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Beth Bader
Executive Director of University of Chicago Center in BeijingBeth Bader currently serves as the Executive Director of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing which opened in September 2010.
Prior to moving to Beijing, Ms. Bader spent nine years as the Managing Director of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business campus in Singapore. Ms. Bader has also held a wide variety of roles in Booth’s Chicago campus, including Director of Human Resources, Director of Administration, Associate Dean for International Programs and Associate Dean for the Full-time MBA Program. In addition, for seven years she served as an adjunct faculty member teaching the course “Laboratory in New Product and New Business Development”. Ms. Bader has been involved with a number of new initiatives, including the development of LEAD, founded in 1989 as one of the first experiential leadership programs at a major business school, and the establishment of the Europe Campus in Barcelona, Spain, and the Asia campus in Singapore.
Ms. Bader received her MBA from Chicago Booth, with concentrations in human resources and finance.
Frank Hawke
China Director of Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessFrank Hawke is the China Director for the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Prior to his current position, he was Asia Regional Director for the International Potato Center (CIP), an international R&D NGO that focuses on food security and poverty reduction. Previously, he was the Chairman, Greater China of Kroll Associates, as well as an independent consultant assisting companies with business strategies in China. In the early 1980s, Frank assisted numerous firms conclude landmark early deals in China, including the Great Wall Hotel—China's first joint venture—and the Beijing Jeep Corporation. He worked for Citibank from 1988 to 1994, managing businesses in the PRC and Taiwan, and he headed a team that re-established Citibank in Vietnam. From 1994–1997, Frank was Head of Investment Banking for Salomon Brothers China. Frank serves as an independent director on the boards of JP Morgan Chase (China) and Sunlife Everbright Insurance Company, a large state-owned financial services firm. He also teaches at Stanford University, Peking University and the Beijing Center for Chinese Studies, the Jesuit study-in-China center.
In 1979, as a PhD candidate in Chinese political-economy at Stanford University, Frank was the first American university-sponsored exchange scholar to study in China when he attended Peking University.
Betty He
Acting Managing Director of Penn Wharton China CenterBetty He joined Penn Wharton China Center as Associate Managing Director in June, 2015. Before joining the Center, Betty has been working as Public Affairs and Communication Director, Vice President of Public Affairs and Government Relations for several multinational companies like Novozymes, Eli Lilly and Bayer. She used to work as a government official with former Ministry of Textile Industry upon her graduation from University.
Betty He hold two master degrees, she got her EMBA from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) and obtained master Degree in Literature from Beijing Language University.
Shan Huang
Associate Managing Editor and Editorial Board Member at Caijing MediaMr. Huang Shan served as international editor of Caijing Magazine from 2005 to 2009. In November 2009, he followed Ms. Hu Shuli, then editor-in-chief of Caijing Magazine, to found Caixin Media and now is Deputy Managing Editor and editorial board member.
Since joining Caixin, Mr. Huang has been involved in a wide range of reporting and management activities. He has been active in the foreign community and has a good relationship with foreign embassies and commerce chambers. The name list he interviewed includes U.S. former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush, Russian First Vice Premier Igor Shuvalov, and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, among others.
He also served as Caijing’s U.S. correspondent in 2008. Prior to joining the Beijing office of Caijing, Mr. Huang Shan was Caijing’s Hong Kong correspondent in 2005 and editor of the Singtao Daily in New York City in 2004.
Mr. Huang holds an M.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in the U.S. in 2004. He was recipient of Presidential Fellowship of ND, the highest honor granted by ND. He served on the ND Greater China Scholarship Selection Committee in both 2011 and 2012. Mr. Huang graduated from Peking University in 2001 majoring in International Politics and received his B.A.
