Yale-China Board of Trustees

Founder and Managing Director of AlphaMax Advisors LLC, Ada, MI

Ping is the board chair of the Yale-China Association. She previously served as an audit committee chair, co-chair of the executive director search committee, treasurer, vice-chair and member of the strategic planning task force, arts committee, and nominations & governance committee.

Ping has spent over 35 years in American banking, consulting and investments which includes international business experience in Asia, Europe, and North America. She has worked for more than 20 years in the Greater China area. She was a bank executive with Bank of Boston, Old Kent Financial Corporation and Fifth Third Bank in Boston, London, various Asian locations, and Michigan. Ping was also Director of Corporate & Financial Services at Burson Marsteller for the Greater China market, helping Chinese state-owned enterprises successfully launch IPOs and international private placements. She served as Representative for the Commonwealth and the Massachusetts Port Authority to promote two-way trade and investments between New England and Asia. Additionally, Ping was an investment professional with Reams Asset Management Company in the US, with responsibility for investing American pension funds in international equities and fixed income securities.

Ping is the founder and Managing Director of AlphaMax Advisors LLC. AlphaMax is a consultancy that provides forensic commercial due diligence, strategy and venture development advice to Western companies to do business successfully with China and helps Chinese companies explore investment opportunities in the U.S. She was recognized as one of the “Top Women-Owned Businesses in Western Michigan” in 2007 and 2011.

She is an experienced trainer. She has trained heads of Chinese state-owned enterprises about capital markets and modern financial management to prepare for their IPOs and international private placements. She has also trained senior Asian and foreign corporate executives in the areas of Perception Management, Media, Crisis Management, and Doing Business in China.

Ping serves on several nonprofit boards. She is the immediate past board chair of Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. She is on the board of Experience Grand Rapids and the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan. She has served as a member of the Huntington Bank Women’s Advisory Board, an executive committee member of the Economic Club of Grand Rapids and board presidents of St. Cecilia Music Center and the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan. She is a member of the Yale Club of Western Michigan. She has served as the site coordinator for the Yale Day of Service in Grand Rapids, Michigan since 2014. She is also a delegate to the Yale Alumni Association.

Ping holds a Master’s degree in Public and Private Management from the School of Management at Yale University. Ping and her husband reside in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Founder and Author, Dalu: Introduction to Chinese for Amharic Speakers, Beijing, China
Former Yale-China Fellow

Lina Getachew Ayenew is an independent consultant and author focused on China-Africa relations.

After receiving her undergraduate and master’s degrees from Yale University, she moved to China to teach at Xiangya Medical School through the Yale-China Teaching Fellowship. Following a corporate stint at a PR firm in Beijing, she began her efforts to closely study the influence of the Asian giant in her homeland, Ethiopia. She recently founded Dalu Media and launched the first course in the world that teaches introductory Mandarin Chinese to Amharic speakers. Amharic is Lina’s native language and also the official language of Ethiopia, a country of 100 million people. Chinese companies in Ethiopia have been utilizing this course (book + audio) as the main tool to give basic language training to their employees in Ethiopia.

She has also been working with the Ethiopian Tourism Organization (a government entity) to define Ethiopia’s tourism brand and promote it in China.

“Mega-Themes in Africa-China Relations” is Lina’s annual publication, now in its third year, where she chronicles and analyzes major developments in Africa-China relations.

Head of Growth, Speak, San Francisco, CA
Former Yale-China Fellow

Gang Chen currently lives in San Francisco and is Head of Growth at Speak, a language learning technology company. Before that, he led Marketplace Analytics at Thumbtack, an online platform that allows people to easily find and hire local professionals. Before Thumbtack, Gang worked at Dropbox on projects to drive user retention and growth of the Dropbox for Business product.

Gang was a Teaching Fellow at Yali Middle School from 2010-2012 after getting his Bachelor's degrees in East Asian Studies and International Studies at Yale.

