Claire Ma

Ms. Ma Qiongna (Claire) joined the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in China in September 2021 and is currently the Vice President. She leads the Member Services and Government Affairs & Policy teams and oversees the Chamber’s Cooperation Programs and Signature Events.

Before joining AmCham China, Claire worked in the Chinese Government and in multinational companies in the education and information communication industries. She led teams in strategic planning, marketing, sales and government relations. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from Peking University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Yale University.

James Zimmerman

James Zimmerman is the Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham China).

Based in Beijing, James is a author and lawyer who has lived and worked in China for three decades. He is a partner with the law firm of Loeb & Loeb LLP and advises foreign companies on corporate, transactional, regulatory, litigation and white-collar criminal defense matters. James previously served as Chairman of AmCham China for four prior terms in 2007-08 and 2015-16. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction book, The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China.

Michelle Zhang

Michelle is Vice President, Human Resources at Pfizer China. Prior joining Pfizer in year 2010, she was working for Shell China Limited and used to take up finance, sales and HR positions with increasing management responsibilities. Michelle has been the HR lead for many country level business transformation programs, and also represented China to participate APAC/global level’s change projects. As a well rounded HR, Michelle demonstrates deep expertise in M&A, OD, HR operations and business partner areas. She graduated from South China University of Technology and obtained both B.S and B.A degree of Chemical Engineering and International Trade. She also studied in Peking University for the EMBA program for 18 months

Charles Shao

Mr. Shao is Managing Director - Consulting Greater China at Korn Ferry and leads Industrial Market advisory business in Asia Pacific, helping multinational and local companies to drive and sustain superior business performance through talent and organizational interventions.

Mr. Shao brings near 20 years global experience in both corporate and consulting to clients and the Firm. He used to be the Global Head of Leadership Development and Learning & Development at Caterpillar Inc, a US Fortune 100 industrial company. Prior to that, he was Practice Leader at Hewitt Associates, advising clients from various industries, such as: industrial, real estate, pharmaceutical, financials, Hi-Tech and etc.

Mr. Shao focuses on helping Chinese companies going global and multinational companies to succeed in China through leadership assessment and development, talent management, succession management, org design, HR transformation, executive coaching, M&A and etc.

Mr. Shao holds Master of Business Administration from Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University, the Netherlands and Bachelor of Economics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He is accredited for several leadership assessment instruments and trained for executive coaching.

Ernan Cui

Ernan is an analyst in the Beijing office of Gavekal Dragonomics, who has covered a range of topics related to the Chinese consumer for more than a decade. Her research areas include major macroeconomic issues like demographics, urbanization, the labor market and household savings, as well as government policy and trends in consumer sectors, with a special focus on the automobile market in China.

Prior to joining Dragonomics in 2013, she interned at Standard Chartered and Accenture, and was a part-time researcher at the University of Chicago's Beijing Center. Ernan graduated from Renmin University of China with an MA in economics and a double bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics.

Charles Shao

Mr. Shao is Managing Director - Consulting Greater China at Korn Ferry and leads Industrial Market advisory business in Asia Pacific, helping multinational and local companies to drive and sustain superior business performance through talent and organizational interventions.

Mr. Shao brings near 20 years global experience in both corporate and consulting to clients and the Firm. He used to be the Global Head of Leadership Development and Learning & Development at Caterpillar Inc, a US Fortune 100 industrial company. Prior to that, he was Practice Leader at Hewitt Associates, advising clients from various industries, such as: industrial, real estate, pharmaceutical, financials, Hi-Tech and etc.

Mr. Shao focuses on helping Chinese companies going global and multinational companies to succeed in China through leadership assessment and development, talent management, succession management, org design, HR transformation, executive coaching, M&A and etc.

Mr. Shao holds Master of Business Administration from Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University, the Netherlands and Bachelor of Economics from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He is accredited for several leadership assessment instruments and trained for executive coaching.

Phoebe Yan

Phoebe Yan is a US-China dual-trained and dual-qualified investigations and compliance lawyer based in Loeb & Loeb’s Beijing and Hong Kong offices. She has extensive experience advising multinational companies on government and internal investigations, FCPA and bribery issues, and senior-executive-related issues (such as harassment, whistleblower reports, third-party relations, conflicts of interest, fraud and ethics, among others).

