Conference "China – Language. Culture. Business"
7th June 2013

Key Speakers

Adam-Dunnett

Adam Dunnett

Adam Dunnett is a Secretary General in The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. He is responsible for the overall implementation the European Chamber's objectives, visibility, membership and lobbying activities across its 7 chapters and 9 offices in China. He joined the Chamber originally in 2006 and left in 2011 after serving as the Beijing General Manger for 3 years. Prior to returning to the Chamber to take the post of Secretary General, he worked for the public affairs firm APCO Worldwide as the deputy Managing Director, Beijing.

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Barry-Tomalin

Barry Tomalin

Barry Tomalin (MA) is a leading consultant, writer and trainer on international communication, specialising in language and culture. He worked for International House, the BBC World Service and the British Council in West Africa and he is te author of many books and article on language and culture. He teaches at the University of East Anglia, London Academy of Diplomacy and is a member of the ICC.

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Thomas Albert Rosenthal

Thomas Albert Rosenthal

Thomas Albert Rosenthal is adjunct professor of History and Geoeconomics: the economic development of China at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the Catholic University of Milan. At the Italy China Foundation he is Director of the Centro Studi per l’Impresa (CeSIF) research center and Head of strategy and external relations department. He is a member of the executive committee of Mondo Cinese, Review of Contemporary Chinese Studies. He is also member of the scientific committee of CRANEC.

Zhang Haiyan

Haiyan Zhang

Haiyan Zhang holds a MA and a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Management from the University of Antwerp. He is director of the Euro-China Center, the expertise center on China of AMS, leading several EU founded projects, such as “Understanding China“, “CONNEC”, etc. He is academic director of China-Europe Business Studies master program, and also visiting professor at different Chinese universities.

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Vincent Mottrie

Vincent Mottrie

Vincent Mottrie is a “Master in Applied Economics” (UFSIA Antwerp) and he mostly worked in SME business sector. He founded his own company FLANDERS BLUE SQUARE (import & export of Asian Natural Stones). After several years of working as a self-employed entrepreneur, the postgraduate “SME Excellence” (Vlerick Business & Management School Ghent) offered him more opportunities to study new developments on applied economics and doing more business in an international environment.

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Wing Fa Lau

Wing Fa Lau

Wing Fa Lau is Global CFO at Hedgren Creations, a Belgian based brand specializing in bags and travel gear. He is experienced in cross border M&A transactions EU-China, and in post M&A integration process. Wing Fa holds a Master degree in Finance from the University of Leuven (Belgium) and is MBA candidate at the Hong Kong Management Association.

Mindaugas Reinikis

Mindaugas Reinikis

Mindaugas Reinikis is the Head of Corporate Affairs at JSC "Lithuanian Railways" and serving as a Chairman of the Board of Lithuanian Aviation Association (AIA). In the past he worked as a lobbyist for the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists (LPK), has experience with venture philanthropy: he has served as a Director/CEO in Civic Responsibility Foundation (PAF). Previously worked with City Municipalities (Vilnius and Kaunas).

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Ching Lin PANG

Ching Lin Pang

Prof. Dr. Ching Lin Pang holds a MA in Asian Studies at UC Berkeley, a MA in Oriental Philology and a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology both at at K.U.Leuven. She teaches courses related to China, globalization, migration and identity in the Faculty of Social Sciences at K.U.Leuven and at HEC-ULg. Her research topics concern migration (policies), mobility and intercultural flows in China and between China and Belgium/EU embedded in the metropolitan context.

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Bogdan Zemanek

Bogdan Zemanek

Bogdan Zemanek is an assistant professor at the Institute of Middle and Far East Studies; MA in psychology and ethnology, Ph.D. in cultural anthropology (2006), Jagiellonian University, Krakow. Director of the Confucius Institute in Krakow between 2006 and 2010. He also studied at Sichuan Union University and Shandong University (PRC) and National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan). Researcher at NCKU and Academia Sinica, Taipei.

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Sławomir Czepielewski

Sławomir Czepielewski

Sławomir Czepielewski is the Pro-rector responsible for development of international cooperation in Warsaw Academy of Computer Science Management and Administration. He received his Ph.D. for innovative design algorithms of fibre optics. He is the pioneer of cable television and internet applications in Poland. In his opinion the successful application of new technologies requires changes of traditional approach to education.

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Adina Zemanek

Adina Zemanek

Adina Zemanek is an assistant professor at the Institute of Middle and Far East Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow. MA in Chinese philology, University of Bucharest; PhD in cultural anthropology, Jagiellonian University. She studied Chinese at Sichuan Union University (1996-1998), conducted research at Fudan University (2007-2008) and participated in several training courses in the methodology of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, organized by Hanban (Shanghai, 2010, Beijing, 2011).

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Paola Costa

Paola Costa

Paola Costa is an entrepreneur currently based in Barcelona, originally from Rome. She is founder of Orientalmente, an academy specialized in teaching Chinese language and culture per video conference, through a technological platform that links students across the world with qualified Chinese teachers. In 2012 Orientalmente received Google’s ‘Euronews Business Award’.

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Francesca Bonati

Francesca Bonati

Francesca is Cultural Responsible at Italy China Foundation (Italy). She has a degree in Chinese and a Master in communication for Italian companies dealing with Far East Countries. Since 2009 she cooperates with Italy China Foundation and is responsible for cultural activities. She has been involved in different EU project and is currently project manager of Chinese for Europeans project (www.chinese4.eu).

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Gileta Kieriene

Gileta Kieriene

Gileta Kieriene is a marketing manager in Soros International House in Vilnius. She is also a project coordinator of many international and local project connected with language teaching supported by innovative technologies. She specializes in dissemination and exploitation of European projects.

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Aistė Dabulevičiūtė

Aistė Dabulevičiūtė is a project manager at Soros International House, Chinese for Europeans project partners from Lithuania. She teaches Mandarin Chinese for both adults and children, mostly at the beginner level.

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