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Time2023-06-21 | 10:30 - 12:00
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Venue:Zoom/European Chamber Office Beijing, Room C405
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Fee:Members: Free |
Non Members: 300
The European Chamber, in collaboration with Roland Berger, cordially invites you to attend the launch of its Business Confidence Survey (BCS) 2023 on 21st June, from 10:30–12:00 (Beijing time).
At the event, European Chamber president Jens Eskelund will present the key findings of this year’s survey, following which the chairs of the Chamber’s six regional chapters will each detail the picture in their respective localities.
Since China ended its ‘zero-COVID’ strategy, Chinese officials have been on a charm offensive in an attempt to restore the country’s allure as an investment destination. However, more will need to be done if China is to successfully reverse the deterioration of business sentiment that has taken place over the past three years.
European companies have already begun shifting investments overseas and faced with growing risks and a more volatile operating environment, many have adjusted their investment and operational strategies. There is now an increased focus on making operations more durable—for example, through localisation or diversification of supply chains—as opposed to capturing market share. With China’s economy facing numerous headwinds, this trend appears set to continue at least into the medium-term.
Agenda
10:30-10:35 Opening remarks
10:35-10:45 Overview of survey methodology
- Denis Depoux, Global Managing Director, Roland Berger
10:45-11:15 Presentation of European Business in China: Business Confidence Survey 2023
- Jens Eskelund, President, European Chamber
11:15-11:40 Presentation of local chapters’ survey results
11:40-12:00 Q&A
Note: This is a joint media/member launch event webinar. All information provided is on the record. European Chamber spokespersons are to be quoted in their European Chamber capacity only.
* Embassies and consulates of European member states can have one complimentary ticket on the first-come-first-served basis.
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Speakers
Mr. Denis Depoux
Denis Depoux began his career in China in 1993 with French energy giant EDF before entering the management consulting industry. In 2001, Depoux joined Roland Berger, focusing on the energy and environmental sectors, and sharing his strong consulting expertise and rich industry experience in the US, Europe and Asia.
Depoux has been actively supporting the firm's Greater China operations since 2007. Since moving to Shanghai in 2015, he has contributed a lot to the transformation towards the new Roland Berger in this region. For Roland Berger Greater China, he has been committedly overseeing a wide variety of Competence Centers. In 2020, Denis was elected Managing Director and has been devoted to the management of Roland Berger's global affairs.
In the energy and utilities sector, Depoux has supported the transformation of major European players throughout the energy market's transition facing a more liberalized and competitive market. He has made extensive contributions in the areas of new products and services, the development of wholesale-market trading, risk management, the development of energy services, etc. He has also advised on several major mergers of European energy players and supported the expansion of electricity and natural-gas players into Europe, the Americas and Asia. More recently, Depoux has supported European and Asian energy players in addressing challenges raised by the trends toward low-carbon energy, energy efficiency, decentralized energy generation and the Internet of energy.
Beyond the energy sector, Depoux has extensive experience in performance and operations improvement, operational and G&A cost reduction, purchasing process transformation, screening, commercial and strategic due diligence for acquisition targets, post-merger integration and organization and governance.
Depoux is a key speaker at top-level forums in Asia, including the Boao Forum for Asia, World Knowledge Forum and China Development Forum. As one of the leading foreign experts working in China, he was invited to a New Year meeting with Chinese Premier to discuss the nation's development. Besides, Depoux often shares his insights on trendy topics both inside and outside China by taking interviews and writing articles for mainstream media channels, including People's Daily, CCTV and Caijing.
Mr. Jens Eskelund
Jens Eskelund was born in 1970 in Aarhus, Denmark. He holds an MA in philosophy and has studied at University of Aarhus and University of Texas at Austin. He has also pursued studies in Chinese at Renmin University in Beijing. Coming to Beijing as a student in 1998, Jens Eskelund began his career in China as Commercial Officer at the Danish Embassy to China before taking on a position in marketing for Maersk Line in Beijing in 2000. He has since held positions as General Manager for Public Affairs for Maersk Line in China and later Director of Public Affairs for North Asia before assuming his present role as Chief Representative for Maersk in the Greater China Area and North-East Asia. Primary focus areas comprise engaging government entities, institutions and trade associations on matters of policy, regulatory environment and business development on behalf of the companies within the Maersk Group.
Jens Eskelund is a former Chairman of the Danish Chamber of Commerce in China as well as the Vice President and Chair of Maritime Working Group of the European Chamber. Jens was elected as the President of European Chamber in May 2023.
Jens Eskelund is married and has two sons.
Mr. Alessandro Brenda
Alessandro Brenda, President of Marposs Nanjing Automation.
Born in Pesaro (Italy) in 1986, Alessandro joined Marposs in 2013 after he obtained his master's degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Bologna. Less than two years later, he was transferred to the Nanjing branch as a specialized Process Engineer Coordinator, getting familiar with China's business environment while growing professionally. After a brief excursus in 2021, where he resettled to Italy as General Manager of Marposs Aeroel, an acquired company, he came back to Nanjing to take the lead as President of the branch.
Mr. Massimo Bagnasco
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.
Mr. Carlo Diego D’Andrea
Founder and Managing Partner of D’Andrea & Partners Legal Counsel, and Founder of DP Group.
Graduated in Law at the University of Teramo (Italy), he then subsequently obtained a Masters’ degree in Corporate Advisor at LUISS University in Rome and a Diploma in Chinese Studies at Nanjing Normal University and is a member of the Italian Bar Association.
Mr. D’Andrea arrived in China in 2005 and is fluent in Italian (mother tongue), English, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. He mainly deals with cross-border mergers and acquisitions, assistance in ODI/FDI and intellectual property rights.
He is also acting as National Vice President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.
Mr. Erich Kaiserseder
Mr. Erich Kaiserseder is an Austrian national and a highly experienced and passionate hospitality industry professional. With over 30 years hotel experience, across countries and areas such as Mainland China, U.S., UAE, Singapore, Indonesia, Middle East, Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan etc., Erich held leading roles with international hotel brands like Ritz-Carlton and Shangri-La. Prior to joining Conrad Shenyang, Erich held the role of General Manager at The Langham Haikou.
With his extensive experience, professional knowledge, leadership and great passion for people and service, Erich is ready to lead the team of Conrad Shenyang towards a successful launch of Conrad Shenyang, by delivering bespoke intuitive luxury service experiences to the Shenyang hospitality market.
Dr. Christoph Schrempp
Dr. Christoph Schrempp is the General Manager of Airbus Tianjin Delivery Centre Ltd. In 2021, he was elected again to be the Chairman of the EUCCC Tianjin Chapter Board. He is an experienced senior manager with over 22 years of international leadership and industrial lobbying, having worked in various roles at Airbus in China and in Germany as well as served on German Board of Standardization for Cabin DIN/NL. He has nearly 10 years of experience with being involved in government dialogue including with the Chinese government, having served on the Board of EUCCC Tianjin Chapter in various roles including the chairman and vice-chairman. He has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Stuttgart University in Germany.
Mr. Klaus Zenkel
Biography:
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.