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 Her Excellency
Heng Chee Chee
Singapore's Ambassador to the U.S.

Chan Heng Chee took up her appointment as Singapore’s Ambassador

to the United States in 1996. Prior to her appointment, she was the
Executive Director of the Singapore International Foundation (which
created a Singapore version of the Peace Corps) and Director of the
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. She was the founding Director
of the Institute of Policy Studies. She has served as Singapore’s
Permanent Representative to the United Nations and was concurrently
High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Mexico. Ambassador Chan has received a number of
awards including Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Letters from the University of Newcastle, Australia; and
the University of Buckingham (United Kingdom). She was named International Woman of the Year by
the Organization of Chinese American Women in 1998 and she won Singapore's inaugural "Woman of
the Year, Award”. She received the National Book Award in the non-fiction section for "A Sensation of
Independence: A Political Biography of David Marshall" in 1986 and the National Book Award for "The
Dynamics of One Party Dominance: The PAP at the Grassroots" in 1978.

Ambassador Chan has served as a member on the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign
Relations, the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the International Council of
the Asia Society. She received from the Government of Singapore The Public Administration Medal
(Gold) in 1999 and the Meritorious Service Medal in 2005.
Ambassador Chan was educated at the University of Singapore and Cornell University.

Keynote Speaker
Jack Perkowski ‘70
Managing Partner, JFP Holdings Ltd.
Founder, ASIMCO Technologies
Author, Managing the Dragon: How I’m Building a Billion Dollar
Business in China”

Upon graduation from Yale and the Harvard Business School, spent
eighteen years on Wall Street, rising to Head of Investment Banking at
PaineWebber. Well before others recognized the significant role that
China would play in the global economy, spent three years investigating
opportunities in Asia and China, leading to the founding in 1994 of
ASIMCO Technologies, one of the most important players in China’s
automotive components industry. Headquartered in Beijing, with 12,000
employees throughout the country, ASIMCO is a unique foreign-
invested company that was established specifically to serve the China market. The Company has gained
a reputation for developing local management and integrating a broad based China operation into the
global economy. ASIMCO has twice been named one of the “Ten Best Employers in China,” ranking
third in the most recent survey conducted by Hewitt Associates and 21st Century Business Herald.

Widely recognized as an expert on doing business in China, have authored Managing the Dragon:
How I’m Building a Billion Dollar Business In China, as well as numerous articles on China, its
economy and developing a business in the country. A frequent speaker on all matters relating to
China. Provide timely insights into ongoing developments in the country on
www.managingthedragon.com. In 2008, was named by China Auto News as one of “30 Outstanding
Entrepreneurs in China’s Auto Components Industry Over the Country’s 30 Years of Economic
Reform,” the only foreigner to receive such distinction.
 Asia Today: The Current State of Asia and How It Came to Be
LC 101 10:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

In the past few decades, Asia has risen to prominence in the global political and economic
arena. The Asia Today plenary session features four distinguished leaders from government,
business, and academia who will present their perspectives on the forces that have shaped
today’s Asia and the role that Asia plays in today’s global financial and political systems

Tom Barry
CEO Founder,
CEO and Founder, Zephyr
Zephyr Management
Management
President and
President and CEO
CEO of
of Rockefeller
Rockefeller && Co.
Co.
President of
President of T.
T. Rowe
Rowe Price
Price New
New Horizons
Horizons Funds,
Funds, Inc
Inc.
Prior to founding Zephyr, Mr. Barry was President and CEO of Rockefeller &
Co., the investment management arm of the Rockefeller family, from 1983 to
1993. Previously, Mr. Barry was employed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
from 1969 to 1982. Among other responsibilities, he was President of T.
Rowe Price New Horizons Funds, Inc., then the largest mutual fund
specializing in small capitalization companies. Mr. Barry received an MBA
from Harvard Business School in 1969 and an undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1966 where he
majored in Latin American Studies.
Pierre Landry
Yale Professor of Political Science; Director of
Undergraduate Studies of International Studies Major
Pierre-François Landry, Associate Professor of Political Science, received his
Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2000. He has been affiliated with
the Research Center for Contemporary China since 1997. His research interests
focus on Chinese politics, comparative local government, and quantitative
comparative political analysis. He is currently writing a book tentatively titled
"The CCP and Local Elites in Post-Deng China". Articles in progress include
"Explaining Party Membership in Urban China" and "GPS sampling for social science survey research in
China" based on an experiment in spatial sampling methodology that relies on the Geographical Positioning
System to survey populations that are difficult to enumerate.

