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2021 Lianghui/Two Sessions Analysis
03-12-21 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Emily Feng
Beijing correspondent at National Public Radio
Feng joined NPR in February 2019. She roves around China, through its big cities and small villages, reporting on social trends as well as economic and political news coming out of Beijing. Feng contributes to NPR’s newsmagazines, newscasts, podcasts, and digital platforms.
From 2017 through 2019, Feng served as a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times. Based in Beijing, she covered a broad range of topics, including human rights, technology, and the environment.
Mattie Bekink
China Director of Economist Corporate Network
Mattie Bekink is responsible for the Economist Corporate Network’s China strategy, including programme development and client servicing across China. She also provides support to all Economist Corporate Network programmes worldwide with a China component.
Ms Bekink has extensive experience in the public, private and policy sectors. Prior to joining The Economist Group, she was the Executive Director of the Fulbright Commission in the Netherlands. She also ran an eponymous consulting business, advising senior executives from businesses, universities and non-profit organisations on China policy, strategy, public affairs, and corporate social responsibility. Ms Bekink practiced law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, has worked with the US-Asia Law Initiative at NYU Law School and the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative China Program, and served in the legal department at General Motors China.
Tom MacKenzie
China correspondent at Bloomberg
Based in Beijing, Tom Mackenzie anchors “Bloomberg Markets: China Open”, airing at 9am HK weekdays. He is also Bloomberg TV’s China correspondent, covering the country’s economic transformation and fast-evolving business landscape. He has interviewed many of the world’s most influential business leaders including the CEOs of Disney, Ford Motor Co., Morgan Stanley, Rio Tinto, Baidu and Huawei. He has also interviewed policymakers from former Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan to US Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Russian Economy Minister Maxim Oreshkin.
Mackenzie has covered stories ranging from the US-China trade war and the North Korean nuclear crisis to China’s capital market reforms.
Before Beijing, he was a TV reporter in Bloomberg’s London bureau covering major political and economic events. He reported extensively on a variety of topics including Greece’s debt issues, Europe’s refugee crisis, the terror attacks in Paris, northern Iraq’s oil crisis as well as national elections in Spain, Turkey and the UK.
Yan Mei
Brunswick Group
After a distinguished career serving major international media companies for more than twenty years, Mei Yan (last name Mei, first name Yan) joined Brunswick Group in 2013. As Senior Partner and Chair of China, she oversees Brunswick’s China business and acts as a counselor to senior executives.
Yan advises major global corporations with a particular focus on public affairs, government engagement, mergers & acquisitions, and corporate reputation management as well as crisis and issues management. She provides counsel to senior management of foreign companies as they position their organizations in China and leaders of Chinese companies going global.
Yan joined Brunswick from Viacom International Media Networks, where she was Managing Director of Greater China and Chief Representative of Viacom Asia. Previously, Yan held a series of China-based senior positions at Turner International Asia Pacific, News Corp., and its STAR Group.
Yan worked as a journalist for ITN and CNN for more than a decade, winning three Emmy Awards in that time.
In addition to her role at Brunswick, she serves as a senior advisor at global investment firm KKR, sits on the board of French global automotive supplier Faurecia and is an international council member of the British Council’s Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre.