The producer of Mission Impossible 2 and such landmark Hong Kong films as Hard Boiled and Once a Thief, he has also managed Asian stars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh.

The co-founder and chairman of Sesame Workshop, Cooney has pioneered the creative uses of television for public purposes.

His medical breakthroughs as Director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center put him on the cover of Time Magazine as the 1996 Man of the Year; he is now conducting research on AIDS vaccines.

A professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Public Policy, Jing Jun has conducted many on-site evaluations of AIDS projects in China and is a leading spokesperson on AIDS issues.

A professor of medical anthropology at Stanford University, he has looked at urban smoking in China through such cultural prisms as male social roles and male friendship.

An Associate Professor at Tsinghua University, he writes about language, culture and communication and serves as a senior consultant to the State Council’s Information Office.

Director of China Studies at the Nixon Center in Washington D.C. and former director of a major AIDS program run by Merck and the China Ministry of Health.

Chairman of the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health since 2002, he won the WHO Director-General’s award for tobacco control in 2006.

A dermatological surgeon at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, he is the founder of the China AIDS Orphan Fund.

As Dean of the Tsinghua University School of Journalism, he has led workshops for Chinese journalists about AIDS and tobacco.

Eric Xu is co-founder of Baidu, China’s leading search engine and one of the most popular websites in the world.

Senior Vice-President of Northern Light Venture Capital, he invests in and advises many leading technology and media companies in China.