严妍（Phoebe Yan）现执业于乐博律师事务所北京及香港办公室，拥有中美两国法学教育背景与两地资质，专注调查与合规业务。她深耕涉外法律服务，擅长为跨国企业提供政府和内部调查、《反海外腐败法》（FCPA）及商业贿赂、企业高管相关合规事宜的专项法律服务，业务范畴涵盖职场骚扰、举报人举报核查、第三方合作管控、利益冲突、舞弊及职业道德合规等各类事项。

Johnny Xiong

Johnny Xiong joined Microsoft in February 2021 and is currently the Talent Management Director across Greater China, Japan, India, Australia & New Zealand, and Asia EPS. He leads strategic talent planning and development, focusing on leadership pipeline strength, succession readiness, and aligning talent strategy with business growth. He partners with senior business and HR leaders to drive organizational transformation, leadership effectiveness, and cross-regional talent mobility, embedding talent and organization priorities into business decision-making rhythms.
 
Prior to Microsoft, Johnny held senior HR and talent leadership roles at Coca-Cola, serving on the China leadership team as HR Strategy Business Partner to drive people strategy across talent, organization, and culture. He also led integrated talent management and leadership development across Greater China and Asia Pacific, advancing talent acceleration, diversity strategy, and performance management transformation.
 
Johnny began his career in entrepreneurship and consulting, co-founding a startup in Denmark and later serving as Director of Consulting at Aperian, where he built the APAC business and advised multinational organizations on global leadership and talent development.
 
With over 20 years of international experience, Johnny brings a strong cross-cultural perspective shaped by living and studying in Denmark. He holds an MSc in Applied Economics and Finance and a Bachelor’s degree in International Business from Copenhagen Business School.

Victoria Wu

As a member of Greater China Senior Leadership Team, Victoria is plays instrumental role in organization & talent strategy of business growth across mainland of China, Hongkong and Taiwan.
Prior to CISCO, Victoria successively worked in Microsoft as Greater China People & Organization Capability Director, established Organization & Talent Development function in Novartis Pharma China, served as HR Director for Lenovo IT Services Business Group.
Victoria holds eMBA from CEIBS(China Europe International Business School). She’s Senior Mentor of the United Nations Global Leadership & ESG Programme, career mentor for MBA students of CEIBS and BiMBA Peking University, board member of Beijing HR Association(HRA), and a member of CHO100 hosted by Peking University.

吴汶錡作为思科大中华区核心领导层成员之一，负责思科大陆香港台湾地区的人力资源战略的制定与执行。加入思科之前，吴女士曾先后在微软大中华区任组织与人才能力总监、组建瑞士诺华制药公司中国组织与人才发展职能、任联想集团IT服务业务群人力资源总监等职务。
吴汶錡拥有中欧国际工商学院EMBA学位。她热心年轻人才培养及公益事业，是联合国全球领导力与ESG发展中心高级导师，北大BiMBA MBA及中欧商学院MBA职业发展导师，北京中外企业人力资源协会常务理事，北大国家发展研究院CHO100成员。

Lydia Zhou

Lydia Zhou is Vice President, Human Resources for ConocoPhillips China. She has 25 years of human resources experience across diverse industries. Throughout different stages of business development, she has led organizational transformation and talent strategy to support business growth and change. She is passionate about leveraging HR to drive business value and organizational effectiveness.

Lydia began her career as a teacher at Tsinghua University, where she spent five years before transitioning into HR roles at multinational companies including Kodak, Nortel Networks, Deloitte and ConocoPhillips.

She holds a master’s degree in human resources management from the University of Manchester, UK, and a bachelor’s degree from Beijing Language and Culture University. She is also a member of CHO100, a non-profit organization founded by Peking University to promote the development of the HR profession in China.

周晓军女士现任康菲石油中国有限公司人力资源副总裁，从事人力资源管理工作长达25年，在不同行业拥有丰富经验。在企业不同发展阶段，她持续引领组织变革与人才战略，支持业务发展与转型。她始终致力于通过人力资源管理创造业务价值，助力组织发展与企业成功。
周晓军女士早年曾任教于清华大学，五年后转向企业人力资源领域，先后在柯达、北电网络、德勤及康菲石油等跨国企业担任多个人力资源部管理岗位。

她拥有英国曼彻斯特大学人力资源管理硕士学位，以及北京语言大学学士学位。她同时也是CHO100成员。CHO100 是依托北京大学国家发展研究院设立的公益交流平台，致力于推动中国人力资源专业领域的发展。

Victor Liang

Victor Zhixiang Liang joined Baidu in June 2005, and became Senior Vice President and General Counsel in June 2011. Mr. Liang leads our overall Public affairs Public policy and global Legal functions . Prior to joining Baidu, he worked at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, as a visiting attorney at their New York Office. Mr. Liang received an LL.M. degree from Yale Law School and law degrees from the University of New South Wales and Peking University.

