Maurice R. Greenberg is Chairman and CEO of C. V. Starr and Company. He retired as Chairman and CEO of American International Group, Inc (AIG) in 2005. Greenberg is former Chairman of the Asia Society, the founding Chairman of the U.S.-Philippine Business Committee, and Vice Chairman of the U.S.-ASEAN Business Council. He is Honorary Vice Chairman and Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, former Chairman of U.S.-Korea Business Council and current member, a member of the U.S.-China Business Council, and The Business Council. He also served on the President’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations and The Business Roundtable. He is the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. As Chairman of The Starr Foundation, Greenberg oversees the disbursement of major financial support to academic, medical, cultural, and public policy institutions.

Christopher R. Hill was sworn-in as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in 2005. Ambassador Hill is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service whose most recent assignment was as Ambassador to the Republic of Korea. In 2005, he was named as Head of the U.S. delegation to the Six Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear issue. Previously, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Poland (2000-2004), Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia (1996-1999) and Special Envoy to Kosovo (1998-1999). He also served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Southeast European Affairs in the National Security Council. Earlier in his Foreign Service career, Ambassador Hill served tours in Belgrade, Warsaw, Seoul, and Tirana, and on the Department of State’s Policy Planning staff and in the Department’s Operation Center.

Ming Hsieh is co-founder, President, CEO, and Chairman of Cogent, Inc. Cogent is the world’s leading provider of automated fingerprint identification and access control systems. Hsieh, largely educated at home because of the Cultural Revolution, was able to attend the South China Institute of Technology for two years. On the recommendation of his uncle, a USC alumnus, he came to the U.S. and was accepted as a transfer student into the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Combining his USC education with an entrepreneurial spirit, Hsieh worked with USC classmates to form their first company, AMAX Information Technologies in 1987. Then in 1990, Hsieh and a classmate co-founded Cogent, Inc. Today Cogent’s clients include law enforcement, governments and civil agencies and commercial business around the globe. In 2006, Hsieh donated $35 million to USC Department of Electrical Engineering.

Liam McGee is President of Global Consumer and Small Business Banking for Bank of America, which serves 53 million U.S. consumer households, 4 million U.S. small business households, and customers in Canada and Europe. His responsibilities include a distribution network of more than 6,100 domestic banking centers, 18,500 ATMs, and the nation’s leading Online and Mobile Banking services, and other products and services. McGee is a member of the National Urban League Board of Trustees and the Financial Services Roundtable Board of Directors. He also served recently as Chairman of both the University of San Diego Board of Trustees and the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, and two terms as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

(Welcome) John L. Fugh is the Chairman of the Committee of 100. He was The Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army, retiring from the position in 1993 after 33 years of service. He was the first Chinese American to attain general officer status in the U.S. Army. As The Judge Advocate General, Fugh was legal advisor to the Chief of Staff of the Army. He directed the Army’s worldwide legal organization. After retirement from the Army, Fugh joined as a partner at the law firm of McGuire, Woods, Battle & Booth in Washington, D.C. Later, for five years, he served as Chief Representative for several U.S. companies in Beijing, including McDonnell Douglas, which later merged with Boeing Company.

(Keynote) Robert A. Eckert is Chairman of the Board and CEO of Mattel, Inc., the worldwide leading company in the design, manufacture and marketing of toys with approximately $6 billion in annual sales. Before joining Mattel in 2000, Eckert spent 23 years with Kraft Foods, Inc., the largest U.S.-based packaged food company in the world, serving as President and CEO from 1997. Eckert serves on the McDonald’s Corporation Board of Directors, is a member of the Board of Visitors at The Anderson School at UCLA, the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management Advisory Board at Northwestern University and the Board of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.

(Speaker) Anthony Buzzelli has held key positions at Deloitte for 36 years. Currently, he is Vice Chairman and Regional Managing Partner for the Pacific Southwest. He has been the National Managing Partner, U.S. Regions, has served on the Executive Committee and has been a member of Deloitte's Board of Directors and Operating Committee. Buzzelli has also dedicated himself to supporting the community. He currently serves as the 2006-2007 fundraising Campaign Chair of the United Way of Los Angeles, as well as serving on the Boards of many organizations such as the LA Chamber of Commerce, LA Police Foundation, and World Affairs Council.

(Speaker) Bill Guttentag, a two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker, wrote and directed Live!, a dramatic feature, created and executive produced the NBC series Crime & Punishment, and has made documentary films for HBO, ABC, CBS and others. Guttentag wrote and directed Nanking, a documentary which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Guttentag was nominated for a Writers Guild of America award for Nanking, and the film was short-listed for an Academy Award. Nanking was released in China last summer and became the highest grossing theatrical documentary in Chinese history. Since 2001, Guttentag has been teaching a class on the film and television business at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

(Co-Moderator) Donald Tang is Senior Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. He is a member of the Committee of 100 and Chairman of Asia Society Southern California. Tang joined Bear Stearns & Co. in 1992 as Senior Managing Director. In 1993 he transferred to Hong Kong to become President and CEO of Bear Stearns Asia where he created and managed the firm’s four offices in Asia across all product lines. He was elected to the Board of Directors in 1997 and transferred to Chicago as Senior Managing Director in 1999, where he was Head of the Chicago office and responsible for administration of the firm’s businesses in the Midwest region. In 2001, he transferred to his current position in Los Angeles.

(Moderator) Henny Sender was appointed international financial correspondent for the Financial Times in October 2007. Sender joined the Financial Times from The Wall Street Journal where she was a senior special writer for the Money & Investing section and covered private equity and hedge funds. Previous to her role at The Wall Street Journal, Sender worked in Hong Kong for nearly ten years and covered regional finance for the Asian Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Her work on the overseas Chinese received a citation from the Overseas Press Club and she was a finalist for the National Magazine Awards. Her book on India, The Kashmiri Pundits, was published by Oxford University Press. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

(Panelist) Jesse Wang is the Vice President and CRO of the China Investment Corporation Ltd, and member of the 11th National Committee of the CPPCC. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Economics at the Renmin University of China, then his Master's Degree in Western Accounting and a PhD in Accounting Theory at the Research Institute for Fiscal Science. At the China Securities Regulatory Committee, Jesse Wang was appointed the first Chief Accountant and Vice-Secretary General and then Assistant Chairman. He was the Chief Executive of BOC International (UK) Limited, and the Executive Director and deputy CEO of BOC International Holdings. At present, Jesse Wang is the Chairman of China Jianyin Investment and China International Capital Corporation. With rich experience working abroad, he is well known as a scholar-official with outstanding academic achievemnts in the securities field.

(Panelist) Richard H. Clarida is Executive Vice President and Global Strategic Advisor with PIMCO. From 2001 until 2003, Clarida served in the Administration of President George W. Bush as the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, a position that required nomination by President Bush and confirmation by the US Senate. In that position, he served as Chief Economist for the Treasury Department, reporting directly to the Treasury Secretary, and advising him on a wide range economic policy issues, including the US and global economic prospects, international capital flows, corporate governance, and the maturity structure of US debt. In 2003, Clarida received the Treasury Medal in recognition for his record of outstanding service to the Treasury Department. Clarida teaches at Columbia where he is the C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics.

(Panelist) Robert Kaproth has been Director of the Office of International Monetary Policy since 2005. He joined Treasury in 1998 in the Office of International Banking & Securities Markets as a Presidential Management Fellow. He served as G-7 / G-20 desk officer from 2000-2001 and was posted in the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo from 2001-2004. Robert is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He has a Masters in Foreign Service with a concentration in international finance from Georgetown University.

(Moderator) Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy ("Stape") retired from the Foreign Service in January 2001 after a career spanning 45 years with the U.S. Department of State. A fluent Chinese speaker, Mr. Roy spent much of his career in East Asia, where his assignments included Bangkok (twice), Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing (twice), Singapore and Jakarta. Mr. Roy rose to become a three-time ambassador, serving as the top U.S. envoy in Singapore (1984-86), the People's Republic of China (1991-95), and Indonesia (1996-99). In 1996, he was promoted to the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest rank in the Foreign Service. In January 2001, Ambassador Roy joined Kissinger Associates, Inc., a strategic consulting firm. He is currently the Vice Chairman and works from offices in New York City and Washington, DC.

