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Xiangning Wu is an Assistant Professor of Department of Government and Public Policy, University of Macau. She held her Ph.D from the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on Asia-Pacific regionalization, China-US relations, and International Political Economy.

She has previously worked for the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University as a research fellow and program coordinator for the MacArthur Foundation Project. She also served as a project director for the Institute of US-China People-to-People exchange, Peking University. Prior to joining UM, she worked as a research fellow at Sun Yat-sen University.

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Nick is The Economist Intelligence Unit's Lead for Global Trade. He has a particular focus on analysis tied to the US-China trade war, but is also responsible for The EIU's views on international trade issues more generally, including in regards to international trade policy, supply chain developments and topics around digital trade and globalisation.

In addition to that role, Nick also concurrently serves on The EIU’s Asia team as an analyst for China, Taiwan and Macau, where he forecasts and writes about macro-economic and political developments in those economies, as well as specific topics including China’s foreign business environment, cross-Strait affairs and the Belt and Road Initiative. He is also a member of The EIU’s Access China team, where he conducts research on China’s 31 provinces and nearly 300 key prefectures. Until 2017, Nick previously served as lead and final editor of The EIU’s now-retired “China Hand” publication, which focused on cross-sector policy and regulatory developments within the mainland Chinese market.

Prior to joining The EIU’s Hong Kong office in early 2017, Nick conducted policy research for several years in Beijing, China as a business advisory services manager with the US-China Business Council (USCBC), a US trade association. While at USCBC, he primarily covered the policy portfolios for the information and communications technology sector. Before his time at USCBC, Nick held previous part time positions at the US Embassy in Beijing and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.

Nick holds a BA in Foreign Affairs and Chinese Language and Literature from the University of Virginia, as well graduate certification from the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies.

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Xiaowen Ma serves as Senior Public Policy Manager for Infineon Technologies. She currently chairs the European Chamber’s Cybersecurity Sub-working Group. Prior to this role, Xiaowen worked as Senior Business Manager at the European Chamber, where she was responsible for the Information and Communication Technology Working Group and the Cybersecurity Sub-working Group, led the Chamber’s engagement with Chinese and European governments and other stakeholders in the ICT field, and provided counselling to European companies on market entry and regulatory issues, especially on cybersecurity, encryption, data protection and telecoms/cloud.

Xiaowen holds a Master’s degree in European Affairs from Sciences Po Paris, and a Bachelor’s degree in French Language and Literature from Renmin University of China.