modern Financial Society, Executive committee member of Computational Economics under CCF, Executive Vice President of Shanghai Statistical Society, Member of strategic advisory board on private sector for Shanghai Municipal government, member and advisor of CPPCC Shanghai. Formerly, Chief Strategy Officer of Shanghai Academy of AI for Science, Head of digital Economy and strategic research department at Shanghai AI Lab, Professor of Economics in Fudan University. Formerly a renowned media leader and founder of newspaper and various TV programs of Yicai Media Group, engineered Yicai Research Institute transforming into a think tank and led various influential research projects. Published extensively both in Chinese and English on macro finance, digital economy, AI interdisciplinary research and global governance. Speaks at sessions at prominent global and domestic events, including World Economic Forum, IMF annual meetings, Boao Forum for Asia, China Development Forum, Lujiazui Forum, World AI Conference and many others. Ph.D, M.A. and B.A. in economics of Fudan University, visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University.

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is a renowned computer scientist, recipient of the Turing Award in 2000 and the Kyoto Prize in 2021. He received a PhD degree in Physics from Harvard in 1972, and PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in 1975. He served on the faculty of MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley and Princeton University before joining Tsinghua University in 2004. There he created an elite undergraduate CS program (Yao Class) in 2005, and established the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) and the Center for Quantum Information (CQI) in 2011. During 2018-2020 he established the Nanjing Turing AI Institute, Xian Interdisciplinary Core Technology Institute, and the Shanghai QiZhi Institute, aiming at cutting-edge research in Artificial Intelligence. Yao is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Yongding YU is a CF40 Advisor, Chairman of the Academic Committee of Pu Shan Foundation, Academician of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and Senior Fellow of the Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) at CASS. He received his D.Phil. in economics from the University of Oxford. He is also a Member of the Advisory Committee of National Planning at the National Development and Reform Committee (2004- ), and a Member of the Advisory Committee of Foreign Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2010- ). He was Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics (1998-2009), a Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of People’s Bank of China (2004-2006), and President of China Society of World Economics. He has served as Chairman of the Academic Committee of Pu Shan Foundation since 2016.

Prof Yu has published extensively on macroeconomics, international finance and world economy, and authored more than 10 books. He has been Editor-in-Chief of World Economy since 1998.

Jeromin Zettelmeyer has been Director of Bruegel, the Brussels-based economic policy think tank, since September 2022. He was previously a Deputy Director of the Strategy and Policy Review Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (2016-19), Director-General for Economic Policy at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (2014-16); Director of Research and Deputy Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (2008-2014), and IMF staff member(1994-2008).

Jeromin’s recent research has focused on the EU fiscal framework, public debt sustainability, economic security, and international climate finance. Aside from leading Bruegel, Jeromin is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a member of Euro50, and a member of CEPR’s Research and Policy Network on European Economic Policy, which he helped found. He holds an economics degree from the University of Bonn (1990) and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT (1995).

Dr. Bin Zhang is a Non-resident Senior Fellow of CF40, and Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). His research is in the field of macroeconomy, with a special focus on China’s economic restructuring, global economy, the RMB exchange rate and monetary policy. A prolific researcher, Dr. Zhang has published more than 50 papers in leading academic journals. In addition, he has led over more than 30 research projects funded by multiple institutions including the National Social Science Fund of China, the People’s Bank of China, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development as well as Asian Development Bank.

Dr. Xiaohui ZHANG is Former Assistant Governor, People’s Bank of China, Senior Research Fellow, Supervisor for Ph.D. Candidates, Vice President of China Society for Finance and Banking, and former Dean of Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance. She has spent most of her career working for the central bank, as Assistant Governor of the PBC, a member of the PBC Monetary Policy Committee, Director General of the Monetary Policy Department and the Financial Market Department of the PBC, Senior Advisor to China’s IMF Executive Director, Chief Representative of the PBC’s Office in America and etc. Most of her life has been devoted to the research of macroeconomics, monetary policy, financial reform, RMB Internationalization, interest rate, exchange rate and etc.

Weizhong Zhang has a Master's degree and is Senior Economist. He previously served as General Manager of Development Zone Branch of China Construction Bank (CCB) Dalian Branch, Chief Auditor (concurrently Director) of CCB Dalian General Audit Office, Chief Auditor (concurrently Director) of CCB Inner Mongolia General Audit Office, Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission, Party Committee Member and Deputy General Manager of CCB Hubei Branch, General Manager of CCB Inclusive Finance Department (Small Business Department) (concurrently Vice President of the Inclusive and Retail Finance Training Institute of CCB Learning Centre), and Director of Corporate Banking at CCB Head Office (concurrently General Manager of CCB Inclusive Finance Department). He is currently Party Committee Secretary and Chairman of SPD Bank.

Dandan Zhang is a professor of economics, deputy dean at the National School of Development, Peking University, and the Founding Director of the Laboratory for AI and Economics. She holds titles such as Boya Young Scholar of Peking University and Youth Cheung-Kong Scholar and serves as an executive director of the China Labor Economics Association. Zhang also chairs the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Flexible Employment and represents China on the Broad Executive Committee of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics. And she also serves as Think Tank Expert at the National Regional Center for Public Employment Services (Beijing), and Academic Committee Member of the Caixin Insight Group.

