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Agenda
- Doors Open
- China Now: Panel Discussion
Markus Herrmann Chen•Kaiser Kuo
Markus Herrmann Chen
Co-founder & Managing Director of China Marco GroupMarkus is a cross-cultural China analyst, strategy consultant and mediator, advising international corporate, investment and public sectors on China’s evolving political economy, specialized in assisting strategic decision-making of governance, executive and functional bodies regarding business engagement in the Chinese market, as well as collaborating with Chinese companies and organizations more generally, across key management issues such as strategy, partnerships, negotiations, risk management and resilience, or HQ-subsidiary alignment.
Prior to CMG, Markus worked as Government Affairs Director with Bayer MaterialScience in China and as Management Consultant with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in its Shanghai, Hong Kong and Zurich offices. Moreover, he is the Strategic Advisor Europe to Caixin Global, China’s leading financial media group, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network and he is a member of the advisory board of CEIBS Zurich / Europe.
Markus holds law degrees with specialisation in public-, international, and WTO-law from the Universities of Geneva and Berne, plus he studied Mandarin at Peking University as a resident student.
Kaiser Kuo
Host at Sinica PodcastKaiser Kuo is the host of the Sinica Podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China that has run since 2010. He was Head of Podcasts and Editor-at-Large for The China Project, and previously served as Director of International Communications for Baidu. In his over 20 years in China, his career ran the gamut from rock music to tech journalism to corporate communications. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and holds an M.A. from the University of Arizona.
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