Ambassador Wood is a career diplomat, having previously served as Director for Asia Pacific for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Political Counsellor in Washington DC and in the Joint Liaison Group in the run-up to the handover of Hong Kong.
Beijing – ‘How the Rise of China is Changing Global Business’ with James McGregor, APCO, and author of ‘One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China’
James McGregor is a senior counselor for APCO, author of the bestselling book ‘One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China’ and a veteran reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Prior to joining APCO, he
Beijing – ‘Down on the Farm with StanChart: How Land Reform is Changing Rural China’ with Stephen Green, Standard Chartered
Stephen Green is Head of Greater China Research at Standard Chartered Bank. Prior to StanChart, Stephen was Head of the Asia Programme at London’s Chatham House. Stephen has a Ph.D. from LSE and completed undergraduate studies at Cambridge University. He
Shanghai – ‘China’s Flash Urbanization: The Race between Eco-Hope and Eco-Hazard’ with Neville Mars, Dynamic City Foundation
Neville Mars is Chief Architect for MARS Architects and founder of the Dynamic City Foundation. He is author of ‘The Chinese Dream: A Society Under Construction’, and has an interest in the unfulfilled promise of environmental sustainability in China’s urbanization
Beijing – ‘The Men Behind the Masks: Elite Politics in China Today’ with Kate Westgarth, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Kate Westgarth is a career diplomat, and has spent over ten years in China. She was previously Team Leader for the China Coordination Team at the UK Foreign Office, and a Visiting Scholar at the Academy of Marxism, under the