Jack Ma
Chairman & CEO of Alibaba Group. Jack Ma is the lead founder of Alibaba Group and has been the chairman and chief executive officer of Alibaba Group since its inception in 1999. He is responsible for the overall strategy and focus of Alibaba Group and Alibaba.com. Jack is a pioneer in the Chinese Internet industry, founding China Pages, one of the first Internetbased directories in China, in 1995. From 1998 to 1999, he headed an information technology company established by the China International Electronic Commerce Center (CIECC), a department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC). Jack currently serves on the board of SOFTBANK CORP., a leading digital information company that is publicly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. As a respected business leader, he was chosen by the World Economic Forum as a "Young Global Leader" in 2001, selected by China Central Television (CCTV) and its viewers as one of the "Top 10 Business Leaders of the Year" in 2004, and selected as one of the "25 Most Powerful Businesspeople in Asia" by Fortune Magazine in 2005. Jack is also a member of APEC Business Advisory Council, which was established by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, or APEC, in 1995 as the vehicle for formalizing private sector participation in APEC.

Howard Schultz
"It all started with a cup of coffee"
Howard Schultz is Chairman, President and CEO of Starbucks Coffee Company. In 1983 he traveled to Italy and was captivated by Italian coffee bars and the romance of the coffee experience. He had a vision to bring the Italian coffeehouse tradition back to Seattle, creating a third place between work and home. In order to pursue this dream, Howard left Starbucks to start his own coffee company called Il Giornale and returned in August 1987 to purchase Starbucks with the help of local investors. Howard went on to create two landmark programs for Starbucks partners (employees): comprehensive health coverage for part-time partners and equity in the company in the form of stock options. From that foundation, Starbucks has grown to more than 16,000 stores in neighborhoods around the world. What remains the same from that first cup of coffee is a connection, a conversation, and a sense of community.

Qiren Zhou
Professor Zhou holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. from the People's University. Professor Zhou came back to China in 1995. Since then, he has been working as the Providence Professor of Economics of the CCER. He was invited to become visiting professor at Zhejiang University and Fu Dan University. He has also taught courses at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS); the Graduate School of the People's Bank of China; and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. He is well known for his profound and thorough research in New Institutional Economics; Deregulation Reform; China's Institutional Transformation and much more.

William Jefferson Clinton
Former US President William Jefferson Clinton was born on 19 August 1946 in Hope, Arkansas. He and his wife Secretary Hillary Clinton have one daughter, Chelsea, and live in Chappaqua, New York. President Clinton was the first Democratic president in six decades to be elected twice ¨C first in 1992 and then in 1996. Under his leadership, the country enjoyed the strongest economy in a generation and the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, including the creation of more than 22 million jobs. He has also joined with former President George H.W. Bush three times: after the 2004 tsunami in South Asia; Hurricane Katrina in 2005; and Hurricane Ike in 2008 to help raise money for recovery efforts.

Feng Lun
Mr. Feng Lun was born in 1959 in Xi'an, Shanxi province. He is the founder of China Minsheng and is currently chairman of Vantone Real Estate; rotating president of China Real Estate Chamber of Commerce (CRECC); and vice chairman of the Urban Residential Development Commission for the China Real Estate Association. As an ideologist and innovator, Mr. Feng Lun initiated the transformation of the Chinese real estate industry from the Hong Kong Business Style to the US Pattern. He is also the initiator of the first real estate strategic alliance in China ¨C "CURA" (China Urban Realty Association) and one of the protagonists of the "New Housing Movement".

Guo Guangchang
Born in Dongyang, Zhejiang in 1967, Mr. Guo Guangchang is currently serving as Chairman of Fosun International Ltd.; Fosun High Technology (Group) Company Ltd.; and Non-executive Director of Forte Land Ltd. Mr. Guo is a Director of both Nanjing Steel United and Fosun Pharma. Mr. Guo's active social involvement includes work as: a committee member of both Ninth Executive Committee of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and the Tenth Executive Committee of the All-China Youth Federation; Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Industry and Commerce; Vice Chairman of the Eighth Shanghai Youth Federation; and the President of the Shanghai Zhejiang Province Chamber of Commerce.

