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Artificial Intelligence, FinTech and the digital economy are central to global corporate planning. Many of the world's fastest growing and most ambitious start-ups focused on these areas are based in China. Join us in Hangzhou for the 2019 edition of FTChinese Annual Forum, the FT's flagship conference in China, to debate these topics with hundreds of your peers as well as entrepreneurs, scholars and investors.

Speakers

Miaojie Yu

Deputy Dean at National School of Development (NSD), Peking University

Fan He

Professor at Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University

Sheng Wu

Founder of Context Lab

Jun Qian

Executive Dean at Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University

Tom Simpson

Managing Director, China Operations and Chief China Representative of China Britain Business Council

DANIEL SEAH

Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Domain

Tian Xu

Vice President at Westlake University.

Mohamad Sawan

Founder and Principle Investigator of Center for Biomedical Research and Innovation, Westlake University

Selina Zheng

Chairwoman at DCL Investments

Peter Reynolds

Partner, Head of Greater China at Oliver Wyman

Wei Zhou

Co-founder & CEO of Squirrel AI

Wei Zhang

President of Operators Market Management, China at Huawei

Kevin Chen

General Manager of Marketing and Communication Division at Lexus China

Tracy Zhang

Publisher at FTChinese.com

Feng Wang

Editor-in-Chief at FTChinese.com

Miaojie Yu is a Professor at China Center for Economic Research (CCER), and a Deputy Dean of National School of Development (NSD), Peking University. He is a Cheung-Kong Distinguished Young Scholar of China. He holds his Ph.D. in economics from University of California, Davis (2005) under the direction of Dr. Robert Feenstra. His research includes international trade and Chinese economy. He serves as a Deputy Editor of China Economic Journal, and an editorial member of the journal China Economic Review. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers in English and Chinese, including prestigious peer-review academic journal such as The Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of Development Economics.

He recently earned the Royal Economic Society (RES) Prize as his sole-authored paper published in The Economic Journal won the annual best paper award. He also won China’s Anzijie International Trade Research Award, the highest research award for international trade research in China, three times (2008, 2010, 2014), in addition to the Liu-Shibai Economic Research Award(2014), Husheng Outstanding Young Scholar Research Award (2015), and China’s Commercial Development Research Award (2015).

曾任中国社会科学院世界经济与政治研究所副所长、北京大学汇丰商学院经济学教授、财新传媒首席经济学家等职。1971年出生于河南省荥阳县。1996和2000年毕业于中国社会科学院研究生院，分别获得经济学硕士和博士学位。1998年至2000年在美国哈佛大学进修。曾在麻省理工学院、牛津大学、澳大利亚国立大学等著名高校做访问教授。

其他学术和社会兼职包括：中国人民银行汇率专家组成员、财政部国际司顾问、商务部WTO司顾问、中国世界经济学会副会长、新兴经济体研究会副会长、中央电视台财经频道特约评论员、新华社特约观察员、世界经济论坛（达沃斯）青年全球领袖、亚洲社会青年领袖、美中关系委员会青年领袖、央行行长及学者30人小组（Bellagio Group）成员、对外经济贸易大学等高校兼职教授。

主要研究领域包括：中国宏观经济、国际金融、国际政治经济学。已经出版10多部专著，在国内外重要经济学期刊发表论文100多篇、并在各种主流媒体发表财经评论800多篇，有较大的社会影响。

Jun Qian, the Professor of Finance and Executive Dean at Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University.

Prior to joining FISF, he was Professor of Finance at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Director of the DBA/EMBA/EE programs; he was also the Deputy Director of China Academy of Financial Research. Before returning to China in 2013, he was a tenured finance professor at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College.

Professor Qian's research interests span many topics of corporate finance, financial institutions and capital markets. His research papers have been published in top academic journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies and Journal of International Economics. One of his best known papers, published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 2005, is elected an "All-Star" paper based on its large number of citations. In the paper, he and his coauthors explained how China has achieved its impressive economic growth without strong formal institutions or an efficient, 'standard' financial system that includes a stock market and a banking sector. This paper has led to a large and growing number of studies examining the role of alternative institutions in promoting economic growth in China and other developing countries. He also contributed book chapters on developing financial systems, including China's Great Economic Transformation, Emerging Giants: China and India in the World Economy, China's Emerging Financial Markets: Challenges and Opportunities, and Global Perspectives of Rule of Law.

Professor Qian is an Associate Editor of Frontiers of Economics in China and was on the editorial board of Review of Finance. He is a Research Fellow at the Financial Institutions Center of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has also been on the organizing committee of the China International Conference in Finance, the best academic finance conference in Asia, since its inception, and served as conference Co-Chair during 2008-2010. In addition, he was one of the academic advisors for The Chinese Finance Association, the largest organization for Chinese finance practitioners in the U.S. He also served as a visiting or special-term professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, the Wharton School, School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Shanghai National Accounting Institute.

Professor Qian received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000, and his B.S. degree in economics from University of Iowa. He also enrolled at Department of International Economics, Fudan University as an undergraduate.

Daniel was appointed Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer on September 29, 2014. Mr. Seah graduated from Peking University with a Masters Degree of Law (focusing in international politics) and Bachelor of Arts Degree in Law. He previously worked as an investment banker at Barclays and has extensive experience in the financial industry with expertise in securities, options, fund management and international businesses development. His in-depth knowledge of the private equity markets in Greater China and global markets enabled him to focus on business development around the world. From May 2010 to March 2013, Mr. Seah was also senior management of United Simsen Securities Limited, a company which provides brokerage services on securities, foreign exchange, gold bullion, futures and mutual funds. From June 2012 to March 2013, Mr. Seah was a non-executive director of King Stone Energy Group Limited (stock code: 663), a company whose shares are listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, Fellow of the IEEE, is an internationally renowned scientist in the field of smart medical devices. He has made significant contributions in implantable and wearable medical devices based on smart microsystems. Professor Sawan got a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Sherbrooke in 1990, was a postdoc fellow in Biomedical Engineering in McGill University in 1991, and was assistant professor, associate professor and full professor from 1991 to 2018 in Polytechnique, the Engineering School of University of Montreal. Recently, he joined the School of Engineering of Westlake University as a Chair Professor, Founder and Principle Investigator of the Center for Biomedical Research and Innovation (CenBrain).

Founded in 2015, DCL Investments is a leading alternative asset management firm in China that specializes in distressed assets and special opportunities investments with a focus on NPLs. Pioneered in distressed asset investments, DCL manages three RMB funds and a USD fund with over ¥ 8 billion assets under management. The firm currently manages the largest market-oriented distressed asset RMB fund in China. In particular, DCL is the first Chinese private equity firm focused on distressed asset investments which raises a large amount of capital primarily from domestic institutional investors.

DCL focuses on capital inefficiency during economic structural changes. DCL utilizes diversified exit strategies to minimize downside risk and to provide timely distributions. Geographically, DCL invests in major metropolitan regions in China, including Yangtze River Delta centered at Shanghai, Peral River Delta covering Guangzhou and Jing-Jin-Ji metropolitan region surrounding Beijing.

Peter Reynolds is a Managing Partner, board member and head of Greater China based in Oliver Wyman’s Hong Kong Office, where he moved in 2016 after 13 years with Oliver Wyman in New York and London. Peter has worked in depth with major financial institutions across Asia, the US, Europe and Middle East. Peter is a member of our Finance & Risk practice, and currently sits on the Asia Pacific Management Team and Global Financial Services Management Committee and Leadership Council. He previously was New York Office head; leader of our US Capital Markets Risk team; and co-Head of the Oliver Wyman Intellectual Capital committee.

