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Juan Ignacio first came to China in 2003 to open a government commercial office in Shanghai to support Spanish companies doing business in China. He entered the private sector in 2007 to set up the first greenfield manufacturing plant in China for the Spanish multi-national automotive engineering company, Gestamp. In 2009, Juan Ignacio relocated to Beijing to become Managing Director for the Spanish wind engineering company, Gamesa (now Siemens-Gamesa). During his time in Beijing, Juan Ignacio became involved with the European Union Chamber of Commerce and led the sub-working group for Renewable Energy companies. He was later elected vice-president of the Executive Committee of the European Chamber (in Beijing). In 2013, Juan Ignacio was asked to return to Spain to take the appointment of Vice-minister of Industry and Energy for his native Basque region. There, he was responsible for the formation and execution of the industrial, energy and international policy of the government.

Juan Ignacio is now back in Shanghai where he is currently vice president and member of the board of Iraeta Energy Equipment company, a Spanish-multinational with a China JV manufacturing energy equipment mainly servicing the wind power sector.

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Mickael Naouri is the Corporate Affairs Director & H2E Senior Business Developer for Air Liquide China, a leading French industrial gases company. Michael is responsible for developing the hydrogen strategy and marketing for Air Liquide in Asia Pacific, having previously worked for Air Liquide on refinery, chemical and energy topics for the large industry business line. Mickael is the former National Vice Chair of the Energy Working Group (2020-23) and is currently based in Shanghai.

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Chengfei joined PwC Société d’Avocats (law firm of PwC France) in April 2006 in Paris, is director now. He specializes in both China/French corporate tax and international tax with Sino-French bi cultural (French and Chinese speaker).

Chengfei is currently working for PwC Shanghai tax service (French tax desk) from October 8th 2013 . He has been involved extensively in dealings with European/French cross-border investment into the China and has extensive experiences in advising European/French multinational companies to formulate their investment strategies, structure their expansion and streamline their operating structures to comply with various business and tax regulations in China.

Since 2006, he has worked for a broad range of top tear financial and strategic clients (e.g. CAC 40 groups and European mid-cap companies). His experience encompasses a broad range of industries including Automotive, energy and utilities, consumer products, healthcare, industrial, transport, sports and media.

Chengfei obtained a Master degree of Corporate tax law from Paris Dauphine University (2006) as well as a Master degree of International commercial law from Paris X Nanterre University (2006).