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Francine Hadjisotiriou is the General Manager of the European Chamber South China Chapter where she manages the Guangzhou and Shenzhen office operations.

She has 25 years’ experience in B to B services of which 20 spent in Asia. After working in Tokyo, Japan, for more than 3 years in the credit-insurance company Coface Japan, she joined the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China and established the Nanjing Chapter in early 2004. She took over the newly established South China Chapter at the end of 2006.
The South China Chapter has about 300 corporate members.

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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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Jamie Rowlands is a partner and Chief Representative Officer of Gowling WLG's Guangzhou Representative Office. He is a UK qualified solicitor with over 16 years of experience enforcing and protecting clients' valuable intellectual property rights (in particular patents and brands), negotiating and advising on transactions with an intellectual property focus and drafting commercial agreements more generally. He is client focussed and always strives to get to the nub of an issue to deliver the most relevant and commercial advice.
In China, Jamie works with his team on both transactional and litigation services. He has very extensive experience of all aspects of the court system in Mainland China and understands the complexities and cultural challenges well.
His work has always been internationally-focussed and includes acting on complex global disputes and transactions involving parties from the UK, Europe, USA, Canada, China, Japan and Africa. He is first rate at managing large teams (including lawyers from different jurisdictions) to provide a cost effective and streamlined service for clients. Jamie combines in-depth technical expertise with broad sector experience; work includes acting for clients in healthcare, aviation, advanced manufacturing, finance and hi-tech sectors.

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George Lau, General Manager of TÜV Rheinland Greater China Products Accreditation and Certification at TÜV Rheinland, where he has worked for 12 years.

Since 2011, Lau has held exchanges for authorities, e.g. SAMR (State Administration of Market Regulation, formerly AQSIQ), Shanghai Institute of Administrative Law, Hamburg Business Development Corporation, and companies e.g. Google, Alibaba, Huawei, Lenovo etc. regarding EU certification regulations & risk management, receiving unanimous recognition.

Previously, Lau worked as an analyst for ZTE Corporation. As result of his performance regarding African market development – fulfilling Chinese central government’s mission – he was promoted directly to Assistant to the CEO.

Since 2004, Lau has been studying the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese-foreign cultural differences, socialism with Chinese characteristics etc., to explore strategies of foreign companies in China. He believes that such knowledge is indispensable for multinationals developing in China.

Lau is a German Chinese who immigrated to Germany at the age of 5. He is fluent in German, English, Cantonese, Mandarin, French and graduated from Konstanz University with magister juris in 2003.

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Adam Dunnett is responsible for the overall implementation the European Chamber's objectives, visibility, membership and lobbying activities across its 7 chapters and 9 offices in China (Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Shenyang and Tianjin).