Mr. Pollak joined Evercore Wealth Management in 2009, shortly after the inception of the firm, and is responsible for taxable bond investments for individual and institutional clients. He also leads the Evercore Wealth Management Manager Selection Committee, which complements the firm’s core investment capabilities with allocations to third-party advisors. Prior to joining Evercore Wealth Management, Mr. Pollak was a portfolio manager at AIG Investments, where he co-managed corporate bond portfolios totaling over $60 billion. Brian worked for the Milken Family Foundation before attending business school. He received his B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and the CFA Institute.

Crysti Chen is the co-founder and managing partner at UniWill Ventures, a VC fund that based in Silicon Valley, Seattle and New York City. Crysti and UniWill Ventures focus on sourcing top startups that promote "health" and "happiness" of humankinds, and encourage young professional’s participation within startup companies, in which UniWill defines as "Young Entrepreneurial Spirit". Crysti passionately supports talented startups from various fields, include  Fin-tech, E-commerce, Bio-tech, Edu-tech etc., Crysti also shares ultimate philanthropic goals with other like-minded investors. Crysti founded 2 NGOs that dedicated in eliminating unequal educational resources and social status in developing countries and have devoted 8 consecutive years in advocating rights and improved conditions for vulnerable groups. For managing a VC fund nowadays, Crysti is committed to invest on social impact startups and to help social responsible driven individuals.

Danye (Denise) Wang is the Co-Founder of UniCareer, a leading education technology platform that offers end-to-end career solutions to international talents. UniCareer influenced the career trajectory of 350,000+ students and professionals since 2014, and is backed by leading investors including the New Oriental Group. Ms. Wang also founded UniGlobe Capital, a cross-border advisory firm connecting top Asian fund managers and US investors. The firm also has a Venture Capital arm focusing on early stage investments. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Ms. Wang had 10 years of asset management experiences in New York, Hong Kong, and London, and was most recently the Vice President and Senior Relationship Manager at BlackRock. She covered the firm's multi-billion relationships with sovereign wealth funds, central banks, pension funds, insurance companies and endowments from North America, EMEA and APAC across BlackRock's product spectrum. In 2013, Ms. Wang launched BlackRock Educational Academy, and built it to be one of the largest multi-module institutional training programs in the financial industry. Ms. Wang earned a BA degree in Economics from Yale University, currently serves on the Global Investment Committee at CFA NY, an advisor to Asian Financial Society, and is an invited speaker at Cornell, Columbia, Yale, Berkeley, UCLA, UVA, Northwestern, CFA Institute, Ascend, China Young Development Program and AAAIM.

Eva Shan has over 5 years of investment experience. She embarked on her career at KPMG then transformed into a role in Chinese State-Owned Enterprise, specializing in outbound acquisition and investments. After several years, she joined ASG and actively involved in investment process. With a focus on growth-stage TMT investments and private equity investments, she oversees the investment execution process. She received her B Comm and Master of Law from Toronto University and earned the CA, CPA designation in 2012.

Professor Zhang's research focuses on empirical capital market researches, including stock anomalies, fundamental analysis, investor and analyst behavior, management incentives, and corporate financial reporting. He is interested in both rational and behavioral approaches in studying stock anomalies and cross-sectional variations in stock returns.

Sam Wang is a founding partner of NewDo Venture. He was a Silver Scholars from Yale University, he has been identified as Young Leaders of the year by Harvard University, 30 under 30 by AACYF. NewDo Venture was founded in July, 2015 by Sam and five other partners. Until July, 2017, NewDo has attracted more than 60 partners and more than 40 top tier advisors and has invested in 50+ startup companies and the rate of return on book has exceed two hundred percent. Prior to NewDo Venture, Sam has worked at venture fund as an analyst, SVACE as the East Coast Ambassador and KPMG Innovation Platform as an external partner.

Before graduate, Sam was selected to study engineer at National Laboratory, and finished a personal project which won many big awards and got successful exit. Wang started up quite a few businesses successfully in diffenrent industry. The areas he has dealt with include Artificial intelligence, Cloud Computing, and SaaS.

Sam Wang is a founding partner of NewDo Venture. He was a Silver Scholars from Yale University, he has been identified as Young Leaders of the year by Harvard University, 30 under 30 by AACYF. NewDo Venture was founded in July, 2015 by Sam and five other partners. Until July, 2017, NewDo has attracted more than 60 partners and more than 40 top tier advisors and has invested in 50+ startup companies and the rate of return on book has exceed two hundred percent. Prior to NewDo Venture, Sam has worked at venture fund as an analyst, SVACE as the East Coast Ambassador and KPMG Innovation Platform as an external partner.

