Speaker Bios

Chung Po Yang

Mr. Chung Po-yang (alias, Po Chung) co-founded DHL International in 1972 and is the Chairman Emeritus of DHL Express (HK) Ltd. He is also the Chairman of both The Hong Kong Institute of Service Leadership & Management and The Good Life Initiative Limited.

In 1963, he sailed on the first voyage of Semester at Sea (then known as University of the Seven Seas). He received a Bachelor Degree from Humboldt State University, California, and a Master of Fine Art Degree from The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University.

In 2001, Mr. Chung stepped away from the commercial world and entered the education domain. In January 2006, Mr. Chung spearheaded the creation of the Centre for Asian Entrepreneurship & Business Values (CASEBV) at the University of Hong Kong, and has taught a course in Entrepreneurship in the years since.

Mr. Chung is the co-author of “THE FIRST 10 YARDS – The 5 Dynamics of Entrepreneurship and how they made a difference at DHL and other successful startups” and, his latest book “My entrepreneurial retirement journey” was published in July 2010.

As a professional artist, Mr. Chung has had solo exhibitions of his paintings in Hong Kong, Paris, Venice, Macau (sponsored by the Government of Macao), and Germany. In 1989, he was awarded the Art Patron/Promoter of the Year by Hong Kong Artists’ Guild.

In 1995, Mr. Chung was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE), in recognition of his commitment to the arts community. In 2002, the Hong Kong Government awarded Mr. Chung the Silver Bauhinia Star for distinguished service to the logistics industry. Mr. Chung was conferred the 2008 Beta Gamma Sigma International Honoree and in December 2008, Mr Chung received The University of Hong Kong’s Honorary University Fellowship. In March 2009, he received an Outstanding Third Age Citizens Award. Most recently (in May 2011), an Honorary doctoral degree was conferred to him by Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University.

He is married to Helen and has three daughters, Yana, Anca, and Yangie.

Molly Corbett Broad

A leading spokesperson for American higher education, Molly Corbett Broad became the twelfth president of ACE on May 1, 2008. She is the first woman to lead the organization since its founding in 1918.

Broad came to ACE from the University of North Carolina (UNC), where she served as president from 1997 to 2006. Earlier in her career, Broad was senior vice chancellor for administration and finance and executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer for the California State University system. Broad also served as the chief executive officer for Arizona's three-campus university system in a succession of administrative posts at Syracuse University.

Broad has written and spoken widely on strategic planning for higher education, K–16 partnerships, information technology, globalization, and biotechnology.

Broad earned a General Motors Scholarship to Syracuse University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a baccalaureate degree in economics from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She holds a master's degree in the field from The Ohio State University.

Jim McNerney

Jim McNerney is chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer of The Boeing Company.

McNerney, 61, oversees the strategic direction of the Chicago-based, $64.3 billion aerospace company. With more than 161,000 employees across the United States and in 70 countries, Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company and a top U.S. exporter. It is a leading manufacturer of commercial airplanes, military aircraft, and defense, space, and security systems; it supports airlines and U.S. and allied government customers in more than 90 nations.

By appointment of U.S. President Barack Obama, McNerney chairs the President’s Export Council, which operates as an advisory committee on international trade. He is the former chair of The Business Council, the US-China Business Council, and the American Society of Corporate Executives.

A native of Providence, R.I., McNerney earned a B.A. degree from Yale University in 1971 and an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1975. McNerney is married and has five children. He enjoys skiing, golf, hiking, and hockey.

Sean O’Sullivan

Sean O’Sullivan is co-founder of Chinaccelerator, the first mentor-based accelerator for technology start-ups in China. O’Sullivan founded several technology companies and organizations, including MapInfo and JumpStart International; serves as the general manager of SOSventures, a $140 million international venture capital firm with investments in software, energy, and technology; and is co-founder and MD of Ireland-based transport technology firm Avego, Ltd. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer and an MFA in Film & TV Production from USC.

Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy

Ambassador J. Stapleton (Stape) Roy is Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Stape Roy was born in China and spent much of his youth there during the upheavals of World War II and the communist revolution, where he watched the battle for Shanghai from the roof of the Shanghai American School. He joined the US Foreign Service immediately after graduating from Princeton in 1956, retiring 45 years later with the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the service. In 1978 he participated in the secret negotiations that led to the establishment of US-PRC diplomatic relations. During a career focused on East Asia and the Soviet Union, Stape’s ambassadorial assignments included Singapore, China, and Indonesia. His final post with the State Department was as Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research. On retirement he joined Kissinger Associates, Inc., a strategic consulting firm, before joining the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in September 2008 to head the newly created Kissinger Institute. In 2001 he received Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Public Service.

Daniel W. Piccuta

Mr. Daniel W. Piccuta is the Foreign Policy Advisor to the Commander, and concurrently Launch Director of the Pacific Outreach Directorate (J9), U.S. Pacific Command. Previously, he served as Chargé d’Affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China. A member of the State Department’s Senior Foreign Service (Minister Counselor rank), Dan has served three times in the Department’s Executive Secretariat. His foreign postings have included Luxembourg, Milan, Belgrade, and multiple tours in China (Beijing and Guangzhou). In private law practice in Los Angeles prior to entering the Foreign Service in 1986, Dan handled corporate, investment and commercial matters for foreign and domestic clients and was Vice President and Assistant Counsel at Standard Chartered Bank’s California subsidiary, Union Bank. He is married to Christina Bezaire-Piccuta of Los Angeles. Their daughter, Erin, resides in Oakland, California.

Brantly Womack

Brantly Womack holds the Hugh S. & Winifred B. Cumming Memorial Chair in International Affairs at the University of Virginia and is an honorary professor at two Chinese universities. He is the author most recently of China Among Unequals: Asymmetric International Relationships in Asia (2010), and of China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry (2006). He edited China’s Rise in Historical Perspective (2010), and has authored more than a hundred articles and chapters on Asian politics.

Brent E. Huffman

Brent E. Huffman is an award-winning director, writer, and cinematographer of documentaries and television programs. His work ranges from documentaries aired on The Discovery Channel and The National Geographic Channel, to Sundance Film Festival premieres, to films made for FRONTLINE/World on PBS.

Huffman has been making social issue documentaries and environmental films for more than a decade in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. These films have gone on to win numerous awards including a Primetime Emmy, Best Conservation Film-Jackson Hole, Best Documentary-Fresno, two Cine Golden Eagle Awards, a College Emmy, a Student Academy Award, and a Grand Jury Award at AFI’s SILVERDOCS.

Huffman was an editor of Julia Reichert’s and Steven Bognar’s Primetime Emmy-winning PBS documentary series A Lion in the House, about children battling cancer. In 2009, Huffman covered Vortex 2, the world’s largest tornado research project, for NBC and The Weather Channel. Most recently, he completed the documentary The Colony for Al Jazeera about the role of Chinese businesses in Africa. He has worked in Afghanistan numerous times in the past, most notably on a documentary about a female candidate running in the first democratic presidential elections in Afghanistan and on a documentary about the trend of male bodybuilding in Kabul.

Huffman is also a writer whose work has been featured in Bust Magazine, The Wilson Quarterly, Frontline/World’s website, and The China Digital Times. He recently completed a book about his experiences in China called Life in the Heart of China: Diary from a Forbidden World.

Xiaoli Zhou

Xiaoli Zhou is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with a strong journalism background. As a native Chinese and a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, Zhou specializes in international reporting and making documentaries about Asian cultures.

Zhou’s work has aired on The Discovery Channel, PBS and Al Jazeera, among others. Her documentaries have been screened at various film festivals around the world. For the past few years, she has been honored by the Foreign Press Association, American Women in Radio and Television, Asian American Journalists Association, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Zhou’s film The Women’s Kingdom received a silver medal in the documentary category of the 2006 Student Academy Awards and won the Best Editing Award from the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival.

The documentary short Utopia 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall, co-produced by Zhou, premiered in the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Most recently, Zhou co-produced and co-directed The Colony, about the Chinese in Africa, with her husband Brent E. Huffman for Al Jazeera. Zhou also translated former Vice President Al Gore’s presentation on global warming, featured in the documentary film An Inconvenient Truth, for a Chinese audience.