Chairman, Chia Family Foundation, West Palm Beach, FL

Mr. Chia retired in 1996 as Vice Chairman and a Director of Citicorp and Citibank, N.A., where he had been responsible for global consumer business and was Citibank’s senior customer and government contact for Asia-Pacific region. He began his Citibank career in 1974 in the Consumer Services Group after nine years of brand management and marketing experience with General Foods Corporation.

He is currently Chairman of the Chia Family Foundation, Inc., a Trustee Emeritus of the Asia Society, and a Trustee of the Hoag Hospital Foundation.

Mr. Chia was a director of American International Group, Inc. (1997-2007), Baxter International, Inc. (1996-2005), Singapore Airlines (2004-2009), Bank of China (Hong Kong) Ltd., and Case Corporation; and was a trustee of the NYU Hospital Center Board, Asia Society, as well as a member of the Advisory Council of the Rockefeller University. Mr. Chia is a Senior Fellow of the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management of the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. He is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America.

Born in Hong Kong on January 27th, 1939, Mr. Chia was raised in China and Taiwan. He earned his BA degree in Economics from Tunghai University in Taiwan in 1961 and his MBA degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1965, and an Honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Tunghai University in 2007.

Associate Director, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Former Yale-China Fellow

Alonzo Emery is the Associate Director of East Asian Legal Studies (EALS) at Harvard Law School where he teaches and designs programs linking the law school to institutions and individuals in East Asia. Before joining EALS, Alonzo taught at Harvard Law School’s Negotiation Workshop and served as a Clinical Instructor in the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program.

Alonzo has taught at Renmin University of China Law School in Beijing, where he was as an Assistant Professor of Comparative Jurisprudence and helped launch the Renmin University Disability Law Clinic, China’s first law school clinic dedicated principally to disability. Through his consulting work in the United States and China, Alonzo has trained hundreds of corporate executives, civil society leaders, government officials, jurists and educators in negotiation and conflict resolution strategies. In 2014, the National Committee on US-China Relations named Alonzo to its public intellectuals program.

Alonzo earned his JD from Harvard Law School and his BA from Yale University. He has also studied at Peking University, Tsinghua University, Taiwan University and the University of Cape Town. Alonzo was a Yale-China Teaching Fellow in Ningbo from 2002 to 2003.

President and Vice Chairman, Xpeng Motors, China

Dr. Brian Gu was previously Chairman, Asia Pacific Investment Banking, JP Morgan, Hong Kong, and Chairman of Asia Pacific Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan, overseeing the bank’s investment banking business in emerging Asia, Japan, and Australia. Previously, Brian was the Co-head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Technology, Media and Telecom, Healthcare, and Financial Sponsor businesses for J.P. Morgan in Asia Pacific. Brian was Co-head and Vice-chairman of Investment Banking for China between 2010 and 2014, providing IB coverage for corporate clients in China on an offshore listing, ECM & DCM, restructuring, and M&As. Brian has advised on over dozens of high-profile capital raising, strategic partnerships, and corporate restructuring deals. During his leadership, JP Morgan’s China IB team was named Best Foreign Bank in China and Best M&A House by leading industry publications such as The Asset Magazine and EUROMONEY. Brian joined J.P. Morgan in April 2004 and is based in JPM’s Hong Kong office. He was named Managing Director of the bank in April 2007. Before J.P. Morgan, Brian was a member of the Global M&A Group at Lehman Brothers in New York for over 5 years with a focus on healthcare. He led a large number of cross-border transactions with industry-leading companies in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Before his investment banking career, Brian was a senior research scientist at the University of Washington Medical School. He holds an MBA from Yale University, a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Washington Medical School, and a BA in Chemistry from the University of Oregon.

Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center, Visiting Lecturer-in-Law at Yale Law School, and Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution John L. Thornton China Center in Washington, D.C.

