Meet the Speakers: Executive Leadership Programme, Beijing

The first leg of CBBC's Executive Leadership Programme will take place in Beijing on 22nd September at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) in Wangfujing.

We are still accepting applications to join all three sessions, with the programme visiting Shanghai on 11th October and Shenzhen on 6th December, and encourage any professionals seeking to study China’s business landscape with two of the country’s most prestigious business schools, CKGSB and the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), to submit one.

CBBC’s Executive Leadership Programme has been designed in partnership with CKGSB and CEIBS – with support from our sponsor, Cambridge Assessment English – to enable senior executives from British and other multinational companies to undertake intensive study of China’s business environment, political landscape, and regulatory regime to equip them with the skills needed to lead an internationally oriented business from the mainland.

The Beijing session will focus on leveraging government relations to achieve commercial outcomes and will explore how government affairs has evolved over the last 20 years from a relatively niche industry into a mainstay of corporate operations. Through a mixture of keynote lectures, breakout workshops, and panel discussions, participants will learn:

• How China’s broader political and regulatory environment impacts their business;
  
  

• How to effectively raise work with government stakeholders;
  
  

• How to develop a better understanding of government affairs across your company and its different functions. 

And we are now proud to present our speakers for this session, who will share decades’ worth of research and experience with you over what will be a highly interactive and engaging session:

Beijing

Leveraging Government Affairs to Achieve Commercial Outcomes

• 22 September 2022

• Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

• 16:00-19:30 (networking until 21:00)

Agenda

16:00-16:15

Introductory Remarks

• Tom Simpson (Managing Director & Chief Representative in China - CBBC) 

• CKGSB 

• Cambridge Assessment English

16:15-17:00

Keynote Address

• Dr LIU Jing - Professor of Accounting and Finance, Director of Investment Research Center, CKGSB

An Introduction to China’s Regulatory Environment as it Pertains to Foreign Business  

17:00-17:30

Breakout Session 1

Model Bilateral Meeting: 

Roleplay how you would put your company's asks to government

17:30-17:45

Group Debrief

17:45-18:30

Expert Panel

• Vaughn Barber, Chair, China-Australia Chamber of Commerce 

• QU Min, Director Asia Pacific Region, Cambridge Assessment English 

• Amy Wang, Executive Vice President, HSBC Bank (China)

Leveraging Government Affairs to Achieve Commercial Outcomes

18:30-19:00

Breakout Session 2

No News is Good News: 

Chart your company’s course through a series of fictional crises

19:00-19:30

Event Wrap-up

19:30-21:00

Networking

Keynote Speakers

(in surname alphabetical order)

Vaughn Barber

Chair

China-Australia Chamber of Commerce

Vaughn joined KPMG in Hong Kong from Australia in 1996 and became a partner in July 2000. After working in Hong Kong for nearly 15 years, Vaughn moved to Beijing with his team and became Head of Outbound for KPMG China in 2011.  In this capacity, and while he concurrently served as the Head of Deal Advisory, M&A Tax for Asia Pacific, Vaughn continued working with Chinese state-owned and privately-owned companies to complete many landmark overseas acquisitions. 

A fluent Mandarin speaker, Vaughn was a key member of the leadership team of the Global China Practice since its inception and was appointed Global Chair in July 2015.  In this capacity, Vaughn led Local China Practice teams in nearly 60 countries as they work to help Chinese companies “go out” and foreign companies as they enter and grow in China. Vaughn also served as Co-Head of Infrastructure for KPMG China from July 2015 until September 2021.  

He has built strong relationships with key stakeholders in this area and has a good understanding of the objectives and challenges faced. Vaughn retired from KPMG on 31 March 2022 and is looking forward to embarking on a new challenge in the near future. 

LIU Jing

Professor of Accounting and Finance, Director of Investment Research Center

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

Dr LIU is Professor of Accounting and Finance, Chairman of the Faculty Executive Committee and Director of the Investment Research Center at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). Prior to joining CKGSB, he was a tenured professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. He earned his Ph.D. from the Columbia Business School in 1999.

Academically, Dr LIU is an internationally recognized expert on capital markets and investment analysis. A key feature of his research is a broad range and a tight connection between theory and practice. His research has been published in a number of leading international journals and has received wide recognition and citation. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Research Award from CKGSB, Eric E. Juline Research Award from the UCLA Anderson School, and the Barclays Global Investors (BGI) Best Paper Award from the Review of Accounting Studies.                

