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.

Robert Rogowsky is Professor of Trade and Economic Diplomacy, Middlebury Institute for International Studies in Monterey, CA. He is Adjunct Professor of Trade and Economic Diplomacy at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service teaches Negotiations in the McCourt School of Public Policy. He is President of the education-oriented Institute for Trade & Commercial Diplomacy and is a Special Advisor to the Berkeley Research Group. Professor Rogowsky served as Chief Economist at the US International Trade Commission (USITC) from 1995 to 1999. He served as Director of Operations at the USTIC until 2010, where he managed a staff of 240 responsible for trade policy research and negotiation assistance provided to the US Trade Representative and Congress. He was responsible for Strategic Planning and sat on the President’s Performance Improvement Council and on the Board of the US International Trade Data System. Professor Rogowsky has also served as the Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as Acting Executive Director to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and as a litigation economist for the Bureau of Economics, FTC.