Teng Theng Dar
Chairman of APEC Business Advisory Council (2009). Teng Theng Dar is the CEO of the Singapore Business Federation. He has over twenty-eight years of management experience in the Asia Region, Australia and the Middle-East Region in recent years. He spent ten years each in Japan and Indonesia, four years each in Malaysia and Australia, operating businesses in the following sectors: FMCG (Manufacturing, Marketing & Distribution), Commodities trading, Agri-Food, ICT, Energy saving solutions & products, and Construction. Mr. Teng is also a member of the Singapore Institute of Management; Singapore Institute of Directors, Marketing Institute of Singapore, Singapore Customs Advisory Committee, Singapore- Liaoning Economic and Trade Council, Singapore- Zhejiang Economic & Trade Council, the Vice Chairman of Singapore Middle East Business Group - SBF & the Singapore Saudi Arabia Business Council and is also a Special Advisor to the Singapore Plastic Industry Association. He has also been a part of the Food & Beverage Sub-Group - Singapore Economic Review Committee and Food Industry Advisory Committee, Victoria State, Australia (1999 - 2001), Financing for SMEs - ACE, Financing Internationalization Committee - ACE.

Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant is a four-time NBA Champion, a 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist, the 2007-2008 NBA Most Valuable Player and the 2008-09 NBA Finals' Most Valuable Player. Kobe has earned All-NBA honors in each of the last eleven seasons and has been named in the NBA's All Defensive Team nine times. During the 2008-2009 season, Kobe became the second-youngest player to reach 22,000 career points. Kobe was selected with the 13th overall pick in the 1996 NBA Draft and was acquired by the Lakers from the Charlotte Hornets in exchange for Vlade Divac. He became the first-ever player in Los Angeles franchise history to make the transition, electing to enter the NBA draft from high school (Lower Merion High School).

Liu Chuanzhi
President and CEO of Legend Holdings Ltd.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lenovo
Mr. Liu Chuanzhi is currently President and CEO of Legend Holdings Ltd.; Chairman of the board of directors of Lenovo; Vice Chairman of the All-China General Chamber of Industry and Commerce; a deputy to the 16th and 17th Congress of CCP; and Member of the 9th, 10th and 11th National People's Congress.
Mr. Liu has won many honors and awards, including: First Prize in the Second National Hi-Tech Industry Pioneer Golden Award; one of China's Outstanding Young Experts; Man of Reform in China; National Model Worker; Asian Businessman of the Year; Asian Star; Businessman of the Year in China; and Honors for Contribution to US-China Relations by The National Committee of US-China Relations (NCUSCR).

Yu Dan
Yu Dan is an assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Media and Head of the Department of Film & Television Media. She holds strategist/researcher positions in many mass media groups including China Television Artists Association; China Visual Association's Tertiary Arts Committee; China Visual Association's Research Group; China-Guangdong Institute Legal Programs Committee; and News Corp (Australia). In late 2006, a series of her lectures entitled "Yu Dan's Insights into the Analects" were broadcast over seven days on CCTV as part of the Lecture Room program. The transcript, edited into a book "Yu Dan's Notes on the Analects", sold more than 4 million copies within a year of release.

Li Yi
Master Li Yi is currently the president of the Taoist Association of Chongqing Jinyun Mountain; the abbot of Shaolong Taoist Temple; and member of the CCPC Standing Committee. He is devoted to "the Oriental health study", "Oriental Management", "Oriental Success" study, and has worked as a professor at Central China Normal University. He is also a professor in the medical school of Kuala University, Malaysia. Master Li Yi has been a guest on "Century Forum" on Phoenix TVs Chinese Channel in Hong Kong. He has given lectures on Health Culture at the School of Management at Fudan University, Shanghai; the Department of Philosophy of Peking University, Beijing; and Cambridge University in the UK.

Muhammad Yunus
Dr. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He was previously a professor of economics. Dr. Yunus is famous for his successful application of microcredit and the extension of small loans. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to apply for traditional bank loans. Dr. Yunus is also the founder of Grameen Bank. In 2006, Dr. Yunus and the bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below". Dr. Yunus himself has received several other national and international honors.