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Mandy Ying
Associate of Corporate Engagement at Goldman SachsWenjie (Mandy) Ying is the Associate of Corporate Engagement at Goldman Sachs, where she is responsible for the firm’s philanthropic initiatives in China, in particular 10,000 Women China.
Prior to this role, Mandy headed the Programme Team of China and Asia at the World Economic Forum with a graduate MPA (Master of Public Administration) degree in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University.
Previously, Mandy also had professional experience at United Nations Development Program (UNDP)’s Regional Bureau for Africa in New York City, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) on developing human rights framework for pharmaceutical industry and US-China Education Trust with Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch in Washington, D.C.
Mandy received her bachelor degree of law in the major of Political Science and Public Administration at Sun Yat-sen University in 2011 in her hometown Guangzhou, China. During her undergraduate study, Mandy was funded to participate in various international exchange programs at Stanford University, Georgetown University, Peking University and the University of Hong Kong.
Mandy’s career goal is to bring a positive impact in the field of non-profit management, healthcare, education, gender empowerment and sustainable development.
Chengyu Bai
Executive Vice Chairman of China Association of Microfinance; Director of the Office of UNDP SDG Impact Finance Project, China International Center for Economic and Technical ExchangesMr. Chengyu Bai had been working on international development cooperation for 31 years after he graduated from Peking University with Master Degree of International Finance. He engaged in Rural Microfinance since 1990. Then he initiated an UNDP’s poverty alleviation program covering 18 provinces in China. 48 MFIs had been setup by that program. He became the director of the Support and Coordination Office for UNDP’s microfinance program after 2000 and has been focusing on microfinance business since then. He trained in Boulder of America in 1997. He has both experiences of MFI management and capacity of research on microfinance business. He introduced concept of Inclusive Financial System in China and promoted the buy in of government. He is now promoting the SDG impact financing initiatives in China together with UNDP.
Changhua Wu
CEO of The Future Innovation Center• A specialist and policy analyst of China’s sustainability
• An advisor to governments and corporations on sustainability strategy and innovation
• A strategist of public and private engagement for clean energy transformation
• An advocate for policy change and practice leadership
• A public voice for positive changes and innovation
• A social entrepreneur and innovator for sustainability
• An award winner for her contributions to China’s low carbon growth
Positions Currently Held:
• Chief Executive Officer, The Future Innovation Center
• China/Asia Director, Office of Jeremy Rifkin
• Vice Chair, Governing Council of Asia Pacific Water Forum
• Member, Global Future Council on Energy Technologies, World Economic Forum
• Judging Panel, Technology Pioneers, World Economic Forum
Dr. Xinyu Fan
Assistant Professor of Economics at CKGSBDr. Xinyu Fan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at CKGSB. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angles (UCLA) in 2018. Dr. Fan also holds B.Econ&Fin from the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Fan is mainly interested in game theory and its applications in political economy and organizational economics. His research interests also include economic history and industrial organization.
Moonlight Zhu
Program and Communications Manager at MyH2OMoonlight Zhu, Program and Communications Manager of MyH2O Water Information Network. She graduated from Pitzer College with an International Relations major and a Media Studies minor. She focuses on law, public welfare, and sustainable development. Moonlight interned at a Category II center under UNESCO, and has 3+ years experiences of public relations as well as project management. At MyH2O Water Information Network, she has led two online fund-raising campaigns that support over 25 teams to participate and complete their H2O Project, a water investigating project in Sichuan Province during H2O Project Phase VII, and a problem-solving project on drinking water with local government in Zhejiang Province. She is, currently, in charge of 2019-2020 Advanced H2O Water Solution Program.
Haibin Zhou
Founder and Executive Director of Easy InclusionHaibin ZHOU is the Founder and Executive Director of Easy Inclusion, the coordinator of ILO Global Business and Disability Network China chapter, Chief Supervisor of Inclusion China and board member of Beijing Baixingyizhong Legal Service Centre for Persons with Disabilities. In2012-2016, he worked in International Labor Office in China and Mongolia as National Programme Coordinator, and coordinatd UN Partnership on Rights for Persons with Disabilities in China and ILO Global Business and Disability Network in China.
Before joining ILO, he works in WuHan Evening News as a reporter in 2008 to 2011, and reported on news of Hubei Province and Wuhan City governments and Communists’ Party Committee and National People’s Congress. Mr. Zhou gets a Master degree in Human Rights and Democratization in University of Sydney, Australia and a master degree in International Law in Institute of International Law in Wuhan University, China. He also gets a Graduate Certification on International Relations in Johns Hopkins University–Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies and BA in International Law in Northwest University of Politics and Law.
Haoran Zheng
Project Officer, Youth Leadership at United Nations Population FundMs. Haoran Zheng is the Project Officer on Youth Leadership at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in China, where Haoran leads projects on promoting youth’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) through innovative comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), peer education and youth leadership and participation. Before joining UNFPA, she has worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International NGOs and news media in the U.S., Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Bolivia and China. Since becoming an international development practitioner, Haoran is proud to have contributed to youth leadership, SRHR, children’s education, poverty reduction, humanitarian assistance, social inclusion and rule of law through programmes, policy briefing and advocacy.
Haoran holds a Master’s degree in International Development from New York University and lived in the U.S. for seven years.
Han Xiao
Managing Partner at Mana Impact InvestmentMr Han XIAO is the first generation of Impact Investors in China. He has been working a year in Africa supporting the establishment of the first African Social Enterprise incubator and raising fund for the first African Social Investment. After returning to China, Mr Han Xiao took the chief China representative role for a global Impact Investment fund LGT Venture Philanthropy of Liechtenstein Princely family and then started the first local Impact Private Equity fund Lanshan Social Investment. Mr Han Xiao‘s experience includes Private Equity, M&A and Investment Banking. He used to work for Baidu.com (China's biggest internet searching engine), Deloitte, one of China’s largest finance holding companies and established M&A funds for several listed companies.
Shuo Li
Youth Programme Officer at UN WomenShuo LI is the Youth Programme Officer at UN Women China Office, responsible for overseeing and coordinating programmes and campaigns which engage youth in promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment.
In 2015, aged 22, Shuo was the youngest programme associate recruited by the UN system in China. From 2015 to 2018, Shuo coordinated UN Women’s first school-based peer education and violence prevention programme in China, which effectively incubated innovative youth-led solutions to prevent gender-based violence and fostered a culture of zero tolerance to discrimination and violence among Chinese youths.
As a member of UN Women China’s team on ending gender-based violence, Shuo provided technical inputs to the legislation and implementation of China’s first national domestic violence law and worked closely with women living with HIV/AIDS, women living with disabilities, LBT rights advocates and other marginalized communities to build their resilience and leadership against gender-based violence.
Shuo holds a dual bachelor’s degree in comparative politics and history from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a Chinese student in the United States, Shuo worked on strengthening the bond between youths from the two countries by coordinating the Duke-UNC China Leadership Summit and interning at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.