(Panelist) Juan Williams is a senior correspondent with National Public Radio (NPR). He hosted NPR’s national call-in show “Talk of the Nation” from 2000 to 2001. His media career spans 21 years with The Washington Post, where he served as an editorial writer, columnist, and White House reporter. He has won an Emmy award for TV documentary writing and won widespread critical acclaim for a series of documentaries including “Politics-The New Black Power.” He is also a contributing political analyst for the Fox News Channel and a regular panelist on “Fox News Sunday,” while also having appeared on numerous television programs. Williams is the author of the critically acclaimed biography Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary and the nonfiction bestseller Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965.

(Panelist) Geoffrey Garrett is President of the Pacific Council on International Policy and Professor of International Relations, Business Administration, Communication and Law at the University of Southern California. He was previously founding Dean of the UCLA International Institute and a tenured Full Professor of Political Science at Stanford and Yale universities. An expert on the causes and consequences of globalization, Garrett is the most cited political scientist of his generation, with over 1800 citations in the Social Science Citation Index. Garrett is author of Partisan Politics in the Global Economy and co-editor of The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy, both published by Cambridge University Press. He is currently working on What China Means for America, which will examine the rise of China through the lens of major U.S. multinational corporations.

(Moderator) Ronald Lew was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the federal bench in the Central District of California, where he has served since 1987. He is the first Chinese American to be appointed as a United States District Judge in the continental United States. Lew has been involved in public service for a number of years, first with the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension Commission in 1976. After being appointed to the Los Angeles Municipal Court, he was elevated to Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court in 1984. Always active in civic and community affairs, Lew helped to establish the Chinatown Service Center, the Asian Pacific American Bar Association and the Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association. He is a member of the Committee of 100.

(Panelist) Karen Tse is the Founder and CEO of International Bridges to Justice. Recognized as “One of America’s Best Leaders” by US News & World Report, Tse has been instrumental in implementing groundbreaking measures in judicial reform with the Chinese, Vietnamese, and Cambodian governments. As a U.N. Judicial Mentor, she pioneered rule of law initiatives, established the first arraignment court in Cambodia and trained the country’s first core group of public defenders. Karen founded International Bridges to Justice in 2000. Recognizing the government as a critical ally, she signed an MOU with the Chinese Ministry of Justice, partnering to support Chinese criminal legal aid. Tse has been recognized as a leading social entrepreneur and is the recipient of Harvard Divinity’s 2008 First Decade Award.

(Panelist) Huang Taiyun is the Deputy Director of the Department of Criminal Legislation of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China. He conducted research at the University of Nottingham from 1991 to 1992 in the United Kingdom, and was a visiting scholar at the Yale School of Law in 2000 and the NYU School of Law in 2008. Huang’s working responsibilities are to draft criminal legislation, make suggestions for improvement of the criminal legislation, and to draft responses to legal questions concerning criminal legislation raised by law enforcement agencies. Huang has been involved in drafting the revision of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Prison Law, Police Law, Judges’ Law and Prosecutors’ Law since 1986.

(Panelist) Jeffrey Sean Lehman is the Chancellor and founding Dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law, which will offer classes leading to a J.D. degree beginning in September 2008. His prior career includes service as a Supreme Court law clerk, a practicing tax lawyer, a professor of law and public policy, Dean of the University of Michigan Law School, President of the American Law Deans Association, and President of Cornell University. He has been honored with the National Equal Justice Award of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. He serves as a director of Infosys Technologies, Chairman of the Board of Internet2, a trustee of the Asian University for Women Support Foundation, and a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

(Moderator) Calvin Tsao has emerged as one of the most thoughtful and original voices in contemporary design since co-founding Tsao & McKown Architects, with partner Zack McKown, in 1985. Drawing his inspiration from a dazzling spectrum of cultures and art forms spanning time and place, Mr. Tsao deftly interweaves diverse elements, forging a style that eludes categorization. He eschews the high-profile habit of imposing an aesthetic “brand” upon his projects, instead advocating an approach that looks beyond the building, to considerations of the behavior it inspires. His firm’s portfolio runs the gamut of typology and scale, from Suntec City, a 6-million square foot mixed-use complex dubbed the “Rockefeller Center of Singapore,” to museum exhibitions; from an urban plan for the ancient Chinese city of Chengdu, to a lipstick case. Mr. Tsao currently serves as President of the Architectural League of New York, and as a member of the Visiting Committee to Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he has taught at Harvard and at the Parsons School of Design.

