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EXTERNAL SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Mr. Adam Braun Founder & Executive Director, Pencils of Promise Adam Braun is the Founder and Executive Director of Pencils of Promise, the nonprofit organization that has opened more than 50 schools around the world and delivered over 1.5 million educational hours in just over three years. PoP was founded with just $25 and a birthday party in October 2008 using what Braun describes as a "For‐Purpose" approach to blending nonprofit idealism with for‐profit business principles. PoP has since raised millions of dollars to build schools in Asia and Latin America and deliver nearly 250,000 hours of domestic training to a new generation of social entrepreneurs in the United States. All of this began as a college student on the path towards a career in finance. He met a young boy begging on the streets and asked him what he wanted most in the world. The answer‐"A pencil." Braun then backpacked through 50+ countries, engaging in conversations and living amongst the world's best NGOs to develop a best practice model for global education created through the hands of locals. Braun now speaks often on global education, finding one's passion and purpose, youth empowerment, international development and the intersection of the nonprofit and for‐profit spaces. He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, previously worked at leading consulting firm Bain & Company, and has been featured at the Clinton Global Initiative, Google Zeitgeist and Wired Magazine's 2012 Smart List of 50 People Changing the World.
Mr. RP Eddy CEO, Ergo & former Director, National Security Council RP Eddy is CEO of Ergo. Previously, he served as Director at the White House National Security Council, Chief of Staff to the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Richard Holbrooke, and Senior Policy Officer to the UN Secretary‐General, where he served as an architect of the Global Fund to Prevent AIDS, TB, and Malaria. Eddy was a member of the State Department Senior Executive Service, and achieved the UN diplomatic rank of Minister‐Counselor. Eddy was a Managing Director at the Gerson Lehrman Group and a Team Leader at the Monitor Group. The World Economic Forum at Davos honored him as a "Global Leader for Tomorrow." He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an Associate at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and a Senior Fellow at the Madison Policy Forum. He has a B.Sc. in Neuroscience from Brown University.
Dr. Jeffrey Frankel James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government 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, where he is also on the Business Cycle Dating Committee, which officially declares recessions. He served at the Council of Economic Advisers in 1983‐84 and 1996‐99;as CEA Member in the Clinton Administration, Frankel's responsibilities included international economics, macroeconomics, and the environment. Before coming to Harvard in 1999, he was Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He currently serves on advisory panels for the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Boston, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Peterson Institute for International Economics. His research interests include international finance, commodities, currencies, crises, monetary policy, fiscal policy, regional blocs, and international environmental issues. Born in San Francisco, he graduated from Swarthmore College, and received his economics PhD from MIT.
Dr. Yasheng Huang International Program Professor in Chinese Economy and Business, Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management Yasheng Huang is the International Program Professor in Chinese Economy and Business and a Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Huang founded and runs the China Lab and the India Lab, which aim to help entrepreneurs in those countries improve their management skills. He is an expert source on international business, political economy, and international management. In collaboration with other scholars, Huang is conducting research on human capital formation in China and India, entrepreneurship, and ethnic and labor‐intensive foreign direct investment (FDI). Prior to MIT Sloan, he held faculty positions at the University of Michigan and at Harvard Business School. Huang also served as a consultant to the World Bank. His research has been profiled in many publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Businessworld, Le Monde, the Economic Times, as well as in numerous Chinese publications. He also has contributed to the Financial Times, The New York Times, and Foreign Policy. Huang’s published books include Inflation and Investment Controls in China (1996), FDI in China (1998), Selling China (2003), and Financial Reform in China (2005, co‐edited with Tony Saich and Edward Steinfeld). His most recent book, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics (2008), is based on detailed archival and quantitative evidence spanning three decades of reforms. Huang shows that private entrepreneurship, facilitated by financial liberalization and microeconomic flexibility, played a central role in China’s economic miracle. Huang has held or received prestigious fellowships, such as the National Fellowship at Stanford University and the Social Science Research Council‐MacArthur Fellowship. He is a member of the Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, a Fellow at the Center for Chinese Economic Research and the Center for China in the World Economy at Tsinghua University, a Fellow at the William Davidson Institute at Michigan Business School, and a World Economic Forum Fellow. Huang holds a BA in government from Harvard College and a PhD in government from Harvard University.
Dr. Lawrence Lessig Roy L. Furman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school's Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Lessig serves on the Board of Creative Commons, MAPLight, Brave New Film Foundation, The American Academy, Berlin, AXA Research Fund and iCommons.org, and is on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award and being named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.
