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James Bledsoe
Director, eCommerce Solutions Center of U.S. Commercial ServiceJames Bledsoe is the Director of the U.S. Department of Commerce- U.S. Commercial Service’s eCommerce Solutions Center (ESC), based out of Tacoma Washington. James is a U.S. Air Force veteran (’99-’10) and holds a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies (JSIS), where his focus was China’s heavy and light industries and market access; James also holds an undergraduate degree (B.A.) in Political Science and China Studies from Washington State University.
The eCommerce Solutions Center (ESC) is an office within the U.S. Department of Commerce's U.S. Commercial Service, that focuses on advancing the expertise and knowledge of cross-border ecommerce and digital strategy among all U.S. small and medium-sized businesses. Visit https://www.trade.gov/ecommerce for more information.
Efrem Bycer
Senior Lead Manager, Public Policy and Economic Graph at LinkedInEfrem Bycer is a member of LinkedIn's Global Policy Partnerships team where he leads sustainability and workforce policy partnerships. Leveraging LinkedIn's Economic Graph insights, he works closely with government agencies, multilateral organizations, and NGOs to improve reemployment services, promote a skills-based labor market, and grow the workforce we need to transition to a greener economy. Efrem has more than 15 years experience in workforce and economic development. Based in San Diego, Efrem is an avid runner, snowboarder, and homebrewer.
Aylin Caliskan
Assistant Professor at University of WashingtonAylin has formal training in computer science, information systems engineering, and robotics. Her research interests lie in artificial intelligence (AI) ethics, AI bias, computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning. Bias and ethics in natural language processing and machine learning have been her primary focus since 2016. She analyzes the underpinning mechanisms of information transfer between human society and AI. To investigate the reasoning behind AI representations and decisions, she develops evaluation methods and transparency enhancing approaches that detect, quantify, and characterize human-like associations and biases learned by machines. She studies how machines that automatically learn implicit associations impact humans and society. Overall, her goal is to ensure that AI is developed and deployed responsibly, with consideration given to societal implications.
Richard Cantor
Vice Chair at Moody's Investors ServiceRichard Cantor is Vice Chairman of Moody’s Investors Service (MIS) and a key external spokesperson for the credit rating agency on market developments with investors, regulators, academics and other market participants. He is particularly focused on shaping the methodological approaches employed by the company in ESG- and climate-related markets. Mr. Cantor also serves as Chair of the U.S. National Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC), and International
Co-Chair of PECC.
Prior to his current role, from 2008-2022, Mr. Cantor served as MIS’ Chief Credit Officer and was responsible for the rating agency’s global credit strategy and thematic research, the quality and consistency of its ratings across regions and sectors, and the
procedures, methodologies, models, and tools used in the determination of ratings.
Concurrently, from 2009 to 2019, Mr. Cantor also served as Moody’s Corporation’s Chief Risk Officer and in this role, led the firm’s global risk management function.
Mr. Cantor was appointed in 2015 by the U.S. State Department to a three-year term on the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council (ABAC), during which he chaired ABAC’s Financial and Economic Working Group.
Prior to joining Moody’s, Mr. Cantor held a variety of positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, including in the Capital Markets Group and the Discount Window, and was an adjunct professor at New York University’s and Columbia University’s
business schools. He has also taught Economics at UCLA and The Ohio State University. Mr. Cantor holds BA degrees in English and Economics from Tufts University and a PhD in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.
Antony Cook
CVP and Deputy General Counsel at Microsoft Corp.Antony Cook is Microsoft’s Regional Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel for Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) for Asia. Antony leads a multi-disciplinary team of 70 professionals that are responsible for providing legal and compliance support to business groups operating in the region; industry, community and government affairs counsel to Microsoft’s in-country operations; and support for digital security, intellectual property and data protection issues.
Antony joined Microsoft in 2002 in Sydney leading the legal support for Microsoft’s businesses in Australia and New Zealand. Antony moved to Singapore in early 2006, initially working as the Regional Director for Public Sector support in Asia Pacific before taking responsibility for the CELA team for Microsoft’s businesses in South East Asia in July 2007. Antony moved to Istanbul in December 2010 to build and manage the CELA team in the Middle East and Africa and held that position until 1 August 2017 when he returned to Singapore and his current role.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Antony had responsibility for business development and corporate functions across Asia and Europe as Head of Business Affairs for BT LookSmart. Antony also worked for four years with the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as a Senior Associate in their Hong Kong office specializing in telecom and IT transactions across Asia. Antony started his career at Moore & Bevins (now K&L Gates) a Sydney based full service commercial law firm.
Antony is Vice President of the Singapore Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of the National Association for APEC, a Director on the Board of the Singapore International Mediation Center and a member of the Singapore Management University School of Law and Technology Advisory Council.
Antony graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney with a Bachelor of Commerce (with commendation) and a Bachelor of Laws. Antony is admitted as a Solicitor to the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of Australia.
Ambassador Francisco Coy Granados
VICEMINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS at MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRSFRANCISCO J. COY G.
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
Appointed in August 2022. Member of the Colombian Foreign Service since 1988, he reached the rank of Ambassador in 2011. Prior to his current position, the performed as Advisor to the Foreign Minister (2020-2022), Deputy Chief of Mission in the Embassy of Colombia to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Great Duchy of Luxembourg, and the Mission of Colombia to the European Union and NATO (2015-2020). Previously, he was the Director for European Affairs (from January 2014 to October 2015) and Director of Territorial Sovereignty and Borders Development (from August 2010 to January 2014). Within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he has also held positions at the Borders Division, the Under- Secretariat for Economic Affairs, the United States and Canada Office, the Minister’s Office (where he was Chief of Staff in 1996), the Diplomatic Academy, the Office of Multilateral Affairs (Coordinator for the Anti -Illicit Drugs Group). Abroad, he was posted at the Embassy of Colombia to the United States (1991-1994, and 1997-1999); the Embassy of Colombia to Italy, and to the United Nations Agencies in Rome (2005-2009).
Education
He holds an economics degree from the University of La Salle, Bogota, 1984, and graduate studies of Master of Arts in Contemporary Economic Analysis, Political and International Issues, Institute of High Studies on Development, University Externado de Colombia, Bogota (1988- 1989). He also received a Master of Arts in International Public Policy (M.I.P.P), the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University- SAIS – Washington D.C., 2000. In 2011 he participated in the High Government School of the Universidad de los Andes.
Teaching Experience
He has been a Professor of Colombian Foreign Policy, Comparative Foreign Policies, and Foreign Policy of the United States at the Javeriana University, Andes University, Rosario University, Externado University of Colombia, the Military University, and Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. He has also published academic and opinion works in academic and periodical outlets.
Jan De Silva
President & CEO of Toronto Region Board of TradeJan De Silva is President and CEO of the Toronto Region Board of Trade, one of the largest and most influential business organizations in North America. She is spearheading efforts to make Toronto one of the most competitive and sought-after business regions in the world.
Jan brings to the role more than 14 years of international CEO experience building ambitious, high-growth organizations. Anchored in her leadership is her belief in the power of economic development to lift communities.
Prior to joining the Board, she served as CEO of Sun Life Financial’s Hong Kong and Mainland China businesses and co-founded and later sold Retail China Limited. Jan also served as Dean of Ivey Asia for Ivey Business School of Western University.