Before graduate, Sam was selected to study engineer at National Laboratory, and finished a personal project which won many big awards and got successful exit. Wang started up quite a few businesses successfully in diffenrent industry. The areas he has dealt with include Artificial intelligence, Cloud Computing, and SaaS.

牛犊创投创始合伙人，耶鲁大学银色学者，哈佛大学青年领袖，AACYF 30位30岁以下优秀创业者，国家二级运动员。2015年七月策划创建牛犊创投。截至到2017年底，牛犊创投聚集了八十位合伙人，四十余位顶尖企业家及专家顾问。投资五十余个项目及一家全美前十孵化器。所投项目在投后分别获得腾讯、三星、软银、富士康、日立等行业巨头和众多一线基金投资，在投资一年内平均估值翻倍，六个项目估值过亿美金。创立牛犊前，王静远曾就职于硅谷知名天使基金，在硅谷创业者联盟担任美东大使，后以外部合伙人身份加盟KPMG（毕马威）创新平台。接触领域包括：人工智能，云计算和企业级服务软件。

Seamon Chan is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Palm Drive Capital, a New York-based venture capital and growth equity firm partnering with entrepreneurs globally who have built companies with over one trillion dollars of combined market capitalization. Palm Drive invests in financial technology, marketplace, digital healthcare, and software-as-a-service companies including WeLab, Jet.com, Clover Health, Carta, and Boom Supersonic. Seamon is Co-Founder of Lair East and Lair East Labs, a cross-border innovation space and accelerator in SoHo, New York, bridging East and West through tech and culture. Previously, he was at Insight Venture Partners, a $18 billion venture capital and private equity firm with investments in JD.com and Alibaba. Seamon brings entrepreneurship and operating experience through various startup roles in the mobile, gaming, advertising, and social networking spaces in US, China, and Europe. Earlier in his career, he gained experience at companies such as Hitachi Data Systems and Citigroup, as well as research labs such as Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and Center for Integrated Systems. Seamon graduated from Stanford University and is completing the Owner/President Management program at Harvard Business School. He was on the founding teams of Stanford Chinese Entrepreneurs Organization (Stanford CEO) and NYC Chinese Entrepreneurs Organization (NYCCEO), both organizations with thousands of members and alumni in US and China. Seamon is a Committee of 100 Next Generation Leader and a member of the Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle and the Economic Club of New York.

Dr. Chen Chen is the CEO and co-founder of Saphlux, Inc., a start-up company commercializing the next generation semiconductor material for lighting and display. Since 2015, Saphlux has raised over $11 million from venture capitals and currently mass-produces the material for industry clients around the world. Prior to founding Saphlux, Chen was an R&D engineer at Schlumberger where he developed the industry-first ONYX360 rolling cutter, a “revolutionary drilling technology” that is now widely used in oil and gas exploration.

Dr. Chen Chen has won several major awards including World Oil Award, E&P Meritorious Award, and Fortune Brainstorm Tech Innovation Award. He has more than 20 Patents, and holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from Yale SOM.

Mr. Chen is the co-founder and CEO of CheersYou and has always been active in educational industry in North America. He is not only an international education consultant for the U.S.-China Education Association, but also a project guide for the UN Youth Conference. Mr. Chen was admitted to New York University's Tandon School of Engineering in 2013 and worked at the school's Admissions Office. During the work period, Mr. Chen was impressed by the illness of traditional agencies, and decided to use his professional knowledge and rich experience accumulated in the admission office to carry the original intention of winning more quality education resources in North America for Chinese students and to establish CheersYou with other partners in 2015. As of now, Mr. Chen has helped 438 students get their dream–school offers, and 96.4% of his students were admitted to TOP30 universities.

陈雍昊先生是清柚教育的创始人及CEO。陈雍昊先生一直活跃在北美教育行业，他不仅是美中教育协会国际教育顾问，还是联合国青年大会项目指导。陈雍昊先生2013年考入纽约大学Tandon工程学院，并在校招生办工作。工作期间陈雍昊发现传统中介诟病，借由自己在招生办积累的专业知识和丰富经验，怀揣着为中国学子争取北美更多优质教育资源的初衷，与其他伙伴于2015年创立清柚教育。截至目前，陈雍昊先生共帮助438位学生收获理想offer，其中96.4%的学生被TOP30院校录取。

David Topolewski is the Chief Executive Officer and Mobile Learning Evangelist at Qooco. He has years of experience in mobile learning solutions for hospitality, over 10 years of experience in the spoken English language learning field, and a decade of experience in investment banking, software development and international business. Working with some of the top hoteliers and hospitality consultants, Qooco has designed and built the leading mobile training solutions for the hotel industry.  David has developed many software programs, ranging from Anpanman for Bandai in Japan, Jackie Chan's Stuntmaster, TuneLand, Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time, and numerous PC and mobile ESL titles.

David is frequently invited as a speaker for international speech technology and m-Learning conferences, including Tsinghua University, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Beijing Normal University, as well as leading speech and natural language understanding conferences. David was appointed as an expert consultant of the computer-assisted Assessment Research Base for the senior high school entrance examination of Jiangxi Province, and was a member of the Yale University Digital Committee, and was instrumental in setting up a scholarship for disadvantaged youth in Asia to attend the Yale Young Global Scholars program. He is also an advisor to Over the Rainbow, a Singapore-based organization promoting youth wellness, and he co-authored a chapter in "Mobile Learning Developments for Flexible Learning", published in 2013. David holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Yale University and a Masters of Business Administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Graduated with a Finance degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Eric is currently the CEO of Liepin America, one of the most elite human resources platforms in the U.S. and the largest elite human resources platform in China. Born in Seattle, he attended primary school in Beijing, the secondary school in Hong Kong, and university in the states. The constant traveling allowed him to adapt to various cultures, and these experiences have shaped him into the person he is today. He founded the Penn Wharton China Summit during his freshmen year at Wharton, and this summit has become the largest student-organized summit in the U.S. More than 3,000 students from 35 states and over 84 cities visited Philadelphia for this summit in 2016 and 2017. He, then, founded the China Summit Foundation, a recognized NGO with the 501(c)(3) status towards to end of 2016 to help charities, forums, educational and cultural initiatives by International students from different schools. By the end of his junior year, Eric joined Liepin in hopes to help International students with their career back in China and served as the CEO of Liepin America upon his graduation in December 2017. He looks forward to excelling further in his studies by joining the Schwarzman Scholars Program in 2018.

谢承润毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院 。现任猎聘北美CEO。在大学期间，他创立了宾大沃顿中美峰会，现已成为北美最大的留学生峰会组织。该峰会致力于打造全美影响力最大的国家与海外精英们的民间纽带,搭建海外菁英启发与就职的交流平台,帮助中国优质企业与海外优秀学子对接,促成中美各行企业家之间的对话。两届峰会以来，近百位名人嘉宾助阵，其中包括驻美大使崔天凯，企业家雷军、潘石屹、李宁、周忻，知名投资人王强，著名导演陈凯歌、张纪中等。共计3000余名留学生于5个国家、35个州、超过84城市来到费城参加峰会。在2016年底，谢承润成立了中国峰会基金会，励志于帮助由海外留学生发起的文化、公益、教育、论坛等项目。2017年，谢承润为了鼓励以及帮助更多的留学生回国发展，提前完成了学业，并被邀请成为猎聘北美的总裁。谢承润致力于带领猎聘北美团队为留学生打造回国就业的绿色通道，两年之内成为海归回国就职的首选平台。2018年下旬，他将进入清华大学苏世民学院进一步深造。

Yong Zhao, co-founder and CEO of Junzi Kitchen. Yong was born and raised in Liaoning, northeast of China. He received a Bachelor degree in Life Science from Yuanpei School at Peking University, and then received a MESc and deferred his doctoral program in environmental science at Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Yong was the president of Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale in 2010 and founded Yale US-China Forum with Wanting Zhang. In 2013, with two good friends from Yale, Yong co-founded Junzi Kitchen and has been leading the team as CEO.

I graduated with my Bachelor’s degree from Boston University, and Master’s degree from Columbia University. I was the former director of China Innovation and Development Leadership program at MIT, also the founder of Boston Red Star Theater Club. Now I am the Chief Marketing Officer of Gravity which is a brand that focuses on the high quality of life and the social style of ritual. One side, Gravity connects to all areas of special recommendation from daily life. On the other hand, Gravity links to the new generation youths including overseas students and returnees. Using powerful black box audit system technology, our brand can customize high-quality life attitude that belongs to oneself for each user. As a quality invitation provider, we advocate the ritual invitation in the circle of social intercourse. As well, the platform draws into some service providers for high-quality people to achieve the aim of combining ‘urban spirit’ and ‘high quality.’

