Alan Beebe was appointed President of the American Chamber of Commerce in China on Mar. 14, 2016.

Alan was an Executive Director based in Beijing, leading EY China’s Cleantech and Supply Chain and Operations (SC&O) practices. His clients include major global corporations, primarily diversified industrials and high-technology companies operating in China.

Prior to joining EY, Alan held Executive positions with the China Greentech Initiative (CGTI), IBM, and management consulting firms AT Kearney and PRTM. He has twenty years of management consulting experience in the US, China and other Asian countries helping clients develop and implement sound business, operations and technology strategies. At EY China, he helps global clients transform their business models to drive new revenue opportunities and preserve profitability in China’s changing economic climate.

From 2010 to 2013, Alan was a Managing Director with CGTI, a collaboration platform serving over 50 international energy and environmental companies. At CGTI, he led advisory services and strategic research across all major areas of energy and cleantech. In 2014, CGTI merged with the Paulson Institute, founded by Hank Paulson.

Alan holds a Master’s degree from Yale University in International Relations and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. He is a Board of Advisor of the Yale Club of Beijing and in that capacity promotes academic and cultural exchanges between the United States and China. Alan has lived in China since 2002 and speaks Chinese fluently.

Mr. Sun Zhenyu, the Chairman of China Society for World Trade Organization Studies, served as the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of China to the WTO from 2002 to 2010.

Born in Fengnan County of Hebei Province in March 1946, Mr. Sun Zhenyu graduated from Beijing Foreign Languages Institute in July 1969. From 1973 to 1985, he served successively as staff member, Deputy Director and Director in the Third Department for Regional Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. During this period, he worked on bilateral trade relations between China and UK, later between China and European Community.

From 1985 to 1990, he worked as Vice President of China National Cereals, Oil and Foodstuff Import and Export Corporation (COFCO), focusing on the company's business with Japan and South-east Asian Countries.

In 1989, he attended one year program of Management Training Course for senior executives sponsored by UNDP in cooperation with University of British Colombia, Canada and Manchester University UK. From 1990 to 1994, he served as Deputy Director General and Director General of Department of American and Oceanic Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation (MOFTEC), working on bilateral trade relations with U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Latin American countries during this period. He participated on separate occasions in Sino-US bilateral negotiations on Market Access, Textiles and Intellectual Property Rights.

Since 1994, he served as Vice Minister of MOFTEC, responsible for regional policy, foreign investment and reform of state trading enterprises.