Thomas Luedi is a senior partner based in Bain & Company's Shanghai office. He is an expert in the firm's Energy & Natural Resources, Strategy, M&A and Performance Improvement practices.

Thomas holds more than 20 years of consulting experience, spent mainly across Greater China and Southeast Asia. Throughout his career, he has focused on chemicals, energy and natural resources, primarily advising clients in strategy, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), performance improvement and transformation. He is also deeply versed in strategy formulation and performance improvement.

Additionally, Thomas holds broad experience in helping multinational corporations establish growth platforms across Asia and China, as well as define a home market within the region. He has also led leading Chinese and Asian enterprises in growing and optimizing their business portfolios and globalizing through both organic and inorganic growth.

He holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, where he majored in finance, accounting and marketing. He also holds a Master of Pharmacy and a BS in Chemistry, both from Universität Bern.

He is fluent in English, German, French and Mandarin Chinese.

Selena Chu is currently the Vice President for Dow Greater China. She provides leadership and general management of Greater China, Dow’s largest international market - oversight of country strategy, sites management, and people & culture development. Based in Shanghai, China, she also serves as CIO for Dow Asia Pacific to drive digital solution development and implementation, covering areas of Digital Acceleration, Enterprise Service, and Information Security. She also partners with businesses and functions to enable regional business strategies.

Selena has over 20 years of consulting and industry experience covering various leadership roles including R&D Operation, Business/Innovation Strategy, Technical Information Service, and Digitization. Prior to joining Dow in 2008, she worked for GE (General Electric), KPMG Consulting Co, with working assignment in the US.

Selena was recently listed as “Top 50 Women in Tech 2021” by Forbes China, and “Top 50 Future MPW 2021” by Fortune China.

Graduated from China Pharmaceutical University, Julie engaged in biochemical research and development at the China Academy of Medical Science before joining Elf Atochem (predecessor of Arkema) in 1994, where she began serving on a number of investment and cooperation projects in China.

In 2002, she joined the High Performance Polymers Business Unit Over the next 14 years, Julie held various business and management positions at both the headquarters in France and the Asia Pacific region, which included overseeing the product lines and business units of Functional Polyolefins and Fluoropolymers in Asia Pacific. In 2016, Julie became the Asia Pacific Group President for the High Performance Polymers Business Unit.

Julie is currently President of Arkema Greater China since 1st July 2021.

Andy Walti was appointed Head of Region China & APAC at Clariant as of January 2021 and is based in Shanghai, China. He had previously taken over as Head of Region China in November 2019. Andy, a Swiss national, has been with Clariant for over 20 years and has proven management, business and finance expertise gained through roles spanning numerous countries, levels, functions and business units. Prior to undertaking his current leadership role in China, Andy was Head of Region Middle East & Africa (MEA) of Clariant from 2015 to 2019 based in Dubai, UAE.

Andy gained valuable integration and turn-around experience as Vice President and Head of Business Line Medical Specialties based in Paris, France (2012-2015). This included an acquisition Andy led in Dongguan, China during 2014, which also benefited from his earlier role in Shanghai, China as Regional Head of Business Unit Paper Specialties Asia-Pacific (2008 to 2012).

Before this role, he honed his general management expertise in emerging markets, serving as Managing Director and Country President for Clariant in Johannesburg, South Africa (2005 to 2008), and in Casablanca, Morocco (2002 to 2005).

Andy started his career as a finance trainee in Basel, Switzerland at Sandoz in 1994, followed by several Controlling positions in the Netherlands, France and Thailand. In 1999, he joined Clariant as Finance & Administration Director in Bangkok, Thailand. With a career of more than 25 years outside his native Switzerland, Andy is an international executive with a proven track record in manoeuvring challenging business environments coupled with a deep understanding of cross-cultural issues, always putting people at the centre of his attention.

Andy Walti received his Master’s degree in business administration, specializing in Accounting and Finance from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland in 1993. He is married with three children, one of whom was born in Shanghai in 2009.

Dr. Wang is the Founding Partner of Greenment and the Board Director of the Jane Goodall Institute-Shanghai.

Dr. Wang has over 35 years of academic, consulting and investment experience in environmental industry. He is specialized in environment, health and safety (EHS) management and leadership, sustainable development, M&A, and green business strategy. He has successfully managed M&A environmental risk management programs for key clients including Alcoa, BHP, BP, Carlyle, CNOOC, Intel, Nissan, Pfizer, Shell, SinoChem, etc. and provided MNCs and Chinese governments with strategic advice on climate change, sustainability and risk management of investment and regional development. He has recently led various low carbon strategic programs, including carbon neutral plan of Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park, carbon emission and carbon peaking action plan of Qinpu Industrial Park, Digital and AI Platform of pollution reduction and low carbon in Hangzhou Bay Economic and Development Zone. Dr Wang frequently speaks on practices and business implications of low carbon policies and green strategy in international conferences and executive meetings.

Dr. Wang was an associated professor and Deputy Director of Department of Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University (ECNU) and a research scholar at Center for Environmental Technology, Imperial College. Prior to founding Greenment in 2010, Dr. Wang was a principal partner of ERM Group and the managing director of ERM in China.

Dr. Wang graduated from Imperial College London with a PhD in Environmental Technology. He holds BA and MS in geochemistry from Zhejiang 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.