Jamie Horsley is Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center and a Visiting Lecturer-in-Law at Yale Law School, as well as a Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution John L. Thornton China Center in Washington, D.C. She formerly was Executive Director of the Yale China Law Center and has been at Yale since April 2002. From September 2015 to June 2016, she was a Fellow at the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States of The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.

Ms. Horsley’s project work and research for the past 17 years have primarily involved issues of governance, administrative law, and regulatory reform in China, including promoting government transparency, public participation, improved administrative procedures and dispute resolution, and government accountability.

Prior to joining Yale, she was a partner in the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Commercial Attaché in the U.S. Embassies in Beijing and Manila; Vice President of Motorola International, Inc. and Director of Government Relations for China for Motorola, Inc.; and a consultant to The Carter Center on village elections in China.

A member and former Director of the National Committee for US-China Relations, she holds a B.A. from Stanford University; an M.A. in Chinese Studies from the University of Michigan; a J.D. from Harvard Law School; and a Diploma in Chinese Law from the University of East Asia, Macao PRC. She speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese and lived, studied, and worked in the Greater China area for 12 years.

Associate Dean for Communications and Chief Communications Officer, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Mary Hu joined the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) administration in 2000 as Director of Strategic Planning and Marketing for the Yale Medical Group. In 2004, she took on the responsibility of directing school-wide communications, including print and online publications and managing the Yale School of Medicine brand.

Mary serves as a liaison between the Dean’s Office and relevant university and hospital offices, including the Yale University Office of the Secretary, Office of Public Affairs and Communications, Office of Development, Alumni Affairs, Yale Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale New Haven Health System.

Associate Professor and Specialty Coordinator Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program, Yale School of Nursing, New Haven, CT

Joanne DeSanto Iennaco is an associate professor and specialty coordinator in the psychiatric-mental health specialty. She holds a PhD in chronic disease epidemiology from Yale University's School of Public Health. Iennaco is dually certified as a family psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner and an adult psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse specialist. Iennaco is a co-investigator on a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration grant focused on Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for substance abuse, involving curriculum integration of a brief negotiated intervention using motivational interviewing. Her research program focuses on the measurement and effects of exposures at work. Her recent study, the Aggression Exposure Study, involves measuring and understanding the effects of aggression exposure on workers in the inpatient psychiatric setting. She has also worked with Yale's Occupational and Environmental Medicine research team where she studies the effect of psychosocial exposures in the workplace on health.

Former Chair Professor of Fine Arts and former Director of the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Art Historian

Professor Kao Mayching is a distinguished scholar and a career advocate and champion of the arts, humanities, and education. Professor Kao has dedicated her life to the advancement of Hong Kong arts education and to the cultivation of young artists and art historians. She began her career as a professor in the Department of Fine Arts at New Asia College at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her leadership was quickly recognized and she became Chairperson of the Department, during which time she established the Master of Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, and Master of Fine Arts programs – a milestone achievement in the Department’s planning and development. Professor Kao concurrently served an 18-year tenure as the Director of the Art Museum of the Institute of Chinese Studies at CUHK, where she spearheaded the Museum’s development and the expansion of its collection, exhibition, and research of artwork. Professor Kao has also served as the Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the Open University of Hong Kong, where she worked industriously to promote education in humanities and the arts for the public and society as a whole.

She has served on many advisory committees, including the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University, and public agencies. Professor Kao has been recognized for her scholarship and achievements through numerous accolades, scholarships (including a Yale-China Scholarship to study in the United States), and special funds named after her. Professor Kao is a graduate of New Asia College at CUHK in 1967 where she studied Fine Arts. She received her Master’s degree in Western Art History from the University of New Mexico in 1969, followed by her PhD in Asian Art History from Stanford University in 1972.

