As the Opening of the 6th Hongqiao International Economic Forum is approaching, political leaders, business elites and university scholars around the world will gather together to have in-depth exchanges around the theme "Joining Hands in Development, Opening up for the Future". Before the Opening Ceremony, a warmup GALA will be organized by the Hongqiao Forum Secretariat to promote the extensive communication among guests from all circles. The names of the guests(I) are listed below:

(in the order of the initials of names and confirmation sequence)

Amakobe Sande

UNICEF Representative to China

Changhee Lee

Director of the Country Office for China and Mongolia of the International Labour Organization

Craig Allen

President of the US-China Business Council

Edward Kwakwa

Assistant Director General of theWorld Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Fatou Haidara

Deputy to the Director General, UNIDO

Jason Hafemeister

Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs

Jean-François Guihard

President of INTERBEV

Jomarie Fredericks

2023 INTA President

Liu Hua

Director of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Office in China

Marcos José Rocha dos Santos

Governor of the state of Rondonia, Brazil

Michael Mangelson

IP Counselor, U.S. Embassy Beijing

Ole Lund Hansen

Chief, Global Operations, UN Global Compact

Paul Chan Mo-po

Financial Secretary of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Peter K N Lam

Chairman of Hong Kong Trade Development Council

Pierre Bedier

President of Departmental Council of Yvelines (Île de France), France & Representative of Francophone Business Forum (FFA)

Richard Kozul Wright

Director of the Globalisation and Development Strategies Division in United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Sahba Sobhani

Director, Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development, UNDP

Stephen Bainous Kargbo

Representative and Head of UNIDO Regional Office (China, DPR Korea, Mongolia)

Sylvie Cochin

Director, Asia Pacific Affairs, International Trade Center

Teresa Kho

Director of East Asia Department, Asian Development Bank

Tran Huu Linh

Director General of Vietnam Directorate of Market Surveillance of Ministry of Industry and Trade

Carlo D'andrea

Vice President of EUCCC

Matt Margulies

USCBC Senior Vice President

Sylvia Van Ziegert

German Director of Sino-German Center for Sustainable Development,GIZ

Eric Maskin

Recipients of 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics

Christopher Pissarides

Recipients of 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics

Jean Tirole

Recipients of 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics; Director of Research at the Institute of Industrial Economics, University of Toulouse, France

Angus Deaton

Recipients of 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics; professor of economics at Princeton University

Barry Marshall

Recipients of 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Jack J. Dongarra

2021 Turing Award Winner, and Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, USA

Peter Draper

Professor of University of Adelaide

Paul Cheung

Director (Asia Competitiveness Institute of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore) and Professor in Practice

Wing Thye Woo

Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis

Jeff Bellisario

Executive Director of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute

David Blair

Chief Economist of Alliance of Global Talent Organizations (AGTO)

Hiroo lchikawa

Expert in Intemational Urban Strategy Research and Honorary Professor at Meiji University in Japan

Zheng Yongnian

Director, The Institute for International Affairs, Qianhai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen; Board Director, Guangzhou Institute of the Greater Bay Area

Jonathan Woetzel

Director of McKinsey Global Institute, Senior Partner at McKinsey

Adam Lenkowsky

Executive Vice President and Chief Commercialization Officer, Bristol Myers Squibb

Adeline Franger Chouraqui

CEO of CMA CGM Greater China

Alex Xue

China General Manager, Tyson Foods

Andreas Matthä

CEO of the Austrian Federal Railways

Andy Wang

President, Emerson China

Angela Dong

Global Vice President, General Manager of Greater China, Nike

Anna Van Acker

Global Vice President, Merck

Anne Tse

CEO, PepsiCo Greater China Region

Anu Rathninde

President, Asia Pacific, Johnson Controls

Benjamin Linke

Global Vice President, Baker Hughes

Bernard Charnwut Chan

Vice Chairman of Western Kowloon Cultural District Board Authority, Chairman of M+ Board

Brice-Audren Riché

CEO of Lesaffre Group

Bruno Chevot

President China, North Asia and Oceania, Danone

Chris Goralski

Executive Vice President, 3M

Cristiano Amon

President and Chief Executive Officer, Qualcomm Incorporated

Eddy Chan

Senior Vice President, China President, FedEx

Frank Meng

Chairman of Qualcomm China

Fred Lam

CEO of Airport Authority Hong Kong

Gustaf Salford

President and CEO, Elekta

Halsey Cook

CEO of Milliken & Co.

Harry Wolin

Senior Vice President, General Counsel, AMD

Hiroshi Nishino

Senior Vice President & Regional CEO for China of Mitsubishi Corporation

Honson To

Chairman, KPMG Asia Pacific and KPMG China

Ian Shih

President of Rockwell Automation (China) Company Limited

Jakob Stausholm

Chief Executive of Rio Tinto

James Zhou

Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Asia Region, Louis Dreyfus Company

Jan Peter Bredehöft

Senior Vice PresidentOperations and Site Management Greater China, BASF

Jerry Zhang

Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, China & Cluster, Standard Charted Bank

Jim Jin

Vice President, China General Manager, Gilead Sciences

Joseph Romanelli

President, Human Health International, MSD

Judy Marks

Chair, Chief Executive Officer and President, Otis Worldwide Corporation

Karim Amin

Member of the Executive Board and Executive Vice President of Siemens Energy AG

Laurence MA

Vice President of L'Oréal China & General Manager of L'Oréal Luxe China

Lena Wang

Vice President of Siemens Healthineers Greater China, Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications

Li Tao

Vice President of Philips Greater China

Marjorie Yang

Chairman of Esquel Group

Michael Kirsch

President and CEO of Porsche China

Noel Quinn

Group Chief Executive, HSBC Holdings plc

Pascal Soriot

CEO of AstraZeneca

Paul Hudson

CEO of Sanofi

Peter Varnai

Partner of Technopolis Limited

Peter Wong Tung Shun

Chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited

Ralph Xu

Vice President of Legal Department, North Asia, Unilever

Rui Wang

Senior Vice President, Chairman of Intel China

Saw Choon Seong

Global Vice President and China President, Air Products

Shengpo Wu

Global Vice President of Ford Motor, President and CEO of Ford China

Stephen Kehoe

Executive Vice President, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer of PepsiCo and, Chairman of the Board of Directors, PepsiCo Foundation

Tom Hsu

Vice President, VIA Group; Chief Administrative Officer, VIA Technologies (China) Co., Ltd.

Vandita Pant

Chief Commercial Officer, BHP

Victor Fung

Group Chairman, Fung Group

Vivian Jiang

Chairman of Deloitte China

William Yu

China President, Honeywell

Xu Li

Chairman and CEO of SenseTime

Yihao Zhang

Executive Vice President and CEO, China, GE HealthCare

Zhai Jingli

Deputy CEO, Sinar Mas -APP China;

Zhang Gang

Chairman of Genertec Health and Senior Care Industry Co., Ltd.

Zheng Hongfei

Vice President, Cargill Global Animal Nutrition & Health

Zhu Zuojiang

President, Omron Industrial Automation (China) Co., Ltd

To be released…

The main forum of the 6th Hongqiao Forum (Opening Ceremony of the China International Import Expo and the Hongqiao Forum) will be held on the morning of November 5th. Looking forward to seeing you in the GALA.

(The above list is subject to the actual guests present.)