Mr. Matthew Moneyhon Managing Partner, Ergo & former UN and State Department Diplomat Matthew Moneyhon is a Managing Partner at Ergo (www.ergo.net). He leads Ergo's Asia practice and in that capacity has directed complex political, economic, and market‐specific research on countries ranging from Vietnam to North Korea. Mr. Moneyhon previously worked for the U.S. State Department, the United Nations, a leading Wall Street research firm, and a range of academic and policy‐oriented public and non‐profit organizations. He holds degrees from the University of Texas, University of Hawaii, and Columbia University. He has done academic work on a variety of topics—including economic and infrastructure development in China—and has been cited in testimony to Congress and used in graduate courses in universities around the world. He speaks Mandarin.
Col. Mark Mykleby Senior Fellow, Smart Strategy Initiative, New America Foundation & former Strategic Advisor to US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark “Puck” Mykleby is a senior fellow with the New America Foundation’s Smart Strategy Initiative. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps following his graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1987. During his career as Marine fighter pilot, he served in various operational, staff, and command billets and participated in combat operations in support of Operations Provide Promise, Deny Flight, Southern Watch, and Iraqi Freedom. From July 2007 to July 2009, he developed strategy for US Special Operations Command and from July 2009 until April 2011 he served as a special strategic assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff developing grand strategy. Mark retired from the Marine Corps with the rank of colonel in July 2011. He has since joined LRN, a company dedicated to helping organizations build ethical, values‐based cultures that inspire principled performance in business and in life.
Mr. Gene Sharp Senior Scholar, Albert Einstein Institution The world's foremost expert on non‐violent revolution whose book & philosophy of non‐violence was used as the game plan during the Arab Spring Gene Sharp is Senior Scholar at the Albert Einstein Institution and founded the Institution in 1983. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Ohio State University and a D.Phil. in political theory from Oxford University. He is also Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. For nearly thirty years he held a research appointment at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs. He is the author of various books, including The Politics of Nonviolent Action (1973), Gandhi as a Political Strategist (1979), Social Power and Political Freedom (1980), Making Europe Unconquerable (1985), Civilian‐Based Defense (1990), and From Dictatorship to Democracy (1993, 2002, and 2003). His most recent book is Waging Nonviolent Struggle: Twentieth Century Practice and Twenty‐First Century Potential. His writings have been published in more than thirty languages.
Mr. Wang Shi Chairman & Founder, China Vanke Co. Ltd Mr. Shi Wang is the Chairman and Founder of China Vanke Co. Ltd, one of the largest professional residential development companies with sales revenue exceeding 63.42 billion RMB and more than 16,000 employees nationwide. Mr. Wang established China Vanke in 1988, and it became the first Chinese real estate development company listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 1991. Mr. Wang was born in 1951. After joining the military in 1958, Mr. Wang changed his career in 1973 and worked in the Water and Electrical supply department of Zhengzhou Railway. He graduated from Lanzhou Railway College in 1978, majoring in water supply studies. He then worked in the Guangzhou Railway Bureau, Guangzhou Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Committee and Shenzhen Special Region Development Company. He launched the “Shenzhen Exhibition Center of Modern Science and Education Equipment”, the predecessor of China Vanke, in 1984. The company was reorganized into China Vanke Co. Ltd., a shareholding company, in 1988. Mr. Wang enjoys the challenges of mountaineering, and reached the peak of Mount Everest in 2003. He holds the distinction of being the oldest PRC mountaineer to have ever reached that peak.
Mr. Wang Jun Deputy Director‐General, Bureau of Statistics, Chongqing Municipal People's Government Major achievements: organized the preparation of both the first five‐year financial plan of Chongqing and the “Guideline for Accelerating the Development of Financial Industry in Chongqing”; assisted in the reorganization of the Bank of Chongqing and Chongqing Rural Commercial Bank; lead the attraction of a number of international institutions including Citigroup, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Liberty Insurance, to open branches in Chongqing; helped in the establishment of CNPC’s financial leasing subsidiary, Chongqing Three Gorges Bank, Great Eastern Life Assurance, Ancheng Property & Casualty Insurance and San Xia Guarantee; promoted the improvement of financial services and risk treatment for districts and counties, rural areas and small‐to‐medium scale enterprises in Chongqing, which contributed to Chongqing’s ranking as one of the Top Ten Financial Eco‐city in China; coordinated the introduction of venture capitals such as Softbank and private equity funds such as TPG into Chongqing; facilitated the public listing of various local enterprises including Southwest Securities, Chongqing Rural Commercial Bank, Longfor Group, Lifan Group, CSC Group; attracted billions of investment into Chongqing. Mr. Wang graduated from the School of Finance of Renmin University of China and holds a Ph.D. in economics. He also studied at Cambridge University, California State University, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and the 1‐year Youth Class of Central Party School of China.