梁志祥，于2005年6月加入百度，2011年6月任百度集团资深副总裁兼总法律顾问，全面负责集团公共事务 公共政策和全部法务工作。入职百度前，他曾在达维律师事务所纽约分所客座律师。梁志祥持有耶鲁大学法学院法学硕士学位，以及新南威尔士大学、北京大学法学相关学位。

Tate Wang

赉擘斯劳动咨询事务所 合伙人，赉擘斯教研院负责人；中国劳动学会理事

王雯旭女士从事劳动关系管理咨询工作十余年。她先后引领了多家制造和互联网行业的企业变革期人员调整与变更项目。擅长从行业宏观层面分析战略劳动关系管理理论与应用实践，带领团队研发出多个劳动关系管理赋能课程，帮助企业管理者精准适用法律、快速提升沟通协商能力。

王雯旭女士同时在诺和诺德、鄂尔多斯、京港地铁、周大福汽车、奥科宁克等中外合资企业担任常年法律顾问。

王雯旭女士熟知、并能灵活运用中国的劳动法律法规，以及中英双语，根据客户需求点及项目关键点的变化，迅速做出应变并提出切实可行的解决方案。具有良好的沟通能力和项目管控能力。

王雯旭女士持有伦敦政治经济学院（LSE）硕士学位。

Ms. Wang Wenxu has successively led many of large-scale staff and individual case adjustment projects, covering industries such as pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and transportation. She has assisted many multinational companies and industry-leading enterprises in the consulting and implementation of employment management, legal risk management, and organizational change management.

Ms. Wang excels in analyzing the theories and application practices of strategic labor relations management from a macro industry perspective. She has led her team to develop a number of empowering courses on labor relations management, helping enterprise managers apply laws accurately and quickly improve their communication and negotiation skills. She has created courses including Truth and Fiction Behind "Faking Sickness for Leave", Low Performance Management, and Three-Dimensional Thinking and Communication Art in Labor Relations Adjustment, which are highly praised by students from various industries.

Meanwhile, she provides legal consulting services for well-known Chinese and foreign enterprises such as Novo Nordisk, Alcon, Beijing MTR, Chow Tai Fook Automobile, and Deutsche Bank.

Ms. Wang has a thorough understanding of and can flexibly apply China's labor laws and regulations. She is able to respond quickly and propose practical solutions based on changes in clients' needs and key project points, and possesses strong communication skills as well as project management and control capabilities.

Yuting Shen

Yuting used to work as Director at a consulting firm, providing services of strategic consulting and implementation of solutions for Fortune 500 companies in China. Her clients are influential players in such fields as mechanics, analytical instruments, chemical engineering, materials, environmental protection, etc. When serving them, Yuting got tremendous experience of helping companies to develop new business, expand existing business, conduct organizational change and channel transformation, development key accounts, etc.

Currently Yuting works at GLOBIS China as Deputy General Manager and lecturer.

Michelle Zhang

Michelle is Vice President, Human Resources at Pfizer China. Prior joining Pfizer in year 2010, she was working for Shell China Limited and used to take up finance, sales and HR positions with increasing management responsibilities. Michelle has been the HR lead for many country level business transformation programs, and also represented China to participate APAC/global level’s change projects. As a well rounded HR, Michelle demonstrates deep expertise in M&A, OD, HR operations and business partner areas. She graduated from South China University of Technology and obtained both B.S and B.A degree of Chemical Engineering and International Trade. She also studied in Peking University for the EMBA program for 18 months

Helen Zhang

Helen Zhang is currently the CHRO for IBM Greater China Group. She joined IBM China in her early career stage. With over 20 years journey in IBM based in Greater China and US headquarter, she has been appointed to multiple important leadership roles across IBM Greater China, Asia Pacific and worldwide IBM, including worldwide Software Group Leadership and Culture Leader, Asia Pacific System Group Organization Development Leader, Greater China Talent Management Leader etc. Helen is an outstanding leader with global vision, strategic thought leadership, innovative operation excellence. She has successfully led multiple organization and culture transformation in IBM Greater China. In recent AI transformation journey, she is a role model as an advocate and advanced practitioner internally and in the market. Under the tremendous challenges, she still led team won Best Employer rewards in the market.

