YCW launched its second chapter in Shanghai in 2010. As China's financial capital, YCW Shanghai has tapped many experts covering China's economy and financial sector, as well as urbanization. Our speakers have included:

- Jonathan Woetzel, Director of McKinsey & Company, Director of the McKinsey Global Institute in Asia and Co-Chair Urban China Initiative
- Shen Dingli, Vice Dean of the Institute of International Affairs of Fudan University
- The Honorable Ken Jarrett, former US Consul General in Shanghai

YCW Shanghai has co-sponsored many of its events with the Hopkins China Forum, organized by The Johns Hopkins University and its affiliated alumni associations worldwide. Our partner has brought in visiting professors from leading policy graduate program, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins.

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Shanghai – ‘The Future of Sino-Russian Relations’ with Feng Shaolei, Dean of Advanced International Area Studies, Director of the Center for Russian Studies, East China Normal University

Feng Shaolei is Dean of the School of Advanced International and Area Studies (SAIAS) at East China Normal University, where is he is also Director of the Center for Russian Studies. Feng is a member of Sino-Russian Committee of Friendship, as well as Editor-in-Chief of

Shanghai – ‘Shadow Banking Crisis in China’ with Paul Armstrong-Taylor, The Hopkins-Nanjing Centre, SAIS

Paul Armstrong-Taylor is currently Professor of Economics at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, the China campus of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Before coming to the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics and Finance at Shanghai Jiaotong University. He

Shanghai – Dinner with Allen Lynch, Author of ‘Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft’ and Professor at University of Virginia

Allen Lynch is Professor at the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, where he teaches international relations and Russian studies. He has served as the Director of Research at the University’s Center for International Studies, Director of the

Shanghai – ‘China’s New Economic Diplomacy’ with Zhang Xiaotong, Executive Director of Centre for Economic Diplomacy, Wuhan University

Dr. Zhang Xiaotong is the Executive Director of Wuhan University Centre for Economic Diplomacy, and Associate Professor of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Wuhan University. He previously worked at the U.S. Desk of China’s Ministry of Commerce

Shanghai – ‘Unnatural Selection: Gender Imbalance in China and Beyond’ with Mara Hvistendahl, Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Mara Hvistendahl is a Shanghai-based author and contributing editor with Science Magazine and a contributor to publications ranging from The Atlantic to The Wall Street Journal. She is also author of Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a