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James McGregor is Greater China Chairman for APCO Worldwide, and author of two highly regarded books: No Ancient Wisdom, No Followers: The Challenges of Chinese Authoritarian Capitalism, published in October 2012, and One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China, published in 2005. He was a veteran reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and prior to joining APCO he was founder and CEO of a China-focused consulting and research firm for hedge funds. He also held previous roles as a senior advisor for Ogilvy Public Relations China and the China managing partner for GIV Venture Partners, a venture capital fund that focused on technology and Internet investments in China and India. In 2014, he received a SABRE Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement from The Holmes Group.
Mr. McGregor was a reporter in the Washington bureau of Knight-Ridder newspapers during the Reagan administration. After serving as the Taiwan bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal from 1987 to 1990 and China bureau chief from 1990 to 1994, he spent seven years building Dow Jones’ media business in China as CEO of Dow Jones’ China. During this time, he established CNBC in China and created the Chinese language Web site of wsj.com, Dow Jones’ Chinese-language newswires, Chinese stock-market indexes and the first weekly business-television show in China. He was also a Series A investor in Sohu.com and served on the Sohu board for several years. After successfully preventing Xinhua News Agency from obtaining a monopoly on financial information in China, he received the Barney Kilgore award, Dow Jones’ highest employee accolade.
Mr. McGregor is a professional speaker, regular television and radio commentator and a contributor of essays and opinion articles for a variety of publications. He has lived in China for more than two decades, and can speak and read Chinese. He was an active member of the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham) for nearly a decade and served as chairman in 1996. He is currently chairman of the U.S. Government Relations Committee for AmCham. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council, a Global Council member of the Asia Society, a board member of the U.S.-China Education Trust and a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

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Michael has more than 20 years of experience in advising international companies on their operations in and with China. He has profound experience advising industrial clients in various sectors, covering all legal aspects of a typical investment deal like market entry and joint ventures, M&A restructuring and exit. Throughout his two decades’ practice, Michael has been gradually converging his energy on technology driven business and has built up his reputation and connections in the circle.

As the first Chinese partner of Taylor Wessing, Michael is now heading the firm's TMC practice for China. Besides his expertise regarding general corporate and commercial matters, he specializes in IT regulatory and data/privacy protection areas. Michael holds CIPP/E certification as granted by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). At the same time, he frequently publishes articles and comments on IT and technology related legal topics.

Michael is National Vice Chair of the Legal & Competition Working Group under the European Chamber of Commerce. He also serves as an arbitrator of the Shanghai International Arbitration Center.

Michael studied law at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing (UIBE), China, where he also completed his LLB and LLM degrees in 1997 and 2000 respectively. In 2006, Michael received his law doctorate from UIBE. In 1997, Michael was admitted to the Chinese bar. After practicing in domestic law firms, he worked in the Beijing office of a major international law firm from 2000 to 2002. In 2002, he joined Taylor Wessing in the Shanghai office. As of 2007, he has been appointed as a partner of Taylor Wessing.

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Mary Boyd is responsible for programme development and client servicing in Shanghai. She also provides research and conceptual support on China for Economist Corporate Network programmes.

Before joining the Economist Group Mary Boyd was in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, serving on assignment in Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan and China (in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing).

Since leaving government service she has researched and published on economic development and governance issues in China, and has undertaken consultancy work for the World Bank and other international institutions, as well as multinational companies. She has written for a number of Economist Intelligence Unit publications, including Country Report, China Hand and Business China. She co-authored the Economist Intelligence Unit report Taking on the Competition: Domestic Companies in China.

Ms Boyd has an MA (area studies) and an MSc (public policy and management) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and has also completed language studies at Nanjing University. Her research interests include local governance and decentralisation policies and public-sector reform.

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柏玛丽女士在上海负责项目开拓及客户服务工作，同时就对中国的研究和理解为经济学人企业组织的活动提供支持。
在加入经济学人集团前，柏玛丽女士曾在加拿大外交部任职，受委派在香港、泰国、台湾及中国大陆（上海、广州及重庆）开展工作。
在离开政府职位后，柏玛丽女士进行了中国经济发展及治理问题方面的研究，已发表有相关出版物，并为世界银行及其他国际机构、跨国企业提供咨询工作。柏玛丽女士曾为多个经济学人信息部出版物撰稿，包括《国家报告》、《中国通》及《商务中国》，她还合作撰写了经济学人信息部的 报告《接受挑战：中国本土企业》。
柏玛丽女士在伦敦大学亚非学院获得文学硕士（地区研究）及理学硕士（公共政策与管理），并在南京大学完成了语言学习。她的研究兴趣包括地方治理、分权政策及公共部门改革。

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Yolanda is a Tax Partner of PwC China, Shanghai Office. She is specialized in indirect tax area with more than 13 years of experience.

