The Honorable William Zarit advises major Chinese companies on how to navigate the U.S. investment market, and helps U.S. multinationals working in the Chinese commercial environment. He serves as Senior Counselor at The Cohen Group, a global business advisory firm founded by former U.S. Senator and Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen.

Until May 2014, Mr. Zarit was Minister for Commercial Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, overseeing the U.S. Department of Commerce’s trade promotion and trade policy activities in its operations in Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang. He retired with the rank of Career Minister.

Prior to his posting to Beijing, Mr. Zarit was Deputy Assistant Secretary, International Operations, for the U.S. Commercial Service, overseeing Commercial Sections in U.S. Embassies and Consulates worldwide. He previously served as U.S. Commercial Service’s Regional Director for East Asia/Pacific, Senior Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Deputy Senior Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, and Deputy Senior Commercial Officer at the American Institute in Taiwan.

Before joining the U.S. Commercial Service, Mr. Zarit was Economic and Commercial Program Officer for the New York-based National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Prior to that, he served as Marketing Manager/China for the California-based telecommunications firm Pacific Telesis International, preceded by his work as Project Manager for the high-tech marketing firm China Business Associates. Both positions were based in Beijing. Mr. Zarit also served as Mandarin Chinese Interpreter for the U.S. State Department Language Services.

He earned an M.B.A. with Honors from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. with Honors in Political Science from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

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.

Huang Hui graduates 1982 from Amoy University, major in computer science. In 1985, He was admitted to University of Bonn, German for post-graduate and received Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics in 1989. Then he worked at Hoechst (then Global 500 Company) in its consulting department.
In 1996, Huang was hired by KPMG for its consulting business in Japan. In 1998, he heads KPMG Consulting Japan as its Managing Director. He made KPMG Consulting Japan a well-regarded consulting company in Japan in supply chain management consulting. In 2001, he was promoted to Senior Vice President of KPMG Consulting Global, heads both the High Tech and CPG sector as well as its Greater China business as CEO. In 2002, he led the acquisition of Arthur Anderson Business Consulting and made KPGM Consulting the biggest management and IT consulting firm in Greater China. KPMG Consulting was renamed BearingPoint 2002. In Jan. 2004, he was promoted to Corporate Executive Vice President .
In Nov.2005, Huang joined one of the biggest private companies JunYao Group as CEO, after the death of the Founder. Under his leadership, JunYao Group made a successful strategic transformation, reinforced its core business in retail and aviation and grows its business rapidly. He built also a great brand and corporate culture for the group.
In 2010, Huang joined Deutsche Telekom as its Corporate Vice President and CEO China. He makes Deutsche Telekom a major play in high performance network, private cloud and car telematics.
In March 2014，Huang joins TPG as its Partner.
Huang is guest professor at MBA school of Amoy University and Shanghai Antai Management School. He is Vice Chairman of SORSA. In the period 2004-2008, he taught “Global Leadership Program” for JMA. Huang was elected Top Ten CEO of the Year at China CEO Forum 2008. He was elected “the Leader of IT Times” by <IT Times> Magazine in 2012.

Dr Li Wei is Professor of Economics, Director of the Case Center and Director of the China Economy and Sustainable Development Center at CKGSB. He formerly served as a professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia.

Previously, he was a research associate at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Studies and taught at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.

Li's research has been published in the Journal of Political Economy, American Economic Review, Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Comparative Economics.

He wrote the book Investing in Emerging Markets, published by the CFA Institute (formerly the Association for Investment Management and Research). His research insights have been featured in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and CNNfn.

Yinuo Li oversees a team that works with China’s public, private, and nonprofit sectors to address key domestic and global health, development, and policy issues.

Yinuo joined the foundation in 2015 after a career at McKinsey & Co., where she was most recently a partner at the firm's Palo Alto office. Her McKinsey career began in Los Angeles, California, United States, in 2005. From 2008 to 2013, while based in McKinsey’s Beijing office, Yinuo served as co-leader of the Healthcare Practice, and leader of the Social Sector and Global Public Health Practice. Her areas of expertise included health system and reform, global health, pharmaceutical and diagnostic products, digital healthcare, and health financing. Her clients covered leading multinational and Chinese pharmaceutical and life science companies, institutional investors, trade associations, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions.

