Professor James Laurenceson is Deputy Director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at UTS.

He has previously held appointments at the University of Queensland (Australia), Shandong University (China) and Shimonoseki City University (Japan). He was President of the Chinese Economics Society of Australia from 2012-2014.

His academic research has been published in leading scholarly journals including China Economic Review and China Economic Journal.

Professor Laurenceson also provides regular commentary on contemporary developments in China’s economy and the Australia-China economic relationship. His opinion pieces have appeared in Australian Financial Review, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, South China Morning Post, amongst many others.​

付保宗，现任国家发改委国际合作中心副主任。

Chucheng Feng is the founding partner of Hutong Research, a boutique advisory firm focusing on deciphering China’s policy trajectory, dynamics, and their market impact. Before Hutong Research, Chucheng co-founded Plenum China Research, where he was a partner 2019-2023, and Grisk Data, a Shanghai/DC-based alternative data vendor on geopolitics in 2018.



Prior to launching his own ventures, Chucheng helped build political risk practice at the Hong Kong-based risk firm Blackpeak in 2017. Beforehand, he was an Asia analyst at Eurasia Group and conducted research at Asia Society Policy Institute under former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd. In these capacities, Chucheng advised sovereign wealth funds, the world’s most prestigious hedge funds and asset managers, as well as Fortune 500 companies on China-related topics.



Born in Beijing, Chucheng had studied, worked, and lived in Minnesota, California, New York, Washington DC, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. He travels frequently across continents for speaking engagements and in-person briefings.



Chucheng holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in political science from Columbia University.



Chuchengis a Forbes U30 Asia 2022 listee and a young leader at the Council for the United States and Italy. Chucheng gets regularly quoted by Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and Caixin.



封楚诚是Hutong Research的创始合伙人。作为一家精品咨询公司，Hutong Research专注于解读中国政策趋势、动态以及其对市场的影响。在创办Hutong Research之前，封楚诚曾联合创立Plenum China Research并于2019-2023年担任合伙人，以及于2018年联合创立专注于地缘政治的另类数据供应商「知险数据」。



此外，封楚诚于2017年参与百峰公司的政治风险业务创立，于政治风险咨询公司欧亚集团担任亚洲分析师，并曾在前澳大利亚总理陆克文领导的亚洲协会政策研究院担任研究员。期间，封楚诚为主权财富基金、世界顶级对冲基金和资产管理公司以及财富500强企业提供有关中国的咨询服务。



封楚诚出生于北京，曾于美国明尼苏达州、加州、纽约、华盛顿特区，以及香港和上海学习、工作和生活。封楚诚拥有加州大学伯克利分校的政治学和历史学学士学位，以及哥伦比亚大学的政治学硕士学位。



除此之外，封楚诚是2022年福布斯亚洲30岁以下精英榜单成员，也是Council for the United States and Italy的年轻领袖。封楚诚的研究观点经常被「华尔街日报」、「金融时报」、「彭博社」和「财新」等知名媒体引用。