Voices

Jazz musicians Boris Acosta Jaramillo and Annie Chen, who study and perform in New York and China.

Brian Wiraatmadja, a young Indonesian entrepreneur here in Beijing.

Sidney A. McPhee, President of Middle Tennessee State University.

Kemin Zhang, founder and host of Bukaopu concert saloon in Beijing.

Sophie Ye Tao, a Senior Managing Director of the UCF Investment Group, in charge of China/US direct investment and the equity crowdfunding platform.

Brantly Womack, Cumming Memorial Professor of Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, and honorary professor at Jilin University in northeast China's Changchun, talking about his ideas on China and the new Tianxia(world).

Pavel G. Talalay is one of the world's leading drilling experts on Polar research, who have been to both the Arctic and Antarctica.

Michael Garvey from Beijing Dublin International College on educational and cultural differences between China and Ireland.

Rory Jeffes, Managing Director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, set the goal of making the Orchestra the best in the Asian Pacific region by 2020.

Lars Zimmermann, Executive Vice President of hy.co, a leading network of elites in Berlin.

Harvey Dzodin, Senior Advisor to the China Young Artists Project, who is also trying to get a Good Samaritan law passed in China.

Clare Pearson, Vice President of the British Chamber of Commerce in China, tells her stories living in three continents.

Tony Stimac, an American director, producer, and author of New Musicals, telling his life of enjoying making musicals in China.

Kiran Patel, Marketing & Communications Director of LehmanBrown International Accountants. Kiran is also a known underground house music DJ in Beijing.

Carolina Ballester, International Programme Manager for the International Literary Week at the Shanghai Book Fair.

Robert Hass, U.S. Poet Laureate who was recently invited to attend the Shanghai International Literary Week.

Yunte Huang, a bestselling author of Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History.

Jesse Appell, an American, who is in Beijing researching on Chinese humor and performance.

Frank Hawke, Director of the China Program for the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in Beida.

French artist Aima St Hunon, who is giving an exhibition at the Peninsular Hotel, Beijing.