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Ms. Yvonne Li currently serves as Vice Chair of the Human Resources Working Group. Yvonne is currently Senior BP at CDP Group Limited. In the past, she worked as National Education Manager for L’Oreal Professionnel, China, providing B2B technical training service to enable its hair beauty business across China. She also advises her industry clients on talent management strategy and practices as an enabler of business growth & excellence. Prior to her L’Oreal function, she has been an HR manager for 6 years with Bayer, covering roles in Recruitment, Training, People Development, Shared Services Center, etc. One of her accountabilities was to manage Bayer’s corporate and vocational schools where graduates with customized corporate work process training will be directly recruited as operational work force. Prior to her MNC work, Yvonne was a Learning & Development consultant for 8 years delivering leadership development programs, and a teacher with Shanghai Science & Technology University for 6 years, where was voted as a model teacher for her clear and concise teaching.

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Nathalie Demortain has over 14 years of experience in Finance, dealing with external audit, business risk management, as well as reporting and analysis. Starting her career at KPMG as an auditor, she then worked for a Chartered Company in Paris for four years as an auditor and accountant, before moving on to multinational companies in Australia and China.
She is focused on improving finance management information and structure to facilitate strategic planning and decision making. Founder of Audit Insight in France, she partnered with Astek in China to support their clients with internal audits, automation of internal controls, fraud detection, and project management optimization. She also conduct workshops and training to educate business owners, managers, and employees about practical fraud risk prevention and fraud awareness.
Since 2015 Nathalie teaches Business Risk Management at the EM Lyon Shanghai and lately Data Analysis Content at the Asia Europe Business School.

Nathalie graduated from the University Paris South with a Licence de Droit, equivalent to BA Law in 1999 and got her Master’s Degree in Finance from EM Normandy in France in 2002. In 2016, she became ACL Certified trainer; she is an associate member of the ACFE – Association of certified fraud examiners.
She has been awarded with the Holden CFO Award : Restoring Accounting & Controls Credibility in 2009 and the Holden Chairman’s Honours: Remediation of Internal Control Environment in 2010.

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Professor of marketing and management in ESSCA, Dr. Lingfang Song has rich international teaching and research experiences. She has been teaching in different programmes, Bachelor, Master, MBA, Executive MBA both in initial and continuous educations. In the past years, she developed several university partnerships in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, among which she set up and ran a double degree MBA program with a Chinese university in Shanghai. The program was accredited of AMBA.

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Sven-Michael has over 12 years of experience in practicing law in China. His experience includes M&A and foreign direct investment transactions, with a strong focus on advising European clients in relation to their inbound investment into China.
Dr Sven-Michael Werner joined us in January 2014 as a partner in our international Corporate group based in Shanghai.
He has been living and working in China since 1999 and based in Shanghai since 2003. During his career he has also been based in both London and Munich with a remit to develop inbound and outbound work for the Chinese market.
In addition to his extensive experience in M&A and foreign direct investment transactions, Sven-Michael also regularly advises European and U.S. clients in the automotive, technology, media, life sciences, consumer goods, high end retail and services sectors in relation to commercial, compliance and anti-bribery matters.
Sven-Michael was admitted to practise law in Germany in March 2004, and is fluent in German and English, and speaks proficient Mandarin Chinese.
In October 2003 Sven-Michael obtained a Ph.D. degree (Dr. iur.) on Chinese and Hong Kong law. Prior to this, he studied law and business administration in Hamburg followed by a Master of Laws programme at the University of Hong Kong in the area of Chinese business law and international financial transactions.

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Bio of LENG, Jing

11/22/2017

Professor of Law, East China University of Political Science and Law; Chair Professor of Shanghai Universities (Oriental Scholar); LLB and MPhil, Peking University; LLM, Kyushu University (Japan); SJD, University of Toronto. Prior to joining ECUPL, Professor Leng had been an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong from 2007 to 2013. Her specialties are corporate and securities law in mainland China and Hong Kong, as well as comparative corporate governance.

Professor Leng’s work has been published by leading law journals and academic publishing houses in both Chinese and English languages, including Virginia Law Review, Peking University Law Journal, Peking University Law Review, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, BRILL, and Peking University Press. Her monograph Corporate Governance and Financial Reform in China’s Transition Economy (Hong Kong University Press, 2009, 328pp) has gained wide attention in academic circles and has been reviewed in academic journals in Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK, and Japan. She was awarded Outstanding Research Output Prize by HKU Faculty of Law in 2010.

Professor Leng has held a variety of academic and professional affiliations, including council member of China Securities Law Association, Academic Secretary of the Asian Law and Economics Association, fellow of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law of the University of Hong Kong, research advisor on cross-border listing for the Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries, editor of the Hong Kong Law Journal, and member of the executive committee of the Sino-British Joint Research Center on Commercial Law established by ECUPL and the University of Leeds. She is also the co-director for the executive education program Law Firm Leadership and Management jointly run by Harvard Business School and ECUPL.

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Mr. Tse is a senior managing associate in our Intellectual Property practice, based in Hong Kong.
He has acted for many high profile technology companies, venture capital firms and financial institutions, advising on a broad range of legal issues involving technology, from obtaining protection for new products and services, commercialising technology through licensing, resolving disputes, and where necessary, enforcing rights through litigation.
Victor helps clients develop and implement strategies for exploiting IP rights more effectively, and for managing legal risks arising from a commercial launch or use of new technologies when faced with existing IP rights.
His litigation experience has touched upon a wide variety of technologies, including telecommunications, electronics, software, mining, medical devices and mechanical technologies. Victor has also assisted clients on disputes concerning the misappropriation of trade secrets and confidential information.
He is a registered Australian patent attorney, with considerable experience in drafting, analysing and prosecuting patent applications around the world.
Victor graduated from the University of Technology Sydney with Bachelor degrees (with honours) in both law and computing science. He also has a Masters degree in law from the University of Melbourne. Victor was admitted in New South Wales and Victoria (Australia) in 2002.
He has been appointed Co-Chair of the Asian Patent Attorney's Association (International) Standing Committee on Emerging IP Rights, and as a Vice-Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce (Hong Kong) IP Committee.
Victor is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

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Mr. Chou started his career at DuPont with a manager trainee program in 1998. After that, he moved to Canada, to serve as Manager of IT operations for the US/Canada region.
He joined Chemtura in 2006 as Asia Pacific CIO. During his time as CIO, Mr. Chou assumed different responsibilities, including public affairs and corporate communications for APAC region, which led to his appointment as Human Resources Director for APAC.
Since 2014, he chaired the regional leadership team, Asia Pacific Business Councils in Chemtura. When LANXESS acquired Chemtura in April 2017, Mr. Chou got appointed as Head of HR Greater China and Regional Coordination of Asia Pacific.
Mr. Chou holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Fudan University.