Steve Chapman is Group Vice President – China and Russia, leading operations and growth for Cummins Inc. in the key markets of China and Russia. Under Chapman's leadership, Cummins' China business has grown from an eight-employee office with sales of $8 million in 1990 to a 10,000-employee organization with over $5 billion in sales across multiple operations.

Partnerships are a key part of his work. He has negotiated a number of joint ventures including Dongfeng Motors and Beiqi Foton in China, and Kamaz in Russia, and he has served in senior roles working with partners such as Tata Motors in India and Komatsu in Japan. Chapman joined Cummins in 1985 as Manager – International Business Development and has held a number of positions in Cummins' international operations including leadership of Southeast Asia and China during the 1990s when he was instrumental in developing Cummins' successful business model for emerging markets. From 2002-2005, he established the International Distribution Business Unit, the predecessor of the current Distribution Business Unit, and served as the first business unit president.

From 1979-1983, Chapman held operations and management positions with Green Giant in their Taiwan and mainland China locations. China’s Economic Reform and Open Door marks its 40th anniversary in 2018, and  Chapman has therefore both witnessed and participated in China’s historical changes during the entire period.

In recognition of his significant contribution to Sino-foreign partnerships and to the engine-related industries in China, Chapman was awarded China National Friendship Award (2016) – China's most prestigious award for foreigners. He was also granted Great Wall Friendship Award (2011-2013) by the Beijing Municipal Government, in recognition of his contribution to Beijing's economic and social development. In 2008, Chapman was recognized by China Auto Business Review, the leading industry monthly publication in China, as one of the "Ten Most Important Foreigners" in China's automotive history during the past 30 years.

A native of Minnesota, Chapman earned his Bachelor's degree in Asian Studies from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and a Master's of Public and Private Management from the Yale University School of Management. He serves on the board of directors of Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. (NYSE: CTB). He speaks fluent Chinese.

Sam Wong is an Executive Director of China Renewable Energy (“CRE”), one of the leading external investors and operators in the renewable energy business in China. Currently, CRE has seven wind farms with a gross capacity of 660MW (net capacity of 341MW) under operation in Hebei, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Gansu provinces. For some of its projects, CRE is partnering with China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group, one of the largest and strongest state-owned renewable energy companies in China. Recently, CRE completed its first distributed solar project in Zhejiang province.

Sam has been instrumental in raising funds for the Group and is currently serving as a member of the Executive Committee. He received a B.A. degree in the geophysical sciences from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. He started his career as an investment banker at Kidder, Peabody in New York, where he was involved in project finance. He moved to Hong Kong with Bear Stearns and was involved in some of China’s first H share IPOs. He then worked in equity research at Societe Generale, where he was in charge of equity research in Shanghai; and later as Vice President and head of China Research at Credit Suisse in Hong Kong. Before joining CRE, Mr. WONG served as a Chief Financial Officer for DVN Holdings Limited, where he was involved in fundraising and introducing strategic investors to the company.

Jiang Pan is economic counselor and chief of Economic Section of Chinese Embassy to USA from 2014, working on the commercial and economic cooperation between Sino-US, introducing advanced investment experience to Chinese SME. He used to be deputy secretary general of China Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, which engaged Chinese SME’s sustainable development in financial market. During this period, he led to establish China investment and finance Exhibition for SMEs which could provide service to more 20 thousand SMEs in one year.

As a social servant, he worked in National Development and Reform Commission for more than 12 years. He used to act as Vice mayor of Ningguo City, Anhui Province in charge of Ningguo Development & Reform Commission and Finance Bureau. In 2015, he was awarded by World Economic Forum as Young Global Leader.

Zheng Chen currently serves as Shenzhen Media Group (SZMG) US Bureau Chief. She has her weekly columns conducting one-on-one interview with politicians, celebrities and well-known experts. Zheng Chen has covered virtually every major news story in the US since 2014 for SZMG. She was born in China and spent her childhood with her parents in Europe.

Xiaodong Ding is Associate Professor of Renmin Law School and the Vice President of Law and Technology Institute of Renmin University. He owned his J.S.D. degree at Yale Law School and Ph.D. degree at Peking University Law School. His research area covers lawand technology, regulation and juris prudence. He has published many articles onboth Chinese and English leading journals. He used to be the chief editor of Peking University Law Review and Peking University Journal of Legal Studies. He has also served as Honorable Visiting Professor at Duke Law School, Hong Kong Law School.

