Cal-Asia's Speakers

Cal-Asia is honored and proud to have hosted a prestigious list of diplomatic officers and industry leaders over the years. Speakers are listed in chronological order of events.

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!

2006

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

Stephan Crawford
U.S. DOC - Commercial Service

Jeremy Potash
Executive Director, Cal-Asia

Dr. David Ray
Deputy Director, Vietnam Competitiveness Initiative

Dr. Franck Wiebe
Chief Economist
Moderator, The Asia Foundation

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

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

Hon. P. Tsagaan
Founder, Steppe Link, Mongolia

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

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

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

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

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

2005

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

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

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

Sam Mills
Managing Director, Drexel Oceania

Richard Lung
Country Manager, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

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

Dr. Nancy Mangold
CSU, East Bay

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

Spencer Loh
Chairman, Shanghai Huateng Software Systems

Dave Kenny
Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

Harry Pfeifer
Nixon Peabody LLP

Lynn Pascoe
U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia

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

Joe Bartlett, President
American Chamber of Commerce

James Castle
Castle Asia

Milind Gadre
Vision-Ease Asia

Andy Cobham
Motorola

Darrell Johnson
SSEK

Darryl Hadaway
Ernst & Young

2004

Juan Carlos Rivera-Montes
OPIC Small Business Manager

Alan Adcock
Rouse & Co.

Emma Davis
Clifford Chance

Douglas Mancill
Deacons Bangkok

Stephan Crawford
U.S. DOC - Commercial Service

Gavin Newsom
Mayor of San Francisco

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

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

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

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

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

Nguyen Anh Tuan
Deputy Rector, Can Tho University, Vietnam

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

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

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

Howard Gould
Commissioner of Financial Institutions, State of California

2003

Michael J. Scown
Regional Council, Asia Pacific Intel Capital

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

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

Nguyen Van Hung
Vice Chairman, Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park

Tran Quang Lan
General Director, Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park

Adam Dupre
China Company Research Services Ltd

Lu Debin
Chairman, Juneng Industry Co. Ltd

Ge Wei
Director of Changxing Development Zone

Shao Yi
Secretary of the CPC Changxing County Committee

Kevin Hobgood-Brown
Edwarde Webre
Douglas Mancill
Richard B. Lewis
Phil Crowley
DEACONS International Law Firm

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

Daniel K.H. Chao
Chairman, Bechtel China

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

Kimberlee Kimura
Analyst, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

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

Robert Theleen
Group Chairman, General Partner and Founder, ChinaVest

Sam Mills
Managing Director, Drexel Oceania

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

Stanley Chia
Director of Strategic Technologies, Vodafone

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

2002

Ambassador Linda Tsao Yang
Chair, Asian Corporate Governance Association

Stanley Lubman, Esq.

Claire Wright, Esq.

Emily Sano
Director, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

H.E. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
President of the Philippines

Antony Leung
Financial Secretary, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Dr. Nguyen Thien Nhan
HCMC

Michael J. Scown
Intel Capital

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

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

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

Datuk Rafidah Aziz
Minister of International Trade and Industry, Malaysia

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

Robert Broadfoot
Asia Risk Expert

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

George Koo
Director, Chinese Services Group, Deloitte & Touche

2001

Nguyen Tan Dzung
Deputy Prime Minister, Socialist Republic of Vietnam

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

Mme. Pham Chi Lan
Vietnam Chamber of Commerce & Industry

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

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

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

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

Richard Martin
Head of the Economist Intelligence Unit, Australia

Hon. Larry Greenwood
U.S. APEC Coordinator

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

Hon. Dennis Harter
U.S. Embassy in Hanoi