Saar, Shalom Saada
Ph.D., Harvard University

Saar has trained executives on leadership effectiveness and implementation strategies. He has managed executive education for universities and corporations, and developed workshops on managing change, motivating and influencing others, thinking strategically, and leading in adverse environments. In addition to teaching at MIT, Shalom has taught at the Harvard University, State University of New York, University of Hartford, Southern Methodist University Luiss University in Italy and Loyola College. Saar has presented papers on leadership development and has been a speaker at civic, industry, and professional associations throughout the United States and abroad. He has worked with various companies on articulating strategic direction, identifying core competencies, designing and delivering learning initiatives, and providing coaching to executives.  His clients have included global corporations, government agencies and non-profit organizations.

TENG BINGSHENG
Ph.D., City University of New York

Dr. Teng is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at CKGSB and an Associate Professor of Strategic Management (with tenure), George Washington University (GWU). He is doctoral advisor and lead professor of the departmental doctoral program at GWU.

Dr. Teng's current research and teaching focus on strategic alliances, M&A, entrepreneurship and innovation, and Chinese firms' global strategies. He has published over 20 articles in leading academic journals, including such top journals as Academy of Management Review and Organization Science. He is acclaimed an authority on strategic alliances, and has been interviewed by the media including the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. His research is included in most textbooks on strategic management. Dr. Teng is a member of the Academy of Management and serves on the editorial board of International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. He has received many rewards for his research, including the Wendell and Louis Crain Research Scholar at the School of Business, GWU. His bio appears in the Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Higher Education.

WANG ZHILE
Director, Research Center on Transnational Corporations, MOFCOM

Mr.Wang is director of the Research Center on Transnational Corporations, CAITEC, MOFCOM, Dean of Beijing New-Century Studies on Transnational Corporations, Vice President of China Group Companies Promotion Association, Vice President of IAC Committee of Foreign Investments, special research fellow at the Foreign Economic & Trade and International Finance Research Center, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and holder of expert certificates and special allowances issued by the StateCouncil.

Since 1993, Director Wang has carried out research on investment in China from Germany, Japan, Korea, Singapore and the United States. He has studied the China representative offices of over 80 transnational corporations and over 400 ventures in China with transnational corporation investment. These investigations form the basis for dozens of reports and publications on world economy regionalization and globalization, transnational corporation investment in China, and transnational corporation strategy and management, corporate responsibility, and sustainable development.

PETER WILLIAMSON
Ph.D., Harvard University

Peter Williamson is a Visiting Professor of International Management at Judge Business School, Cambridge University. Previously, he was a Professor of International Management and Asian Business at INSEAD for ten years. Professor Williamson taught strategic management at London Business School and has taught executive management courses in Japan and Southeast Asian countries. He has acted as a consultant on business strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and international expansion to numerous companies throughout the Asia-Pacific region as well as in Europe and North America. He has experience in China since 1983 and is the non-executive director for many companies, assisting numerous multinationals and joint ventures, and more recently, Chinese companies venturing abroad.

Professor Williamson's academic research covers a wide range of interests, including globalization, market entry, mergers and alliances, and strategic innovation. In May 2004, his book, Winning in Asia: Strategies for Competing in the New Millennium, was published by Harvard Business School Press. His recent research projects concern globalization, alliances, and new business development.

XIANG BING
Ph.D., University of Alberta

Dr. Xiang is Professor of Accounting and the founding Dean of CKGSB Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining CKGSB, Dr. Xiang pioneered and provided leadership in the EMBA and Executive Education programs at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, and served on the faculty of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Xiang has delivered executive programs at many world-class universities and corporations, and is a well-known management consultant.

His research interests focus on comparative corporate systems, corporate governance, transition and management of state-owned enterprises, private enterprise business models, and corporate competitiveness in emerging markets. Dr. Xiang, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, has published research in leading international academic journals, and serves as an independent board member on a number of Hong Kong and Mainland-listed corporations.

Leslie Young
Ph.D., Oxford University

Dr. Young is Chair Professor of Finance at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, one of three chaired professors at Business School of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, which includes 120 faculty members. He teaches monetary economics, capital markets, options and futures. He is currently Executive Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Business, and senior editor of the American Economic Review.

Born in Guangzhou, China, Prof. Young received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Wellington University, New Zealand, and a Ph.D. degree from Oxford University. Before coming to Hong Kong, he was V.F. Neuhaus Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. His fields of interest are international finance, political economy, and corporate governance. Prof. Young is well-known in international trade, international finance, and financial economy. He has published over forty academic articles in leading professional journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, the American Economic Review, Finance and Decision Making, China’s Financial Market, Pacific Economic Review, Managerial & Decision Economics, and the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development. He was the author of “Black Hole Tariffs and Endogenous Redistribution, The Hong Kong Securities Industry and China’s Financial Market”, and co-author of The China Securities Manual.

Lihui Tian
Ph.D. in London Business School, University of London, UK

Dr. Tian (George) is a full Professor of Finance and acting dean of Finance & Development Institute at the Nankai University, and a licensed lawyer of Milestone Law Firm. Lihui Tian did his bachelor studies in both finance and law at the Peking University. After receiving his PhD in finance and economics from the London Business School, he became a Davidson Visiting Fellow at the University of Michigan Business School and a visiting fellow of British Academy. He was voted as the most popular professor by MBA students at the Peking University in 2009 and one of the top 10 best professors by postgraduates at the Nankai University in 2011.