2026 Columbia China Summit

Featured Speakers (More to Be Announced)

Keynote Speakers

• Kai-Fu Lee, CC’83 (Online Keynote)
  Founder & CEO, Sinovation Ventures

• Yue-Sai Kan
  Co-Chair of China Institute of America, President of Yue-sai Kan One World Foundation

• Hao Hong
  Managing Partner & CIO, Lotus Asset Management

• David Firestein
  President & CEO, George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.–China Relations

International Relations

• David Firestein
  President & CEO, George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.–China Relations (Keynote Speaker)

• Zongyuan (Zoe) Liu
  Maurice R. Greenberg Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Capital Markets & Investment

• Eric Wong
  Founder & CIO, Stillpoint Investments

• Amy Zhang, CFA
  Executive Vice President & Portfolio Manager, Alger

• Gary Zhu
  Deputy CIO – Insurance, AllianceBernstein

• Michael Li
  Managing Partner & CIO, 9 Stream Capital

• Soo Chuen Tan
  President & Portfolio Manager, Discerene Group

AI & Robotics

• Daisy Cai, CBS MBA ‘10
  General Partner, B Capital

• Mengdi Wang
  Professor, Founder & Co-Director of AI for Accelerated Innovation, Princeton University

• Ning Hu
  Founder & CEO, Gensmo; Former Vice President, Alibaba Group

AI Infrastructure & Energy

• Brad Li
  President, Americas, SINENG Electric

• Fangfei Chen
  VP of Infrastructure, FluidStack; Former Head of Infrastructure Engineering, ByteDance

• Leon Zhang
  President of Global Operations, JQH.INC

• Joshua Pang
  Head of Digital Infrastructure — S&IG MD, Apollo Global Management

• Dan Wang, CC ‘07
  Lambert Professor of Social Enterprise, Columbia Business School

Globalizing Businesses

• Li Yu
  COO, Tehai International, Core Executive of Haidilao Group

• Andy Zhong
  CEO and Founder, FunPlus

• Hong Shangguan
  Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asia Institute of Columbia University; Former Partner, Legend Capital

• Lori Yue
  Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School

FinTech

• Neil McDonald
  CEO, Moomoo US

• Lee Fan
  Managing Partner, Head of US, Avenir Group

• Anthony Zhu, CBS MBA ‘17
  Founding Partner, Enlight Capital

Creator Economy

• Bin Ouyang
  Assistant Director, Asia Society

• Yang Mengen
  CEO, YoungMoon studio; Stand-up Comedian

• Fang Weng​​
  Host of Podcast 起朱楼宴宾客; Visiting Scholar of Columbia University