The Auto Forum will be hosting a Strategic Planning Meeting for the year 2022, and we encourage all the existing Auto Forum members and those upstream suppliers who are not Auto Forum members yet to attend.
This online meeting will be held on March 24th from 10:30 to 11:30 AM.
Please note:
(a) This is a member-only event;
(b) Attendance is free and all members and member company employees are welcome to join.
President at AmCham China
Michael Hart is President of the American Chamber of Commerce in China based in Beijing. He has over twenty-five years of business experience in Asia, including nineteen years in mainland China.
As President, Michael oversees all advocacy, programs, partnerships, and insights provided by the Chamber to support the business growth of nearly 900 foreign corporations operating in China, including most of the U.S. Fortune 500. The chamber’s advocacy includes the impressive American Business in China White Paper and Business Climate Survey each published annually as well as numerous interactions with both the US and Chinese governments on behalf of our members.
Prior to joining AmCham China, Michael spent most of his career in commercial real estate in Taipei, Shanghai and Tianjin including almost 20 years for a NYSE listed property services firm. He started in the research division briefing real estate owners, occupiers and investors on transactions and macro trends, he then opened, built, and led a branch office for the company in one of China’s largest Tier 1.5 cities for over a decade. Following this, Michael opened a private consulting and investment firm that among other projects invested in quick service restaurants.
In addition to this work, Michael was a long-term AmCham member and served on the Tianjin chapter’s Executive Committee for nearly 15 years including several terms as the local Chairman.
Michael holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a focus on finance and banking from the University of Missouri-Columbia in the U.S. He is a fluent speaker of mandarin Chinese. Michael was born and raised near Kansas City, Missouri.
Vice President at GM
Jing Wang was appointed GM China vice president, Public Policy and Government Relations, effective April 19, 2021. He is based in Beijing.
Jing previously served as the head of Government and Regulatory Affairs for Greater China at IBM China. He earlier held various leadership roles in government affairs and marketing at Intel, the TD-SCDMA Forum and Nortel. Jing also taught at the University of Science and Technology Beijing.
Jing holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Peking University, a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Dallas and a Ph.D. in computational and applied mathematics from Southern Methodist University
