Cal-Asia's Speakers

Cal-Asia is honored and proud to have hosted prestigious diplomatic officers and industry leaders over the years. Speakers are listed by year and in alphabetical order by last name.

If you are interested in participating in our events as a speaker, or if you would like to see us feature a particular speaker, please send your suggestion to info@calasia.org. Thank you!

2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001  

2011

PATRICK T. WALL
Commercial Counselor
Manila – Philippines

JOSEPHINE ROMERO
Trade Commissioner
Philipine trade and Investment center

Alfonso Ferdinand Agbayani Ver
Consul, Consulate General of the Philippines, SF

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2010

Stephan Crawford
Director, United States Commercial Service, San Francisco

Joon-Woon CHONG
Regional Director (Western Americas), Americas
Singapore Economic Development Board

William Roger
Senior Vice President / Director
Healthcare, HOK

Ih Ming CHAN
Director, San Francisco Center
Singapore Economic Development Boar

Boon Ho TOH
Center Director – Los Angeles
International Enterprise Singapore

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2009

Awinash Bawle
Office of South Asia and Oceania
US Department of Commerce

Barbara Cassens
Director, Food and Drug Administration

Simon Galpin
Acting Director-General, Invest Hong Kong

Jerry Gillespie
Western Institute for Food Safety and Security

Patricia Haslach
U.S. Ambassador to Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

Consul Hong Ju Jo
Consulate General of Korea, SF

Rita Lau
Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Hong Kong SAR

Cindy Marks
Country Manager and Senior Financial Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Kim N. B. Ninh
Country Representative, Vietnam

Simon Ogus
Founder and CEO, DSGAsia Limited

Hong-Phong Pho
Commerce Country Desk Officer for Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, U.S. Department of Commerce

Albert Ting
International Trade Specialist, Office of the China Economic Area, U.S. Department of Commerce

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2008

Alexander D. Calhoun
Senior Counsel, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey

Prof. K. C. Chan
Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Hong Kong SAR Government

Daniel K.H. Chao
Former Chairman and President, Bechtel China
Senior Vice President, Bechtel Group

Richard M. Chong
Partner, Sycamore Ventures
Founding Partner, Sycamore GreenStar

Teresa M. Curran
Group Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank, SF

Mark C. Dosker
Partner, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey

Dr. Enrique Garcia
President, Andean Development Corporation

Josyline Javelosa
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Philippines

Yang Jingyi
Vice Director, Chaoyang District Investment Promotion Bureau

Nguyen Duy Khien
Director General, Vietnam Ministry of Industry & Trade

Cai Limin
Vice Governor, Shandong Province

Yabo Lin
Partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal

Peggy Liu
Chairperson, JUCCCE

Paul Matthews
Chairman, Matthews Int'l Capital Management

Nancy Mangold
Professor of Accounting
Director, China America Business and Education Center

Dr. William F. Miller
Former President, SRI International
Herbert Hoover Professor-Emeritus, Stanford

William Overholt
Asia Policy Research Chair, RAND Corporation

Mike Rowse
Director General, Invest Hong Kong

Andrew Sheng
Chief Advisor, China Banking Regulatory Commission

George E. Sycip
President, Halanna Management Corporation
Founder and Principal, Galaxaco China Group LLC

Vivien Wang
Senior Manager, Deloitte Tax LLP

Zhou Weimin
Vice-Director General, Invest Beijing

Ambassador Linda Tsao Yang
Chairman, Asian Corporate Governance Association (HK)

Hon. Arthur C. Yap
Secretary, Department of Agriculture, Philippines

Patricia Yeh
Associate Project Manager, SOM

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2007

Hon. Burhanuddin Abdullah
Governor, Bank Indonesia

Datuk Rafidah Aziz
Minister of International Trade and Industry of Malaysia

Hon. Ralph L. (Skip) Boyce
US Ambassador to Thailand

John S. Chen
Chairman, CEO and President, Sybase

Barry Friedman
Minister Counselor for Commercial Affairs, US Embassy Beijing

General Hu Jingyan
Director, MOFCOM

Antony Leung
Financial Secretary, Hong Kong SAR

Marie Pangestu
Minister of Trade, Republic of Indonesia

H.E. Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat
Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the U.S.

Lida Tan
China Coordinator, EPA

Tony Tyler
CEO, Cathay Pacific

Barbara Weisel
Assistant USTR

Jim Wunderman
President,Bay Area Council

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2006

Peng Aiqun (Ida)
Commercial Specialist, U.S. Embassy, Beijing

Robert B. Albertson
Principal and Chief Strategist, Sandler O’Neill & Partners, LP

David S. Bohigian
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce

Murray Bordignon
Director, Standard & Poor’s

Victor Chan
Vice President & Country Manager Greater China & Southeast Asia, U.S. Bank

Stephan Crawford
U.S. DOC - Commercial Service

David DeChant
President, Vision Quest Intelligence

Jonathan H. Downing
Executive Vice President and Director of Corporate Development and Investor Relations, UCBH Holdings and United Commercial Bank

Feng, Yan
Section Chief, China Banking Regulatory Commission

Andrew T. Foster
Portfolio Manager, Director of Research, Matthews International Capital Management, LLC

James Goheen
Central Point of Contact, Zions Bancorporation, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

John L. Gomez
Vice President, Treasury Management , U.S. Bank, Northern California

David Gossack
Commercial Attaché, U.S. Embassy Beijing

Guan, Jingchun
Langfang City Commercial Bank, President, Chair of Board of Directors

Peter M. Hom
Senior Vice President & Senior Credit Portfolio Manager, U.S. Bank, Northern California

Jiang, Jiehong
President, Fuzhou commercial Bank

David A. Jones
Chief Credit Officer and Client Care of the Bank, Silicon Valley Bank

Pamela Joseph
Chairman, President and CEO, NOVA Information Systems, Inc.

Joel I. Katz
Managing Director, Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P.

Lee A. Kidder
Corporate Vice President, Strategic Market Positioning, Fiserv, Inc.

Thomas W. Killian
Principal, Investment Banking Group, Sandler O’Neill & Partners

Ronald J. Lenart
Director of Compliance, Cal National Bank, Los Angeles

Henry S. (Hank) Levine
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Asia
Former U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai

Li, He
Senior Vice President, Hui Commercial Bank

Li, Luwei
Weihai Commercial Bank, Chair of Board of Directors

Li, Yiqi
Vice Director, Chinese Banker’s Association

Yabo Lin
Partner, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

David Loevinger
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Asia
Financial attaché, U.S. Embassy in Beijing

Joseph Longino
Principal, Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P.

Lu, Guomin
President, Huzhou Commercial Bank

Stuart D. Lum
Director, Bank of Marin

Wynne Lum
Senior Vice President, Bank of America

Richard I. Lung
Country Manager, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Hon. Muhammad Lutfi
Chairman, BKPM(Indonesian Investment Coordinating Board)

Nancy Mangold
Professor, California State University, East Bay

Howell D. McCullough, III
Senior Vice President, Payments Strategy and Acquisitions, U.S. Bank

Samuel W. Mills, Jr.
Managing Director, Drexel Oceania LLC

Tim Olson
Manager, California Energy Commission
Manager, California Energy Technology Export Program

Shi, Yuan
Bank of Beijing, Vice Chair of Board of Directors

Siong Ong
Assistant Vice President & Deputy Country Manager Asia Region, U.S. Bank

William Overholt
Asia Policy Research Chair, RAND Corporation

Pete Pande
President, Pivotal Resources, Inc.
Lead Author, The Six Sigma Way

Qiu, Yunzhang
Bank of Jinan, President

Dr. David Ray
Deputy Director, Vietnam Competitiveness Initiative

Penny Rostow
Partner, Sonnenschein Nath Rosenthal LLP

George Ruffner
Senior Commercial Officer, U.S. Embassy in Singapore

Gary Schlossberg
Vice President & Senior Economist, Wells Capital Management

Edward Carl Schultz
Senior Vice President and Regional Manager, U.S. Bank, Northern California

Hon. George P. Shultz
Former U.S. Secretary of State

Hon. P. Tsagaan
Founder, Steppe Link, Mongolia

Dr. Jennifer Turner
Coordinator, China Environment Forum
Coordinator, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

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2006 (cont.)

Marc Verissimo
Chief Strategy Officer, SVB Financial Group

Michael R. Walker
President, Northern California, U.S. Bank

Anthony J. Walton
Vice Chairman, The Americas, Standard Chartered Bank

Hon. Wang Weicheng & Associates
Mayor of Changzhou & Changzhou Civic Leaders

Dr. Franck Wiebe
Chief Economist
Moderator, The Asia Foundation

R. William Wilson
Chief Operating Officer, Private Family Office

Wo, Mingya
Senior Vice President, Shaoxing Commercial Bank

Dennis Wu
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, United Commercial Bank

Bing Xiao
Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo Bank

Catherine (Xia) Xiao
Associate Director, Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P.

Xu, Ling
Daqing Commercial Bank

Xu, Weijun
Deputy Division Chief, China Banking Regulatory Commission

Amb. Linda Tsao Yang
Chair, Asian Corporate Governance Association

Yang, Shuang
Division Chief, China Banking Regulatory Commission

Walter Y. Yao
Senior Banking Analyst, Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Donald E. White
Managing Director, Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P.

Zhang, Ning
President, Nanjing Commercial Bank

Zhang, Weiguo
Bank of Shanghai, Senior Vice President

Zhang, Xiang
Bank of Tianjing, Senior Vice President

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2005

Craig Allen
Minister Counselor for Commercial Affairs, U.S. Embassy in China

James Castle
Castle Asia

Hon. Dianne Feinstein
California's senior Senator, United States Senate

Darrell Johnson
SSEK

Dr. Ira Kasoff
Principal Commercial Officer, U.S. Consulate in Shanghai

Dave Kenny
Partner, Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

Margaret Keshishian
Senior Commercial Officer, U.S. Embassy in Jakarta

Hank Levine
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia, U.S. Department of Commerce

Spencer Loh
Chairman, Shanghai Huateng Software Systems

Richard I. Lung
Country Manager, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Dr. Nancy Mangold
CSU, East Bay

Richard Martin
Managing Director, IMA Asia (International Market Assessment - Asia Pty Ltd)

Sam Mills
Managing Director, Drexel Oceania

Lynn Pascoe
U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia

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2004

Alan Adcock
Rouse & Co.

