Register Now: Can China and the U.S. Compete Without Conflict?

Date: 23 July, 2026

Venue: Beijing

Language: English

Format: A dialogue between Professor John A. Quelch and CCG President Henry Huiyao Wang, followed by an audience Q&A

Registration: Please scan the QR code below

Featured Speakers

Prof. John A. Quelch CBE

American President and Executive Vice Chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, Distinguished Professor of Social Science at DKU and the John DeButts Professor at the Fuqua Business School, Duke University. Between 2017 and 2022, he was the Leonard M. Miller University Chair, Vice Provost of the University of Miami and Dean of the Miami Herbert Business School. Before 2017, he was both the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health.

Professor Quelch has substantial experience as a non-executive director. In the United States, he has served on the boards of Alere (14 years), Amerant Bancorp (4), Aramark (5), Gentiva Health Services (4), Pepsi Bottling Group (6) and Reebok International (12). He has also served as a board member of three pre-IPO data analytics companies, Datalogix and Vitrue (both sold to Oracle) and Affinnova (sold to A.C. Nielsen). He currently serves as a director of GenScript, Smithfield Foods and the fintech Surfin Meta.

In the United Kingdom, Professor Quelch served on the board of WPP, the world’s leading marketing services company, for 25 years (including seven years as chair of the audit committee). In the UK, he has also been a director of Blue Circle Industries (2), easyJet (3) and Pentland Group (3).

Professor Quelch has significant experience as a board chairman. He was appointed pro bono chairman of the Massachusetts Port Authority following the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 and served three Massachusetts governors, both Republican and Democrat, during his eight year tenure. He also served pro bono for thirteen years as Honorary Consul General in New England for the Kingdom of Morocco and three years as Chairman of the British American Business Council of New England.

Professor Quelch’s executive experience includes service as Dean of three business schools: London Business School (1998-2001), China Europe International Business School (2011-2013) and Miami Herbert Business School (2017-2022). He is one of only three persons to have served as Dean of three leading business schools on three continents.

Professor Quelch is an expert on corporate strategy, global brand-building and customer behavior. His books include Choice Matters: How Healthcare Consumers Make Decisions (Oxford University Press, 2018), Consumers, Corporations and Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2016) and All Business is Local: Why Place Matters More Than Ever in a Global, Virtual World (Penguin Portfolio, 2012). He is (co)author of seventeen Harvard Business Review articles including a landmark paper on corporate governance titled “Bringing Customers Into the Boardroom”.

Professor Quelch was educated at Oxford University (BA and MA), the University of Pennsylvania (MBA) and Harvard University (SM and DBA). He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to British business in 2011 and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2020. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Prof. Henry Huiyao Wang

Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) and former Counsellor to the China State Council.

Dr. Henry Huiyao Wang is Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), Former Counselor to China State Council appointed by Chinese Premier. In addition, he is a former Vice Chairman of China Association for International Economic Cooperation (CAIEC) under the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), former Vice Chairman, China Talent Research Society under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. He is also a former Vice Chairman of China Public Relations Association; currently he is Standing Director of China Institute of International Economic Relations under PBOC, and a Director of Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs and a Director of China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation, both organizations under the supervision of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 

Dr. Wang is a Steering Committee Member of Paris Peace Forum and Metropolis International and was an Advising Board Member for International Organization of Migration (IOM) of the UN. He is a Distinguished Professor of China Foreign Affairs University and sits on the Advising Board of Richard Ivey Business School of Canada, Advisory Committee for Global Competence Development of Tsinghua University. He was the former Dean of the Institute of Development at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in China.

Prior to founding CCG, Wang worked in both the public and private sectors at home and abroad. He was a former official at the then Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC), and later served as Chief Trade Representative for the Canadian Quebec Government Office in Hong Kong and Greater China, Managing Director of Asia at SNC-Lavalin, and Vice President at AMEC-AGRA in Canada. 

Dr. Wang pursued his PhD degree at University of Western Ontario and University of Manchester. He was a Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution, a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a Senior Fellow at Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada. He has taught at Peking University, Tsinghua University and the University of Western Ontario as an adjunct professor. He has published over 100 books in English and Chinese along with hundreds of journal articles and opinion pieces on international relations, global governance, global migration, China outbound and inbound investment and trade, Chinese Diasporas and Chinese think tanks etc.. He is the Chief Editor of 12 Springer Nature Series books China and Globalization and his other books, Global Development and Cooperation with China (Springer, 2025); Escape the Thucydides Trap in Dialogue with Graham Allison on US-China Relations (Palgrave 2023); The Ebb and Flow of Globalization(Springer, 2022);The Globalization of Chinese Enterprises: Trends and Characteristics (Springer, 2020); Handbook on China and Globalization (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019).

Dr. Wang is a frequent speaker at international events such as the World Economic Forum, Munich Security Conference, Paris Peace Forum, WTO Public Forum, Global Solutions Summit, Athens Democracy Forum, Munk Debate, Berlin Foreign Policy Forum, and Milken Global Forum.