Earning her Ph.D. in Economics from the Australian National University, Zhang’s research focuses on labor economics and the Chinese Economy. She is particularly interested in the welfare of vulnerable groups during transition periods, the impact of social and institutional changes on human behavior, and new labor market phenomena such as artificial intelligence and flexible employment.

Her work has been featured in leading journals, including the Economic Journal, Nature: Human Behaviour, Journal of Population Economics, and the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. She has led projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation and the National Social Science Fund of China. She has provided policy advice to key government agencies, influencing employment and public health policies.

Mme Haiying Zhao is Former Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer/Deputy Chief Investment Officer of China Investment Corporation (CIC). As China sovereign wealth fund, CIC has an extensive network of global partners, and makes investments in sectors including public equity, bonds, private equity and real assets (real estate, infrastructure, resources and energy).

Prior to this, she was Chief Risk Officer and member of the Executive Committee. Under her leadership, the Three Lines of Defense for risk management were put in place and optimized on an ongoing basis, and an assortment of risk management rules were formulated or revised. CIC was therefore better equipped to look into, foresee, and avert major risks, with no material risk events.

Previously, she served as Executive Vice President of Central Huijin (a subsidiary of CIC). During her tenure, she facilitated corporate governance reforms and public listings of 6 major financial institutions, and served as Board Member involved in major decision-making at ICBC, New China Life Insurance, and CICC.

She used to serve as Deputy Head of Department of Public Offering Supervision at China Securities Regulatory Commission, where she led multiple major reforms and helped put in place a range of regulations in China’s capital market.

Mme Zhao has a Doctor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Maryland, US.

Dr. Hai Zhao is a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of World Economic and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Siences(IWEP-CASS) and Director of International Political Studies at the National Institute for Global Strategy Chinese of the Academy of Social Siences(NIGS-CASS). His research interests range from China-US strategic relations to Asia-Pacific political economy and the Belt and Road Initiative. Previously, he worked as a research fellow at the National Strategy Institute at Tsinghua University.

Dr. Zhao holds a PhD of International history from the University of Chicago. He is an opinion writer for the China Daily, and a frequent commentator for the China Global Television Network and China Radio International.

Dr. Bingwen Zheng, Member of 13th CPPCC, the Director General of the Center for International Social Security Studies (CISS) at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), is professor and Ph.D., member of consultation of MoHRSS (Ministry of Human Resources & Social Security), Member of Major Policy Decision Commission of the CIRC(China Insurance Regulation commission), Visiting Professor at Peking University, Renmin University of China, Wuhan University, and Chinese Academy of Governance, etc..

Dr. Zheng has long been interested in comparison of the welfare states and social security （pension and medical system）with publication of some books, hundreds of articles and authored chapters in Chinese.

Dr. Xiaochuan Zhou received a PhD degree in system engineering in economics from Tsinghua University in 1985. Between 1979 and 1985, he did research and policy analysis for the reform of China’s economic system and in a large number of economic subjects. From November 1986 to September 1991, Dr. Zhou was a member of the State Commission for Restructuring the Economic System. From 1986 to 1987, he was also a member of the State Council Leading Group on Program of Restructuring the Economic System and a Deputy Director of the Research Institute of Economic Structural Reform. From December 1986 to December 1989, he was Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation (which is now the Ministry of Commerce). From 1991 to 2002, he served on a number of positions, including the Vice President of the Bank of China, Administrator of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, Deputy Governor of the People’s Bank of China, President of the China Construction Bank, and Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission. From December 2002 and March 2018, he was Governor of the People’s Bank of China. From January 2003 to June 2018, he was Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China. From March 2013 to March 2018, he was Vice Chairman of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. From April 2018 to May 2025，he was Vice Chairman of the Boao Forum for Asia and China’s Chief Representative to the Boao Forum.

Dr. Zhou is a member of the Group of Thirty (G30) and Chinese Economists 50 Forum.

Mr. Zhu is Former President and CEO, CICC. He worked at China International Capital Corporation (CICC) from 1998 to 2014, and served as its CEO from 2002 to 2014. Under his leadership, CICC registered remarkable achievements in business development and was honored with awards by globally-renowned publications such as Euromoney and Asiamoney.

While at CICC, Mr. Zhu led dozens of large IPO and M&A deals. He also promoted a research-oriented service model and developed a full-service business platform which involves research, investment banking, sales and trading, and asset management. In addition, he vigorously implemented the company’s international development strategy, expanded overseas outreach and set up offices in New York, London and Singapore. Domestically, CICC added 16 branches in Chinese mainland.

Mr. Zhu received numerous awards in recognition of his achievements which included the Award for Asia’s Top 25 Most Powerful Business Leaders (by the Fortune) and the Asian Banker Achievement Award for Investment Banking (by The Asian Banker), and the 2010 Greater China Financial Leadership Gold Prize (the prize was inaugurated in 2010 by IIChina.com, the global online Chinese edition of Institutional Investor magazine).

Mr. Zhu holds a Master’s degree in Accounting from DePaul University of Chicago, an MBA degree from the International Bankers’ School of Credit Suisse First Boston, and a Ph.D. degree in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.