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Speakers

Asia Society and College Board are proud to introduce the plenary speakers (to date):

  • Marshall Bouton, President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs
  • Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago, who helped create America's largest Chinese language program in K-12 schools
  • Jon Huntsman, Governor of Utah, America's only Chinese-speaking governor
  • Liu Chuansheng, Chair of Beijing Normal University
  • Jun Liu, Professor and Head of the Department of English at the University of Arizona
  • Joseph Lo Bianco, Associate Dean for Global Relations and Knowledge Transfer at the Unversity of Melbourne's Graduate School of Education
  • Evan Osnos, Beijing Bureau Chief of The New Yorker and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for coverage of China
  • Xu Lin, Director General of Hanban/Confucius Institute Headquarters
  • Yu Lizhong, President of East China Normal University in Shanghai
  • Shuhan Wang, Executive Director for Chinese Language Initiatives at the Asia Society

These speakers, among dozens more, bring wide perspective and a deep commitment to US-China relations and to preparing young Americans for an interconnected world. Don't miss what they have to share.