Yinuo was elected a partner at McKinsey in 2011. In 2014, she moved to McKinsey’s office in Palo Alto, California, United States, where she focused on Healthcare and Social Sector Practice. She is a sought-after speaker on topics ranging from industry perspectives to strategy, organization, talent recruitment/development, and women’s leadership.

Yinuo has a B.S. in biology from Tsinghua University in Beijing and a Ph.D. in molecular biology from UCLA.

Jeff has been providing financial advisory and audit services for 18 years to clients from TMT, consumer goods, power and utilities, mineral resources, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing. Jeff has been involved in over 100 Chinese companies’ overseas investments covering approximately 30 countries. Key project sectors include: Power and utilities, Mineral resources, Mineral resources, Engineering and advanced equipment manufacturing and others.

Dan is an analyst in The Economist Intelligence Unit‘s Access China service, which offers unrivalled analytical coverage of China’s 31 provinces and 287 key prefectures. She is responsible for editing analytical reports on regional development and white papers providing the latest insights on the Chinese economy. She is also involved in modelling short- and long-term forecasts of key regional indicators. She works in close collaboration with clients to design research and manage projects that include macroeconomic analysis, index-building, quantifying qualitative variables, policy analysis, and strategies for investment and growth.

Before joining the EIU, Dan was a post-doctoral fellow in the Chinese Academy of Sciences as an economist. She led projects to evaluate the development of China’s livestock industry and agricultural policy, and was heavily involved in assessing the results of the National Clean-Water projects. She also contributed to collaborative work with the World Bank and other international organisations on rural transformation and food security.

Dan holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Washington, where she specialised in econometrics, natural resources and environmental economics; she was also an instructor in macroeconomics and microeconomics at that university for seven years. Dan has published papers on risk management, livestock, land, labour and agricultural subsidies.

Dr. Matt Wang is the President of Cybernaut Investment Group, and Chairman of Cybernaut International. He received his Ph.D in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University, and an MBA from George Washington University. Dr. Wang served as the Global Vice President of IBM and General Manager of IBM China Development Labs. He was a senior director of IBM Global Technical Committee, who was responsible for the research and development of big data, artificial intelligence, cloud computing and other strategic platforms, as well, provided technology products and enterprise solutions for worldwide customers.

Dr. Wang has joined Cybernaut Investment Group as the president on March 1st, 2016. He is in charge of a 60 billion international fund for global M&A in health care, education, finance, tourism, and e-commerce sectors. Also, he is responsible for investing 60 billion related to scientific education in 100 innovative buildings in 15 capital cities in China. Last but not least, He will make investments and manage the big data and cloud computing platform companies.

Mr. Wang Xin earned his Master’s in international politics from Peking University. A veteran publisher and public relations expert in China and the US, he is widely recognized in the fields of transnational communication and cultural studies. Having a stellar track record of publishing major edited and translated volumes under his belt, Mr. Wang is an expert on think tank studies and cultural issues in the Belt and Road initiative. He assumed the position of CCG vice president in 2016.

Jeffrey is the Head of Deal Advisory for KPMG in China, and a member of the KPMG Global Deal Advisory Executive Committee. Jeffrey joined the China Transaction Services business in 2001 and has focused on serving multinational clients, domestic and private equity investors. He has helped clients in financial due diligence, commercial due diligence, valuation assistance and providing transaction advice on negotiation consideration to SPA and Integration considerations.

Jeffrey has spent the last fifteen years in China and has built up industry experience in industrial manufacturing, consumer products, logistics, retail, real estate and infrastructure.

Jeffrey has assisted investors in a number of sectors and has considerable experience in assisting clients evaluating proposed transaction in China from market entry to integration support. Jeffrey was the project leader assisting several large global manufacturers’ transaction evaluation, providing financial and tax due diligence and structuring input.

Jeffrey has assisted many multination investors in their transactions in China, and can bridge the understanding and needs of global investors in the Chinese environment. His clients include Bosch, BP, Carrefour, Dydo Drinks, Hakuhodo, Huawei, Itochu , Mitsui, Nidec, Oji Paper, SCA, Valeo, and Private Equity clients such as China Media Capital, KKR, AEA, Prax Capital.