Highly respected for her business advocacy and government engagement, Jan has been Chair of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, Chair of the Canada China Business Council in Beijing and served on the Board of the Asian Corporate Governance Association. In 2019, she was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to represent Canada on the APEC Business Advisory Council. Jan also sits on the board of Intact Financial Corporation, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Jessyn Farrell
Director of Office of Sustainability & Environment, City of SeattleJessyn Farrell, J.D., is a leader in building public consensus on difficult issues related to the environment, housing, transportation, and the economy. A long-time environmental advocate, Jessyn served as a state legislator from the 46th District where she passed ground-breaking legislation on oil-by-rail safety, affordable housing near transit centers, education supports for low-income and homeless youth, protections for pregnant workers and restrictions to cell-phone use while driving. As Executive Director of Transportation Choices she led advocacy efforts resulting in billions of dollars in regional light rail investments. Jessyn is currently the Director of Office of Sustainability and Environment for the City of Seattle where she leads the city’s work to advance climate and environmental justice, reduce carbon pollution and build healthy, resilient communities. She has three kids, a dog, and is working on her first book.
Guoli Gao
Director-General, China Center for Urban Development (CCUD) of National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)Gao Guoli, Director-General, China Center for Urban Development (CCUD), National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC); Research Fellow II; Ph.D. in Economics; Doctoral Supervisor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Expert Enjoying Special Allowance from the State Council; Bachelor's Degree in Public Policy, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GIRPS, Japan); Lien Senior Visiting Scholar, Nanyang Technological University.
He presided over a number of projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Social Science Foundation of China, and the National Soft Science Foundation of China, and several major projects of the central ministries and commissions of China, among which, the Rational Layout and Coordinated Development of Regional Economy, the Study on the Classification of China's Main Functional Areas and Their Classification Policies, and the Study on the Adjustment and Optimization of the Spatial Layout of New Towns and Cities in the 14th Five-Year Plan Period were awarded second/third prizes for excellent scientific research findings by the NDRC. He has published several academic works, including On the Optimization Strategy for the Spatial Layout of China's New Urbanization and Theory of Uneven Development of Regional Economy, as well as more than a hundred papers in academic journals at home and abroad.
Hafimi Haadii
Executive Director of LVK Group of CompaniesHafimi Abdul Haadii is from a 3rd generation business family in Brunei Darussalam and currently Executive Director of LVK Group of Companies. Her formative years were spent in Brunei, New Zealand and Australia. She is the Chairperson of Competition Commission of Brunei Darussalam since 2018 and a former Member of the Legislative of Brunei Darussalam from 2017-2022.
She is a founding member of the Young Entrepreneurs Association of Brunei (YEAB) in 2000, and its President from 2012-2013 and Advisory Member since 2018. From 2008-2013 she was part of the team which started the ASEAN-China Young Entrepreneurs Forum with Brunei successfully
hosting the 5th edition of the Forum in 2013. Up till today the cause of young entrepreneurs remains very much at the core of what Hafimi enjoys outside of her other roles and is an Advisory Member to the YEAB In 2013 Hafimi was appointed to the APEC Business Advisory Council as a Member for Brunei Darussalam and had several active roles as a Woking Group Chair (2019-
2020) & Co-Chair (2017-2018) for ABAC’s Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Working Group and Co-Chair (2015) for Sustainable Development Working Group. She is currently the Chair for ABAC’s Inclusion Task Force (2023).
She is an appointed member of the Asia Business Leaders Advisory Council since 2019 and its current Co-Chair 2023-2024. Hafimi is a member of Brunei’s Digital Economy Council and currently holds Board positions in companies under the family group as well as being an independent
board member of UBD Corp Sdn Bhd in Brunei; Chair of the Advisory Board for TOQQA Global in Australia and International Advisor to Abodoo in Ireland. She previously held board, council and committee positions with Brunei Economic Development Board, Darussalam Enterprise, Bank Usahawan Berhad, Universiti Brunei Darussalam Council in Brunei Darussalam. Within the community, Hafimi chairs the Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Foundation’s Committee on Social Enterprise Strategy, initiating a living incubation project called “Ristaan Abadi di Kg Bolkiah.”
She is an Old Geelong Grammarian and an alumnus of Deakin University holding a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Architecture (Honours) and in 2019 was awarded the medal of P.S.B.( The Most Blessed Order of Setia Negara Brunei-4th Class) by His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di Pertuan Negara Brunei Darussalam.