Relevant experience：
Peter has worked on over 100 engagements, with recent client work has focused on a range of Strategic, Digital, Risk, Finance and Capital Planning topics for Banking and Insurance clients. Recent relevant project experience includes:
• Lead author of our primary research looking into personas and overall market satisfaction across retail and consumer banking in Hong Kong
• Support in developing and launching full suite of analytics and models for a new digital bank in China
• Assistance for a major North Asian securities regulator in developing a digital approach to systematically capturing conduct and risk data to enhance their supervision of G-SIFIs in the market, and using data to measure systemic risk
• Translation of risk analytics into business decision-support tool and pricing approaches, including prototyping fully digital mortgage approval approaches for European bank
• Support in redevelopment of retail credit models for a large Hong Kong-based bank, and ongoing dialogue and interaction with the HKMA
• Leading our relationship with a top-5 global private equity firm, including multiple due diligence engagements across a spectrum of FS businesses

Education
Peter holds a Bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in History and Economics, and an MBA with distinction from INSEAD. He joined the firm in February 2004 from a generalist strategy consulting firm.

Tracy Zhang is the Publisher of FTChinese.com, the FT's Chinese-language website and an important part of the FT's Asia offering. Based in Beijing, Zhang is responsible for the overall strategy and operation of FTChinese.com.

In 2016, Zhang was featured in Campaign Asia Pacific’s Digital China A-List, which recognises powerful, innovative players in China’s digital industry.

Before joining FTChinese.com, Zhang was deputy general manager for BusinessWeek in China. Prior to that, she was the chief representative of Dow Jones & Company in China, and also worked for Reuters.

Zhang holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of International Business and Economics, with a major in English. She attended the International MBA programme at Peking University and received her MBA from Fordham University in 2004. She also holds a Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma.

Wang Feng is Editor-in-Chief of FTChinese.com. He has 20 years of experience in the media industry, joining the Financial Times in his current position in April 2015. Previously, he had worked for three years as Online Editor at the South China Morning Post (SCMP) in Hong Kong, in charge of the English-language website scmp.com. He built an online editorial team after the site’s relaunch in 2012, and led the team to win multiple SOPA and Asian Media Awards. Before SCMP, Mr Wang was with Thomson Reuters in Beijing for five years, first as founding editor of Reuters China Website (cn.reuters.com), and then as Editor-in-Charge of Reuters Chinese News Service. Before Reuters, he had worked at various Chinese news organizations, including three years as senior writer and International Editor at Caijing Magazine. Mr Wang holds a Master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.

Agenda

November 12, 2019

Main Schedule

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Opening Remarks

Tracy Zhang

Kevin Chen

9:15 AM - 9:50 AM

Keynote Speech: Analysis and Prediction of Sino-US Trade Dispute

Miaojie Yu

9:50 AM - 10:20 AM

Keynote Speech: The Power of Open Markets: Ensuring a Prosperous Future Between the UK and China in a Changing World

Tom Simpson

10:20 AM - 10:50 AM

Keynote Speech: When Virtual Reality Comes

DANIEL SEAH

10:50 AM - 11:20 AM

Keynote Speech: What is Next for AI Education

Wei Zhou

11:20 AM - 11:50 AM

Keynote Speech: Bioengineering Innovations to Address Persistent Brain Disorders

Mohamad Sawan

11:50 AM - 12:05 PM

Launch of FTChinese Innovation Club 2019

Tracy Zhang

12:05 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Keynote Speech: New Opportunities in a Vibrant Era for Business

Sheng Wu

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Keynote Speech: Invest in Distressed Assets Under Uncertain Circumstances

Selina Zheng

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Keynote Speech: Observe China’s Economy Through Micro-trends

Fan He

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Launch of FTChinese and Oliver Wyman Reading List 2019

Peter Reynolds

Tracy Zhang

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Keynote Speech: Deep Incubation Model: Transform Research Findings into Core Technologies and Products

Tian Xu

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM

Keynote Speech: China’s Star Market: A Crossover Innovation between Finance and Technology

Jun Qian

4:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Keynote Speech: Work Together to Innovate, Embrace the 5G Era

Wei Zhang

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Keynote Speech: Branding Strategies for Chinese Companies to Go Abroad

Feng Wang

5:30 PM - 5:35 PM

Closing Remarks

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