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Jörg Wuttke is Chief Representative of BASF China, based in Beijing. Wuttke is President of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China – an office he already held from 2007 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2017. Wuttke is a member of the Advisory Board of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin. He contributes regularly to the Swiss financial blog https://themarket.ch/. Wuttke has lived in Beijing for more than three decades.

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Ernan covers a wide range of topics related to Chinese consumers at Gavekal Dragonomics, including the labour market, demographics, urbanisation, and household savings and debts; she also tracks trends in major consumer-related sectors such as retailing, autos, tourism, healthcare, agriculture and food. She is often quoted by major international media outlets including the Financial Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist.

A native of Tianjin, Ernan joined the Beijing office of Gavekal Dragonomics in 2013. She previously interned at Standard Chartered and Accenture, and was a part-time researcher at the University of Chicago's Beijing Center. Ernan graduated from Renmin University of China with an MA in economics and a double bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics.

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As an Engineer, graduated in Material Science & Technology and in Mechanical Engineering / Production Technology (RWTH Aachen), my professional path began in R&D and Production Technologies. During the past 21 years I worked for BORSIG, GEA and TURCK before joining Fette Compacting in Nanjing.
Since 2000 I have been holding General and Senior Management (International Group level) positions with main responsibilities for Sales, Production, Engineering and R&D in the machinery / equipment business for various industries. In my responsibilities, it has been always my duty to drive businesses and operations; including strategic business and organizational development, change management, administration and personnel management on international level. My “China experience” started with improving and extending the operations of a JV (joint venture) back in 2004/05. Since January 2010, I am living and working in China as MD for WFOEs in Shanghai, Tianjin and now Nanjing. I am married and have two grown-up daughters.

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Bettina Schoen-Behanzin entered Freudenberg Group in October 2012. As Regional Representative Asia she has been leading the Regional Corporate Center, based in Shanghai, China and is providing guidance and support for strategic planning and business development for the Freudenberg Business Groups in the region. From March 2008 to September 2012 she served as Managing Director of Wittur Elevator Components, China. She assumed the role of Managing Director of Rittal Electro-Mechanical Technology, China from 2000 to 2008, after having been the General Manager of Rittal in China as well as Sales and Marketing Manager of Rittal in Singapore. She had joined the Rittal Headquarters in Germany in 1992.

Bettina Schoen-Behanzin has acquired a Master degree in Sinology, Business Economics and Political Science at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany. Furthermore, she did Post-Graduate Studies of Chinese and Economics at Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Speaking Chinese fluently, Bettina Schoen-Behanzin has around 25 years of working experience in Asia, mostly in China, leading operational business as well acting in corporate functions. From April 2014 to April 2016 she served as Director of the Board of the German Chamber Shanghai, being reelected in April 2016 and April 2018 as President of the Board of the German Chamber Shanghai. In 2019, she was the first German woman to receive Shanghai Municipal Government’s Magnolia Gold Award.

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Dr. Christoph Schrempp has more than 18 years of international leadership and many years of industrial lobbying and 4 years of government dialogue experience. He has worked as the general manager of AIRBUS Tianjin Delivery Centre since July 2020, before that, he took several different roles at AIRBUS from 2013 to 2020. From 2008 to 2013, he was a member of German Board of Standardization for Cabin DIN/NL. Christoph took the position of head of testing and later quality director at RECARO Aircraft Seating from 2000 to 2006. He worked as a project engineer and a development engineer at Space Systems Institute and BOSCH Telecom respectively in the 90's.

Dr. Christoph Schrempp received his PhD degree in Aerospace Engineer at Stuttgart University, Germany.

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Harald Kumpfert serves as the Chairman of the Board, EU Chamber of Commerce in China, Shenyang Chapter.
Harald Kumpfert has been working for 20 years in China in the field of energy efficiency.
Harald introduced new technologies, designs and operational methods to the industry, helping companies to reduce their energy bills while contributing to the improvement of air quality.
In appreciation for his contribution to the development of the City of Shenyang and the Liaoning Province Harald was awarded the Rose Prize of Shenyang in 2013 and the Friendship Award of Liaoning in 2014 and serves as the supervisor on the business environment of Shenyang since 2018.
In 2015 Harald Kumpfert joined the Board of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China and took over the position of Chairman of the Shenyang Chapter to support European Companies in developing their business in North East and to foster the ties with the society.

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Born in Germany and graduated in Industrial Engineering. Until late 80's mainly remained in Germany near his hometown in Erlangen, where he had a position at Siemens Healthcare HQ.

From 1993 to 2006 he was based in Hongkong, Malaysia, Germany and China for several executive management positions within the Siemens Healthcare organization, one of which was Technical Director at Siemens Healthineers facility(SSMR), based in Shenzhen's Hi-Tech Industrial Park.

In 2006 start-up and developed from scratch the Shenzhen subsidiary of a Swiss Company, Imedco AG. Imedco is global player involved in the healthcare Industry, manufacturing MRI shielding solutions for hospitals and research institutions.

Involvement at European Chamber South China Chapter board since 2016. As an active board member of the European Chamber South China Chapter he holds the Chair of the board position since 2021. In the capacity as EU Chamber Vice President supports the member companies and meets with government officials on a regular basis to discuss the current economic and technological issues.

In March 2021 Klaus was elected as a Director of the Board at the Swiss Chamber in South China. He is also a member of the German Chamber in South China, where he meets other Ms in the monthly "GM Roundtable".

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Massimo Bagnasco is Managing Partner of Progetto CMR Beijing, an Italian design practice that ranks into the top 100 architecture firms worldwide, with headquarters in Milan and 12 offices all over the world.

Fifteen years ago he moved to China to set up the local Company. Since then he was in charge of firm’s operations all over China. In 2009 he became Partner. Nowadays the Company is actively operating in all the EUCCC chapters. Since 2008 he is actively engaged in the EUCCC, at the beginning as Vice Chairman and Chairman of Construction WG and representing the SME Forum in several official occasions. Since 2013 he was the Italian State Representative in the EUCCC Member States Supervisory Board.

In the last five years he served as Executive Committee member, since 2014, in the position of Vice President. In 2016, he received the Knighthood of the Order of the Star by appointment of President of the Italian Republic to have acquired special credits in the promotion of cooperation between Italy and China. He was actively involved in the preparation and development activities related to the “EU‐China Partnership on Urbanization”. In 2014 DG RTD appointed him as the EU Experts, in charge of Urbanization, in the Taskforce for EU‐China Innovation Cooperation Dialogue. Actually he is Experts Advisory Board Member in two HORIZON 2020 funded cooperation projects between EU and China in the field of urban development and innovation.

He is visiting professor at the School of Architecture at Beijing Jiaotong University. Before moving to China, he cooperated with other leading design firms and real estate companies working in Europe and abroad.