▪ Founder and CEO, Gao Feng Advisory Company

▪ Founding Governor of the Hong Kong Institution for International Finance 

▪ Adjunct Professor, School of Business Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong

▪ One of the pioneers in China’s management consulting industry: built and ran the Greater China operations of two leading international management consulting firms (BCG and Booz) for a period of 20 years

▪ Australia’s In The Black business magazine calls him, “The Father of Management Consulting in China”

▪ Consulted to hundreds of companies, investors, start-ups, and public-sector organizations (both headquartered in and outside of China) on all critical aspects of business in China and China for the world

▪ Consulted to Chinese local governments on development strategies, state-owned enterprise reform and Chinese companies going overseas, as well as to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank

▪ Author of several hundred articles and six books including both award-winning The China Strategy (2010) and China’s Disruptors (2015), as well as the newly published 《变局思维》 (Strategic Thinking in the Era of Mega Changes) (2022).

▪ Holds a SM and a SB in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a PhD and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley

Mr. Yifan Jie has over twelve years of high-quality consulting experience, focusing on strategy and management consulting.  His areas of expertise include strategy, operations, and digital transformation, with clients in industrial manufacturing, automotive, energy, healthcare, life sciences, and consumer-facing industries, domestically and internationally.  Mr. Jie has extensive project experience in China and globally, assisting many companies in achieving strategic breakthroughs and transformational upgrades.  Prior to joining Gao Feng Advisory Company, he

served as an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company and was in management positions in leading domestic companies.