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Daewoo Professor of International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. From 1994 to July 1999, he was the Chief Representative of the China Office at the Ford Foundation in Beijing. Prior to this, he was the Director of the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands. His teaching and research focus on the interplay between state and society in Asia and the respective roles they play in determining policy-making and framing socio-economic development.  
 

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Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University. He has served on several occasions in the US Government, as chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1995-97), Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1977-81), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Monetary Affairs (1965-66), and senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers (1961-63).
 

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President of the Institute for Trade and Commercial Diplomacy. He previously served with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative for 21 years in various senior trade policy leadership positions. He played a central role in the conceptualization and development of U.S. trade policy and global trade negotiations. From 1992 to 1995 he served as the chairman of the OECD Trade Committee. From 1974 to 1979, He coordinated U.S. participation in the Tokyo Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations and from 1979 to 1985 he was responsible for planning and developing domestic and international agreement on the agenda for the Uruguay Round Negotiations.
 

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Jeffrey A. Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth. He directs the Program in International Finance and Macroeconomics at the National Bureau of Economic Research and is also on the Business Cycle Dating Committee, which officially declared the 2001 recesssion. Appointed by former President Bill Clinton in 1996 to his Council of Economic Advisers, Frankel's responsibilities included international economics, macroeconomics, and environment.
 

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Professor at Harvard University's Department of Government. His  research focus on the politics of international monetary and financial relations. He is Co-chair (with Kenneth Shepsle) of the Research Group on Political Institutions and Economic Policy, Harvard University.
 

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Director of Harvard's Center for International Development and Professor of the Practice of Economic Development at the Kennedy School of Government. Previously, he served as the first Chief Economist of the Inter-American Development Bank (1994-2000), where he created the Research Department. He has served as Minister of Planning of Venezuela (1992-1993) and as a member of the Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela. He also served as Chair of the IMF-World Bank Development Committee.
 

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Vice minister, Research Office of the State Council, P.R.China.  She is also the director of Institute of Finance and Trade Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Her forte is industrial structures and industrial organization, the industrial policy, transnational investment, and economic systems in transition. She has participated in the drafting of a number of major central government documents concerning China's economic restructuring and development.
 

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Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment, a Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1998 to 2000. Lawrence has also been a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
 

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Deputy Minister of the Development Research Center of the State Council, P.R. China. He held several leading posts in the government. He used to be the Vice Chairman and then Executive Vice Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission. He was also the Vice Minister of the Office of Economic Restructuring Commission of the State Council.
 

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Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy of Harvard University, where he joined the faculty in 1963. Previous positions at Harvard include Associate Director of the East Asian (now Fairbank) Research Center, 1973-1977; chairman of the Department of Economics, 1977-1980; Director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), the University’s former multi-disciplinary institute for research, teaching, and technical assistance on development policy,1980-1995; and Director of the Harvard University Asia Center, 2002-2005.
 

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A consultant working in the financial services area in China. Previously he was president of Shenzhen Development Bank, the first foreign president of a Chinese commercial bank. He is a graduate of Harvard College magna cum laude in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and of Harvard Business School. A career banker, he has over 20 years experience working in Greater China for Citibank, American Express, and Standard Chartered.
 

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Bao Steel Chair Professor of Economics at CEIBS. He is also Senior Research Associate at the Development Research Centre of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, and Member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He is a Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In September 2005, Prof. Wu was elected as a member of current Executive Committee (2005-2008) of International Economic Association (IEA). His main research interests are theoretical economics, comparative institutional analysis, and theory and policy of the economic reform of China.
 

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Director and a senior fellow of Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He is a member of the Monetary Policy Committee. He is also a professor in the Department of World Economics at Post-Graduate School of CASS. He received his MA in economics from Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1986 and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1994. Since 1997 he has been vice president of China Society of World Economy. He is also quest fellow of many research institutes and advisor to many government departments.