(Panelist) Dan Greenbaum is President and CEO of the Health Effects Institute (HEI). He leads HEI¡¯s efforts to provide public and private decision makers in North America, Asia, and Latin America with high quality, impartial, relevant and credible science about the health effects of air pollution. Greenbaum has served on and led numerous expert panels of the US National Academy of Sciences and the US Environmental Protection Agency and he regularly presents the results of HEI¡¯s scientific work to U.S. and international audiences, the U.S. Congress, the Asian Development Bank, and the European Parliament. Greenbaum has over three decades of governmental and non-governmental experience in environmental health. Just prior to coming to HEI, he served as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection from 1988 to 1994.

(Panelist) Hu Tao is the Academic Chair of the Policy Research Center at the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) of China. He is also the Chief Expert of the Trade and Environment Expert Group for the WTO New Round Negotiation at SEPA of China. He served as a member of the Lead Expert Group China Council for the International Cooperation on Environment and Development from 2001-2007. He is a leading expert of China’s Environmental Strategy Report for the State Council of the Chinese Central Government. Beginning in 2007, Hu has also been a Visiting Professor for the Chinese Flagship Program at the University of Oregon. His research topics include environmental policies and governance, environmental and natural resource economics, globalization, and climate change issues.

(Panelist) Peter G. Rowe is the Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he has taught since 1985. Between 1992 and 2004, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Design, following appointments as Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning and Design (1988-1992) and Director of Urban Design Programs (1985-1990). In addition, Rowe serves as Education Programme Director of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. The focus of Rowe’s work is on the evolving cultural conditions of modernity, especially as they apply in various regions and to various aspects of the man-made environment.

(Panelist) Gary Lawrence is a Principal with Arup and is the firm’s Global Leader for Sustainable Urban Development. He has more than 20 years of experience assisting the public sector, private sector and NGOs with sustainable development concepts. As the former Planning Director for the City of Seattle, Lawrence was responsible for developing “Towards a Sustainable Seattle,” the first comprehensive sustainability-focused municipal plan in the world. The project was named by Time magazine as the most important public policy initiative of 1993. He subsequently advised the Clinton Administration, the British Prime Minister’s Office, the UN and the Office of Economic and Community Development (OECD) on matters of sustainable development and environmental policy.

(Keynote) Jay Rasulo is Chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resort. He presides over a family vacation business that spans three continents and includes five world-class vacation destinations, a toprated cruise line and the most popular resort locations in North America, Europe and Asia. Rasulo, who has been with The Walt Disney Company for 20 years, was appointed President of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts in 2002 and became Chairman in 2005. He spent two of the five years with the company in France as Chairman and CEO of Euro Disney, S.C.A. where he was instrumental in turning Disneyland Resort Paris into Europe’s top tourist destination. In addition, Rasulo emerged as a recognized leader within the travel and tourism industry, working to broaden awareness of the industry’s role in creating jobs, economic growth, and cultural exchange.

(Speaker) Thomas A. Mars is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Mars heads the Wal-Mart Legal Department and is responsible for all legal matters affecting the company in its domestic and foreign markets. Previously, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Arkansas Law Review and as a law clerk to Judge Monroe McKay on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. In 1986, he became an associate of the Rose Law Firm. In 1998, the Governor of Arkansas appointed Mars to serve as Director of the Arkansas State Police. He served until 2001, when he stepped down to return to the practice of law with Kutak Rock LLP. He joined Wal-Mart’s Legal Department in 2002.

(Moderator) Charles Woo is CEO of Megatoys, a toy manufacturing, import/export, wholesale, and retail company based in Los Angeles. He is also a member of the Committee of 100. In 1989, Woo and his brother founded Megatoys, which was listed among the top one hundred fastest growing companies in Los Angeles County in 1995 and was recognized as the “Minority Manufacturing Firm of the Year” by the City of Los Angeles in 1999. Woo was the 2001 Chairman of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, and was the first Asian American chair in its 114 years of existence as well as its first small and medium-sized business chair in recent memory. He has been honored for his community service by the League of Women Voters, the Anti-Defamation League, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the A&E Biography network.