Caroline M. Street Professor, Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville is the first tenured woman at the Yale University School of Art where she is the Caroline M. Street Professor, a title she accepted because city streets are where her site-specific installations have taken place, among these permanent site-specific pieces are: Biddy Mason: Time & Place in downtown Los Angeles, Omoide noShotokyo in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo; Search: Literature in Flushing’s Main Library, At the start… At long last… in the terminus of New York’s A train; Path of Worker Stars in downtown New Haven, Take a break…Out to lunch… Back to work… for the Department of Labor and Training in Rhode Island; … 所以 … at Hong Kong Design Institute: Step(pe) in downtown Yekaterinburg, Russia, and Special Events at the new LAFC Banc of California Soccer Stadium in downtown Los Angeles.

Sheila’s work is permanently on display in the Umea Museum Sweden, and in the special collections of libraries and museums among them, Victoria and Albert Museum, London and Centre Pompidou, Paris. Her work has been frequently exhibited in museums such as the California: Designing Freedom, at the London Design Museum, and Graphic Design in America and Hippie Modernism: The Search for Utopia at the Walker Museum, Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 at the Hammer Museum and MOMA NY, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and P.S. 1 in New York, and Nasty Women at the New Haven Institute Library. During the past two years, her print work from the 1970s regarding participation and gender have been exhibited in a half dozen different galleries in Austria, Poland, and Germany.

Sheila was designated a Distinguished Alumna by Barnard College where she received her BA degree in the History of Art, Design Legend by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, awarded honorary doctorates from five American Universities of Art and Design on both coasts of the United States and given a Lifetime Achievement award from the Women’s Caucus for the Arts.

Partner, McKinsey & Company, New York City, NY
Former Yale-China Fellow

Alex is a leader in McKinsey’s Metals and Mining and Transformation Practices, where he focuses on helping companies create growth strategies, drive and scale operational transformations, and improve organizational health. Now based in New York, Alex spent 2010-2013 with McKinsey's Beijing office and has led engagements across the world, including projects in China, Mongolia, Australia, Europe, and the US.

Alex holds a PhD from Harvard University in Political Science, and a BA Summa Cum Laude from Yale University, and was a Yale-China fellow at Xiaoshi Middle School in Zhejiang, Ningbo from 2001-2003.

When not at mine sites, Alex enjoys catching up on NBA highlights and spending time with his wife (Corinne) and four kids. He is currently hard at work on getting his kids as excited about Chinese historical docu-dramas as he is.

Deputy Vice President, Programs, National Committee on United States-China Relations, New York, NY
Former Yale-China Fellow

Jonathan Lowet serves as the Deputy Vice President, Programs at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. During his tenure, he has focused on building the organization’s next-generation programs: He oversees the Committee’s Congressional education efforts and its “40-Under-40”-style Young Leaders Forum; he also launched the U.S.-China Student Leaders Exchange, an initiative for nationally recognized U.S. students about to enter college, and programs a variety of other Committee projects.

A Yale history major, Jon taught in Beijing and Wuhan as a Yale-China fellow following graduation. Upon his return to the U.S., he worked for the D.C.-based Health Care Advisory Board before earning a master’s in international affairs at Columbia University, focusing on China and international communications. He also spent years working in new media and communications, working both at major media companies and start-ups.

Former Secretary, New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Australia

Peter Man, former Secretary of New Asia College, now retired and divides his time between Hong Kong and Sydney, Australia. He holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology from CUHK and a master's and PhD from Portland State, Oregon in Urban Studies. He began his involvement with Yale-China when he started to teach in 1979 and was assigned to New Asia. He was later elected as a Fellow of New Asia, and sat in various College committees and met YCA Hong Kong Office directors. For several years he was Chair of the New Asia General Education Committee and had the opportunity to meet with Yale-China Teaching Fellows who were teaching two General Education courses each year. After his appointment as College Secretary of New Asia in 1993, his involvement with Yale-China was much more widespread, including running the YUNA student exchange program between New Asia and Yale. He was awarded the Yale-China Award in 2009.

