March 2015

Peter Mattis is currently a Fellow with The Jamestown Foundation. Formerly, he was a visiting scholar at National Cheng-chi University's Institute of International Relations in Taipei and editor of China Brief at The Jamestown Foundation. Mattis received his M.A. in Security Studies from the Georgetown University?s School of Foreign Service and earned his B.A. in Political Science and Asian Studies from the University of Washington in Seattle. He previously studied at Tsinghua University in Beijing, taking Chinese language courses and auditing courses on Chinese history and security policy. He previously worked as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Asian Research in its Strategic Asia and Northeast Asian Studies programs, providing research assistance and editing support. Most recently, Mattis worked as an international affairs analyst for the U.S. Government. He is proficient in Mandarin Chinese and possesses elementary German language skills. He is the author of Analyzing the Chinese Military: A Review Essay and Resource Guide on the People's Liberation Army (2015).

Calvin Quek is head of Greenpeace East Asia’s Sustainable Finance Program and leads its engagement of the financial community. Quek serves on the Board of the China Carbon Forum and was the first Executive Director of the Beijing Energy Network. Prior to joining Greenpeace, he was with Citigroup for close to a decade, where he was with the investment research team in Singapore and led Citigroup Singapore’s CSR & Volunteerism committee in 2008. Calvin has an MBA from Peking University, and an M.Sc. in Wealth Management from Singapore Management University.

Quek is a regular commentator on China's energy and environmental issues, contributing to the Financial Times and South China Morning Post, and he has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg, and CCTV, and speaks regularly at investment summits.

Christina Larson is an award-winning American journalist in Beijing who writes about the environment and the human side of China’s economic boom. She is a contributing correspondent for Science and for Bloomberg Businessweek. From profiling scientists to activists to entrepreneurs, the common thread of her inquiry is finding people with creative solutions to pressing problems. Her reporting from Asia on science, technology, and culture has also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Smithsonian, Fast Company, MIT Technology Review, Scientific American, Yale Environment 360, and Foreign Policy magazine, where she is a contributing editor. In addition to filing dispatches from remote corners of China, she has reported from Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia, Mongolia, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, Japan, Greece, and Mexico. Her profile of Chinese environmentalist Yong Yang is included in the 2012 anthology Chinese Characters: Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land.