Trippco-chairs Bradley Arant Boult Cummings’ Life Sciences Industry Team andrepresents a broad spectrum of clients on regional, national and international engagements. He has been recognized in numerous leading attorney directories including The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, Benchmark Litigation, and The International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defence Lawyers. His experience has involved matters throughout the United States, Europe, South America and Asia. Tripp is also active in service to numerous legal organizations. He is the past President and current Asian Membership Envoy for the International Association of Defense Counsel and has served onthe boards of DRI and Lawyers for Civil Justice.

BrianKuhn is the Founder and Global Co-Leader of the Cognitive Legal business at IBMand inventor of the IBM Outside Counsel Insights solution. As a formerpracticing financial services attorney, Brian is responsible for defining and growing the Cognitive Legal brand worldwide. Brian is also responsible for defining the intersection of legal artificial intelligence and blockchain for law for IBM. In 2017, Brian became a pioneering member of the Global Legal Blockchain Consortium and the MIT Legal Forum for AI & Blockchain.

Brianspeaks frequently at legal industry events in North America, Europe and Asia. He has lead over 140 use case definition workshops with legal clients to helpidentify and justify where cognitive capabilities intersect with clients’ practice and business needs. Brian has advised law companies, firms, and governments.

Robert Williams is Senior Research Scholar and Executive Director of the Paul TsaiChina Center at Yale Law School, where he focuses on U.S.-China relations and Chinese law and policy. He is also a lecturer at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. He received a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Harvard National Security Journal. Following law school, he clerked in the Office of Legal Counsel at the U.S. Department of Justice and for Judge E. Grady Jolly on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was anattorney in private practice before coming to Yale and has also served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of State.

Bai Liang, founder of 01Caijing and ex-director of CBN (China Business News) finance center (Beijing). 01Caijing is a leading and independent fntech knowledge service provider.

Focus on P2P marketplace lending, payment, credit report, and blockchain etc. 

Ronghui Gu is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University in 2016. His dissertation won the Distinction Dissertation Award of Yale and was nominated for ACM Dissertation Award. He obtained his B.S. from Tsinghua University in 2011. He focuses on the research of the formal verification of system software and was the principal developer and author of the CertiKOS, the world’s frst fully verifed concurrent OS kernel. He co-founded the CertiK project aiming at building trustworthy blockchain ecosystems using formal verifcation techniques. 

Jennifer Jiang is the SVP and director of Fintech/Blockchain at Z-park Boston Innovation Center. She has more than 20 years’ experience in investment banking, structured fnancing and asset management, with various executive roles at J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, and earlier career in quantitative trading at OTPP. Jennifer sits on the Ecosystem and Advocacy Committee of ID2020, is the senior advisor at the Harvard CAM Lab, and mentor at MIT Enterprise Forum. Jennifer is a strong advocate of innovation and corporate governance, and a sought-after speaker at international capital conferences and policy discussion forums.

Jennifer obtained M.Sc. from MIT, MBA from McGill University, and bachelor in Statistics from

Renmin University of China. She has been a CFA Charterholder since 2002. 

Seatig Inc. delivers its pioneering data standards technology based on XBRL to Corporate Data Centers, Enterprise Internal Reporting, and Big Data Analytic Applications. The data standards technology is the key to solve the problem of Enterprise Information Silos in Corporate IT Architecture. The second line of Seatig’s business is to provide software consulting and outsourcing services to US companies especially financial services firms in New York area. Avery founded Seatig Inc. in 2008 and holds its position of managing director since then.

Prior to Seatig, she worked in Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns and Platinum Grove Asset Management (a 6-billion-dollar hedge fund). At Bear Stearns, she was responsible for developing Bear Stearns' firm-wide counterparty credit risk analysis system covering across a variety of financial products such as Equity, FX, Mortgage, Credit Derivatives, Interest Rate Derivatives, Energy, and Repo. At Platinum, she was a risk analyst in the firm-wide risk control group, developing risk analytical software (stress loss testing and scenario analysis) and performing day-to-day risk analysis and aggregations. Before she worked on Wall Street, she had been a computer scientist in IBM T. J. Watson Research Center researching business process model transformation, analysis, and optimization.