Kenji Kushida
Senior Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceKenji E. Kushida is Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Asia Program directing Japan programming, and he leads the Japan-Silicon Valley Innovation Initiative @ Carnegie (J-SV). Previously a Research Scholar at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University, he spearheaded the Stanford Silicon Valley-New Japan Project (SV-NJ). He is also an International Research Fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS) and nonresident senior fellow at the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research (TKFD). He holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in East Asian studies and BAs in economics and East Asian studies, all from Stanford University.
Lucas Levine
Head of Customer Success at FutureFit AIFutureFit AI provides AI-powered solutions to help bridge the gap between job seekers and employers while empowering workforce systems to operate more efficiently and collaboratively. As Head of Customer Success, Lucas is responsible for implementing FutureFit AI's technology with partners in state and local government, nonprofit, and enterprise to help their job seekers achieve exceptional labor market outcomes. Lucas has spent nearly a decade focused on developing human capital, having previously served as Head of Talent/HR for an innovative K-12 education startup in South Africa. Lucas has worked with social enterprises in Africa, Central America, and South America, and received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Ginger Lew
Senior Policy Advisor at I Squared CapitalGinger has an extensive career as a public policy leader and successful business executive and entrepreneur. Under five different administrations, Ginger has served as Chief Counsel for the Department of Energy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, General Counsel for the Department of Commerce, Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer for the Small Business Administration, Senior Counselor to the White House National Economic Council, and is currently, the U.S. delegate to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council.
Ginger is the co-founder and managing director of a renewable energy company, Cube Hydro Partners. Since 2014, she has been a senior policy advisor to I Squared Capital, a global infrastructure fund. Ginger is also a senior advisor to Equilibrium Capital based in Portland, Oregon. She is the former CEO and venture partner of two venture capital funds. She was chair and board member of a European-based investment fund. For ten years, Ginger was Co-Chair and member of the NASDAQ Listing and Hearing Review Council.
Kim Phan
Specialist Leader/ Environment, Energy and Governance at DeloitteKim Phan is a Specialist Leader in the Deloitte Environment, Energy and Governance practice where she works on climate change with a special focus on renewable energy and green shipping. She has almost 25 years of experience working on environmental policy and international law. Prior to joining Deloitte, she served as the Executive Director of the International Law Institute for more than 15 years. She was the United States – Asia Environmental Partnership representative to the Asian Development Bank. She has done several rotations with U.S. embassies throughout Asia focused on environmental technology and U.S. trade and investments with Asia.
Ms. Phan is a speaker at universities and international conferences and has taught all over the world. She is highly experienced in managing multi-cultural teams in an international setting.
Ms. Phan holds a BA in Political Science with a concentration in nuclear warfare strategy from Allegheny College. She has a Masters in the Study of Law from Northwestern University Law School. She teaches an annual course on Leadership and Management for Lawyers at the University of California Irvine Law School. She is the Immediate Past President and board member of the Friends of the Law Library of Congress and played an instrumental role in bringing the 1215 Magna Carta exhibit to the Library of Congress.
Renato Reyes Tagle
Peru APEC Senior Official at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of PeruMinister of the Peruvian Diplomatic Service. Graduated as a lawyer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He has a master's degree in diplomacy and international relations from the Diplomatic Academy of Peru.
Has a law master degree in European commercial and contractual law from the University of Helsinki, Finland, where his thesis to opt for the law master degree was graded with Eximia cum laude approbatur: "The relationship between Community law and national law in the European Community and in the Andean Community".
Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the Ricardo Palma University, Peru, where his thesis was graded as outstanding.
Work history
• Joined the Diplomatic Service of Peru as third secretary in 1997. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he worked as China and Korea Desk officer, and Deputy Director for Trade Agreements of the General Direction for Economic Affairs.
• He served as Head of the Consular Section and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Peru to Finland.
• Counselor and Minister Counselor of the Political Department of the Embassy of Peru to the United States of America.
• Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Peru to Chile until 31st May 2021. He also was Chief of the Economic Department of the Embassy.