Dr. Dao Khac An
Senior Researcher, Institute for Material Science, Vietnam Institute for Science and Technology

Le Thanh Binh
Deputy General Director, International Relation Dept, MOST, Vietnam

Stephan Crawford
U.S. DOC - Commercial Service

Vuong Dua
General Director, Education and Science Dept, Nhan Dan Newspaper, Vietnam

Dr. Nguyen Trong Giang
Director, Post graduate education and training center, Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam

Howard Gould
Commissioner of Financial Institutions, State of California

Dr. Nguyen Khac Hai
Director, Institute for Medical Labor and Environmental sanitary, Vietnam

Dr. Do Van Loc
General Director, High-tech Dept, Ministry of Science and Technology, Vietnam

Che Dinh Ly
Director, Science and International Relation Cooperation Dept, Ho Chi Minh City National University, Vietnam

Douglas Mancill
Deacons Bangkok

Forrest Metz
Investment Research Analyst, Overseas Private Investment Corporation's (OPIC) Investment Development and Economic Growth Division

Juan Carlos Rivera-Montes
OPIC Small Business Manager

Nguyen Anh Tuan
Deputy Rector, Can Tho University, Vietnam

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2003

Douglas Bruce
U.S. State Department Diplomatic Security Service

Daniel K.H. Chao
Chairman, Bechtel China

Chan Heng Chee
Singapore's Ambassador to the United States

Stanley Chia
Director of Strategic Technologies, Vodafone

Rick Chong
Partner, Sycamore Ventures

Lu Debin
Chairman, Juneng Industry Co. Ltd

Adam Dupre
China Company Research Services Ltd

Kevin Hobgood-Brown
Edwarde Webre
Douglas Mancill
Richard B. Lewis
Phil Crowley

DEACONS International Law Firm

Nguyen Van Hung
Vice Chairman, Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park

Joe O'Keefe
Manager, Corporate Relations, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

Kimberlee Kimura
Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

C.L. Lai
Advisor, Singapore Technologies (Vietnam Investments)
Advisor, Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP)

Tran Quang Lan
General Director, Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park

Lindsay Leveen
Senior Global Development Manager & Manager of Sustainable Development, Telecom Industrial, Bechtel

Paul Matthews
Chairman, Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager, Matthews International Capital Management

Sam Mills
Managing Director, Drexel Oceania

Michael J. Scown
Regional Council, Asia Pacific Intel Capital

Stephen Selby
Director of Intellectual Property, Hong Kong S.A.R. Government

Ambassador Paul Spetz
U.S. Executive Director, Asian Development Bank

Jing Wang
Senior Vice President, International Strategic & Regulatory Affairs
Chairman, Asia Pacific Strategic Committee, Qualcomm

Ge Wei
Director of Changxing Development Zone

Shao Yi
Secretary of the CPC Changxing County Committee

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2002

H.E. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
President of the Philippines

Datuk Rafidah Aziz
Minister of International Trade and Industry, Malaysia

Robert Broadfoot
Asia Risk Expert

Richard Chang
General Partner, Bowman Capital
Former Sony executive
Co-founder of Columbia Pictures, Asia

Reuven Glick
Vice President & International Studies and Director, Center for Pacific Basin Studies Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Dr. Robert Kapp
President, U.S.-China Business Council

George Koo
Director, Chinese Services Group, Deloitte & Touche

H.E. Sakthip Krairiksh
Ambassador of the Kingdom of Thailand to the United States

Antony Leung
Financial Secretary, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Stanley Lubman, Esq.

Dr. Nguyen Thien Nhan
HCMC

Emily Sano
Director, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Steve Schoenfeld
Managing Director and Head of International Equity Product Strategy, Barclays Global Investors (BGI)

Michael J. Scown
Intel Capital

Claire Wright, Esq.

Ambassador Linda Tsao Yang
Chair, Asian Corporate Governance Association

Wang Yunxiang
Consul General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco

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2001

Lee Boam
Minister Counselor, U.S. Embassy in Beijing

H.E. Dr. Tej Bunnag
Ambassador of Thailand to the United States

H.E. Chan Heng Chee
Singapore's Ambassador to the United States

Mme. Pham Chi Lan
Vietnam Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Nguyen Tan Dzung
Deputy Prime Minister, Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Hon. Larry Greenwood
U.S. APEC Coordinator

Hon. Dennis Harter
U.S. Embassy in Hanoi

Hon. Lon Hatamiya
Secretary, California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency

H.E. Dorojatun Kuntjoro-Jakti
Ambassador of Indonesia (now Coordinating Minister for the Economy)

Richard Martin
Head of the Economist Intelligence Unit, Australia

Dr. Douglas Ramage
The Asia Foundation's Representative in Indonesia, East Timor, and Malaysia

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