The Founding Dean of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, XIANG Bing, will attend this year’s Boao Forum and moderate a private dialogue between CEOs and the governors of several Chinese provinces.

He will be joined at the Forum by CKGSB’s Associate Dean, WANG Yijiang, who will lead a roundtable discussion on China’s reform agenda– which will be broadcast on CCTV News–and serve as a panelist on a forum discussing how to curb China’s property market.

Founded in 2001, the Boao Forum for Asia has become Asia’s leading gathering of high-level representatives from government, business and academia. The 2013 Boao Forum is notable for the appearance of new Chinese President Xi Jinping, who will deliver a keynote address during the opening ceremonies on April 6. Other foreign leaders and heads of government who will attend the 2013 forum include:

• Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
• President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev
• Myanmar President U Thein Sein
• Peruvian President Ollanta Humala Tasso
• Zambian President Michael Sata
• Finnish President Sauli Niinisto
• Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto
• Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen
• New Zealand Prime Minister John Key
•  Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard
• Algerian Speaker of the Council of the Nation Abdelkader Bensalah
• Chairman of the State Great Hural of Mongolia Zandaakhuu Enkhbold

The event will also feature business leaders from around the world, including:

• Bill Gates, Co-chair and Trustee, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management
• Michael Treschow, Chairman, Unilever
• CHANG Zhenming, Chairman, CITIC Group Corporation
• Olof Persson, President & CEO, Volvo Group
• Carlos Brito, CEO, Anheuser-Busch InBev
• Jean-Pascal Tricoire, CEO, Schneider Electric
• Martin Lau, President, Tencent