Steven is the Head of Research for North China for JLL, overseeing a team of 11 full time researchers in North China. Steven regularly briefs real estate investment funds to enable better-informed investment strategies and analyzes the competitive landscape for commercial real estate. Steven's work appears in the Retail Intelligence publications released publicly, white papers, blog posts, detailed data-rich presentation decks, and a data subscription service. He undertakes market study / competition analysis consultancy on behalf of developers, investors, and retailers. Also, in his second role as Head of Retail Research, Asia, he manages site selection studies that prioritize cities and properties for retailer expansion. Steven has worked in China since 2005.

David Meyer is Senior Lecturer in Management at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, teaching international business, with a focus on Asia. Prior to this he was Professor of Sociology & Urban Studies at Brown University. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago. His publications include five books and monographs and over sixty articles and book chapters. His book, Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis (Cambridge University Press, 2000), interpreted that city as the pivot of Asian business networks. Recent publications deal with the transformation of Hong Kong as a financial center, China’s financial centre networks, job mobility of financiers coming to Hong Kong, network governance at the State Banks of China, the banking networks of Asian financial centers, private wealth management in Asia, high-frequency trading on exchanges, including on Hong Kong’s and Singapore’s, Hong Kong and Singapore as network hubs of global capital, and Shenzhen in China’s financial center networks.

Sabrina Wei, Head of North China Research in DTZ/Cushman & Wakefield. Sabrina Wei has more than 15 years of real estate experiences. As Head of North China Research in DTZ/Cushman & Wakefield, she helped the company set up the research team, led a team in 6 cities to develop research standards and approaches, published more than one hundred research reports and white papers. Being one of the spokespersons of the Company, she was occasionally interviewed by prestigious medias such as Washington Post, Bloomberg, Reuters, China Daily, Xinhua News, etc.