Law Clerk, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington DC
Former Yale-China Fellow

Julius Mitchell currently lives in Washington D.C. where he is a law clerk at Covington & Burling LLP. He primarily supports the litigation and white-collar practice groups. Julius earned his JD from Harvard Law School in May 2019 where he served as Internal Vice President of the Harvard Black Law Students Association (HBLSA), an article submissions editor for the Harvard Journal of International Law, a student attorney with the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project (PLAP), and a student in the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC). While in law school, he interned at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Covington & Burling LLP, and the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center. Prior to law school, he was a Yale-China Teaching Fellow in Xiuning from 2013 to 2015 and a Global Investigations paralegal at General Electric Company from 2015 to 2016.

Julius earned his BA in Political Science and Ethnicity, Race & Migration (with distinction in both majors) from Yale University in 2013. He was awarded generous scholarships from the Ron Brown Scholar Program and the Gates Millennium Scholarship Program to attend Yale. He has also previously studied in China on the Richard U. Light Fellowship (Associated Colleges in China, Minzu University) and the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) (Chinese Summer Language Institute, East China Normal University).

Retired Managing Director - Finance Division, Goldman Sachs, Beijing, San Francisco, CA
Former Yale-China Fellow

Drake Pike was a Yale-China Teaching Fellow in Hong Kong 1974-76 and previously served two terms as a Yale-China trustee. For some 30 years up to his retirement in 2014, Drake was an Asia banker in New York, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Beijing.

From 2007 to 2014 Drake was managing director at Goldman Sachs, acting first as Goldman’s senior risk advisor to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China then as the chief representative of the Goldman Sachs International Bank representative office in Beijing. Prior to that, Drake was head of Asia credit risk management at Lehman Brothers and held similar positions at Tokai Asia and First Chicago Bank. He started his banking career in 1982 in the China division of Chase Manhattan Bank, helping American companies make some of their first investments in China.

Drake graduated from Yale in 1974 with a BA in Chinese Language and Literature and, in 1981, received a Master of Public Affairs degree from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. He now splits his time between San Francisco and Beijing, where he is vestry member/treasurer of St Francis’ Episcopal Church and independent director/chair of the audit committee of China Life Insurance Company Ltd.

Professor of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

A graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, Yale School of Medicine and the Yale Psychiatry residency and geriatric psychiatry fellowship programs, Dr. Rohrbaugh has been a member of the Yale Department of Psychiatry faculty since 1988. He was the Clinical Director for VA-Connecticut Mental Health Service Line where he developed programs at the interface of primary care and mental health before leaving the VA to become the Yale Psychiatry department's deputy chair for education and residency program director.

Throughout his career, Dr. Rohrbaugh has been active in medical student and residency education. He has been especially interested in teaching beginning clinicians how to listen to a patient's narrative, identify pertinent data, and use that data to develop a bio-psycho-social formulation and treatment plan. Dr. Rohrbaugh is experienced in both undergraduate and graduate medical education having served as the Clerkship Director and Director of Medical Studies for medical student education.

Most recently, Dr. Rohrbaugh has worked to educate Yale medical students and residents in global health and has worked with colleagues at Xiangya School of Medicine in Changsha, Hunan Province, PRC to develop a competency-based model for post-graduate (residency) education. This model has heavily influenced the Chinese national model for residency training. He was named the Founding Director of the Yale School of Medicine's Office of International Medical Student Education in 2008 and became Deputy Dean for Global Health Education in 2019. In 2015, having noted the irony that global health education is largely discussed by educators in high-income countries, Dr. Rohrbaugh co-founded the Bellagio Global Health Education Initiative with an explicit goal of bringing global health education leaders from high, middle and low-income countries together to developed global health curricula that could be implemented worldwide.

