Introductory Remarks

• Nicholas Yang, Executive Vice President, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Roger Huang, Dean, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
• T.C. Edwin Cheng, Dean, Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Peter Easton, Director, Center for Accounting Research and Education, University of Notre Dame

Morning Keynote: Overview of China’s Capital Markets

Carl Walter, Author of Red Capitalism and Privatizing China

Session 1: Raising Equity Capital in China

Session Chair: Kalok Chan, Acting Dean, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

• Keith Chan, Managing Director – Hong Kong, Macquarie Capital
• Matthew Harrison, Head of Research and Development, Hong Kong Stock Exchange
• Ning Jia, Associate Professor of Accounting, Tsinghua University
• Marshall Nicholson, Managing Director, China International Capital Corporation

Late Morning Keynote: Investigating Fraud Among Chinese Firms

Luncheon Keynote at Hotel ICON

Afternoon Keynote: The State of Corporate Governance

Session 2: Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets

Session Chair: Louis Cheng, Professor of Finance, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• Edward Chow, Chairman, China Infrastructure Group
• Frank Hawke, Director, Stanford University GSB Center - Beijing
• Kelvin Wong, Chairman, Hong Kong Institute of Directors
• Bernard Yeung, Dean, National University of Singapore Business School

Session 3: Active Investing in Asia / China Roundtable

Session Chair: Joseph Cherian, Practice Professor of Finance, National University of Singapore Business School

• Chris Gradel, Founder, Managing Partner and CIO, PAG
• Jingsheng Huang, Former Partner, TPG Growth and RMB Funds
• Jay Luo, President, Dymon Asia
• Pooja Malik, Co-Founder and Partner, Nipun Capital
• Oliver Weisberg, Managing Director, Citadel

Special Session: Challenges of Applying Global Accounting Standards in China

Session Chair: Gary Biddle, PCCW Professor, Chair of Accounting, University of Hong Kong

• Jesse Wang, Former Chief Accountant, CSRC; EVP, China Investment Corporation
• Zhang Wei-Guo, Member, International Accounting Standards Board

Evening Keynote Dinner at Regal Court

Morning Keynote: Challenges for China – Beyond Minority Listings of SOEs

Session 4: Corporate Transparency and Financial Reporting in China

Session Chair: Joseph Piotroski, Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business

• Kevin Chen, Chair Professor and Head of Accounting Department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Bin Ke, Professor of Accounting, Nanyang Business School
• T.J. Wong, Professor of Accountancy, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Late Morning Keynote: China’s Coming Roles in Global Finance / Corporate Governance

Session 5: Perspectives on the Valuation of Chinese Listed Firms

Session Chair: Peter Joos, Global Head of Valuation and Accounting, Equity Research, Morgan Stanley

• Feng Li, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
• Wayne Yu, Professor of Finance, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Jie Zhang, Founder, Rega Capital Management

Session 6: Accounting Reality in China

Session Chair: Gary Biddle, PCCW Professor, Chair of Accounting, University of Hong Kong

• Paul Gillis, Former Partner PWC; Professor, Peking University; Creator, “China Accounting Blog”
• Johnson Kong, Chief Executive Officer, BDO Limited
• Stephen Law, Finance Director, MTR Corporation Limited
• Estella Ng, Chief Financial Officer, Country Garden Holdings Company Limited
• Shirley Yam, Financial Columnist, South China Morning Post

Closing Remarks

• Peter Easton, Director, Center for Accounting Research and Education, University of Notre Dame
• CS Agnes Cheng, Chair Professor of Accounting and Head School of Accounting and Finance, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Jamie Allen, Secretary General, Asian Corporate Governance Association

Mr. Allen is the founding Secretary General of ACGA, which was incorporated in Hong Kong in 1999. He is responsible for overall management of the Association, as well as directing ACGA's research, advocacy and educational work in 11 Asian markets.

Mr. Allen is a published author and has more than 25 years’ experience as a writer, editor and analyst covering the economies of Greater China and East Asia from Hong Kong. Prior to the establishment of ACGA in mid-1999, he ran his own consulting firm and carried out customised economic research on mainly finance-related topics, including corporate governance, for multinational clients in Asia. During 1992-95, he worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) as editor of Business Asia, a regional management newsletter, and was a contributor to The Economist magazine from 1994-96. Mr. Allen began his journalistic career in the late 1980s as a reporter for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is a graduate of the Australian National University, Canberra, where he received a BA (Honours) in political science and Chinese language.

Between 2001 and 2007, Mr. Allen was a member of the Public Shareholders Group, a committee formed by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission to advise it on shareholder rights and corporate governance matters in Hong Kong.

From May 2006 to June 2010, Mr. Allen served on the Listing Committee of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK). The Listing Committee is the body responsible for approving all new listings on the SEHK, deciding changes to the listing rules, and undertaking review and disciplinary hearings.

In July 2013, Mr. Allen was appointed to the Financial Reporting Review Panel of the Financial Reporting Council in Hong Kong for three years.

Gary Biddle, PCCW Professor, Chair of Accounting, University of Hong Kong

Gary C. Biddle is PCCW Professor and Chair of Accounting at University of Hong Kong. He earned MBA and PhD degrees at University of Chicago, where he also served as Professor. Professor Biddle has also served as Professor at University of Washington; as Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at University of Hong Kong; as Council Member, Court Member, Department Head and Associate Dean of the School of Business and Management at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; and as visiting professor at China Europe International Business School, Fudan University, and at IMD Business School in Switzerland.

Professor Biddle is a leading expert in financial and management accounting and his research appears in the world’s leading publications on topics including value creation, performance assessment, financial analysis, earnings measurement, inventory management, cost allocation, auditing, taxation, foreign exchange listings and capital investment efficiency. He has published and served on the editorial boards of leading journals in the field and his research on EVA® was honored by a Best Paper award by the American Accounting Association.

Professor Biddle’s publications are frequently cited in cutting-edge research in accounting, finance, and economics, and appear in the world’s premier academic journals including Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Management Science, Contemporary Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Accounting Horizons, Journal of Accounting Literature, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting, and Journal of International Business Studies, among others.

