February 2014

Paul Gillis is a Professor of Practice and Co-Director of the IMBA program at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. A leading expert on accounting and auditing issues in China, he frequently is quoted in the international press.

Gillis is a certified public accountant from the United States and, before joining Peking University, was a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the United States, Singapore, and China. Formerly, he was a member of the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and has testified before the U.S. China Security and Economic Commission. He has resided in Beijing since 1997. The International Financial Law Review named him Market Reformer of the Year in 2012. His first book, The Big Four and the Development of the Accounting Profession In China, was published by Emerald in 2014. He received his Ph.D. from the Macquarie Graduate School of Business.

Paul Gewirtz is the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School and is also the director of Yale Law School’s China Center. He teaches and writes in a variety of legal and policy fields, including Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Chinese Law, and American Foreign Policy. Among other works, his publications include the books Law’s Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law (Yale University Press, 1998), The Case Law System in America (University of Chicago Press, 1989), and nine volumes of readings and materials on Comparative Constitutional Law.

Yale’s China Center, which Gewirtz founded in 1999 as the China Law Center, carries out research and teaching, and also undertakes a wide range of cooperative projects with government and academic institutions in China on legal reform and policy issues. He currently leads a Track II Dialogue on U.S.-China Relations between senior former officials from the United States and China. While on leave from Yale, Gewirtz was part of President Bill Clinton’s administration, where he served as Special Representative for the Presidential Rule of Law Initiative at the U.S. Department of State. In that post, he conceived and led the U.S.-China legal cooperation initiative agreed to by President Clinton and China’s President Jiang Zemin at their 1997 and 1998 Summit meetings, and he accompanied President Clinton to China in 1998.

Before joining the Yale Law School faculty, Gewirtz served as a Law Clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court of the United States and practiced law at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and at the Center for Law and Social Policy. He is a Guest Professor at Peking University Law School and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute.

Ouyang Bin is an Arthur Ross Fellow at the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York and Associate Editor of ChinaFile, where his major interests concentrate on China’s political transformation, state-society relations, and the geopolitics of Northeast Asia.

Prior to joining Asia Society, Ouyang worked as a journalist in China. He served as a Senior Reporter at Phoenix Weekly, Senior Editor at Newsweek Select (Newsweek’s Chinese edition), International Editor at Caijing magazine, and Senior Editor with Caixin Media. He has received awards for his reporting from Phoenix Weekly, the Asian Development Bank, and the Reuters Foundation.

Ouyang earned his B.A. in Journalism from China Youth University for Political Sciences in Beijing, and his M.A. in Regional Studies-East Asia from Harvard University. He was a Harvard-Yenching Fellow from 2010-2012.

Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. 

Schell is the author of fifteen books, ten of them about China, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes. His most recent books are Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century (Random House, 2013) (co-authored with John Delury), Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood (Metropolitan Books, 2000), The China Reader: The Reform Years (Vintage, 1998), and Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China's Leaders (Simon & Schuster, 1994). He is also a contributor to such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Granta, Wired, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The China Quarterly, and The New York Review of Books.

Schell graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in Far Eastern History, was an exchange student at National Taiwan University in the 1960s, and earned a Ph.D. (Abd) at the University of California, Berkeley in Chinese History. He worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, covered the war in Indochina as a journalist, and has traveled widely in China since the mid-1970s.

He is a Fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg School of Communications at USC, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Schell was a Fellow at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and the recipient of many prizes and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Overseas Press Club Award, and the Harvard-Stanford Shorenstein Prize in Asian Journalism.