Dr. Rajat Agarwal is president of Henkel Greater China. He also manages Henkel’s global business in Adhesive Technologies for lifestyle markets.

Dr. Rajat Agarwal started his career at Henkel in 1997 in the United States and relocated to Düsseldorf in 2009. He held various roles in innovation and product development for Adhesive Technologies at Henkel, focusing on solutions for automotive, metals and aerospace industry customers. In 2016, he moved to Henkel headquarters for Asia-Pacific and Greater China in Shanghai, headed the regional adhesives business in packaging and consumer goods. In 2019, he began leading Henkel’s global adhesive business for lifestyle industries. He assumed the role of president of Henkel Greater China in July 2020.

Rajat Agarwal obtained his PhD from the University of Connecticut in Polymer Science, before that he earned his Master of Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee.

Mark (Chun Wah) Kwok joined AkzoNobel in March 2019 as President of AkzoNobel China/North Asia and Business Director for Decorative Paints China/North Asia.

As President of AkzoNobel China/North Asia, Mark leads the team to create the winning strategy and synergy among the company’s paints and coatings businesses in the region, alongside building the momentum for AkzoNobel brand and leading industry position in China. Mark is also leading the Decorative Paints business in China and North Asia to capture growth and higher value in one of AkzoNobel’s most strategic and important markets.

Mark worked as President of Lee Kum Kee China prior to joining AkzoNobel, and has a proven track record and increasing leadership experiences across different business units and geographical markets in global and regional companies, including Procter & Gamble, MasterKong/PepsiCo and SC Johnson.

Mark holds a MBA, majored in Finance from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and exchanged as MBA student in Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. He was also awarded the distinguished marketing alumni award in his undergraduate marketing department of the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Dr. Haitao Yin is a Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy and Associate Dean at Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests focus on how to use market mechanism, information instrument and existing social capitals to improve environmental and energy policy design and enforcement. His paper has appeared in Production and Operations Management, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Environmental and Resource Economics and many others. He won APPAM best dissertation award (2008), Society for Risk Analysis Best Paper Award (2011), Outstanding Young Scholars in China (2013) and Chinese Economists Society Best Paper Award (2021). In recent years, Dr Yin has been conducting collaborative research with leading industrial companies such as CATL, IBM, Shenergy, and PICC. He has also been speaking on media such CGTV and ThePaper about China's energy policies and de-carbonization initiatives.

Dr. Yin obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Economics and Managerial Science from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 2006, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Michigan from 2006-2009. He also holds a Bachelor of Law and a Master of Management from Peking University.

Dr. Zhang is the Network Director of the Economist Intelligence Corporate Network at Shanghai. He is also leading the Economist Intelligence Corporate Network's economic and business research in China.

Before joining The Economist Group, Dr. Zhang was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was also a Visiting Scholar at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Dr. Zhang has extensive research experience in the Chinese economy, particularly China's monetary and fiscal policies, from both academic and policy perspectives. His research journey on the Chinese economy started at the Asian Development Bank in 2011. As a faculty member at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Dr. Zhang leads two state-funded research projects as the principal investigator. Dr. Zhang's research has been presented at numerous international academic conferences and published in several prominent academic journals. At Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he taught macroeconomics and finance.

Dr. Guoxiong Zhang graduated from the University of California, Irvine, with a Ph.D. in Economics and an MS in Statistics. He also holds a BA in Economics from Zhejiang University.