(Moderator) Clarence Kwan, National Managing Partner of the Chinese Services Group at Deloitte LLP, has had 30 years of advisory and management experience in the U.S., China and Eastern Europe. He currently also serves as Chairman of the China Committee for the US Council for International Business, and Chairman of the China Task Force for the Business & Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD. Mr. Kwan, a frequent speaker on China-related topics and a Certified Public Accountant in the U.S., advises multinational companies, large national enterprises and financial investors in cross-border investments and international alliances, mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance and state-owned enterprises restructuring and privatization. Mr. Kwan was named one of the 50 Outstanding Asian Americans in Business for 2005 by the Asian American Business Development Center.

(Panelist) Debra Wong Yang is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Cruther’s Los Angeles office and was previously the first Asian-American woman to serve as United States Attorney for the Central District of California. Prior to her appointment, she was a California state judge and acted as the Supervising Judge for the Hollywood Courthouse. She was previously an Assistant United States Attorney and successfully prosecuted several high profile cases. Outside of the courtroom, Yang served as President of the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles, was a founding member and officer of the first Asian American Bar Association in Chicago, and is on the Southern California Chinese Lawyer Association Board. She is also on the Board of Trustees for the Pitzer College, Claremont Colleges, and the oldest private elementary school in Los Angeles. She is also a Committee of 100 member.

(Panelist) Laura Phillips is Vice President and Divisional Merchandise Manager of Wal-Mart. She joined Wal-Mart in 1994 as a Store Intern. Other positions she held were Corporate Intern in Merchandising, Assistant Buyer, Buyer, Merchandise Coordinator, and Merchandise Manager. She was promoted to Vice President and Divisional Merchandise Manager in 2004.
Education
- MBA, Marketing, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
- BS, Finance, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
- Executive Development Program, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

(Panelist) Greg Gardner is the President and CEO of Specialized Technology Resources (STR). STR is recognized as one of the first foreign-owned testing laboratories to be licensed to operate in China, employing nearly 700 people in the country in a wide range of assurance services relating to quality, safety, and responsible sourcing for consumer products. Mr. Gardner's understanding of geopolitics and multinational business strategy allowed him to successfully expand STR's responsible sourcing operations to 15 key international markets, including Brazil, Vietnam, South Africa, and India. Currently, he oversees divisional operations in 30 global locations, servicing an impressive roster of Fortune 500 clients in over 140 countries, making STR one of the world's largest privately-owned assurance companies in the world.

(Emcee) Ming-Na won attention with her touching performance as June in "The Joy Luck Club." In film, she also played Chun-Li in "Streetfighter" opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme and held the role of Mimi in "One Night Stand." Ming-Na received the first contract role for an Asian actor in a daytime drama with the part of Lien Hughes on "As the World Turns," after her debut on "ER" in its very first season. She is proud to be the title voice of "Mulan" and "Mulan II," Disney's animated features, and recently fulfilled her childhood dream of performing on Broadway with the play "Golden Child.¡± Ming-Na was included in People magazine's list of 50 Most Beautiful People and was named one of the 100 Most Influential Asian-Americans of the Past Decade by aMagazine. The actress also formed Innovazian Records to produce and promote Asian-American music talent.

(Interviewer) Joan Chen born in Shanghai, China, was selected for the Actor's Training Program by the Shanghai Film Studio in 1975. Her second film, "Little Flower," won her the Best Actress Award in China in 1980. Chen began her US acting career with leading roles in "Taipan," the academy award winning "The Last Emperor," "Blood of Heroes," "Turtle Beach," "Golden Gate" and "Heaven and Earth." She also starred in "Twin Peaks" and Stanley Kwan's "Red Rose, White Rose,¡±" where her role as the sultry Red Rose won the Best Actress Award in Taiwan and Film Critics Award in Hong Kong. Chen made her directorial debut with the critically acclaimed film "Xiu Xiu, The Sent-down Girl." In 2000, Joan was honored by the National Board of Review with the "International Freedom of Expression" award. In the same year, Joan was voted as one of the Ten Directors to Watch by "Variety."