Professor Biddle is a member of theAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Hong Kong Institute of Directors, Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants, and he is past President and co-founding Council member of the Hong Kong Academic Accounting Association. He also has won 22 teaching awards and is the first faculty member to win “Professor of the Year” honors twice from the world’s top-ranked EMBA program (Financial Times).

Professor Biddle presently serves as Board and Executive Council Member of the American Accounting Association, Advisory Board Member of the American Accounting Association International Accounting Section, Council Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and member of the Financial Reporting Review Panel of the Financial Reporting Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Professor Biddle also serves as independent non-executive director and audit committee chair of Kingdee International Software and Shui On Land Limited, both listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and he previously served as remuneration committee chair of closely-held Chinachem Group. He provides consulting and executive courses on financial management and value creation to major companies, governments, and multinational organizations globally.

Carson Block, Founder, Muddy Waters Research LLC

Carson Block is director of research and founding partner of Muddy Waters Research LLC. Muddy Waters is a due diligence-based investment and research firm that conducts extensive accounting and on-the-ground investigations of public companies.

Muddy Waters gained recognition following its research on Sino-Forest Corp., a China-based forestry company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Shortly after Muddy Waters’ issued its report in June 2011, Sino-Forest lost nearly $6 billion in market capitalization, its auditor resigned and regulators halted its shares. The company filed for bankruptcy and in June 2012, the Ontario Securities Commission filed formal fraud charges against Sino-Forest and its senior management for overstating its timber assets and misleading investigators.

Mr. Block appears frequently as a commentator on Bloomberg Television, CNBC and the BBC. He wrote an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal in 2012 that advocated for greater oversight of Chinese affiliates of U.S. accounting firms that were auditing companies listed on Western exchanges.

Prior to forming Muddy Waters, Mr. Block was an entrepreneur in China and worked as a lawyer in the Shanghai office of the U.S. law firm Jones Day. In 2007, he co-authored Doing Business in China for Dummies, a primer on doing business in China. In 2011, Bloomberg Markets Magazine named Mr. Block to its list of the “50 Most Influential” people in global finance. In 2012, he won a Boldness in Business Award from ArcelorMittal and the Financial Times for “Best Newcomer.”

He holds a BS in business from the University of Southern California and a JD from the Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he has also served as an adjunct professor.

Hon KC Chan, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Hong Kong

Professor Chan was Dean of Business and Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) before he was appointed Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury in July 2007. Prior to joining the HKUST Business School in 1993, Professor Chan had spent nine years teaching at Ohio State University in the United States.

Professor Chan received his bachelor's degree in economics from Wesleyan University and his MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Chicago. He specialised in assets pricing, evaluation of trading strategies and market efficiency and has published numerous articles on these topics.

Before joining the Government, Professor Chan held a number of public service positions including Chairman of the Consumer Council, director of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange, and member of the Commission on Strategic Development, Commission on Poverty, the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee, the Hang Seng Index Advisory Committee, and the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation. He was former President of the Asian Finance Association and President of Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools.

Kalok Chan, Acting Dean and Synergis-Geoffrey Yeh Professor of Finance and Director of Value Partners Center for Investing, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Professor Kalok Chan was appointed Acting Dean of the HKUST Business School in September 2013. He is also Synergis-Geoffrey YEH Chair Professor of Finance and Director of Value Partners Center for Investing. Previously, he served as the Head of Finance Department from 2003 to 2013, and as Associate Dean of the HKUST Business School from 2009 to 2013. He is founding director of the HKUST-NYU Stern Joint Master in Global Finance program. His research interests focus on dynamics of asset prices, derivatives, market micro-structure, and international financial markets.

Professor Chan is a prominent researcher with numerous publications in top ranked finance journals. He served as President of the Asian Finance Association from 2008 to 2010, and as co-editor of the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal from 1997 to 2008.

Professor Chan has been actively involved in providing service to the profession. He has served as a member of the Risk Management Committee of HKEx and as a member of the HKSAR Advisory Committee on Human Resource Development (Financial Services). He also has served as Chairman of the Organizing Committee of HKIB Outstanding Financial Management Planner Awards for the past 5 years, and is a member of Hang Seng Index Service Limited and Hospital Authority Investment Committee.

Professor Chan obtained his BSc in Economics from Chinese University of Hong Kong, PhD in Finance from Ohio State University, and taught at Arizona State University before joining the HKUST. He is also a CFA charter holder.

Keith Chan, Managing Director - Hong Kong, Macquarie Capital

Mr. Keith Chan joined Macquarie in 2007 as a Managing Director overseeing the Greater China Property Investment Banking sector. He is also responsible for the principal investment activities in the sector utilizing Macquarie's capital.

Before joining Macquarie, Keith worked at J.P. Morgan as Executive Director, mainly involved in fund raising and corporate finance transactions of PRC property companies. Prior to J.P. Morgan, Keith was with HSBC Global Investment Banking Division for 8 years, where he led numerous IPO, corporate restructuring, bond issue and M&A deals. Keith has also worked in the project finance department of UBS before he joined HSBC.

Keith holds a MBA degree in Finance, Investment and Banking, and a BBA degree in Accounting from University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Ronnie C. Chan, Chairman of Hang Lung Properties

Mr. Ronnie C. Chan is Chairman of Hang Lung Group Limited and its subsidiary Hang Lung Properties Limited. Both are publicly listed companies in Hong Kong, with the latter being a constituent stock of the Hang Seng Index. Founded in 1960, the Group has been expanding into mainland China since 1992. For the year of 2013, Hang Lung Properties reported a net profit of US$930 million. Following successes in Shanghai, since 2005 Hang Lung has been investing US$11 billion and building a number of world-class commercial complexes in major Chinese cities – Tianjin, Shenyang, Jinan, Wuxi, Dalian, Kunming and Wuhan. Palace 66 in Shenyang, Parc 66 in Jinan, Forum 66 in Shenyang, and Center 66 in Wuxi, were completed and opened in 2010-2013. In the coming years, one or more design-award-winning malls are set to open in the leading cities on the mainland each year.