张榕现任IBM大中华区首席人力资源官。她于职业生涯早期加入IBM中国，IBM20多年深耕的过程中，她立足大中华区本土，同时也经历了美国总部的工作和历练，先后被任命为IBM大中华区、亚太区及全球多个重要领导岗位，包括全球软件集团领导力与文化转型总经理、亚太系统集团组织发展总经理、大中华区人才管理总监等。作为一位杰出的领导者，她拥有全球视野、战略性思维、使命必达的领导力和卓越的运营管理能力。她领导了IBM大中华区的多次组织和文化转型。在最近的人工智能转型旅程中，她成为公司和业内的倡导者和领先实践的榜样。在2025年，她带领团队出色的应对了各种挑战，为IBM在市场中赢得了多个最佳雇主奖项。

Connie Zhu

朱佳怡女士是德勤人力资本咨询组上海团队的合伙人。朱女士具备中国大陆和香港两地20多年的工作经验，服务于诸多国内外领先的大型集团企业，对组织变革、战略性绩效体系建设、干部和人才体系打造、人力资源职能转型升级、AI组织转型、投后整合管理等话题具备丰富经验和深入洞察。
主要客户涵盖医药医疗大健康、高科技制造、综合性产业集团、零售消费品等行业内的国内外领先企业
主要经验:
组织变革：帮助诸多国内外大中型企业开展组织变革、规划人才梯队，打造战略性绩效管理体系
人力资源转型升级：帮助企业打造战略性人力资源职能，提升人力资源职能定位、能力、流程和交付效率
国际化：帮助中国企业走出去，设计国际化的组织治理体系、规划和构建人才梯队、升级迭代企业文化
并购整合: 具备丰富的帮助企业并购整合、剥离的经验，多次帮助企业提供投后整合的服务和培训
AI组织变革：对AI时代的组织变革，包括人机协同的工作规划、运营模式变化、技能型组织构建等方面，具备深入洞察

Echo Li

Echo Li is Human Resources Director of China for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). She leads China Human Resources team driving robust talents and organizational solutions to enable sustainable business growth.

Echo has twenty years of human resources management experience. Prior to HPE, Echo served several world’s fortune 500 companies including HP, Caterpillar, Otis, Motorola etc. Her areas of focus covering people and organizational performance, learning and leadership development, team building, change management, M&A, people relations etc. She also has a track record in designing and deploying DEI initiatives and talents programs, fostering an inclusive and conducive culture that energizes innovation and organizational performance.

Echo holds a BA in Journalism from Communication University of China and earned an EMBA from the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business.

Michael Hart

Dr. Yang Hou

Chairman and CEO of Microsoft GCR

Dr. HOU Yang is a proven transformational leader with strong technology industry ecosystem development capabilities as well as local insight to enable customers. He is experienced across operations, product optimization and sales leadership with a strong track record in partner and customer engagement. A combination of strategic thinking and execution discipline has helped him deliver outsized growth in his career.
Dr. HOU joined Microsoft in March 2021, where he is Corporate Vice President, the Chairman and CEO of Microsoft GCR, responsible for strategic leadership of sales, marketing, services and operations across the three subsidiaries that make up one of Microsoft’s most dynamic and innovative growth regions.

Prior to Microsoft, Dr. HOU worked at Qualcomm for more than 8 years both in the US and China. His most recent role was as Senior Vice President of Qualcomm’s semiconductor business in China. During his tenure, the business experienced tremendous growth and more than tripled in revenue. He led a team which collaborated with telecom and mobile internet partners to migrate wireless technologies, deepened partnerships with leading Chinese corporations across industries from mobile to industrial to automotive and drove technology innovation together with a broad array of ecosystem partners in China. Prior to Qualcomm, he spent five years at McKinsey as a leader in their tech practice, based in the US.
Dr. HOU grew up in Shenyang, China and received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Peking University and a PhD. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
He lives in Beijing with his wife, son and daughter. He loves running marathons, hiking, and fishing.

Justin Zhao

Justin Zhao joined Johnson & Johnson in February 2023 as the Vice President of Government Affairs of Johnson & Johnson China, responsible for landing the GA&P strategy in China, leading the company’s policy advocacy and government engagement for shaping the regulatory environment and driving business growth.

Justin brings extensive experience to his current role from his past public and diplomatic services, and over 18 years services at leading U.S. technology companies, including HP and most recently, Microsoft. Justin was Microsoft’s GA lead for China and worked for the company for 12 years, including 6 years at its global headquarters in Redmond. Prior to Microsoft, Justin had served as Government Affairs Director of China HP (2007-2011), Vice President of Swiss Reinsurance Beijing Office (2005-2007), and Policy Director of the United States Information Technology Office (2004-2005).

Justin is also Vice Chair of the Healthcare Equipment Working Group of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (EUCCC).

He received his Master of International Business from the University of Sydney and Bachelor of Economics from the University of International Business and Economics.