Carol Li Rafferty
Managing Director of Yale Center BeijingCarol Li Rafferty is managing director of Yale Center Beijing, a convening space and intellectual hub for all of Yale University’s activities in China. As the inaugural head of the center, Carol is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with key business, government and thought leaders from all disciplines and developing programs and events that facilitate meaningful dialogue between China and the world. Prior to this role, Carol was senior vice president at the China Investment Corporation (CIC), China's sovereign wealth fund, where she worked on private equity and strategic investments. Carol has a passion for championing women’s empowerment and co-founded the Lean In Beijing organization in 2013, which has grown into a network of over 80,000 women across China. Carol is a member of the founding family of the Bank of East Asia (HKSE: 23), and her grandfather founded the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE). Carol received her J.D. degree from Stanford Law School, and dual B.A. degrees in Economics and International Studies from Yale University.
Jin Liu
Director of Princeton China CenterMs. Jin Liu is currently the Director of Princeton China Center. Prior to her work at Princeton University, she worked at Columbia Global Centers|East Asia and New York University, Washington Square campus. She earned a master's degree in financial management from New York University and has intensive experiences in higher education in both U.S and China.
Bin Pei
Deputy Director and General Manager of Columbia Global CentersBin Pei is the deputy director and general manager of Columbia Global Centers | Beijing. Before that, she worked at various international development organizations, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s China Office, focusing on global development, philanthropy and social entrepreneurship, sustainable development and supply chain management, women empowerment, migration and social integration, educational reform, policy advocacy and government relations, the role of the private sector, civil society development, and cross-sector collaboration. Prior to joining the private sector, Bin worked at multiple departments at the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs and was the youngest woman leader there in 1996. She helped establish the foreign language training center for the Ministry of Civil Affairs as the founding director. Her interest is cross-sector, cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary exchanges and engagement for many of the global issues currently being defined in the new global order.
She holds an MBA (Lancaster University) and a Masters of Education (Beijing Normal University). She was a Chevening scholar. In 2010, she was named an Aspen Institute Ideas Festival Fellow.
Colm Rafferty
Vice President – Asia Pacific of Vermeer Corporation and Chairman at Vermeer China, LimitedColm Rafferty is the Vice President – Asia Pacific for Vermeer Corporation and is Chairman of Vermeer China Limited. and is Vice Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China.
Vermeer is an equipment manufacturer from the Midwest in the United States, with products used for agricultural mechanization, environmental protection, infrastructure development, and non-blast surface mining. Vermeer’s CEO is the 2015 Co-Chair of the B20 Global SME & Entrepreneurship Committee, is a member of President Barack Obama’s Export Council (PEC), and is former Chair of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the largest industrial trade association in the United States.
Prior to joining Vermeer, Colm was Director of China Distribution Operations for Cummins (NYSE: CMI), with both operational and P&L responsibility for the company-owned distributors. During his time with Cummins, Colm held a variety of leadership roles including Head of Emerging Markets Strategic Planning, where he oversaw the company's strategy & business development efforts in China, India, and Russia. Before joining Cummins, Colm worked for Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA), where he was employee #120, and Director of Business Development.
Colm received an MBA from the Yale School of Management, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian Studies from Brown University. He currently serves on the Yale University Asia Development Council, the Yale School of Management’s Greater China Advisory Board, the Executive Committee of the Beijing Chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO).
Yi Wang
Executive Director of Harvard Center ShanghaiYi Wang works with Harvard faculty across the university’s many schools and departments, as well as with academic partners and other supporters in China, to strengthen Harvard’s engagement with China.
A native of China and a 1995 graduate of Harvard College (AB in Physics and Astrophysics), Yi has spent his professional career in the United States, Canada, and China. Launching his career at McKinsey & Company in 1995 in Toronto, he was elected a Partner in 2006 while working in McKinsey’s Shanghai Office. Before joining the HCS, Yi spent three years as a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs in Beijing, where he built Goldman’s China onshore Asset Management business from scratch at Beijing Gao Hua Securities. In his spare time, Yi has devoted himself to education, helping to found and then serving as Vice Chair of the Board for United World College’s new campus in Changshu, China.