Cheng Siwei is a renowned economist, former chairman of the China National Democratic Construction Association, President of the China Soft-Science Research Society, and former Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. He received a master’s degree from UCLA and previously served as an academic advisor to the World Bank and as the Director of the Department of Management Sciences of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published numerous academic books in China and Europe and over one hundred articles in prestigious academic journals, and he has served as Chief Editor of several academic journals.

Kose John is the Charles William Gerstenberg Professor of Banking and Finance at New York University Stern School of Business and teaches courses in corporate finance.

Dr. John has been with NYU Stern for more than 20 years. Areas of his recent research include corporate governance, corporate bankruptcy, executive compensation, and corporate disclosure. He has also done research in the areas of financial markets and financial theory. He has published over a hundred articles in several top journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies and Financial Management. He was awarded the prestigious Jensen Prize for the best paper published in Journal of Financial Economics in 2000. In addition to his research, Dr. John has bee recognized for his excellence in teaching and received the Citibank Excellence in Teaching Award in 1996.

Dr. John received his Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Kerala, India, his masters in computer science from the Florida Institute of Technology, and his Doctor of Philosophy in management science from the University of Florida.

Cheng-Few Lee is a Distinguished Professor of Finance at Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University and was chairperson of the Department of Finance from 1988–1995. He has also served on the faculty of the University of Illinois (IBE Professor of Finance) and the University of Georgia. He has maintained academic and consulting ties in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and the United States for the past three decades. He has been a consultant to many prominent groups including, the American Insurance Group, the World Bank, the United Nations and The Marmon Group Inc., etc.

Professor Lee founded the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (RQFA) in 1990 and the Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (RPBFMP) in 1998, and serves as managing editor for both journals. He was also a co-editor of the Financial Review (1985–1991) and the Quarterly Review of Economics and Business (1987–1989). In the past thirty-two years, Dr. Lee has written numerous textbooks ranging in subject matter from financial management to corporate finance, security analysis and portfolio management to financial analysis, planning and forecasting, and business statistics. Dr. Lee has also published more than 170 articles in more than twenty different journals in finance, accounting, economics, statistics, and management. Professor Lee has been ranked the most published finance professor worldwide during 1953–2002.

Professor Lee has published “Encyclopedia of Finance” (with Alice C. Lee) by Springer in 2006. In addition, his new textbook entitled “Financial Analysis, Planning and Forecasting, ”2nd ed. (with John C. Lee and Alice C. Lee) will be published by World Scientific in 2008. He is currently editing a handbook entitled “Handbook of Quantitative Finance and Risk Management” (with Alice C. Lee). This handbook will be published by Springer in 2009.

Shouyang Wang received his BS degree from Zhongshan (Sun-Yat) University in 1982 and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1983 and 1986 respectively. During 1987-88, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He was a visiting professor of Delft University of Technology in 1992, a visiting professor of Barcelona University and University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain in 1994, a visiting professor of Konan University in Japan in 1995 and a visiting professor of City University of Hong Kong in 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, etc. He was also invited to serve as a foreign professor of University of Tsukuba in Japan in September, 2000 - August, 2001 and September, 2003 - August, 2004. He was selected as a chair professor of "100 talent Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences" in 1996. During May, 1997 - August, 2000, he was appointed as the executive deputy director of Department of Management Sciences, National Science Foundation of China. He was appointed as the director of Key Laboratory of Management, Decision and Information Systems of Chinese Academy of Sciences in December, 2000. In February 2006, he was appointed as the first director of Centre for Forecasting Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

His research at present concentrates on Forecasting Methods, Financial Risk Management, Integrated Logistics, Game Theory and Conflict Analysis. He has published over 150 journal articles in leading journals including Decision Support Systems, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Group Decision and Negotiations, and IIE Transactions.

He is on the editorial boards of 12 journals, including Information and Management, Journal of Management Systems, Human Systems Management, International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, Pacific Journal of Optimization, International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems. He also served as a guest editor of an issue/volume of 9 leading journals including Annals of Operations research, and European Journal of Operational Research.

Mr. Xie Ping is Executive Vice President and Deputy Chief Investment Officer of CIC. Immediately prior to joining CIC, he served as the President of Central Huijin Investment Ltd. He had also held a number of senior positions within the People's Bank of China (PBOC), including Director General of the Financial Stability Department, Director General of the Research Bureau, Governor of the Hunan branch of the PBOC, Director General of the Non-Banking Supervision Department, and Deputy Director General of the Policy Research Office.

Mr. Xie was born in 1955, and holds a master's degree in economics from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and a doctor's degree in economics from Renmin University of China. He is an advisor to PhD students.

Wei Zhang is Director-General (2010-) and Professor of Finance, College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, the first Western-style university in China founded in 1895. After he earned his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering in China, he went to Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley in 1994-1995, as a Research Fellow. He also spent 3 years, during 1998-2000, at Lally School of Management and Technology, Rensselaer Institute of Technology, as a Visiting Professor.

His research interest is in Financial Engineering and Risk Management, Agent-based Computational Finance, SME and Entrepreneurial Financing. He is granted funds by the national funding agencies like NSFC, MOE, MOST, etc., for doing research including, but not limited to, “Financial Risk Analysis, Assessment and Management”, “Investors’ Bias and Asset Pricing with Agent-based Modeling Approach”. He published one book on Financial Markets in China and dozens of papers on referred international journals such as IEEE-Trans on IS, as well as top journals in Management/Business in China.

In 1998, he won the National Award of the Young Scientists at the Cross of Century, because of his excellence and academic contributions. Besides his academic affiliation with Chinese Society of Systems Engineering as Vice President, with Committee of Financial Engineering at Chinese Society of Finance as Vice Chairperson, and with Chinese Academy of Management as Senior Fellow, he also serves as the Executive Editor-in-chief of Journal of Management Sciences in China, and Management Review, the top-tier Chinese journals in management, and the member of the editorial boards of several major Chinese academic journals in finance, management and business, such as Journal of Management, China Finance Review, Journal of Systems Engineering, Nankai Business Review, etc.