Mr. Yip Wei Kiat, Consul-General, Singapore Consulate-General in Shanghai.

Mr Yip Wei Kiat is currently Singapore's Consul-General in Shanghai. Born in Singapore on 16 June 1969, Mr Yip graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Economics) (Hons) in 1991 from the London School of Economics, United Kingdom. In 2001, he obtained a Master of International Policy Studies from the Stanford University, United States.

Mr Yip joined the Foreign Service in 1993. He has served as First Secretary in the Singapore High Commission in Kuala Lumpur (1995-1998), Counsellor in the Singapore Embassy in Bangkok (2003-2005) and Deputy Chief of Mission and Counsellor in the Singapore Embassy in Beijing (2005-2007).

Leong Wai Leng, Chairman, OCBC Bank (China)

A Singaporean and a graduate of the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Ms Leong has been living in China for the past seven years.

Ms Leong has 12 years' banking experience. She worked for Philips Electronics China Group, where her roles included country treasurer and group financial controller for Philips China. Her role before the OCBC appointment was head of the Corporate and Institutional Bank at HSBC Bank (China) Co.

Ms Leong will have overall responsibility for directing and executing OCBC Bank's growth strategy in China.

Prof. Kulwant Singh, Interim Dean, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore

Prof Kulwant Singh (PhD, University of Michigan; MBA and BBA, National University of Singapore) is Interim Dean of the NUS Business School. Prof Singh’s research and teaching focus on business strategy and competition in rapidly changing environments. He was Chief Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management between 2000 and 2004. He has co-authored three books, Strategy for Success in Asia, Business Strategy in Asia: A Casebook, and Surviving the New Millennium: Lessons from the Asian Crisis. He has conducted executive seminars for many leading firms, including Deutsche Bank, DuPont, Dow Chemical, Nestle, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics, Toshiba, and Volvo. He has also taught in programs organized by Duke University, London Business School, Oxford University and Stockholm School of Economics.

Woody Mo, CEO, President, eBaoTech

Prior to founding eBaoTech , Dr. Mo was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company, Greater China. During his five years at McKinsey, Dr. Mo provided advice to both multinational and Chinese financial institutions and high-tech corporations on their strategy, operations, and organization issues. Dr. Mo was a core member of McKinsey's global Financial Institution Group. Dr. Mo led McKinsey teams to provide multi-year consulting service to a leading Chinese insurance company on strategy, organization structure, new product launch, IT system, sales force effectiveness, and corporate incentive system issues, enabled the company to become the dominant player in most of the key regional markets in its core life insurance business. Dr. Mo also spent nine months leading a McKinsey study to help a Chinese national bank to design and implement its commercial loan credit rating and non performing loan collection system, process, and organizational structure, the study enabled the bank to greatly improve its loan portfolio quality, and effectively reduce NPL severity.

Prior to joining McKinsey & Company, Dr. Mo worked for four years at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown, New York, as a research scientist. Dr. Mo holds a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, and Master's and Bachelor's degrees, from Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, China.

Sophia Luan, Director, Public Affairs & Communications, General Motors China Group

Sophia Luan has worked as a PR professional for more than 10 years with extensive experience working in greater China and Asia Pacific region. Sophia Luan was appointed Director of Public Affairs & Communications for General Motors China Group on November 1, 2005. She is primarily responsible for communications planning and strategy, product and brand communications, media relations and public affairs for General Motors in mainland China and Taiwan.

Prior to GM, Sophia worked for Bristol-Myers Squibb China as Director of Corporate Affairs for two years. She began her professional career in 1988 as an interpreter and translator with the British embassy in Beijing. Later, she joined Johnson & Johnson China, where she held several key leadership positions in public relations, government affairs and corporate communications for both mainland China market and Asia Pacific region.

Sophia has an executive MBA from the National University of Singapore and a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Nanjing University.