Dr LIU serves as a director on the boards of several large Chinese as well as international companies. He also consults widely on management and investment issues.

QU Min

Director (Asia Pacific Region)

Cambridge Assessment English

Ms QU oversees Cambridge Assessment English’s business in Asia Pacific region which includes East Asia, ASEAN, and Australasia. With over 20 years of professional experiences in the British higher education sector, she is a well-respected figure who has actively contributed to the educational and cultural exchanges between Asia Pacific and the UK. She was elected as Vice Chair of British Chamber of Commerce in Beijing (2017) and also served as chair of its Education Forum for over 7 years (2011-2018).

Ms QU has an honorary MA from the University of Cambridge and a MA in Human Resource Management from University of Hertfordshire.

Amy Wang

Executive Vice President

HSBC Bank(China)

Ms Amy Wang currently is Executive Vice President of HSBC Bank (China). Ms Wang has more than 20 years work experience in state-owned enterprise, the private sector, and foreign banks.

Ms WANG joined HSBC in 2003 and served in Debt Capital Markets, where she has participated and originated various syndicated loans and milestone bonds transactions in China and Hong Kong between 2003 and 2007, including the first ever Dim Sum bond in Hong Kong. In 2007 August, she moved back to Beijing as Senior Vice President of Commercial Banking (Northern China), HSBC to lead the LLC team in managing global relationships with key large local corporate clients. She joined HSBC Beijing office in 2011 and was appointed Director of External Relations of Beijing Office in 2013 to manage external relationships with key regulators, government agencies, as well as business chambers and associations.

Before joining HSBC, Ms WANG worked in telecom and IT sector for ten years with extensive experience in the industry. Ms Wang graduated from Jilin University of Technology in 1993 and obtained MBA from Babson College, USA in 2003.

How to Apply

Programme Fees

[Single session]

Members: RMB 2000

Non-members: RMB 2500

[Full programme]

Members: RMB 4000

Non-members: RMB 6000

Please scan the QR code below to submit your application now!

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Cambridge Language Assessment

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CBBC’S BUSINESS SCHOOL PARTNER

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

http://english.ckgsb.edu.cn/

Established in Beijing in November 2002, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) is China’s first privately-funded and research-driven business school. The school aims to cultivate transformative business leaders with a global vision, sense of social responsibility, innovative mindset, and ability to lead with empathy and compassion.

Today, CKGSB stands apart for its full-time, world-class faculty, research excellence, China insights and unparalleled alumni network. More than half of its 40 strong faculty members previously held tenure or senior professorships at top business schools, such as MIT, Wharton, and Yale. CKGSB is also the preferred choice for management education among China’s established business leaders and a new generation of disruptors. More than half of its 18,000 alumni are at the CEO or Chairman level and, collectively, they lead one fifth of China’s 100 most valuable brands.

CKGSB goes beyond the traditional boundaries of business schools to focus on the complete wealth cycle, inspiring business leaders not only to learn how to better compete and collaborate, but also to focus on why they do business and what to do with their wealth for the greater global good. The School is now fostering social innovation through the collaboration of businesses, governments, multilateral institutions, non-profit organizations and civil society, to address humanity’s most challenging and often systemic issues—like income and wealth inequality, social immobility and sustainability.

Headquartered in Beijing, CKGSB is also located in Shanghai, Shenzhen, New York, Hong Kong and London.

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If you have any questions or require further information, please contact Serena Li:

www.cbbc.org

The China-Britain Business Council (CBBC) is the UK’s national business network promoting trade and investment with China. We have been at the heart of the UK-China relationship for 68 years and are widely recognised as the independent voice of British businesses working with China. Our objective is to support the growth of British trade and investment with China and Chinese companies expanding and investing in the UK. Our diverse membership includes leading UK companies and universities, many of the UK’s most dynamic SMEs, and an ever-increasing number of Chinese companies exporting to and investing in the UK.

英中贸易协会（CBBC）是英国促进对华贸易和投资的国家级商业贸易网络。68年以来，我们一直处在行动的核心位置，积极参与两国在每个行业和地区的合作，被广泛认为是英国企业与中国合作的独立声音。我们的目标是支持英国对华贸易和投资的增长，以及中国企业在英国的扩张和投资。我们的会员包括众多英国领先的公司与知名大学、英国最具活力的中小企业，以及越来越多向英国出口和在英国投资的中国企业等。