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Time2018-12-04 | 14:00 - 18:00
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Venue:Regal International East Asia Hotel, Emerald Ballroom
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2018 is a challenging year for China. Since Q3 China experienced the adverse impact of the US-China trade war. According to the China economic growth report, China's economy has gradually shifted from investment-led to consumption-driven. Its potential economy growth may slow down further in the coming year.
What is the biggest challenge and opportunity for China in 2019? Please join us with experts to foresee how Chinese policies will rule economics in the New Year.
The European Chamber is delighted to welcome experts in the field of China’s Economy and Trade Relations with EU and US.
Agenda:
13:30 - 14:00 Registration
14:00 - 14:10 Welcome speach by Mr. Carlo Diego D'Andrea, Vice President and Chairman of European Union Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai Chapter
14:10 -14:30 keynote speech by Mr. Richard Martin Managing Director at IMA Asia
14:30 - 15:30 Panel Discussion Prospect of Chinese Consumer's Spending Desire in 2019
Moderator: Mr. Richard Martin Managing Director at IMA Asia
Panelists: Mr. Eduardo Morcillo Managing Partner, InterChina
Dr. Michael Kuan Vice Chairman, Center for China and Globalization (CCG)
Mr. Wei Lin Advisory Partner, KPMG
15:30-15:50 Networking Coffee break
15:50 - 16:10 Keynote speech by Mr. Jörg Wuttke, Chief Representative of BASF China
16:10 - 17:10 Panel discussion: The upcoming US-EU-China relationship under the trade war
Moderator: Mr. Carlo Diego D'Andrea, Vice President and Chairman of European Union Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai Chapter
Panelists: Mr. Jörg Wuttke, Chief Representative of BASF China
Mr. Andrew Polk, Co-founder, Trivium/China
Mr. Maximilian RECH, Programme Director & Assistant Professor at ESSCA Shanghai
Ms. Joanne K. Wood, Chairman of Capital Eight
17:15 - 17:25 Closing Remarks & Networking Mr. Carlo Diego D'Andrea, Vice President and Chairman of European Union Chamber of Commerce, Shanghai Chapter
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Speakers
Mr. Jörg Wuttke
Mr. Jörg Wuttke
Jörg Wuttke is Vice President and Chief Representative of BASF China, based in Beijing. Since joining BASF in 1997, Mr. Wuttke has been responsible for helping guide the company’s investment strategies for China, negotiation of large projects and government relations.
Previous to joining BASF, Mr. Wuttke worked with ABB for 11 years; in fact his first professional encounter with China was in 1988 as the Finance and Administration Manager of ABB Beijing. In 1990, he returned to Germany as Sales Manager of ABB Power Plants Division, responsible for gas turbine sales to Africa and Russia. In 1993, he became Chief Representative ABB China in Shanghai and in 1994 moved to the President's Office of ABB China in Beijing, where he was responsible for the development and financing of large projects.
From 2001 to 2004 Mr. Wuttke was the Chairman of the German Chamber of Commerce in China. From 2007 to 2010, 2014 to 2017, and since May 2019 again he is the President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China
From 2011 to 2019, Mr. Wuttke was Chairman of the BIAC China Task Force of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC), a Paris based body of major business associations that lobbies the OECD.
From 2013 to 2016, and again since 2019 Mr. Wuttke is Vice Chairman of the CPCIF International Cooperation Committee, a group representing Multinational Companies in China’s Chemical Association.
Since its establishment in 2013, Mr. Wuttke is member of the Advisory Board of Germany’s foremost Think Tank on China, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), in Berlin.
In January 2019 Mr. Wuttke joined the International Board of the Stars Foundation, in Switzerland. stars - for Leaders of the Next Generation.
Dr. Xin Guan (Michael Kuan)
Dr. Xin Guan (Michael Kuan)
Guan Xin (Michael Kuan) is the founder and chairman of Kuan Capital, an investment and asset management firm based in Shanghai, China. Prior to establishing Kuan Capital in 2013, he served as the co-founder of CyberCity Investment, SIG Capital and was a partner of GGV Capital.
Born in China and educated in the United States, Michael’s investment career spans over thirty years-- starting in 1986 as a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. He returned to China in 1992 to become one of the pioneering investors in TMT, Internet, Education and the Biotech Industry.
Michael has invested and played key roles in some of the most successful ventures, which include Quantech Electronics, China.com, Sina.com, Liming Networks, China Cable Networks, Grandhope Biotech and Hippo Animation. Kuan Capital is also an investor in Anchor Pacific Capital, RedBird Capital and Singularity University in United States.
Michael was also the co-author of InvestAmerica (1989), an investment guide for foreign investors seeking US investment opportunities. He was the 2006 commencement speaker at Pepperdine University and has served a number of board members of private and publicly traded companies in the US, China and Hong Kong.
Additionally, Michael serves as a founding council member of TEDx Global.
Mr. Eduardo Morcillo
Mr. Eduardo Morcillo
With 26 years of China corporate development and investment banking experience, Eduardo is Managing Partner of ICP (InterChina Partners). ICP ranks among China’s top 5 mid-market Investment banks with more than 200 M&A and Divestment transactions successfully closed. The company employs 60 people and has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and London. InterChina is member of Clearwater International, one of Europe’s leading investment banking firms. Eduardo is a member of several board of directors in China and APAC, a member of YPO and an associate professor in Cheung Kong Business School and IE for MBA executive education. Prior work experience with Credit Suisse Asset Management (Madrid) and Sinclair Roche & Temperley (London).
Mr. Andrew Polk
Mr. Andrew Polk
Andrew Polk is the Co-founder and Head of Economic Research at Trivium China, a Beijing-based strategic advisory firm.
Before founding Trivium, Polk was the China Director at Medley Global Advisors, where he advised asset managers and hedge funds on developments in China's economy and financial markets.
Previously, Polk was the Resident China Economist at The Conference Board's China Center, where he conducted economic analysis on the Chinese economy for corporate clients.
Polk is the co-author of The Long, Soft Fall in Chinese Growth and maintains a deep network of professional contacts in the official, academic, and business communities in China – built over a decade of living in China and working on China issues.
Other research positions he has held include stints at the Institute of International Finance and the U.S. Treasury; he holds an MA in economics and international relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS.
Mr. Richard Martin
Mr. Richard Martin
Richard Martin has helped companies assess the opportunities and risks in Asian markets for 35 years. As the founder of International Market Assessment (IMA), he helped build the leading peer group forums for country CEOs in Australia and in India before launching what has become the largest peer group program for Asia CEOs. Within IMA Asia, he is also the lead analyst with responsibility for guiding the team across 14 countries in the production of country assessments and market forecasts. The role involves constant travel across Asia to assess emerging trends and assist clients with adjusting their plans. He is the founding editor of the monthly Asia Pacific Executive Brief and the quarterly Asia Forecast Book. Until 1989, he was the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Director for Southeast Asia based in Singapore. He started work in Asia in 1981 in Hong Kong with the US advisory firm Business International. Richard holds an Honours Degree in Politics from Sydney University and a Master’s Degree in Asian Area Studies from London University (SOAS and LSE).
Mr. Maximilian RECH
Mr. Maximilian RECH
Maximilian RECH is Programme Director and Assistant Professor in International Affairs at ESSCA School of Management, Shanghai. He is also Academic Director of the MSc in Global Management ‘China-Europe Business’ and the MSc in Digital Marketing & Business, a programme that bridges the gap between Europe and China, focusing on the digital transformation of business models and best practices in digital marketing.
Specialising on Eurasian trade and investment as well as macro-economic cooperation along the Belt Road Initiative, Maximilian is affiliated with the ESSCA EU*Asia Institute, Renmin University of China, and Technical University of Munich. Maximilian previously worked for the Brussels-based think tank Friends of Europe where he implemented the European Union financed ‘Understanding China Programme’ and for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Maximilian has published with Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge Scholars Publishing and Springer Nature among others.
Ms. Joanne Wood
Ms. Joanne Wood
Joanne Wood is a 40-year veteran investment banker turned tech investor and entrepreneur.
In 2006, she founded Capital Eight, a corporate finance house headquartered in Shanghai, advising clients on a wide range of M&A, debt and equity capital raising, corporate restructure and infrastructure financing. Joanne previously worked in senior corporate finance positions with UBS, Jardine Fleming and GE Capital across Europe, the USA and Greater China, and was internationally ranked as a leading Asian-emerging markets advisor.
In 2012, Joanne began mentoring tech startups in China, advising aspiring entrepreneurs as an accredited mentor of Silicon Valley’s SOSV accelerator programs. She now mentors globally, and also serves on the Advisory Boards of a UAE-headquartered Web3 infrastructure platform, an Italian biotech and an Australian new energy venture. In 2023, she joined the founding team of a pioneering Singapore agri-tech developing a proprietary range of alternative plant-based proteins from farm waste.
Over the last 20 years, she has been active in the local community serving as Chair of the British Chamber’s Financial Services Group, Chair of the American Chamber’s Ethics Council, inaugural Chair of the National Australian Chamber Greater China and Vice Chair of the EU Chamber’s Investment Working Group. She is a staunch advocate of female entrepreneurship and the empowerment of women in business.
Joanne is a regular speaker at international conferences and often asked for her views on the China investment environment. She holds an MBA from London Business School, a B. Arts degree from the University of Adelaide, South Australia and reads, writes and speaks Mandarin.
Mr. Wei Lin
Mr. Wei Lin
Wei is an Advisory partner with eighteen years of M&A and strategy consulting experience across a number of industries, with a focus on consumer and retail, life sciences and financial services sectors. Wei is the National Sector Advisory Lead for the Consumer Markets, and leads the Strategy practice for KPMG in Mainland China.
Wei specializes in strategy development and execution supporting growth, market entry, mergers & acquisitions and restructuring situations. His areas of expertise include strategy, commercial and operational due diligence, operating model design, merger integration program management and change management.
In the last twelve years, Wei has led numerous engagements in China to help his clients securing and maximizing the value of their investments, into and out of China, through effective strategy / deal execution.
Examples of his recent engagements include::
Advising a leading European retailer to develop and implement its China market entry strategy
Advised a leading Chinese personal care company to acquire the maker of a UK-brand in baby products
Advised a global oil company on its downstream e-commerce market entry strategy for China
Advised a Sino-foreign automotive OEM on its leasing market entry strategy
Advised a global leading OEM on its China e-commerce strategy
Advised a global leading OEM on its China new mobility strategy
Advised an HK-based electronics manufacturer to integrate and restructure a leading maker of juvenile electronics
Advised a global leading home appliance business to acquire and integrate an listed domestic home appliance business
Advised a listed subsidiary of a Central SOE to acquire and integrate a business unit of a leading European automotive tier 1 supplier
Advised a leading central SOE in advanced manufacturing on the development of its global expansion strategy during the 13th Five Year Plan period
Advising a leading Healthcare company on its China growth strategy in relation to its Radiology portfolio
Advised a leading Japanese trading house on its China Healthcare Sector market entry strategy
Advised a leading Chinese IT company to acquire and integrate a telco billing services provider in the Middle East
Mr. Carlo Diego D’Andrea
Mr. Carlo Diego D’Andrea
Founder and Managing Partner of D’Andrea & Partners Legal Counsel, and Founder of DP Group.
Graduated in Law at the University of Teramo (Italy), he then subsequently obtained a Masters’ degree in Corporate Advisor at LUISS University in Rome and a Diploma in Chinese Studies at Nanjing Normal University and is a member of the Italian Bar Association.
Mr. D’Andrea arrived in China in 2005 and is fluent in Italian (mother tongue), English, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. He mainly deals with cross-border mergers and acquisitions, assistance in ODI/FDI and intellectual property rights.
He is also acting as Vice President of the European Chamber and Chair of the Shanghai Chapter.