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Ms. Beijue Tang is currently the Director of Legal&Tax APAC of Wuerth China Holding, which is a shared service center with its legal services accessible for Wuerth entties in the Asia-Pacific area. Beijue majored in law studies in East China Universitry of Political Science and Law and obtained LLM from Fudan University. Before joining the Wuerth Group, she worked in AllBright Law Office and Weir China as legal counsel. Her professional area covers several topics from compliance, contract mangement, insurance to intellectual property rights (IPR) and further general corporate affairs. Beijue became a Vice-Chair of the Legal & Competition working group of the European Chamber in 2022.

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Jeanette Yu is Partner and head of Employment & Pensions Practice Area Group of CMS, China. She has more than 20 years’ experience in providing advice for international companies on labour law issues and compliance management. Her extensive track record comprises recruitment and dismissal of employees, formulating employee handbooks and implementing its policies, work permits and visa issues of expatriates, international secondment, data privacy, non-competition, social security, trade union and labour disputes. She has also been involved in significant projects of business transactions and restructuring, advising clients on employee transfer, relocation and lay-off of employees as well as negotiation of employment contracts and separation agreements.
Since 2017, Jeanette has been acting as the National Chair/Vice Chair of HR Working Group of European Chamber of Commerce in China. This year Jeanette was elected as the National Chair of HR Working Group of European Chamber of Commerce in China.
Starting from 2017, Jeanette acted as the Vice Chair of HR Working Group of European Chamber of Commerce in China, and the Chair in 2019. Jeanette is also a member of Shanghai Law Society Labour and Social Security Law Research Branch.

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Joanne Wood is a 40-year veteran investment banker turned tech investor and entrepreneur.
In 2006, she founded Capital Eight, a corporate finance house headquartered in Shanghai, advising clients on a wide range of M&A, debt and equity capital raising, corporate restructure and infrastructure financing. Joanne previously worked in senior corporate finance positions with UBS, Jardine Fleming and GE Capital across Europe, the USA and Greater China, and was internationally ranked as a leading Asian-emerging markets advisor.
In 2012, Joanne began mentoring tech startups in China, advising aspiring entrepreneurs as an accredited mentor of Silicon Valley’s SOSV accelerator programs. She now mentors globally, and also serves on the Advisory Boards of a UAE-headquartered Web3 infrastructure platform, an Italian biotech and an Australian new energy venture. In 2023, she joined the founding team of a pioneering Singapore agri-tech developing a proprietary range of alternative plant-based proteins from farm waste.
Over the last 20 years, she has been active in the local community serving as Chair of the British Chamber’s Financial Services Group, Chair of the American Chamber’s Ethics Council, inaugural Chair of the National Australian Chamber Greater China and Vice Chair of the EU Chamber’s Investment Working Group. She is a staunch advocate of female entrepreneurship and the empowerment of women in business.
Joanne is a regular speaker at international conferences and often asked for her views on the China investment environment. She holds an MBA from London Business School, a B. Arts degree from the University of Adelaide, South Australia and reads, writes and speaks Mandarin.

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Majored in Psychology, Grace has 18 years’ work experience in HR field. Being an expert on Talent and organizational development, she has been working in multinational companies from various industries with solid experience on organizational change management, leadership coaching and competence building.

Grace joined H&M in 2014 and in her current role as the Global HR Business Partner, she leads the people objective and agenda in different countries, including China, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sweden and Turkey.

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Ms. Mandy QIN has 20+ years of experience in Human Resources with several leading multi-national companies, holding various HR management positions, including OD Director for SUEZ Asia, HR General Manager for Shell, HR Director for Novartis, and L&D Manager for ConocoPhillips.

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Qing has been managing UN Women’s WeCare project, which aims to support companies to develop family friend work environment, while eliminating gender-based violence in the workplace.

Additionally, Qing also leads on the Gender and Climate Change portfolio, supporting women to build up climate resilience, obtain sustainable livelihoods, and participate in global climate action.

She also serves as the focal point of UN Women China Office and participates in the UN Planet Result Group of the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) for China, supporting the gender mainstreaming in UN’s work.

Qing graduated from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and has more than 10 years of work experience. Through her work, she has partnered extensively with various organizations, including enterprises, governments, foundations, and other UN agencies.