(Special Guest/Panelist) Ang Lee is one of today's greatest contemporary filmmakers. He won the 2005 Best Director Academy Award for Brokeback Mountain (2005). His Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) swept the Oscar nominations, eventually winning Best Foreign Language Film, as well as Best Director at the Golden Globes, and became the highest grossing foreign-language film ever released in America. His other major films have also won numerous awards. The Wedding Banquet (1993) garnered Golden Globe and Oscar nominations and won a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film. Sense and Sensibility (1995) was nominated for Best Picture and won Best Adapted Screenplay. Lee was also voted the year’s Best Director by the National Board of Review and the New York Film Critics Circle. The Ice Storm (1997) won Best Screenplay at Cannes, among other accolades. The Civil War drama Ride With The Devil (1999) received critical praise. Lee also directed Hulk, an elegant and skillful film with nice action scenes.

(Moderator) Adeline Yen Mah is a physician with a thriving medical practice in California, a writer and a member of the Committee of 100. She practiced as an anesthesiologist at West Anaheim Community Hospital and was promoted to chief of anesthesia. Her first book, Falling Leaves, was published in 1997, made The New York Times Bestseller List and was translated into eighteen languages. Chinese Cinderella is her autobiography written for children, which received the 2000 Compelling Autobiography award from the Children’s Literature Council of Southern California as well as the 2002 Lamplighter’s Award for Contribution to Exceptional Children’s Literature from the National Christian School Association. Her other books include Watching the Tree (2001) and A Thousand Pieces of Gold (2002).

(Panelist) Julie A. Su is Litigation Director at the non-profit Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (APALC), the largest non-profit civil rights organization devoted to the Asian American community in the country. Su and APALC have litigated nearly a dozen corporate accountability lawsuits involving garment workers. Su also litigates to end discrimination and segregation in education and in the workplace. She has been widely recognized for using litigation combined with organizing efforts, community education, and broad-based policy proposals to effect change. In 2001, Su was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. She was also one of three women named by the Gruber Foundation in 2006 for its international Women’s Rights award, and received the 1996 Reebok International Human Rights Award.

(Panelist) Marc Yu was 2-years-old when his mother noticed he was singing along with Beethoven symphonies in his car seat. Lessons followed and, at the age of six, he made his orchestral debut playing a piano concerto and a cello concerto on the same evening. Now nine years old, Yu has an impressive history of solo recitals, orchestra concerts, and television appearances—The Tonight Show, Oprah, and Ellen (four times). He has performed piano duets with his mentor, the internationally renowned Lang Lang, in Las Vegas. At six, he delivered a speech in the Library of Congress upon receiving a fellowship from the Davidson Institute (the youngest-ever recipient of this prestigious honor). He has been featured in cover story articles for The New York Times Magazine and the L.A. Times.

(Speaker) Steve Chen is Chief Technology Officer of YouTube, co-founding the company in 2005 after he and Chad Hurley resolved to provide a more simple way to share videos online. Chen has been instrumental in building YouTube into a viral video phenomenon and helped lead YouTube through the Google acquisition for $1.65 billion less than a year after launching the site. As the company’s key technologist, Chen is credited with developing the company’s massive data centers and establishing YouTube as a premier entertainment destination and one of the most popular websites on the Internet today. The site has been awarded “Best Invention of the Year” by Time magazine. Chen has received several prestigious honors and acknowledgements from Time Magazine, Business 2.0, GQ, and Fortune. He is a Committee of 100 member.

(Moderator) Henry T. Yang joined UC Santa Barbara as Chancellor in 1994. He also holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering. He was formerly the Neil A. Armstrong Distinguished Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University, where he also served as the Dean of Engineering for ten years. Yang has authored and co-authored more than 160 articles for scientific journals, served as principle or co-principle investigator for 30 sponsored research grants, and received 12 outstanding undergraduate teaching awards. His book, Finite Element Structural Analysis, has been adopted by many universities and has also been published in Japanese and Chinese. He has served on numerous governmental, corporate, and advisory boards. He is a Committee of 100 member.

