Maura Wong was one of the pioneers in private equity in Asia.  Having started her career at Goldman Sachs, she has built a long and successful career in private equity.  She worked with leading families in Asia and Europe in making direct investments in the nineties. From 1999-2004, she was a founding partner of JP Morgan Partners Asia (formerly known as Chase Capital Partners Asia and currently renamed as CCMP Asia), one of the leading buyout funds in the region.  She is currently Chief Executive Officer of Goldilocks Capital, an investment firm that focuses funding businesses that offer climate change solutions.  
Maura has a keen interest in achieving social objectives with business solutions through social enterprises or social ventures philanthropy.  In addition to serving as Chairman of Ventures in Development, she is a member of the German-Swiss International School Foundation Board. 
She is a Baker Scholar with a MBA degree from Harvard Business School.  She received her BA degree from Princeton University where she studied International Relations.  She currently lives in Hong Kong with her husband and two sons.   

Her practice has focused on foreign direct investments into the PRC, with emphasis on joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments. She has also been an active participant in the Chinese telecommunications, IT and media markets since 1994, when they first opened to foreign companies. Other industries Ms. Chan has been involved in include insurance, banking, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and health care.
She is frequently recognized as one of the world's leading PRC law practitioners, particularly in the communications, media and technology industries, by various publications including AsiaLaw Leading Lawyers, The Asia Pacific Legal 500, Who's Who, the Telecommunications Industry Report, Global Counsel and Chambers Global.

Ms. Chan is an elected member of the Council of Governors of the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia ("CASBAA"), and is a foreign legal consultant to the All China Lawyer's Association. Ms. Chan is a Chinese speaker (Mandarin, Shanghainese and Cantonese) and writes Chinese.

Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs
Faculty Chair of Asia Programs |
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government  

Tony Saich is the Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Harvard University Asia Center. He is Faculty Chair of the Asia Programs and the China Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. This work includes significant training programs for national and local officials from China, including a program to help Beijing officials prepare for the Olympics. He also sits on the Executive Committees of the Fairbank Center and the Universitys Asia Center. From 1994 until July 1999, he was the Representative for the China Office of the Ford Foundation. Prior to this he was the director of the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, the Netherlands. He first visited China as a student in 1976-77 and has been there for longer or shorter trips almost each year since. Currently, he is also a guest Professor at the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, China. He has advised a wide range of government, private and not-for-profit organizations on work in China and elsewhere in Asia. He is a member of the Trustees of the China Medical Board of New York and International Bridges to Justice. His current research focuses on the interplay between state and society in China and the respective roles they play in the provision of public goods and services at the local level. He has written several books on developments in China, including: Chinas Science Policy in the 80s (1989); Revolutionary Discourse in Maos China (1994, with David E. Apter); The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party (1996); The Governance and Politics of China (2004). He has just finished editing a book on reform of Chinas financial sector and on HIV/AIDS in China. He studied political science in the U.K. and has taught at universities in England, Holland, and the U.S.

Pamela Hartigan, Managing Director|  Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Geneva

Dr. Hartigan joined the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship as its first Managing Director in October 2000. Of Ecuadorian origin, she holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in International Economics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and the Institut d'Etudes Europeenes in Brussels. She also has a Masters degree in Education and a PhD in Human Developmental Psychology from American University and Catholic University, respectively, both located in Washington, D.C.Pamela is bilingual in Spanish and English and speaks French.
Her career has included over a decade working with youth; supporting the spawning and consolidation of community-based organizations serving the Latino community in Washington, D.C.; and twelve years at the World Health Organization, beginning at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), WHO's regional office for the Americas. There, she spearheaded initiatives to build collaborative work between governments and Latin American non-governmental organizations working in health and development. Subsequently, she became Chief of the Women, Health and Development Program where, among other initiatives, she launched region-wide mobilization to address violence against women. In 1997, she was selected as Program Manager for the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) where she also coordinated efforts in Applied Field Research in tropical diseases. Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, as Director-General of WHO, appointed her to head the Department of Health Promotion at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, and later as Director of the newly formed Department for Violence and Injury Prevention.

Debbie Chiou

Debbie Chiou is a management consultant in the New York office at Oliver Wyman.  Her work spans many industries including communications, media, technology, travel, and retail in the US, London, and several emerging markets. Before joining Oliver Wyman, she also worked in marketing for Chase Card Services, the Phoenix Suns, and the Arizona Diamondbacks, in supervisory for the University of Pennsylvania’s Student Federal Credit Union, and in consulting for the Wharton Small Business Development Center. Debbie graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a B.S. in Economics with concentrations in Marketing and Finance. She is fluent in Mandarin and has a basic knowledge of Spanish and Taiwanese. She also enjoys leisure travel, performance music, good food, and outdoor activities.

Jenny Chu

Jenny Chu is currently a student at Wellesley College pursuing a degree in Political Science and Economics as well as a concentration in Music.  Harboring a strong interest in development issues, she has taken many courses regarding the political economy of development and underdevelopment at both Wellesley College and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where she recently studied abroad.  In addition to her academic course load, Jenny had the opportunity to explore the realm of social enterprises as a Summer Fellow for New Sector Alliance in 2007.  Serving as a non-profit consultant, she developed and applied business management tools for a strategy and operations project involving the City of Boston’s Earned Income Tax Credit Campaign.  Jenny aspires to gain knowledge about social enterprises and to continue to work for social ventures.  Her passion for social change is not only a career choice but a lifestyle.

Beverly Chung

Beverly Chung is currently pursuing an MBA at Columbia Business School, with concentrations in Finance and Social Enterprise. Prior to graduate school, she first worked for Mercer in the San Francisco healthcare consulting practice.  She then gained experience in the public sector working for MetroPlus, a Medicaid health plan owned by the New York City municipal hospital system.  Beverly also provided technical assistance to several nonprofits, including a disability benefits training organization and an after-school education program for at-risk Chinatown youth.  During her first year at Columbia Business School, she led a social venture capital student interest group, judged business plans for the Global Social Venture Competition, evaluated a prospective investment for NESsT (a social enterprise catalyst organization) in Santiago, Chile, and developed marketing strategy for IBM's Global Women Initiative supporting entrepreneurs in emerging markets.  Beverly earned her BA in Economics and BA in Human Biology from Stanford University.  Beverly is conversationally fluent in Mandarin and enjoys running, traveling, photography, and used bookstores.

Wilson Wong

Wilson Wong will be graduating in 2009 from Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is pursuing a double major in Economics and Political Science. In his studies, Wilson has focused on the politics of socialist and post-socialist regimes, with particular emphasis on the issue of human rights within the Soviet Union and China. He has also studied developmental economics and macroeconomic growth theories while at Columbia University. Prior to joining Ventures in Development, Wilson interned extensively with an international non-governmental organization promoting human rights within China. While working with this organization, he researched and wrote about the spread of HIV/AIDS within the country as well as human rights violations in the lead up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics; in addition, Wilson completed long term research reports on the implementation and abuse of ethnic minority rights within the Tibetan and Xinjiang Autonomous Regions. A native of Hong Kong, Wilson grew up in Vancouver, Canada. He hopes to attend law school after his undergraduate studies and to pursue a future in the fields of human rights and developmental economics.