Tim Ambler, London Business School, co-author of Doing Business in China
Dan Burstein, Millennium Ventures Inc., co-author of Big Dragon
Linsun Cheng, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and Institute of Economics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Lyn Jeffery, Institute for the Future, Palo Alto
Marsha Vande Berg, International Business Associates
Tim Ambler is a senior fellow at London Business School, where he teaches global marketing. His published works include Marketing and the Bottom Line (2000), Doing Business in China (2000), The Silk Road to International Marketing (2000), and Marketing from Advertising to Zen (1996). His past positions include a stint as joint managing director of International Distillers and Vintners (IDV), now part of the beverage company Diageo.
TopDan Burstein is an author, award-winning journalist, and venture capitalist. In 2000 he founded Millennium Technology Ventures, and in 2004 he cofounded Millennium Technology Value Partners. He has also served as a senior adviser at The Blackstone Group, a leading U.S. private investment fund. With David Kline he is the author of Road Warriors: Dream and Nightmares along the Information Highway (1995), one of the first books to examine the broad impact of the Internet and digital media on business and society. Burstein’s Big Dragon: The Future of China: What It Means for Business, the Economy, and the Global Order (1999) investigates China’s rising influence on the global scene. More recently he created and edited Secrets of The Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries behind The Da Vinci Code (2004) with Arne de Keijzer.
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Linsun Cheng is the editor of Berkshire’s upcoming Encyclopedia of China and author of Banking in Modern China: Entrepreneurs, Professional Managers, and the Development of Chinese Banks, 1897–1937 (2003). He is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and is overseeing an archival research project at the Institute of Economics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
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Lyn Jeffery is a cultural anthropologist who has spent the last twenty years living and working in California and mainland China. Her experience in China includes professional editing and translation, television production, NGO organizing, and research. Lyn is the coeditor of China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture and has written numerous articles on the new entrepreneurship in China and Chinese network marketing. She is the research director for the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California, an independent nonprofit research group, and she blogs at www.virtual-china.org.
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Marsha Vande Berg is an Asia analyst based in San Francisco and a principal at International Business Advisors, a consulting firm that advises senior executives on issues relating to global economics, international politics, and public policy. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and edits and publishes The World Report, a bimonthly newsletter covering political economy issues. She is also a contributor to U.S. dailies and journals with international circulation.
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