Since China VAT reform in year 2012, Yolanda is focusing on building efficient indirect tax function for clients, which includes but not limited to the strategic VAT function design and implementation, VAT SOPs set-up and improvement, VAT modelling analysis by including international trade, etc.

Digitalizing the VAT process is also one of her expertise. Yolanda leads various invoice and VAT automation projects in China. These projects support finance and tax departments in streamlining their process and improve the tax data analytics capability. Clients covers various industries, e.g. traditional manufacturing/trading companies, high-tech companies, retail & consumer companies, pharmaceutical and chemical companies and all the group companies with shared service centre.

She is also involved in various VAT defence and negotiation projects. She was involved in one of the important VAT ruling application for catering industry.

Yolanda has a Bachelor Degree (International Accounting) from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in 2005. She is a member of the Fellowship of Chartered Certified Accountants (‘FCCA') and a member of the Chinese Institute of Tax Agents.

吕韵璐女士就职于普华永道咨询(深圳)有限公司上海分公司，是税务部合伙人。她在税务及商务咨询领域，特别在流转税方面，有超过12年的工作经验。吕女士在过往的工作中，参与了众多流转税咨询和实施项目。项目类型包括但不限于：增值税转型调研，增值税健康检查，增值税内控评估及提升，贸易进出口增值税相关效率及模型分析，为共享服务中心提供增值税功能设计及实施等。吕女士也在流转税争议解决和协商方面为客户提供增值服务。在2016年营改增全面推行之际，吕女士协助餐饮行业客户对政策的具体解读向各级税务机关及国税总局反馈，并收到了显著的成效。在接触过的行业方面，吕女士服务于传统制造及贸易公司及集团企业，高科技公司，零售消费品行业，外国承包工程项目，汽车及制药业等。吕女士2005年毕业于上海财经大学国际会计系，她拥有FCCA和TA双资格。

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Mr. Charles (Zhegnyu) Liu has over 30 years executive experiences in telecommunication, mobile, software and cloud industries, from North America to Asia Pacific. His career included CEO of a CISCO-TCL JV, SVP and CTO of Appconomy, Chairman and GM of RIM China, Chief Rep of Beijing Office of Entrust Inc, and other executive positions in startups. His overseas career covered R&D manager and software engineer positions of Nortel Networks/Bell Northern Research in Canada.
Mr. Liu obtained M.Sc from University of Ottawa and B.Sc from Shanghai University of Science and Technology.
Mr. Liu is also involved in many voluntary activities, He served as a board Director of CCBC Beijing section, VP of Canada branch of WRSA, President of China Alumni of University of Ottawa, Visiting professor/advisor of Beijing University of Post and Telecom/Chongqing University of Post and Telecom/Neusoft University, Shanghai University/New Huadu Business School, and Advisor for startups and incubators . Mr. Liu was a longtime CCG member and currently serves as the secretary general of CCG Shanghai.

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Jennifer Pak is Marketplace’s China correspondent based in Shanghai. She tells stories that explain how America is connected to the world's second largest economy.

She trained as a producer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in her hometown of Calgary before heading to Beijing in 2006. Jennifer arrived without many journalism contacts but quickly set up her own news bureau. Since then, she has worked as a TV, radio and digital producer and reporter primarily in China and Malaysia for several outlets including the BBC, the Financial Times and the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Jennifer was part of the first team of western journalists to reach the worst affected area in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and covered the Beijing Olympics. She was the primary BBC reporter covering the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in 2014.

When Jennifer got her first job at a radio station in northern Alberta, she drove a half-ton pickup truck to fit in. She’s been trying to offset that carbon footprint ever since by taking public transport and cycling in China.

Jennifer speaks English, Cantonese, Mandarin and gets by just fine in French and Spanish.

Wherever she travels, Jennifer likes to roam the grocery stores to see what people are eating.