William C. McCahill
Vice Chairman, JL McGregor & Company
Senior International Business Advisor, WilmerHale

With a distinguished career in the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service

and with China and government experience dating back to 1976, William C.
McCahill, Jr. is an authority on Chinese government and politics. As former
Charge d'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, Mr. McCahill played a key
role in concluding the 1999 WTO U.S.-China Bilateral Trade Agreement.
Before joining JL McGregor & Company, Mr. McCahill was the senior
international business advisor of the law firm WilmerHale, where he helped foreign companies overcome the
challenges and complexities of doing business in China. He holds an AB from Boston College and completed
graduate studies in Sanskrit, South Asian studies, and the history of religion at Harvard University.

Yuen Pau Woo

President and Co-CEO
Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Mr. Woo is President and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He is
Canada's representative on the Standing Committee of the Pacific Economic
Cooperation Council (PECC) and is responsible for PECC's annual State of the
Region report. Mr. Woo is on the management board of the National Centre of
Excellence in Immigration Research at UBC and Simon Fraser University
(Metropolis BC), and is an advisor to the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation
Centre and the Asian Development Bank. He is also on the International
Advisory Council of the Asia Society in New York. In December 2008, Mr.
Woo was appointed by the Premier of British Columbia to the province's
Economic Advisory Council. He was educated at Lester B. Pearson College, Wheaton
College, the University of Cambridge, and the University of London.
 LC 211 2:30-3:30 p.m.

With its tremendous economic growth, Asia is one of the world’s most dynamic
markets for entrepreneurs. The Internationalization of Entrepreneurship discussion
presents two professors who have studied the rise of entrepreneurship in Asia.
Professor He and Professor Liu will deliver a comparative study of the international-
ization of small and medium size entrepreneurial firms in China and India. They will
also discuss the changing role of marketing in Asian countries.

Ben Liu
Professor of Marketing, Lender School of
Ben Liu
Business, Quinnipiac University
Professor Ben Liu has Lender
a Ph. D. in Marketing
Professor of Marketing, School of Business,from the State University of New York at Buffalo,
a Quinnipiac
Master of University
Art in Religion from the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, a Professional
Managers’ Program degree from Tunghai University. He speaks Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese,
and Japanese. He is currently a professor of Marketing at the Lender School of Business at
Quinnipiac University. His professional positions include: Managing Director at Teamwood Corporation,
Taiwan; Purchasing Supervisor at General Instrument Microelectronics; Marketing Manager at
ATW Electronics; and Export Manager at Chang-Shing Iron Works.

Professor Liu researches in the areas of Cross-cultural, Service Quality, Customer Satisfaction & Loyalty, Trust, Internet
Marketing, New Product Strategy, Buyer-Seller Negotiations, and Industrial Marketing. He teaches Marketing
Management, New Product Development, International Marketing, International Business, Promotion Management
(including Integrated Marketing Communication), Marketing Research, Marketing Strategy, Negotiations, Business
Marketing. Professor Liu is a member of The International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), The Institute
for Operation Research and Management Science (INFORMS), American Marketing Association (AMA), Association
for Consumer Research (ACR), Academy of Marketing Science (AMS), and Strategic Management Society (SMS).

Xiaohong He
Professor of International Business,
Lender School of Business, Quinnipiac University

Xiaohong He is professor and the founder of International Business Department at the

School of Business, Quinnipiac University. Professor He received her Ph.D. from The
University of Texas at Dallas in International Management Studies. Professor He has
published many articles in refereed academic journals and has written books. Her
research areas are multinational corporations, international monetary system, global
entrepreneurship, globalization, etc. Professor He teaches International Business and has
received the Excellence in Teaching Award at Quinnipiac University.
 LC 102 2:30-3:30 p.m.

Rich Kuslan HGS '83

Editor, Asiabizblog

Rich Kuslan writes about Asian business and law, with a special focus on China. His
writing seeks to interpret 25 years of experience working with, buying from and selling to,
as well as managing, Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and American businesses. As a
consultant, he has trained executives at major multi-nationals, such as GE Medical
Systems, Timken, Corning, Lucent, United Technologies and others, in English and
Mandarin. He has been invited to speak on numerous panels, including the American Bar
Association, International Law Section national convention, and is an editor of the ABA,
China Committee, Year in Review. Rich is a practicing attorney licensed in New York and
Connecticut.

Peter von Loesecke

CEO and Managing Director of The MBA Tour

Peter von Loesecke is the Managing Director of The MBA Tour LLC, a company dedicated
to helping graduate business programs recruit applicants from all over the world. The MBA
Tour has over 150 international and US university clients and organizes recruiting over 50
recruiting events in 30 different countries. Mr. von Loesecke is an expert on global business
education trends and how that drives the global demand for business education. The Yale
School of Management is one of his clients.

Prior to buying The MBA Tour, Mr von Loesecke worked 13 years as a management
consultant for Temple Barker and Sloane (Now Mercer Management), Arthur D. Little, and Applied Value. He
worked with an international client base in the medical, chemical and transportation industries. He is a graduate of
Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and Cornell’s Johnson School of Management. He is a veteran of the United
States Navy submarine service.

Alice Young
Partner, Chair, Asia Pacific Group, Kaye Scholer, LLP
Associate Fellow, Davenport College
Trustee, Asia Foundation
Trustee, Aspen Institute
Director, Mizuho Trust & Banking (USA

Alice Young is a Partner and Chair of the Asia Pacific Practice at Kaye Scholer LLP
International Law Firm. She advises multinationals and entrepreneurs on their
business activities and investment considerations in the United States and throughout
Asia, including complex cross-border transactions and sensitive legal and
governmental strategies. She also assists clients in identifying potential Asian partners and
resources. She represents clients in a wide range of disciplines, including joint ventures,
partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, finance, trade, foreign ownership issues, regulatory
matters, trademark and copyright, employment, tax, private placements, real estate, manufacturing
projects, licensing, high technology, telecommunications, retailing, commercial lending,
restructurings, and general business negotiations. She has been lead advisor on projects in China,
Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, India and the Philippines.
She has been in private practice for over thirty years.
 LC 211 3:45-4:45 p.m.

Akira Odani
President, Odani Research Co.
Professor of Marketing, SUNY Delhi
Owner, founder and president of Odani Research, LLC, a marketing research and
consulting firm specializing in facilitating business between Japan and the United
States. Founded in Mamaroneck, New York, in 1980, its clients include Toyota Motor
Corp., Sony Corp., Hakuhodo, Inc., Dentsu, Inc., Toshiba, Matsushita, SBC, Revlon,
and KPMG. Expert on Japanese business practice and international marketing for
American corporations Lecturer in marketing, market research, and best practices for
trade and business organizations Secretary of the Executive Committee, Chair of the
Marketing Committee and a Board member of Margaretville Hospital, New York.

John Jiang
President, CEO, Founder, Level Nine Group

Jianxin Jiang is a business executive with fourteen years of experience in information

technology and information risk management. Before establishing his own consulting firm
in 2007, he was a director with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), advising large financial
services clients in IT internal control and regulatory compliance. Jianxin Jiang joined PwC
in 2003 as a senior manager in its Global Risk Management Solutions practice. During his
tenure with PwC, he was instrumental in the formation of a national team, and acted as a
co-leader focusing on assisting financial services clients in integrating controls enabled by
technology into their business processes to mitigate risk. His areas of expertise include: Internal Controls and
Operational Risk Management, IT Risk Management Framework (CobiT), Structure, and Governance, Sarbanes
Oxley, Basel II, and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Compliance and Program
Management Jianxin holds a B.S. from Nanjing University, China, and an M.S. from the University
of Chicago. He matriculated as a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University.
 LC 102 3:45-4:45 p.m.

Dr. Zhiwu Chen

Yale Professor of Finance
Dr. Chen is Professor of finance at the School of Management at Yale University. Before joining Yale, Dr. Chen
was Professor of finance at the Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Chen is
well known for his leading research in the academic world of finance. His research covers a wide range of
topics, with a focus on stock valuation, investments, and financial options and futures markets. Dr. Chen won
the prestigious Merton Miller Prize in 1996 for his research on demographic changes and their impact on
financial markets. He also received the Chicago Board Options Exchange Competitive Research Award in
1996 for his research on the Japanese stock market and related derivatives products. He has also been active in
portfolio management since early 1992. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in finance in 1990, a M.Ph. and M.A. in 1988, all from Yale University.
He earned his M.S. degree in systems engineering from the Changsha Institute of Technology in 1986, and a B.S. in computer science from the
Central-South University of Technology in 1983, both universities in China.

Mark W. Heaphy
Partner, Wiggin and Dana
Mark Heaphy is the chair of Wiggin and Dana's Information Technology and Sourcing Group. His practice focuses
on the sourcing and procurement process, from initial RFP through implementation and beyond. Mark has experience
in financial services, healthcare, insurance, life-sciences, manufacturing, telecommunications and utilities.
Mark helps clients structure, negotiate and document domestic, near-shore and off-shore, commercial relationships
related to complex, global, outsourcing strategies and the development, distribution, customization, implementation,
support and management of technology solutions.

Mark graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the College of William and Mary in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in
philosophy and international relations. In 1993, he earned a Master of Arts degree in international relations from Yale University and, in 1996,
a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. He is a member of the American Bar Association's sections of
International Law and Practice, Intellectual Property Law, and Science and Technology.

Dr. K. Thomas Liaw

St. Johns Professor of Economics and Finance
Dr. Liaw holds his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He is the author of several books on investment
banking and financial markets. His recent book publication is The Business of Investment Banking: A
Comprehensive Overview, second edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006. He also recently published an
article on China’s accession into the WTO and China’s financial markets. In addition, Dr. Liaw has published
in the areas of capital markets, insurance, banking, repurchase agreements, and risk management. He is an
associate editor for Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies.

Dr. Liaw’s principal areas of teaching and research interests include asset management, capital markets, risk
management, and investment banking. His current projects include risk management for financial institutions,
equity and fixed-income trading strategies, and China’s financial markets. He served as president of the Chinese American Academic and
Professional Society for 2005. He is a director of a bank. Dr. Liaw serves as an advisor to financial firms. He speaks on various subjects of
investment banking and capital markets at academic institutions, executive programs, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation conference, the
World Bank symposium, Harvard China Review conference, and Information Management Network conference.

Raghav Nandagopal
General Partner, Exigen Capital
Raghav Nandagopal is a General Partner of Exigen Capital with focus on investments in Financial Services,
Media, Communications and Government sectors. Raghav has over 20 years of operating, technology and
investing experiences with over 9 years in the PE industry. Prior to Exigen Capital, he was the Senior Vice
President of Bank of America Capital Advisors ($3.2B under management) and a senior member
of the Investment Committee. He joined BoA through the acquisition of U.S. Trust where he
served as the Co-CEO of the PE funds and head of direct investment programs.

Prior to U.S. Trust, he was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company. Currently
Raghav serves on the boards of Exigence Insurance Solutions, ExpertMarkets, Execue, and
is an advisor to Cava Capital. He has also been a long time board member of the CT Venture
Group (Stamford Chapter), Angel Investor Forum. He holds a BS from University of Madras, MBA from the University of
Bombay and an MS from Penn State, and has also completed executive programs at MIT and Carnegie Mellon.
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