(Panelist) Professor Shih Choon Fong, President of the National University of Singapore, enjoys worldwide recognition for his pioneering work in nonlinear fracture mechanics and related computational methods. With more than 150 papers in leading academic journals, he is listed by the Institute for Scientific Information as among the world's most highly cited engineering researchers. In 2004, Shih was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering, and in 2006 was elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Shih was the inaugural recipient from the Asia Pacific region for the 2007 Chief Executive Leadership Award presented by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He is Chairman Emeritus of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, and also chairs the Governing Board of their World Institute.

(Panelist) Shing-Tung Yau is the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and a Committee of 100 member. He was an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1994-2003), Chancellor Associate Chair and Professor at the University of California at San Diego (1984 -1987), Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University (1979-1984), and Professor at Stanford University (1974-1979). Yau received the Fields Medal in 1982, the Crafoord Prize in 1994, and the National Medal of Science in 1997. Yau is renowned as an energetic educator and has devoted much of his time to the development of mathematics in China. He is the founder of the Morningside Center of Mathematics in Beijing and the Center of Mathematical Science in Zhejiang University.

(Panelist) Kai-Fu Lee is Vice President of Google, Inc. and President of Google Greater China. He is also a member of the Committee of 100. Before joining Google in 2005, he was Corporate Vice President for Microsoft and was the founder of Microsoft Research Asia, which has since become one of the best research centers in the world. From 1996 to 1998, Lee was the President of Cosmo Software, a subsidiary of Silicon Graphics (SGI). He also spent six years at Apple. From 1988 to 1990, he was an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1988, Lee developed the world’s first speaker-independent continuous speech-recognition system, which was selected as the “Most Important Innovation of 1988” by BusinessWeek.

(Panelist) David C. Chang, an internationally recognized scholar in the field of electromagnetics, served as the ninth president of Polytechnic University in 1994 and was appointed Chancellor in 2005. Previously he was Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at Arizona State University. He was also Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1981-1989. Chang was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1985, is former President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, a Chairman of the U.S. National Committee of the International Scientific Radio Union. He published numerous journal papers, books, and technical reports. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Committee of 100, and serves in a number of civic capacities.

(Speaker) Quincy Jones' career has encompassed the roles of composer, record producer, artist, film producer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, TV producer, record company executive, television station owner, magazine founder, multi-media entrepreneur and humanitarian. Among the awards he has received, an Emmy Award, seven Academy Award nominations, 27 Grammy Awards, and recognition as the all-time most nominated Grammy artist with a total of 79 nominations. He was inducted as a “Kennedy Center Honoree,” the United States’ most prestigious artistic award, for his lifetime contributions to the culture of the country. In 2001, Jones became a best-selling author for his autobiography “Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones.” In addition, as a longtime humanitarian and activist, Jones is actively working with NGOs to improve the health and well being of children in developing countries.

(Speaker) Michelle Kwan is the most decorated figure skater in U.S. history. Her skating brilliance and accomplishments have earned her a place among the all-time greats of the sport. For over a decade (1995-2005), Kwan dominated the sport like no other skater in history, winning an unprecedented 43 championships, including five World Championships, eight consecutive and nine overall U.S. National Championships and two Olympic medals. In the nearly 100-year history of U.S. figure skating, no American man or woman has won more world titles, national titles or Olympic medals. In 2006, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appointed Kwan as the first American Public Diplomacy Envoy. In this capacity she travels the world and meets with young people to speak about leadership and to engage them in dialogue on social and educational issues.

(Interviewer) Lisa Ling is a special correspondent for the “Oprah Winfrey Show” and the National Geographic Channel. Ling has been sent to cover the Lord’s Resistance Army and the crisis of AIDS orphans in Uganda, bride burning in India and gang rape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ling was the first woman to host National Geographic’s flagship “Explorer” series. Prior to traveling the globe for “Explorer,” Ling was known for revealing her “view” of the world to millions of Americans as co-host of Barbara Walters’ hit daytime talk show, “The View.” Ling’s work continues off-camera: she serves as a contributing editor for USA Weekend, and has produced eight documentaries for PBS. She also co-authored a National Geographic book entitled, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood.