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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.

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GU Jiandang, President of Phoenix Contact (China) Holding Co., Ltd., the Executive Committee member of Phoenix Contact Group, the founder of Phoenix Contact Smart Strategy Initiative, builder and facilitator of China Smart Eco-System. He holds the degrees of Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Nanjing University, and EMBA from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1992, and then entered the NARI Group Corporation. By the end of 1993, as one member of the entrepreneurial team, he joined Phoenix Contact China, starting his 25-year entrepreneurial career.

He has served as a part-time professor at Shanghai University of Electric Power (SUEP), a visiting professor at The School of Business, Nanjing University (NJUBS), a visiting professor at Tianjin Sino-German University of Applied Sciences (TSGUAS), a part-time professor at Tongji University, an executive director of China Instrument and Control Society (CIS), an executive director of China Enterprise Confederation/China Enterprise Directors Association (CEC/CEDA), Vice President of Smart Grid Equipment Working Committee/Electric Control and Distribute Equipment Institute, China Electrical Equipment Industry Association (CEEIA), Vice President of Home Appliance Industry Smart Manufacturing Innovation Strategy Alliance, a director of Smart Manufacturing Branch, China Machinery Industry Federation (CMIF), and President of Nanjing Automation and Instruments Association (NAIA), as well as some other positions; he has also been awarded many honors, including Model Worker in Nanjing, Outstanding Entrepreneur in Nanjing City/Jiangsu Province/China, Annual Influential Figure in China Business Circle, China's Top Ten Economic News Figures, China's Top Ten MBA Elites, as well as International Multinational Company Leadership Award, etc.

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Janet has 32 years’ working experience with Chinese government. She was engaged in foreign investment project approval and supervision for 23 years thereof and owns abundant experience in this field. Janet used to serve as the executive deputy director of Commerce Committee of a province capital and megapolis. She was in charge of the introduction of foreign investment to China, the approval of foreign invested companies' establishment and the management of government services to foreign invested companies. She is distinguished for substantial experience assisting foreign companies in site selection, land acquisition, project approval, government support obtaining, and preferential treats application. Beyond her acquaintance with the administrative procedures, she holds a profound insight to the inherent reasons for successful or failed foreign investment projects.
Janet also served as the secretary-general of Government Major Foreign Investment Projects Promotion Leader Group for 7 years which was directly under the lead of the mayor. She possesses rich experiences in solving problems that commonly incur throughout foreign investment process. Her successful cases include providing effective solutions for more than 30 special foreign investment projects, covering different aspects such as land acquisition, Articles of Association approval, plant construction, special permits application, meeting arrangement between the senior management of the foreign investors and Chinese municipal leaders, labor disputes, violation punishment, e.g., overdue fine for land transferring fees, and etc.
Janet was in charge of the investment approval for numerous projects, and also played a key role in helping the companies solve government related problems during their operation.