Heizo Takenaka
Professor Heizo Takenaka joined Prime Minister Koizumi’s Government in 2001. During this time, he became Minister for Economic and Fiscal Policy, and then the Minister for Financial Services. He also became the Minister for Privatisation of the Postal Services and the Minister for both Internal Affairs and Communication. He...
Long Yongtu
Long has taken a key role in integrating China into multilateral and global trading arrangements and is an active player in promoting regional economic cooperation. He dedicated over 10 years to bringing China into the global trading system as Chinese Vice Minister of Trade responsible for trade negotiations, multilateral...
Shuji Nakamura
Shuji Nakamura is renowned as the inventor of blue LED, a major breakthrough in lighting technology. Together with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, he was one of the three recipients of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes, which has enabled bright...
Farland Chang
Farland Chang is an Emmy Award winning international journalist, Executive Producer & Founder of WorldBizWatch — a media strategy & global video production company. In a journalism career spanning more than 20 years, Farland has covered top stories across Asia and North America. And he has reported on and...
Khoo Swee Chiow
Khoo Swee Chiow climbed Mt Everest in 1998. In 1999, he skied to the South Pole, covering a distance of 1,125km in 57 days. In 2000, he completed the Seven Summits and became the 1st South East Asian to achieve this feat. The Seven Summits are the highest mountains...
Yasheng Huang
Yasheng Huang is an associate professor in the area of international management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He joined MIT in 2003. His previous appointments include assistant professor at the University of Michigan, associate professor at Harvard University, and consultant to the World Bank. Professor Huang’s research...
Dr. Munir Majid
Dr. Munir Majid obtained his B.Sc (Econ) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where he also obtained his Ph.D in International Relations. He taught at the Department of International Relations in LSE in LSE and he is Visiting Senior Fellow. He was research analyst for...
Dr. Xiang Bing
Xiang Bing is the Founding Dean, Professor, and Head of the largest and leading business school in China, the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). A noted scholar, public intellectual, well-known management consultant, and leading authority on Chinese business, Xiang has played an important role in developing China’s...
Tao Zhang
Tao Zhang is Founding Managing Director of Dao Ventures, a China-focused impact investment group with co-headquartered offices in both China and the US that primarily consist of ACBridge Global Advisors, China Impact Fund, and New Ventures Global. The various entities of Dao Ventures have so far made and/or facilitated...
Tetsunari Iida
Dr. Tetsunari Iida is the Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP), a non-profit and independent research institute based in Tokyo, Japan, focusing on sustainable energy policies. He is a member of Nuclear Accident Protection Committee and Total Energy Research Committee of Japanese government. Known in...
