Today, we live in an era of tectonic transformations, in which we are witnessing digital revolutions, the reshaping of social structures, reconstruction of global trade, shifting geopolitics, and grave climate issues. Amidst these changes and the uncertainty they bring, what will our world look like in 2030 and beyond? Most importantly, how can we prepare for it?
We have invited Dr. Mauro F. Guillén, Dean of Judge Business School, Cambridge University and previously a tenured professor of Wharton, and Dr. Xiang Bing, Founding Dean and Professor of China Business and Globalization at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, for a dialogue on the trends we should watch for now and in the future, particularly after the grave impact the COVID-19 pandemic has caused. They will provide insight into how the aging population, uneven distributions of wealth, technological innovations, and shake up of the global supply chain will affect market opportunities. This dialogue will help business leaders to better understand the impact of the pandemic and how to identify business opportunities, so as to attain certainty among the uncertainty.
Date: October 11th, 20:00-21:45 China Time
Location: CKGSB English Website
Language: English
Dr. Xiang Bing is the Founding Dean and Dean’s Distinguished Chair Professor of China Business and Globalization at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). Since 2002, he has built CKGSB into one of China’s most influential, and globally recognized business schools.
Widely regarded as one of the foremost authorities on Chinese business and economy, Dr. Xiang has been a distinguished recurring keynote speaker at top U.S. university-led China forums for recent years. He has delivered exclusive keynotes at the Penn Wharton China Summit (opening keynotes in 2023 & 2026, and closing keynote in 2024 & 2025), the Harvard College China Forum (opening keynotes in 2018, 2019 & 2023, and closing keynotes in 2017 & 2024), and the Columbia China Forum (closing keynote 2024).
Dr. Xiang has also shared his unique insights with top global corporations and their senior executive leaders, including serving as a special lecturer addressing 200-300 chairmen, board members, and C-suite executives at Malaysia’s Financial Institutions Directors’ Education Forum (FIDE Forum) (January 2026); the only keynote speaker for top executive leaders from 36 major enterprises across Sweden and Finland at the Combient Senior Executive China Deep Dive (November 2025); exclusive speaker for Morgan Stanley Briefing (August 2025); one of the four opening keynote speakers at the Indonesia Economic Summit (February 2025); keynote speaker at the Morgan Stanley Twenty-First Century Asia Pacific Summit (September 2022); and the only closing keynote speaker at the SCMP China Conference: United States, celebrating the 40th anniversary of US-China Relations in New York City (December 2019).
Dr. Xiang is also a prominent participant in high-level global closed-door forums and conferences, including the Twentieth Edition of Roundtable Japan (2025), Ditchley Foundation Annual Forum (2010, 2012, 2018 and 2021-where he served as First Co-Chairman in 2018), Rome Roundtable (2017-2020, 2022, 2024), and the invitation-only Yale CEO Summit in New York City (2016).
Dr. Xiang has served as an independent board member to multiple listed companies, including four Fortune Global 500 companies. He was a member of the Global Board of Trustees for United Way Worldwide (U.S.) (2011-2017) and currently sits on the Advisory Board of Asia House (London) and acts as Counselor for One Young World Summit (Dublin).
Under Dr. Xiang’s leadership, CKGSB has developed a distinctive model of management education that integrates the humanities, philanthropy, and social innovation into its degree and executive programs. Since first incorporating the humanities into its curriculum in 2005, CKGSB has made philanthropy and social innovation central across its programs, launched the Ji’an poverty-alleviation initiative, and received China Philanthropy Times’ “Annual Philanthropic Enterprise” award five times (2017–2020, 2023).
Dr. Xiang’s research focuses on how countries and enterprises navigate periods of profound economic, technological and geopolitical change. His work spans global development models, economic disruption, China-U.S. relations, global trade and investment, and the transformation of Chinese enterprises, with particular attention to scaling, globally relevant business models, and the emergence of “Groundbreaking Innovation.”