Dr. Zhang Wenkui Deputy Director General, Enterprise Research Department, State Council of China Dr. Zhang is the Deputy Director General at the Enterprise Research Department of China’s National Development Research Center (NDRC), State Council. NDRC is a comprehensive policy research, strategic review and consulting institution directly under the State Council, the central government. It is an advisory body which recommends policies related to economic and social development to CPC Central Committee and the State Council. Dr. Zhang is a renowned national economist and expert. His contribution to China's economic development, capital market development, SOE reform, private enterprise development is remarkable. He is one of the key think‐tankers to the State Council and has been invited as a speaker on China's economy by IMF, OECD, World Bank and the Federal Reserve. Dr. Zhang graduated from Hunan University, received a doctorate from Renmin University and was an academic visitor at Harvard University.
J.P. MORGAN SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Adrian Mowat Managing Director & Chief Emerging Market and Asian Equity Strategist, J.P. Morgan Adrian Mowat is J.P. Morgan's Chief emerging market and Asian equity strategist. He leads the team of 10 Asian country strategists and the regional emerging country equity strategists. The team's flagship reports are “Key Trades and Risk” and “Perspective and Portfolios”, for emerging markets and Asia respectively. Adrian joined J.P. Morgan in 2002 as the Chief Asian Equity Strategist. Prior to this he worked at Martin Currie Investment Management in Edinburgh for 14 years. At Martin Currie he managed a broad range of mandates including Asian, US and emerging markets.
Bruce Kasman Managing Director & Chief Economist, J.P. Morgan Bruce Kasman is Managing Director and Chief Economist of J.P. Morgan. He is the editor of Global Data Watch. From 1996 – 1999 Mr. Kasman was Head of Economic Research, Europe. Prior to his arrival at J.P. Morgan in 1994, Mr. Kasman was Senior International Economist at Morgan Stanley & Co. He started his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he was a Research Officer in the International Research Department. Mr. Kasman received a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in 1985.
David Fernandez Managing Director & Head of Emerging Asia Research, J.P. Morgan Dave Fernandez is J.P. Morgan's Head of Emerging Asia Research team, covering economics, FX, local rates, and sovereign credit. Before joining J.P. Morgan in January 1998, Mr. Fernandez spent five years as a professor of economics at the Johns Hopkins University International Studies School where he taught international macroeconomics; he was named the Professor of the Year in 1996. Earlier, he served as an Economist in the Council of Economic Advisers in the administration of US President George Bush. In 1987, he joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in its OECD economic research department and in the foreign exchange intervention group. Mr. Fernandez has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and received a Doctorate in Economics from the Princeton University where, as a National Science Foundation fellow, he
wrote his dissertation under Ben S. Bernanke. In addition to his work at J.P. Morgan, Mr. Fernandez is on the Advisory Board of Singapore Management University's School of Economics.
Jesper Koll Managing Director & Head of Japanese Equity Research, J.P. Morgan Koll has been researching and investing in Japan since becoming a resident in 1986. Before joining J.P. Morgan in December 2009, he was the president and CEO of Tantallon Research Japan KK, a Tokyo‐based investment advisory firm he set up in June 2007. Previously, he served as the chief economist of Merrill Lynch Japan for eight years. Before that, he was a Managing Director at the Tiger Fund and before that he was the Chief Economist for J.P. Morgan in Tokyo. For the first three years of his Japan experience, he worked as an aide to a Member of Parliament. Over the past two decades, Koll has been consistently ranked as one of the top Japan strategists/ economists. His analysis and insights have earned him a spot on several Japanese government advisory committees. He has written two books in Japanese, Towards a New Japanese Golden Age and The End of Heisei Deflation. He is also one of the few non‐Japanese members of the Keizai Doyukai, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives. Jesper has a masters degree from the School of Advanced and International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and was a research fellow at both Tokyo University and Kyoto University. He is a graduate of the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific.
Joyce Chang Managing Director & Global Head of Emerging Markets & Credit Research, J.P. Morgan Joyce Chang is Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets and Global Credit Research at J.P. Morgan. She also oversees the Global Index Research group. The 170 research analysts and economists in her groups are based in 12 countries and are responsible for coverage of developed and emerging markets countries and corporates, covering macroeconomic, FX, rates and sovereign and company forecasts as well as global index products. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Joyce was a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch and Salomon Brothers. Ms. Chang has also worked for the United States Agency for International Development in the Philippines, Jordan and India. She has been the #1 ranked emerging markets sovereign strategist by Institutional Investor since 1998. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Inter‐American Dialogue and serves on the Board of Directors of Trickle Up and Girls Inc. She has been featured in various publications, including Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, Crain’s New York Business and was named one of the top 50 Outstanding Asian Americans in Business for 2010 by the Asian American Business Development Center. She received her B.A. from Columbia and MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University Updated as of July 31