About Harvard College China Forum
Founded in 1997, Harvard College China Forum is dedicated to creating constructive dialogue on the challenges, trends, and issues affecting China. The forum aims to engage leaders in business, academia, and politics in a discourse that offers insights and generates ideas. HCCF is North America’s leading and longest-running student-run conference on China; in 2018, over a thousand delegates and nearly a hundred speakers were in attendance at the forum, making it the largest of its kind. The annual forum takes place every April in Boston, Massachusetts.
History
Harvard College China Forum was founded in 1997 as Harvard China Review, by then Tufts graduate student Zhang Yong (Chief Editor) and Harvard graduate student Lee Ligang Zhang (Publisher)
Initially run by students at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the magazine expanded its membership to other Harvard schools and eventually to academic institutions in Greater Boston, publishing both works of student staff writers and solicited articles from academics in the area.
Harvard College China Forum was launched partly to increase publicity and partly to boost revenue for the magazine. The Co-Presidents for the first Harvard College China Forum were Bo Li (Deputy Managing Director, IMF) and Lee Ligang Zhang (Founder, Chairman & CEO, iKang Healthcare Group). As the conference gained more momentum, however, HCR leadership decided to focus instead on the increasingly popular Forum.
Moments in China Forum History
Ms. Shihong Wu, then General Manager of Microsoft China, and Mr. Zhang Ligang
In 1998, renowned economist Mr. Wu Jinglian attended the first Harvard China Forum
1998, Mr. Zhou Xiaochuan, then Governor of China Construction Bank, attended the first Harvard China Forum
The First Harvard Asia Fashion Show
1998, Mr. Li Zhaoxing, then Chinese Ambassador to the United States (later Chinese Foreign Minister), attended the first conference
The Harvard China Review is sold at the Harvard Square bookstall along with the well-known Harvard Business Review
May 1998, Harvard China Review was being read in Harvard Square
The First Harvard Asia Fashion Show
Ms. Ying Li, first-year MIT student at the first Harvard Asia Fashion Show (later co-founded the Yunfeng Foundation)
1999 Committee Planning team
1999 Committee Planning team
1999 Live from HCF Sub-Forum
2009 Committee with Warren McFarlan, Harvard Business School Professor
2009 Committee Planning team photo
2012 Harvard China Forum and China Entrepreneur Association signs partnership agreement
Past Leadership
2022-2023
Max Horne (Co-President)
Andrew Shen (Co-President)
2021-2022
Karen Chan (Co-President)
Peter Zhang (Co-President)
2020-2021
Peng Zhu (Co-President)
Mike Shao (Co-President)
2019-2020
Thomas Xin (Co-President)
Allison Zhang (Co-President)
2018-2019
Yufeng Ling (Co-President)
Leo Liu (Co-President)
Jia Rong Li (Co-Vice President)
Feiyang Zhu (Co-Vice President)
2017-2018
Alex Lin (Co-President)
Michael He (Co-President)
2016-2017
Jiang Li (Co-President)
Zara Zhang (Co-President)
2015-2016
Scarlett Yin (Co-President)
Penny Ni (Co-President)
Tianyu Liu (Co-Vice President)
Melinda Wang (Co-Vice President)
2014-2015
Sabrina Castenfelt (Co-President)
Eric Wang (Co-President)
2013-2014
Eric Wang (Co-President)
Helen Shi (Co-President)
Yuechen Zhao (Vice President)
2012-2013
David Pickerall (Co-President)
Yueran Ma (Co-President)
2011-2012
Jack Chen (Co-President)
Adam Nguyen (Co-President)
2010-2011
Jack Chen (Co-President)
Lily Zhu (Co-President)
2008-2010
He Yiming (Co-President)
Shen Yichen (Co-President)
2007-2008
Victor Li (President, Director of Hony Capital)
2006-2007
Bill Wang (Co-President, General Manager of Perfect World Global Investment)
Deng Xi (Co-President, Managing Director of Haitong International Asset Management)
2005-2006
Cheng Sijin (President)
2004-2005
Roger Cheng (Co-President, Chief Investment Officer of CCB International Medical Industry Equity Investment)
Frank Qian (Co-President)
2003-2004
Wang Tao (Co-President, Professor of Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance)
Catherine Ying (Co-President, Co-President of China Media Capital)
2002-2003
Zhang Minhua (Co-President)
Roger Wu (Co-President, President and Chief Financial Officer of Mercer China)
2001-2002
Sun Qian (Co-President, Partner of Sequioa Capital China)
Li Yong (Co-President; Partner, Purple Bull Startups)
2000-2001
Zhang Junni (Co-President, Associate Professor of Peking University Guang Hua School of Management)
Pan Haidong (Co-President, Founder, Chairman and CEO of baike.com)
1999-2000
Chen Jin (Co-President)
York Lo (Co-President, Head of Institutional and Retirement Product Development at John Hancock Investment Management)
1998-1999
Faith Huang (Co-President, Founder, Chairwoman & CEO, Lejian Health Technology Co Ltd)
Larry Lai (Co-President, Partner of Keytone Ventures, Associate Dean of the Central Academy of Fine Arts School of Design)
Wen Zhimin (Co-President, Chief Strategy Officer of Dacheng Fund Management Co, Ltd.)
1997-2002
Jin Jun (Founding Chief Designer, Associate Dean of the Central Academy of Fine Arts School of Design)
1997-2000
Zhang Yong (Founding Editor-in-Chief, CEO of Global Innovation Dreamworks)
1997-1998
Lee Zhang (Co-Founder and Co-President, Founder, Chairman & CEO, iKang Healthcare Group)
Li Bo (Co-Founder and Co-President)