Partner / Managing Director of Acquisitions, Jonathan Rose Companies, New York City, NY
Former Teaching Fellow

Nathan joined Jonathan Rose Companies in 2004 where he oversees the acquisition and preservation of affordable and mixed-income multifamily housing in transit-oriented locations nationally. At Rose, he has led the investment of seven equity funds, helping Rose grow into one of the country’s leading developers and investors in the field, with a portfolio of 15,000 units. As a mission-driven firm, Rose improves the economic and environmental performance of its properties and works to enhance the lives of its residents with social services.

Nathan’s prior experience includes working for a double-bottom line private equity fund at J.P. Morgan and leading public-private economic development partnerships for Yale University. Nathan is a member of the Pension Real Estate Association and the Urban Land Institute and its Affordable Workforce Housing Council. Nathan was a Yale-China Fellow at Yali Middle School from 1995-1997. Nathan has an MBA. from the Yale School of Management and a BA in History from Yale University. He lives with his wife and two kids in New York City.

Medical Director and Co-Owner of NewPath Diagnostics, LLC, New York City, NY

Jianyou Tan is the Medical Director and co-owner of NewPath Diagnostics, LLC, a regional diagnostic pathology service laboratory in metropolitan New York. He is also an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Rutgers University Medical Schools. Prior to that, Dr. Tan served as assistant professor of pathology at New-York Presbyterian (Weil Cornell Medical College), Ichan School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, Medical Director and Chairman of Pathology of BioReference Laboratories, and Co-director of Melanoma and Soft Tissue Tumor Program at Hackensack University Hospital.

Dr. Tan finished his medical education at Xiangya Medical School (1980 to 85) and at Peking Union Medical College (1985 to 88). After obtaining a PhD in Pharmacology at Wayne State University in Michigan, he pursued residency and fellowship training in pathology at New York University Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. A licensed surgical and clinical pathologist, Dr. Tan has been involved with surgical pathology practice, teaching and research for over 25 years, working on challenging issues of diagnostic pathology and leading to more than 20 publications. He is best known in the pathology community for his work on gastrointestinal disorders and dermatological neoplasms. A successful professional entrepreneur with pathology services in New York and China, Dr. Tan has been involved with many non-profit and charitable organizations including the Museum of Chinese in America, Yale-China Association, and the Association of Chinese American Physicians (ACAP). He is the founding president of the ACAP pathology chapter and serves as a board member of the Xiangya Overseas Alumni Association. His success in his career and contribution to local communities led him to be chosen for the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans In Business Award in 2018.

Partner, Jones Day, San Francisco, CA
Former Yale-China Fellow

John Tang represents companies, directors, and officers in shareholder litigation, SEC enforcement matters, and internal investigations. He also counsels clients regarding corporate governance and D&O insurance. He has advised numerous audit committees and independent directors and conducted over thirty internal investigations concerning a range of issues, including accounting, internal controls, insider trading, and FCPA compliance. John’s experience also includes matters involving Chinese companies and China-based operations of multinational corporations.

John was previously based in Silicon Valley and was co-chair of the securities litigation group at Latham & Watkins, where he also served as the global chair of recruiting.

John is a frequent speaker on a variety of securities litigation and enforcement topics. He has served as board president of the Asian Law Alliance, a San Jose-based nonprofit organization that provides legal services, community education, and advocacy programs to the Asian Pacific Islander community. John is also an adjunct professor at UC Hastings College of the Law, where he taught a course on securities litigation, and has served on the editorial advisory board of Law360 Securities. John is the Hiring Partner in Jones Day's San Francisco Office.

Co-Founder, Atelier Cho Thompson
Former Yale-China Fellow

Ming Thompson is co-founder of Atelier Cho Thompson, a New Haven- and San Francisco-based multidisciplinary practice working between architecture, interiors, graphics, and strategy. ACT's work frequently blurs the boundaries between typologies, as they draw inspiration from their work in schools, offices, restaurants, and homes around the world. Ming was a recipient of the AIA Young Architect Award in 2020, and her firm has been the recipient of numerous national and regional design awards. ACT’s work has been published in Architect, Contract, Arch Daily, and Design Milk, among others. Educated at Yale College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Ming has taught at the California College of the Arts and has served on design juries around the U.S. Ming is a first-year advisor at Yale.