• Peru APEC Senior Official and Director of APEC and Specialized Forums at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru since 1 June 2021.
• Chairman of the APEC Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation since 1st January 2023.
Academic experience
• Professor of the Catholic University of Peru´s Law Department since 2016. He teaches the courses of integration seminar in international law, and integration processes.
• He has published articles in specialized magazines on European and Andean community law, and on the role of APEC in promoting the economic integration of the Asia-Pacific.
Awards
"Knight, First Class, of the Order of the Lion of Finland", awarded by the President of the Republic of Finland on 21 May, 2008.
Order of Merit in the rank of Grand Official awarded by the President of the Republic of Chile in November 2022.
Languages
Spanish (mother tongue), English and Finnish.
Rana Sen
Managing Director of the Sustainability, Climate & Equity at DeloitteRana is the sustainability practice leader for Deloitte's state/local/higher-education sector. He has 25 years of experience in strategy development, design, implementation, and leadership of major government transformation initiatives in sustainability/climate/equity, public health, smart city, transportation, human services, and finance and administration. He is a facilitator of connections between people, systems, and organizations (across government, private sector, academia, and non-profit), fostering collaboration and developing novel solutions to complex problems.
He also leads the development of sustainability assets for government and public services practice globally and is responsible for Deloitte’s alliance with University of Colorado, Boulder – together they launched a new Climate Innovation Collaboratory to translate innovative climate research and data into meaningful climate solutions for federal, state, and local government agencies and communities.
He speaks frequently on digital innovation at various forums; he has recently contributed to the following relevant publications:
• WSJ Sustainable Business, How Digital Tools Can Help Solve the Colorado River; https://deloitte.wsj.com/articles/how-digital-tools-can-help-solve-the-colorado-river-crisis-c08e9d5b?tesla=y
• Emerging Technologies to Improve Water Resource Management in Colorado (commissioned report)
He has a master’s in computational design from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. He lives in northern Virginia. He and his wife (special education schoolteacher) have two teenage daughters who are voracious readers, and whose other passions include traveling (just like their parents), ballet, and music.
Rathna Sharad
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of FlavorCloudRathna Sharad, founder and CEO of FlavorCloud, has 20+ years of experience working in global supply chain and international trade logistics and has enabled over 10 modern ecommerce experiences, the combination of which has positioned her perfectly to create an “anywhere-to-anywhere” logistics solution that enables any brand to go global. Indeed FlavorCloud, founded in 2018, is a cross-border shipping logistics platform that removes international shipping friction for midsized direct-to-consumer brands enabling them—for the first time—to keep pace with the accelerated demand of international ecommerce.
As a founding member of the ad platform team at Microsoft and product leader for Bing Ads, Sharad saw the first signs; with a 2006-era birds eye view of the search ad ecosystem across publishers, it was clear to her: cross-border is the way of the future. She carried her vision into Runway2Street, which she co-founded in 2012, hoping to revolutionize B2C consumer purchasing for good, but in pursuit of that goal, stumbled on an opportunity far greater: solving international shipping for all.
This remains Sharad’s focus today at FlavorCloud where she is defining global ecommerce and trade landscape by making international shipping as simple as domestic, allowing the pathways of modern consumer shopping behavior to operate as organically as our social communities and connections online already do.
Taylor Soper
Managing Editor at GeekWireTaylor Soper is Managing Editor at Geekwire, the Seattle-based national business news site covering technology, science and innovation. With more than a decade of experience reporting on technology trends, Taylor has interviewed numerous senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies and top entrepreneurs at fast-growing startups to learn how they are preparing for the future. Taylor is responsible for coordinating the newsroom, planning coverage and editing stories. He serves as a member of the Board of Student Publications and the Department of Communication Alumni Board at the University of Washington. Taylor is a native of Portland, Ore., and a graduate of the University of Washington.
Brian Surratt
CEO of Greater Seattle PartnersBrian Surratt is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Greater Seattle Partners (GSP), a public/private partnership that advances inclusive economic growth and competitiveness for the Puget Sound region. The GSP team focuses on attracting new investment and talent, promoting international trade and growing existing industry clusters to create and sustain opportunity and prosperity for everyone in the Greater Seattle region.
Brian comes to GSP from one of the country’s largest community development organizations, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), where he served as an executive director and recently launched the Housing Equity Accelerator with Amazon to support emerging developers of color in the region. Previously, he was a vice president at Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc., the leading urban real estate investment trust focused on building collaborative life science and technology campuses in the nation’s most dynamic innovation centers.
While in various economic development leadership roles with the city of Seattle, Brian oversaw efforts that spanned workforce development, manufacturing growth, foreign-direct investment and anti-displacement strategies. He negotiated the city’s $1.2 billion development agreement to build Climate Pledge Arena and served as the policy lead in Seattle’s historic efforts as the first major city in the United States to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
Brian serves in a range of community leadership roles as well. He is a trustee for the Seattle Colleges District and commissioner for the Washington State Housing Finance Commission and serves on the boards for several prominent regional organizations, including FareStart, William D. Ruckelshaus Center and the University of Washington Runstad Department of Real Estate.
Professor Kar Yan Tam
Dean and Chair Professor at School of Business and Management The Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyProfessor Kar Yan TAM is Dean of the Business School and Chair Professor of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is currently a board member of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and was the Past President of the Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools (AAPBS). Professor Tam also plays an active role in public services. Currently, he serves on the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and is the Chairman of the Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation of the Hong Kong Government.
Caleb Weaver
Vice President at RidwellCaleb is a Vice President at Ridwell, where he oversees public affairs, legal, compliance and people operations. Prior to Ridwell, Caleb ran public affairs for Uber for much of the western US. Caleb began his career working for the Governors of Missouri and Illinois, eventually landing on President Obama’s 2008 campaign and then at USDA during the early years of the Obama administration as the national Press Secretary. An attorney by training, Caleb’s brief stint at a law firm after leaving government convinced him that the practice of law was better left to others.
Ding Yi
Consultant at World Historical and Cultural Canal Cities Cooperation Organization (WCCO)Ding Yi serves as the Consultant of the World Historic and Cultural Canal Cities Cooperation Organization (WCCO) and Vice President of the CPPCC Yangzhou Municipal Committee. Throughout his tenure as Vice Mayor of Yangzhou city, he has dedicated himself to the management of agriculture, water conservancy, and transportation industries. He has made multiple visits to the United States to explore collaboration opportunities in agriculture as well as the manufacturing and processing of agricultural products.
Sui’an ZHANG
Council Member of PECC-China and President of Pacific Academy of Coalbed Methane at Shanxi Province at Pacific Academy of Coalbed Methane at Shanxi ProvinceProf. ZHANG Sui’an, Council Member of China PECC, President of Pacific Academy of Coalbed Methane at Shanxi Province, Professor/PhD supervisor of China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Foreign Member of the Academia of the European Academy of Natural Sciences. He is also Deputy Director of Unconventional Oil and Gas Committee of Chinese Petroleum Society, Deputy Director of the Coalbed Methane Professional Committee of China Coal Society. He has been an international expert on some international projects, such as: Sino-US, Sino-Canada intergovernmental cooperation projects, and APEC, ADB, US-EPA related projects.
Yongxin Zhan
Chair and Co-Chair at China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (CNCPEC) and PECCAmbassador Zhan Yongxin, is PECC Co-Chair and Chair of the China PECC Committee
Ambassador Zhan had worked at the China Institute of the International Studies and then served as a professional diplomat for more than 30 years including in the Department of the International Organizations and in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, heading the Policy Planning Department . He had diplomatic postings throughout the world including Canada, Hong Kong (China), and Israel
Ambassador Zhan had been in charge of APEC affairs while working in the Department of International Organizations and the Conferences from 1994 to 1996.