Mr. Chan co-founded the Morningside group. In the past 26 years, Morningside and its associates owned and managed companies focusing on manufacturing, public transport operations, outdoor advertising, media, healthcare, online game operators, high tech and biotech investments in mainland China, developmental capital investments in Southeast Asia, manufacturing and distribution in Europe, and service industries, biotech and other venture capital investments in North America. In 1997, he helped found the Calgary, Canada based Morningside Music Bridge for young classical musicians.

In Hong Kong and the mainland of China, Mr. Chan is Chairman of the Executive Committees of One Country Two Systems Research Institute and of Better Hong Kong Foundation, Convenor of Hong Kong Development Forum, a Vice President of The Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong, a Governing Board member of China-United States Exchange Foundation, an Advisor and former Vice President of China Development Research Foundation in Beijing, and a former Trustee of China Foreign Affairs University. He founded and chairs China Heritage Fund which restores cultural relics in China.  He is also a co-founding director of The Forbidden City Cultural Heritage Conservation Foundation, Beijing. He is a former government appointed Non-executive Director of Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, Founding Chairman Emeritus of Asia Business Council, and a former Chairman of Hong Kong-United States Business Council.

Internationally, Mr. Chan is Co-Chair of the Board of Asia Society and Chairman of its Hong Kong Center, a founding Trustee of African-Asian Society and a Director of the Board of Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is a member of Council on Foreign Relations, National Committee on United States-China Relations, Committee of 100, and the Advisory Board of Center for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta. Mr. Chan is a former director of Standard Chartered PLC and Motorola, Inc. He is also a former member of the governing boards of World Economic Forum, East-West Center, Pacific Council on International Policy, Eisenhower Fellowships, and The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation.

Mr. Chan is involved in many educational endeavors. He is a Court member of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, a founding member of the International Advisory Board of School of Management at Fudan University, a Trustee of University of Southern California, and a Governing Board member of Indian School of Business. He serves on the President’s Council on International Activities at Yale University, the International Advisory Council of The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, the International Advisory Committee of The Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College, and the International Advisory Committee of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University. He also co-chairs the International Advisory Board of The Culture and Civilization of China, a joint project of Yale University Press and China International Publishing Group. He currently serves as Advisor on Strategic Development to Tsinghua University and Co-Chairman of Hang Lung Center for Real Estate at Tsinghua University. He is also a Guest Professor at Tsinghua University and Nanjing University. He is a former Co-Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Center for Real Estate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former Brittingham Visiting Scholar at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mr. Chan is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has published numerous articles in International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, Newsweek, Fortune, Asian Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review and Japan Times. Mr. Chan holds an MBA from University of Southern California and an honorary doctorate in social sciences from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Chinese University of Hong Kong respectively. In 2004, he received the Asia Society Leadership Award for strengthening economic, cultural and political ties between China and the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. In 2009, he received the Outstanding Persons Award for the Preservation of Chinese Cultural Relics and the Highest Alumni Award of University of Southern California. He is 64 years of age and resides in Hong Kong with his wife. They have two grown sons.

Kevin Chen, Chair Professor and Department Head of Accounting, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Kevin Chen is Chair Professor and Department Head of Accounting at HKUST. His research includes issues related to the interactions of accounting information with executive compensation, debt contracts and securities market regulation. He is also interested in applying Western research methodology to address China’s and Asia’s unique accounting issues.

Professor Chen has published extensively in leading accounting and finance journals such as The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory. He has served in various editorial boards including The Accounting Review and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. In addition, he was an associate editor of the Journal of International Accounting Research and International Journal of Accounting.

Professor Chen was a CPA in Taiwan. He has served on various professional and regulatory bodies such as the Disciplinary Panel and Accountancy Accreditation Board of Hong Kong Institute of CPAs as well as the Financial Reporting Review Committee of Hong Kong’s Financial Reporting Council. In addition, he serves periodically as a peer review team member of AACSB International and was a member of AACSB’s Accounting Accreditation Committee.

Louis Cheng, Professor of Finance, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dr. Cheng is a Professor of Finance, a team leader of Finance at the School of Accounting and Finance of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He will serve as a member of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal Panel from November 2013 through October 2016. He served as a Council member and a Trustee of the Pension Fund of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in January 2011 to February 2013. He also served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Human Resources Development in the Financial Services Sector for HKSAR in June 2009 to May 2013. He is currently a member of the Examination Board of The Institute of Financial Planners of Hong Kong (IFPHK). He has been a CFPCM certificant since 2001.

Dr. Cheng graduated with a DBA in Finance from Louisiana Tech University in 1989. Before joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, he was an Associate Professor of Finance at Murray State University in Kentucky. He served as a Visiting Scholar at Hong Kong Baptist University in 1995-96 and at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in the Spring of 1997. In the summer of 2003, he served as the HSBC Fellow of Asian Financial Markets at the University of Exeter in UK. Moreover, he has 70 articles published in top finance research journals including the Journal of Finance. He was ranked among the top ten finance professors in Asia Pacific in terms of research by articles in the Pacific Basin Finance Journal in 2001 and 2005. In 2009, he was ranked 108 globally in terms of financial research in a paper by Heck and Cooley.

Dr. Cheng is an author of Fundamentals of Financial Planning by McGraw-Hill, 2006, and the lead author of Financial Planning and Wealth Management: An International Perspective, also by McGraw-Hill, 2008. Dr. Cheng served as a project consultant for various organizations including Investor Education Centre (IEC), SFC, HKEx, MPFA, HKSI, Charles Schwab (US), Tai Fook Securities, Value Partners, Fubon Bank, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank Consortium Trust Hong Kong.

Joseph Cherian, Practice Professor of Finance and Director of Centre for Asset Management Research & Investments (CAMR.I), NUS Business School

Professor Joseph Cherian is Practice Professor of Finance and Director of the Centre for Asset Management Research & Investments (CAMR.I) at NUS Business School. He was formerly an Executive-in-Residence at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, where he is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council. Previously, Professor Cherian was Managing Director, Global Head, and CIO of the Quantitative Strategies Group within Credit Suisse Alternative Investments in New York, where he had direct responsibility for over US$67 billion in client assets.