Partner and Head of China and Business Development, Central Asset Investments (CAI), Guangzhou, China

Bill Tsai is a Partner and Head of China and Business Development for Central Asset Investments (“CAI”), a Hong Kong-based global investment firm. Founded in 2005, CAI capitalizes on the firm’s Asian investment background and strength in equities, fixed income and quantitative strategies in order to provide investors with long term, superior absolute returns. The CAI team consists of professionals in both Hong Kong and Shenzhen, working across portfolio management, research, risk management, investor relations, and operations. CAI currently offers investment products for international investors as well as local Chinese investors. The CAI Global Fund was ranked the best performing multi-strategy hedge fund globally by 5-year total returns as of January 31, 2012, according to Bloomberg’s global hedge fund database. The fund was also voted “Best Multi-strategy Hedge Fund” in 2011, “Best Hedge Fund Asia-Pacific” in 2010 and “Best Hedge Fund Asia (Ex-Japan)” in 2008 by Asian Investor.

Prior to CAI, Bill was the founder and managing partner of Longridge Capital Advisor, a real estate investment company in the Greater China region. Before Longridge, Bill also worked at HypoVereinsbank (New York), Schroders (Hong Kong) and Bankers Trust (New York, Hong Kong) in structured finance and derivatives trading.

Currently, Bill resides with his family in Shanghai China and is active in the alternative investment industry as well as the cross-strait financial professional community. Bill is an active member of both Yale Club of Shanghai and Yale Club of Shenzhen and frequently participates in numerous Yale alumni activities as well as advising current Yale students on career development and sharing insights on the financial industry. Bill holds a master’s degree in Public and Private Management from the School of Management at Yale University.

Professor of Clinical Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Barry J. Wu, MD, FACP, is a professor of clinical medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, co-director of the Connecticut Older Adult Collaboration for Health geriatric grant, and academic hospitalist at Yale New Haven Hospital. He is responsible for teaching medical, nursing, physical assistant students, medical residents, caring and educating older adults in New Haven.

Dr. Wu has contributed to the New England Journal of Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine and Archives of Internal Medicine and has received teaching awards from the Yale School of Medicine, the American College of Physicians and the Society of Hospital Medicine. He has participated in medical missions trips to the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, and Panama, and taught at the 28th International Medical Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He is the faculty advisor for the Yale Health Professionals Christian Fellowship Group. He received his Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and internal medicine residency training from Yale University School of Medicine.

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine; Former Medical Director, Chief of Anesthesia and Chair of the Medical Advisory Board at Yale-New Haven Hospital Temple Medical Center, New Haven, CT

Gary Zhou, MD is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine; Former Medical Director, Chief of Anesthesia and Chair of the Medical Advisory Board at Yale-New Haven Hospital Temple Medical Center. He received his education from Xiangya School of Medicine and afterward studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Shanghai Medical College. In 1989, he came to the US and became a research fellow at the Medical University of South Carolina. He completed his residency training at Yale in 1999, and over the next eight years worked in private practice in Rhode Island and in Connecticut. From 2004 until joining the Yale faculty in 2008, he served as the Chairman and Chief of Anesthesia, as well as Co-chair of the Surgical Care Improvement Project, at the MidState Medical Center in Connecticut. Dr. Zhou is a Board-certified attending anesthesiologist and an expert on ambulatory anesthesia. He has led many patient safety initiatives in both academic and private settings and has been advocating ambulatory surgery and anesthesia in China for many years.

Dr. Zhou is a board member and serves as the Executive Vice President of the Xiangya Overseas Alumni Association. He lectures regularly at the Xiangya School of Medicine and Xiangya Hospitals as a guest professor at Central South University in China.