Avery has been actively serving Board Director of Asian Financial Society (AFS) since 2014 and she is currently the Committee Chair of AFS annual fintech competition award AFS alpha Award (AaA, http://www.afstoday.org/alpha/) to serve and recognize the excellence in the global fintech community. She served Head, Financial IT & Outsourcing of AFS 2009-2014. She was the Vice-chair of Columbia University Asia-Pacific Development Society (CUASIA) 2010-2015. She served Program Committee of IEEE International Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC) 2006-2008. She also served as an officer 2009-2011 to the North American Chinese Entrepreneur Association.

Avery was awarded “Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business” in 2012 by Asian American Business Development Center in New York and was awarded Innovation & Entrepreneurship by North American Chinese Entrepreneur Association 2011 Annual Conference. She earned “Best Sponsors” award by Asian Financial Society in 2017.

Avery holds a Ph.D. of Computer Science and has 28 publications in software engineering including a book titled “Software Reuse and Industrialization” which can be purchased through Amazon for $107.

Hongqiang (Hong) Zhao is the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) of BaiRong Financial Information Services Co. Ltd. (“BaiRong”) since December 2015. Prior to joining BaiRong, Mr. Zhao had been the CFO of NetEase e-Commerce Business (NASDAQ: NTES) and the Vice President of Finance at SouFun Holdings Limited (NYSE: SFUN), an operator of a leading real estate internet portal in China. Previously, Mr. Zhao worked in New York as the director of financial analysis for Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB), a leading global entertainment content company. Between February 2009 and July 2011, Mr. Zhao served as an assistant chief auditor at the PCAOB, a regulatory oversight agency under the US SEC. Prior to that, Mr. Zhao had been a manager at KPMG LLP in the Washington D.C., providing professional services to internet, telecommunication and entertainment companies, for more than eight years since August 2000. Mr. Zhao holds a master’s degree in accountancy from George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Tsinghua University.

David Barboza is a correspondent for The New York Times, based in New York.

In 2013, Mr. Barboza was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting “for his striking exposure of corruption at high levels of the Chinese government, including billions in secret wealth owned by relatives of the prime minister, well documented work published in the face of heavy pressure from the Chinese officials.” He was also part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting.

Mr. Barboza was a freelance writer and a research assistant for The New York Times before being hired in 1997 as a staff writer. For five years, he was the Midwest business correspondent based in Chicago. From 2008 to 2015, he served as the paper’s Shanghai bureau chief.

Mr. Barboza won two awards in The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) 2007 Best in Business Journalism Contest, one for a New York Times article, "A Chinese Reformer Betrays His Cause, and Pays.” He was also part of the team that won the 2008 Grantham Prize for environmental reporting for the series "Choking on Growth: China’s Environmental Crisis." In 2002, he was part of a team that was named a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Enron scandal.

In 2008, Mr. Barboza won The Times’s internal business award, the Nathaniel Nash Award. He has twice won the Gerald Loeb Award for business reporting. Mr. Barboza graduated from Boston University with a bachelor’s degree in history and attended Yale University Graduate School.

Jing Tsu, a new Guggenheim Fellow, is a literary scholar and cultural historian of modern China at Yale University. She is the first person to be tenured and become Professor of Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature at Yale, and author of four books (two co-edited). She is currently writing a new book about how China entered the IT era, The Kingdom of Characters: Language Wars and China's Rise to Global Power, a remarkable tale that uncovers what happened to the Chinese script in the age of the Western alphabet (under contract with Riverhead at Penguin Random House). Her research spans literature, linguistics, science and technology, typewriting and digitalization, diaspora studies, migration, nationalism, and theories of globalization, and she has written for The New York Times. Her first book, Failure, Nationalism, and Literature: The Making of Modern Chinese Identity, 1895-1937 (Stanford University Press 2005), has been praised as a “bold,” “original,” “a provocative and innovative book that opens up new critical spaces,” and “a seriously good read.” Her second book, Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora (Harvard University Press 2010), has been called “a truly groundbreaking work in Sinophone studies,” “an unusual, complex, and remarkable book,” “a captivating work of linguistic and literary scholarship,” and a “must-read.” It is currently being translated into Chinese. Crossing different fields and disciplines by making new connections between disparate contexts, Tsu has been widely recognized in Asia and the U.S. for her approach. She has received fellowships and honors from the Society of Fellows (Harvard), Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard), and most recently the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton). In 2011, she was awarded a multi-year New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to pursue her current book project on the technology of Chinese writing.

At Yale, Tsu is also a Senior Research Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, a member of the Executive Committee of both the Whitney Humanities Center and the Humanities Program, as well as a faculty affiliate of WGSS (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) and ER&M (Ethnicity, Race, and Migration).