While at Credit Suisse, Professor Cherian also served on the Global Executive Committee and various senior management and risk committees of the Asset Management division. Joe joined Credit Suisse in 2004 from Banc of America Capital Management, also in New York, where he was Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager of their asset allocation funds. Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Finance at Boston University. He has authored numerous articles for financial journals, and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Orissa Group, a pioneer in the development and dissemination of liquidity-based data and analytical products across multiple asset classes.

Professor Cherian was recently appointed to the National Research Foundation's Early Stage Venture Fund Evaluation Panel in Singapore, and the Journal of Alternative Investments’ Editorial Board. He formerly served as a review board member of the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute, and on the Scientific Advisory Boards of netDecide Corp. and SKG Inc. Professor Cherian holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT, and MS and PhD degrees in Finance from Cornell University.

Edward Chow, Chairman, China Infrastructure Group

Mr. Edward Chow, JP is the founder of China Infrastructure Group and a chartered accountant.  He is a core member of the OECD/World Bank Asian Corporate Governance Roundtable, a council member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a vice chairman of the Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong. He is also a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of Zhejiang Province and an Election Committee member of Hong Kong SAR.

Mr. Chow was a past president of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, a past chairman of the Professional Accountants in Business Committee of the International Federation of Accountants, a past deputy chairman of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors, and a former expert advisor of the Accounting Standards Committee of the Ministry of Finance, PRC.   Mr. Chow has served as an independent non-executive director of COSCO Pacific Limited from 2005 to 2013 and China Merchants Bank from 2006 to 2012, respectively.  Presently he is non-executive director of the Urban Renewal Authority and an INED and chairman of audit committee of Redco Properties Group Limited.  In 2010, Mr. Chow was the awardee of Directors of the Year Award in the non-executive director of listed companies (SEHK - Hang Seng Index Constituents) category, awarded by the Hong Kong Institute of Directors.

Paul Gillis, Professor of Practice, IMBA Program Co-Director, Peking University, Former Partner PWC, Creator, “China Accounting Blog”

Paul Gillis PhD CPA is Professor of Practice and Co-Director of the IMBA program at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. A leading expert on accounting and auditing issues in China, he is frequently quoted in the international press, and has appeared on ABC, Bloomberg TV, Now Business Channel, Tbs EFm in Korea, RTHK in Hong Kong, and China Radio International. He has testified before the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Commission, and has lectured at the Communist Party School. Professor Gillis regularly speaks to investor and corporate groups.

Professor Gillis is a certified public accountant from the United States and before joining Peking University was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the United States, Singapore, and China. He was a member of the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board from 2011 -2013 and was formerly a director and audit committee chairman of Nasdaq listed Pansoft Co. Ltd. He has resided in Beijing since 1997. The International Financial Law Review named him Market Reformer of the Year in 2012. His first book, The Big Four and the Development of the Accounting Profession In China was published by Emerald in 2014.

Professor Gillis blogs at www.chinaaccountingblog.com.

Mr. Chris Gradel, Founder, Managing Partner and CIO, Absolute Returns, PAG

PAG’s Absolute Returns business is led by Chris Gradel, who founded PAG in 2002.

Mr. Gradel has over 16 years of investment experience across Asia. Prior to founding PAG, Mr. Gradel led several investments for the Marmon Group in China and was an engagement manager for McKinsey & Co. based in Hong Kong.

Mr. Gradel has a joint Masters in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University.

Matthew Harrison, MD, Head of Research and Development, Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Mr. Harrison conducts research and surveys on the securities and derivatives markets in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and overseas to support the development of Hong Kong Stock Exchange and its markets.

Harrison, a UK-trained accountant, is a policy researcher and internal consultant. He has been with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (and prior to that the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong) since 1993, in research, planning and development roles. He is the author of a book on Asia-Pacific Securities Markets, and a regular writer and speaker on securities topics.

Frank Hawke, Director, Stanford University GSB Center - Beijing

Mr. Hawke has spent the last 34 years working in and around China. As a business consultant, Frank was involved in some early landmark deals in China, including the Beijing Jeep joint venture and the Great Wall Hotel.  For Citibank, he served as Chief Representative in Beijing, sat on Citibank’s credit committee, ran Citibank’s multinational business in Taiwan, and re-established the bank in Vietnam.

In the mid-1990’s, Mr. Hawke was investment banking head for Salomon Brothers in China, after which he joined IMC Global, at that time, the world’s largest chemical fertilizer company, as its Asia CEO.  In addition to founding and running his own consulting firm, Frank served as Greater China Chairman for Kroll, a professional services firm, and, most recently, as Regional Operations Leader, Asia Pacific for a an international non-profit organization doing agricultural research.

Mr. Hawke sits on the board of a major Chinese financial services firm (Sunlight Everbright Insurance Co. Ltd.) as well as JP Morgan Chase (China) Ltd., JP Morgan’s locally incorporated bank in China.

Mr. Hawke teaches Chinese economic history to Stanford undergraduates in Beijing and at the Beijing Center for Chinese Studies, the Jesuit Center in Beijing.  He also currently serves as the China Director for the Stanford Graduate School of Business at the Stanford Center at Peking University.

Jingsheng Huang, Former Partner, TPG Growth and RMB Funds

Huang Jingsheng is a former Partner of TPG Growth and RMB Funds, based in Shanghai, China. Prior to joining TPG, he was Managing Director at Bain Capital LLC based in China. Previously, Mr. Huang was Managing Director China at SOFTBANK Asia Infrastructure Fund (SAIF).

Prior to SAIF, Mr. Huang was Partner at SUNeVision Ventures and Senior Manager of Strategic Investment at Intel Capital. Before his investment career, Mr. Huang worked as Director of Research Operations at Gartner Group, Co-founder/Vice President of Marketing at Mtone Wireless and Lecturer at Communication University of China. Mr. Huang also serves as Deputy Chairman of Shanghai Private Equity Association (SHPEA).

Mr. Huang received an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Masters from Stanford University, and a Bachelor’s from Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Ning Jia, Associate Professor of Accounting and Associate Director of China Business Case Center, Tsinghua University

Professor Ning Jia is Associate Professor of Accounting and Associate Director of the China Business Case Center at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management.

Professor Jia’s research focuses on the role of accounting information in capital markets, venture capital/private equity, public offerings, and the growth and valuation of entrepreneurial companies. Her research has appeared in the California Management Review, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Journal of Chinese Entrepreneurship, Economic Perspectives, and China Accounting Review, among others. She is the winner of the 2010 California Management Review best paper award (Accenture Award), 2010 International Conference on Asian-Pacific Financial Markets best paper award, and 2013 CFA Institute Research Award.

Professor Jia is a leader of two World Economic Forum projects on “Entrepreneurial Eco-Systems Around The Globe and Company Growth Dynamics” and “Global Entrepreneurship and the Successful Growth Strategies of Early-Stage Companies”, respectively, and several research projects sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Professor Jia has written more than twenty cases on management practices of Chinese and Non-Chinese companies across a wide spectrum of sectors, including eBay, Check Point, Baidu, Focus Media, China Machine Press, Shanghai Xinhua Hospital, Xinxing Ductile Pipe Co., and BeyondSoft.

Professor Jia is a member of the Ministry of Finance of China National Accounting Leaders Program and an active member of China’s financial media. She also serves on the board of directors of several companies. Professor Jia holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science (Cum Laude) from the University of Minnesota, a master’s degree in Statistics from Stanford University, and a doctorate in Business Administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Peter Joos, Global Head of Valuation and Accounting, Equity Research, Morgan Stanley

Dr. Peter Joos joined Morgan Stanley in 2006 to head the valuation and accounting team in the Asia-Pacific Equity Research Department before relocating to London in 2011.  He specializes in customized fundamental and quantitative research with a specific focus on earnings quality and forecasting fundamental risk.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Dr. Joos served on the faculty of Baruch College, MIT Sloan School of Management, Chicago Booth School of Business and INSEAD. Peter holds a PhD in Business and an MSc in Statistics from Stanford University.

Bin Ke, Professor of Accounting, Nanyang Technological University

Bin Ke is a Professor of Accounting at the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was a Professor at The Pennsylvania State University before joining NTU. He received his PhD in accounting from The Michigan State University. He is a holder of the prestigious “Chang Jiang Scholar” title awarded by China’s Ministry of Education and the Li Ka-Shing Foundation. He is the academic advisor to the Collaborative Innovation Centre for State-owned Assets Administration (国有资产管理协同创新中心) at the Beijing Technology and Business University funded by the Beijing Municipal Government. He was the President of the Chinese Accounting Professors Association of North America (CAPANA), a leading academic organization that promotes high-quality accounting research on China and other emerging market economies.

Professor Ke’s primary research interests focus on the economic forces that determine the production and use of accounting information in business decisions. Examples of his past research include earnings management, insider trading, institutional investors, and financial analysts. His current research focuses on corporations that operate in emerging market economies, with a particular focus on China, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Examples of his current research include financial reporting, fraud detection, managerial compensation, entrepreneurship, innovation, sustainability, government ownership, and investor protection regulation in emerging markets. He is particularly interested in using interdisciplinary approaches to tackle today’s complex business problems

Professor Ke is an editor of The Accounting Review, an associate editor of the Asian Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, a consulting editor of the China Journal of Accounting Research, a current or former editorial board member of the Journal of American Taxation Association, The Accounting Review, and The International Journal of Accounting.

Johnson Kong, Chief Executive Office, BDO Limited

Mr. Johnson Kong has over 30 years of professional accounting experience. He started his career as an auditor and has been specialising in financial investigation, due diligence, litigation support, restructuring, receivership and insolvency related matters for the last 20 years.

In addition to serving as CEO of the Firm and International Liaison Partner, Mr. Kong is in constant communication with many BDO offices around the globe, looking after service needs of both inbound and outbound BDO clients.

Mr. Kong holds a number of professional and public appointments, including  Chairman of Insolvency Specialist Designation Vetting Committee and Member of the Professional Qualifications Accountability Board, Registration and Practising Committee, Professional Conduct Committee and CPA Qualifying Process Reform Working Group of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA). He is also the Past Chairman of the Restructuring & Insolvency Faculty of HKICPA and Immediate Past President of the Hong Kong Institute of Accredited Accounting Technicians.

Other current  professional /public appointments include: Member, Standing Committee on Company Law Reform, The HKSAR – Financial Services and The Treasury Bureau; Member, The Appeal Board Panel (Town Planning), The HKSAR – Development Bureau; Member, The Board of Review (Inland Revenue Ordinance), The HKSAR – Financial Services and The Treasury Bureau; Member, Appeal Panel (Housing), The HKSAR – Transport and Housing Bureau; Member, Professional Services Advisory Committee, Hong Kong Trade Development Council.

Mr. Kong is a Certified Public Accountant (Practising) and a member of HKICPA, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and Society of Chinese Accountants and Auditors.  He is also a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and he is a Registered Insolvency Practitioner under the Hong Kong Official Receiver’s Panel and holder of the Specialist Designation in Insolvency awarded by HKICPA.

Stephen Law, Finance Director, MTR Corporation Limited

Stephen Law (羅卓堅) is the Finance Director of MTR Corporation Limited, responsible for finance, investment control, treasury, investor relations, strategic consulting and corporate efficiency, information technology and materials and stores.

Before taking up the CFO role, Mr. Law served as managing director of TPG, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, where he was responsible for private equity investments in Asia (excluding India), and led key deals across different industries including consumer / retail, energy, healthcare. He also executed many successful IPOs in Hong Kong, US and Vietnam and their subsequent exits.

Prior to joining TPG, Mr. Law was a director of Morningside. Under his management and directorships, these investee companies became leaders in their respective industries in the region.  Mr. Law also previously served as a director of the top three online game operators in China. He also was CFO of the top two outdoor advertising operators in China and he led its later sale to JC Decaux. Mr. Law was also a founding director of an advertising agency that was subsequently merged with WPP Group. He further founded and consolidated the largest independent interactive marketing agency in China, which was sold to Publicis.

Prior to Morningside, Mr. Law focused on corporate finance and development for the Wharf Group.  There he developed Wharf’s brewery business in China together with Foster’s, and initiated the launch of their broadband business, in addition to leading the dual listing of i-Cable Communications Limited in Hong Kong and the US.

Mr. Law launched his career with Arthur Andersen in the United Kingdom.  He holds a BSc degree and a MBA degree.  He is a member of ICEAW, and a Council Member of the HKICPA.

Feng Li, Harry Jones Scholar and Associate Professor of Accounting,  University of Michigan

Professor Li is the Harry Jones Scholar and Associate Professor of Accounting at University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business. He has extensive teaching experience at many levels, and has been published by leading academic journals such as Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Journal of Financial Economics.

Profess Li’s contributions to research and teaching have been recognized and honored by various awards including, Harry Jones Scholar (2011-), Faculty Participant, AAA Lake Tahoe Doctoral Consortium 2011, and a research grant from the Center for International Business Education at the University of Michigan (2008-2009, 2011-2012).

Jay Luo, President, Dymon Asia

Mr. Luo was previously Managing Director, Head of Asia Pacific for SAC Capital Advisors (Hong Kong) Limited. He managed the SAC Group’s activities in the Asia Pacific Region, which consisted of various portfolio management teams in Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing and Tokyo. Before his relocation to Hong Kong in 2007 to build the SAC Group’s presence in Asia, Mr. Luo was a senior member of SAC’s risk management team in Stamford, Connecticut.

Mr. Luo graduated from Peking University with a Bachelor of Science in Physics. He also has a PhD in Chemistry from Pennsylvania State University.

Pooja Malik,  Co-founder and Partner, Nipun Capital
 
Ms. Malik, CFA is a co-Founder and General Partner at Nipun Capital LLC. She has over 10 years of investing experience and most recently, was a Managing Director at Barclays Global Investors (BGI)/BlackRock, where she managed long-only and long-short portfolios for institutional investors. She joined BGI in 2001 and has held several roles over her career there; including Head of US Small Cap Active Equity, Co-Head of US and Global Equities and Head of Canadian Active Equity.

At BGI, Ms. Malik was responsible for active equity portfolios ranging from $1B to $100B in assets. She left BGI in December 2010 to set up Nipun Capital LLC, a boutique asset management firm focused on Asian equities. Nipun believes that investment success is based on applying fundamental insights within a systematic and disciplined investment process.

Prior to BGI, Ms. Malik worked at ICICI Bank, India's largest private bank where she was a credit officer and responsible for a loan portfolio. Ms. Malik has an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and is a CFA charter holder.

Estella Ng, Chief Financial Officer, Country Garden Holdings Company Limited

From January 2008 to April 2014, Ms. Ng was appointed as the chief financial officer of Country Garden Holdings Company Limited whose shares are listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”) in January 2008. 

From September 2005 to November 2007, Ms. NG was an executive director of Hang Lung Properties Limited, a company whose shares are listed on the Stock Exchange.  Prior to her joining Hang Lung Properties in 2003, she was employed by the Stock Exchange in a number of senior positions, most recently as Senior Vice President of its Listing Division.  Prior to that, Ms. Ng gained valuable auditing experience with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. 

Estella is a qualified accountant and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.  She is an associate of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administration and a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the HKICPA and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.  She has also contributed her time to various public service appointments including being a co-opted member of the Audit Committee of the Hospital Authority until November 2013.

Marshall Nicholson, Managing Director, Co-Head of International Investment Banking, China International Capital Corporation (CICC)  

Mr. Nicholson has over 20+ years of Investment Banking and Capital Markets Advisory experience working at International (Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan, Credit Suisse First Boston, Macquarie) and Chinese (Bank of China International ("BOCI") and China International Capital Corporation ("CICC")) Investment Banks which is almost equally split between New York and Hong Kong. Titles held over career: Head of Convertible Origination (ECM) Americas at JPMorgan, Head of ECM Asia ex Japan at CSFB, Head of Greater China ECM at Macquarie, Vice Chairman of IB and Global Head of ECM at BOCI and Co-Head of International Investment Banking at CICC.

Over Mr. Nicholson’s career, he has been primarily focused on originating and executing capital markets transactions (primarily ECM) and advisory assignments while continuing to maintain many client relationships globally with a focus in Asia especially China and Hong Kong. Additionally, he has successfully led and managed the developments of several capital markets businesses increasing market share, transactions while managing risk, capital and overall reputation.

Joseph Piotroski, Associate Professor of Accounting, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Joseph Piotroski is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Prior to this position, he was an Associate Professor of Accounting at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business (July 1999 to June 2007).

Professor Piotroski received his PhD in Accounting from the University of Michigan. He also attended the University of Illinois (BS) and Indiana University (MBA), and worked as a tax consultant for Coopers and Lybrand in Chicago.

Professor Piotroski teaches “Accounting-based Valuation,” an elective course that emphasizes traditional financial statement analysis-based valuation techniques, and “Valuation in Emerging Markets,” an elective course which examines financial reporting and valuation issues in a global context.

His research focuses on how capital market participants use financial accounting information for valuation and risk assessment purposes, and on the economic impact of different financial reporting and governance practices around the world. He has published research papers in numerous scholarly journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the Journal of Finance. He currently serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of The Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, and the Journal of Accounting and Economics. Professor Piotroski’s research has been cited in the popular press, including Business Week, Smart Money Magazine, and Investors Business Daily.

Nury Vittachi, Journalist and Author

Nury Vittachi is a journalist and author based in Hong Kong. His columns are published in a variety of newspapers in Asia as well as on his website. He is best known for the comedy-crime novel series The Feng Shui Detective, published in many languages around the world. He also has written non-fiction works and novels for children. Mr. Vittachi is noted for his role in founding the Asia Literary Review, the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, the Man Asian Literary Prize, and was the chairman of the judges of the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008.

Mr. Vittachi started his journalism career at the Morning Telegraph in Sheffield in the north of England before moving to London's Fleet Street, then to Hong Kong, where he wrote the gossip columns "Lai See" and "Spice Trader" for the South China Morning Post until 1997.

Mr. Vittachi has published a novel series entitled The Feng Shui Detective, in which the protagonists, a feng shui master from China, a young woman from Australia, an Indian mystic and various pan-Asian bad guys, interact across the Asia-Pacific. Five novels had been published by 2009, and filmmakers have bid for screen rights.

Mr. Vittachi is founding editor of the Asia Literary Review, which has published work by writers such as David Mitchell, Maxine Hong Kingston, Hanif Kureishi, Thomas Keneally, William Dalrymple and Romesh Gunesekera. The journal, published since 1999, was designed for Asia-related works "unpublished in English."

Carl Walter, Author of Red Capitalism and Privatizing China

Mr. Carl Walter lived and worked in Beijing from 1991 to 2011, first as an investment banker involved in the earliest SOE restructurings and overseas public listings, then as COO of China’s first joint venture investment bank, China International Capital Corporation. Until his recent retirement, he was JP Morgan’s China chief operating officer as well as chief executive officer of its China banking subsidiary.

Mr. Walter’s ongoing research interest focus on China’s banking and fiscal systems, including the debt and equity capital markets, which he hopes to turn into another book. He has contributed articles to many publications including Caijing, the Wall Street Journal, and the China Quarterly. He is the co-author of Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundations of China’s Extraordinary Rise (2012) and Privatizing China: Inside China’s Stock Markets (2005) both of which were translated into Chinese and were widely ready in China.

Mr. Walter holds a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University and a BA in Russian Studies from Princeton University. In 1979 he was a member of the first group of graduate students to return to China after the revolution and received a certificate of advanced study from Peking University. In 2013 he was a visiting scholar at the Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, after which he biked with his daughter across the United States.

Jesse Wang, Former Chief Accountant, CSRC; EVP of China Investment Corporation

Mr. Jesse Wang was Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of China Investment Corporation and non-executive chairman of Shenyin & Wanguo Securities Company before his retirement. Currently, he is chairman of External Audit Committee of IMF and Chairman of Beijing Dalio Public Welfare Foundation. Prior to joining CIC, he was Vice Chairman of Central Huijin Investment Ltd and Chairman of China International Capital Corporation (CICC). He has also served as the first Chief Accountant, Director General of the International Department, and then Assistant Chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission. He also held top positions in other Chinese financial institutions, including BOC International Holding / UK and China Jian Yin Investment Company.

Mr. Wang holds a doctorate in Accounting and plays an active role in the accounting field in China. He also serves as guest professor at a number of universities, as advisor to accounting PhD candidates, and is an International Advisor to the Chicago Booth School of Business and the Business School of Ren Min University.

David Webb, Founder, Webb-site.com

David Webb moved to Hong Kong in 1991 after five years of investment banking in London. He was a director of Barclays de Zoete Wedd Asia until 1994, conducting investment banking and advisory mandates for companies and governments around Asia. He then became an in-house adviser to Wheelock and Wharf group, and in 1998 retired to focus on his investments and founded Webb-site.com, a non-profit platform for the promotion of better corporate and economic governance in Hong Kong, which now has over 20,000 subscribers to its free newsletter.

Mr. Webb has been a member of the SFC’s Takeovers and Mergers Panel since 2001 and a Deputy Chairman since 2013. In 2001 he was the architect of the HAMS Proposal for a levy-funded investor-elected body to catalyse shareholder activism and corporate governance reform. This proposal received widespread market endorsement but was rejected by the HK Government on the ironic grounds that it lacked accountability. In April 2003, investors elected him as a non-executive director of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd, while rejecting three incumbents nominated by the board. That was the first time a minority shareholder proposal has been passed in a HK-listed company’s shareholder meeting. He resigned in 2008 citing concerns over governance. Also in 2003, he financed and launched “Project Poll” which successfully forced blue-chip companies to start counting 1-share-1-vote rather than a show of hands. Poll voting became mandatory on 1st January 2009.

On Webb-site.com he has written about a broad range of topics including economic intervention, taxation, cartels, the currency board, cronyism, electoral reform, abuses of minority shareholders, fraud, Government transparency, the regulatory framework and stock market bubbles before they burst. The site also contains the Webb-site Who’s Who database on Hong Kong people, organisations and companies, and the Webb-site Total Returns data series since 1994.

In 2000 he was named by BusinessWeek as a “Star of Asia” in the “Opinion Shapers” category. In 2001 the World Economic Forum named him a “Global Leader for Tomorrow”. In 2002 CFO Magazine named him in the “Global 100” who shape finance, under the category of “Gadflies”. In 2005, the WEF made him one of the first members of the Forum of Young Global Leaders. In 2007, World Business named him in the “Top 20 Asian Progressives”. In 2009 FinanceAsia name him one of the 50 most influential people in Asian financial markets. In 2012 he received the IFLR Asia “Market Reform Award”.
Mr. Webb graduated in Mathematics from Oxford University in 1986; prior to that he was a best-selling author of games and books for the first generation of home computers. He was Chairman of Hong Kong Mensa from 1998-2000.

Oliver Weisberg, Managing Director, Citadel

Oliver P. Weisberg is a Managing Director at Citadel (Hong Kong) Limited, having joined the firm in 2006. Prior to joining Citadel, Mr. Weisberg was with Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs & Co in Hong Kong.

Mr. Weisberg received his BA from Harvard College and then completed a one-year advanced Chinese language program at the Stanford University Center at National Taiwan University.

In addition to chairing the Development Committee on Teach For China’s Board, Mr. Weisberg is also on the Advisory Board of the Harvard University Shanghai Center and Harvard China Fund.

Kelvin Wong, JP DBA FHKIoD, Chairman, Hong Kong Institute of Directors
 
Dr. Kelvin Wong is an Executive Director and Deputy Managing Director of COSCO Pacific Limited, and serves as Chairman of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Company.

Dr. Wong is a Chairman of The Hong Kong Institute of Directors, a Non-executive Director of the Securities and Futures Commission, a former member of the Main Board and GEM Listing Committee of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (2007-2013), a convenor-cum-member of the Financial Reporting  Review  Panel, a  member  of  the  Standing  Committee  on  Company  Law  Reform,  a member of the Corruption Prevention Advisory Committee of Independent Commission Against Corruption, a member of the Appeal Board Panel (Town Planning), a Board Director of the Hong Kong Sports Institute Limited, a council member of The Hong Kong Management Association, a member of the OECD/World Bank Asian Corporate  Governance Roundtable and  a  council  advisor  and  past  Chairman of  the Hong  Kong Chinese Orchestra Limited. He is currently an Independent Non-executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of China ZhengTong Auto Services Holdings Limited, I.T. Limited and Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd., and an Independent Non-executive Director of CIG Yangtze Ports PLC. All the aforementioned companies are listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. He held various senior positions in several listed companies in Hong Kong before he joined the Company in July 1996.

Dr. Wong obtained his MBA from Andrews University in Michigan in 1992 and his Doctor of Business Administration degree from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2007.

T. J. Wong, Professor of Accountancy, Director of the Center for Institutions and Governance of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Professor T.J. Wong is the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Accountancy and the Director of the Center for Institutions and Governance of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He also served as the Dean of the CUHK Business School from 2008 to 2013. He received his BA in Economics (summa cum laude) from Dickinson College, and MBA and PhD degrees from UCLA.

Before joining CUHK, Professor Wong taught at the University of Maryland - College Park and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Professor Wong has published numerous research articles in finance and accounting journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and Contemporary Accounting Research.His research was featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Globe and Mail, South China Morning Post, Hong Kong Economic Journal, and was used in the U.S. congressional testimony on Securities Fraud Litigation.

Professor Wong has served in various editorial boards including Review of Accounting Studies, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting. He is an honorary professor of University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China and served as the president of the China Accounting Professor Association of North America in 2006-2007.

Shirley Yam, Financial Columnist, South China Morning Post

Ms. Shirley Yam has been working as a political and financial journalist for major newspapers in Hong Kong since the 1980s including the South China Morning Post (SCMP) and the Hong Kong Economic Times, and she writes a widely-read weekly financial column for the SCMP.

China’s corporate reform has always been her area of specialty, and her works have been recognised with various local and regional awards as well as scholarships.

Since 2010, Ms. Yam has been serving the Hong Kong Journalists Association, the city’s only independent reporters' union that campaigns for press freedom and provides professional training.  She is presently the Association’s Vice-chairman.

Ms. Yam was born in Hong Kong and educated in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. She also holds a Masters degree in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Bernard Yeung, Dean, National University of Singapore Business School

Bernard Yeung is Dean and Stephen Riady Distinguished Professor in Finance and Strategic Management at the National University of Singapore Business School. Before joining NUS in June 2008, he was the Abraham Krasnoff Professor in Global Business, Economics, and Management at New York University Stern School of Business. He was also the Director of the NYU China House, the honorary co-chair of the Strategy Department of the Peking University Guanghua School of Management, and Advisory Professor at the East China Normal University. Professor Yeung previously taught at the University of Michigan (assistant, associate, and full) and the University of Alberta (assistant and associate).

Professor Yeung’s research covers topics in international corporate finance, corporate strategy, foreign direct investment, and the relationship between institutions, economic development, and firm behavior. His more than one hundred research articles have appeared in top rated journals in Economics, Finance, Strategic Management, International Business, and Accounting.

Professor Yeung received his BA in economics and mathematics from the University of Western Ontario and his MBA and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Wayne Yu, Professor of Finance, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Wayne Yu is a Professor of Finance at the School of Accounting and Finance of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also an Executive Editor of China Accounting and Finance Review.

Professor Yu’s research interests include corporate governance, corporate finance and capital markets. He has published in Annual Review of Financial Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, and Journal of Financial Economics. 

Professor Yu is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and holds a doctorate degree in finance and a master degree in economics.

Jie Zhang, Founder, Rega Capital Management

Dr. Zhang previously served as Assistant Professor of Finance at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include a wide range of topics in asset pricing, e.g., equities, derivatives, liquidity and sentiment, which he has developed into multiple investment models for the US, China and HK markets.

Dr Zhang received his PhD in Finance from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), an MPhil in Physiology from Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a BSc from Special Class for Gifted Youth, University of Science and Technology of China. He has over 14 years of trading experience.

Wei-Guo Zhang, Member, International Accounting Standards Board

Dr. Zhang Wei-Guo is a member of International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) based in London. He is IASB’s first board member from China and second board member from Asia. His present term extends through June 2017.

Dr. Zhang previously served as Chief Accountant and Director General of the Department of International Affairs at the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) from 1997 to 2007.

Dr. Zhang was actively involved in accounting standard‑setting and implementation issues, auditor oversight, corporate governance, and cross-border listing and regulatory co-operation issues at the CSRC and through his work with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).

From 1998 until 2004, Dr. Zhang was a member of the China Accounting Standards Committee and the China Auditing Standards Committee.

Before joining the CSRC, he was Head of the Department of Accounting at Shanghai University of Finance & Economics (SUFE) where he received his PhD in economics (majored in accounting) in 1989. Dr. Zhang served as a PhD supervisor at SUFE from 1993 and at Tsinghua University from 2000 until he joined the IASB in 2007.

Dr. Zhang has been recognised with numerous rewards for his distinguished performance and contributions, including National Award of Outstanding Young Teacher in 1989 and National Award of Outstanding Educator in 1995. In 2005, Dr. Zhang was granted a special award by China’s State Council for his outstanding contributions to the development of the Chinese securities and futures markets.