Wu Ge, economic PhD and researcher, is currently working in Monetary Policy Department II of The People’s Bank of China, focusing on the research of macro economy and monetary policy. He used to work in IMF (Washington) and published articles in “Economic Research Journal”, “Journal of Financial Research”, “The Journal of World Economy”, “IMF Working Paper” and “China Economist”. His awards include: “Liu Shibai Price in Economic Science”, first prize of “National Outstanding Financial Paper of China Society for Finance & Banking”, “Golden Ram Financial Book Awards”, first prize of “Key Research Program of The People’s Bank of China”. His writings include: “Cost Shocks, Inflation Tolerance and Macroeconomic Policies” and “Credit Creation, Money and Economic Structure”, etc.

Ding Jinqi is now working as product manager and analyst of CCFGroup. He has been engaged in viscose fiber industry research for about ten years. He is also responsible for the investigation of cotton textile raw materials and mutual influence of macro economy. Mr. Ding forecasted the appearance of major market change for several times, successfully suggested the correct time of investment and pointed out significant risks. In the past decade, he has organized the largest worldwide viscose industry forum for eight times and delivered speeches on several conferences. He is also appointed as the consultant by some enterprises. Currently, he is leading the connection of fiber weaving and apparel design planned by CCFGroup.

Sun Xuefei has a master degree of art and design, graduated from fashion department of Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University and then worked in Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (BIFT). She is acting as associate professor and postgraduate supervisor of BIFT.
Her lecture courses include creative fashion design, women’s wear design, fashion display design and traditional costume design. Her research covers creative fashion design, custom-made couture design, wearable electronic design & development, traditional culture inheritance and creative design, brand planning and product design.
During 2004-2010, she designed apparels for hosts and hostesses of CCTV, SDTV and JXTV, also designed costumes for China National Song & Dance Ensemble, China National Opera & Dance Theater and Naval Political Department of the Song & Dance Troupe. In 2010, she started her own brand "Fei Gallery&Boutique".
Monograph:
1. “Fashion Display Design” (2008)
2. “Selected Works of BIFT Teachers & Students” (2009)
3. “Creative Fashion Design & Practice” (to be published in 2015)
4. Translation book—“Fashion Illustration-Inspiration and Skill” (2011)

Gan Yiming has a doctor’s degree in textile engineering at Donghua University and he is a visiting scholar of University of California. He used to work in purchasing department of Trade Alliance Inc. (US) and China ERAL Group. Now he is acting as technical director of Nu Cybertek Inc.
He is familiar with raw materials of different fabrics and function testing methods, as well as their processing technology, principle of design and inspection standard. Working as a textile trainer, the training course includes characteristics and selection methods of textile raw materials, fabric structure characteristics and product design considerations, fabric testing standards, special fabric treatment (fire-retardant, anti-ultraviolet, anti-photooxidation aging and electromagnetic shield, etc). He is proficient in subjective & objective assessment methods of apparel and feel as well as monitoring human physiological signal by wearable sensor and has multi-dimensional analysis of physiological model. He is also familiar with the application of micro-nano functional finish in textiles.

Mr. Sandrieser’s educational background covers business high-school and studies of business-oriented Software Engineering in Austria and in the USA; he graduated 1993 from University of Klagenfurt in Austria.
In 1995 he joined Lenzing Group as Sales Manager for fiber and yarn testing instruments. In 2000 he shifted to Lenzing’s core fiber business to take sales responsibility for North and South American and South Asian markets.
In 2004 Mr. Sandrieser moved to Shanghai, where he established Lenzing Fibers (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., and took post of the General Manager of this entity. After the start-up of Lenzing’s Viscose fiber production in Nanjing in 2007, he was also appointed Sales Director of Lenzing (Nanjing) Fibers Co., Ltd. and as such in charge of Lenzing’s entire textile fiber business in China. During his tenure, the business in China has grown to the largest single market for Lenzing Fibers globally.
In 2009 Mr. Sandrieser was appointed Global Sales Director of the Business Unit Textile Fibers, where he together with his team of highly professional regional sales managers in three continents, achieved sales revenues of more than 1.2 billion EUR/year. In 2010 and 2011 Lenzing consecutively reached historic records in sales revenues and profits. After a major reorganization within Lenzing Group, Mr. Sandrieser was appointed
Vice President Product Management Viscose Fibers in January 2014.
At the end of 2014 he decided to leave Lenzing Group after 20 years of service, and to start his own business with Bright Field International Ltd. out of Asia. His company aims to be a competence center for fibers, presently with a strong
orientation of promoting leading Chinese synthetic fiber producers on global export markets. Mr. Sandrieser is Austrian citizen, 49 years old, married and has two children.

Ms. Anna Palmberg is currently working as Materials and Innovation Developer for Textiles at Range, Design and Development at IKEA of Sweden. She leads development block of Made Cellulose fiber development in long term for IKEA. Ms. Anna Palmberg is a textile engineer from Borås Textile University and did her Masters in AUTEX E-TEAM, at Uni of Tampere, Uni of Aachen and Uni of Minho. She has extensive experience in both technological and business development textile industry: worked for the Business Area Textiles at IKEA of Sweden with both short and long term development of the textiles; participated prior to IKEA with technical textiles and application development for B2B, eg in the airbag fabrics, fabrics for defense and industrial applications; explored the potential for new business development for the entire Borås Cotton group including Strömma, SKS (AB Swedish KonstArt Silk), Borås Cotton Home Textiles and Borås Cotton Industry Textiles with production units for spinning, weaving, finishing and twinning of yarn for technical textiles, etc.

Christian Chavassieu has over 20 years’ experience in the cellulose Industry . He is currently a managing partner at CelCo, a consulting company mainly focused on the Dissolving Wood Pulp Industry. He previously held positions with Sateri as sales and marketing Director , with Buckeye Technologies Inc. as senior vice president of the Wood pulp division and with Chavassieu & Cie SA, a pulp and paper trading company based in France as its President. Also worked for Apple computer and Schlumberger in various finance executive positions. Christian holds a bachelor degree in marketing from Institut Supérieur de Gestion in Paris and a master degree in business administration from Columbia University in New York.

Mr. Jussi Piira is the Research Manager, Fiberline at ANDRITZ Oy’s Helsinki office in Finland.
He joined ANDRITZ PULP & PAPER in 2007 as the Process Engineer, Cooking Specialist for the Fiberline Division. He was appointed as the Research Manager, Cooking in 2009 and then in 2014 as the Research Manager, Fiberline.
Jussi is responsible for planning, managing and developing the laboratory and pilot plant activities carried out at ANDRITZ’ Pulp & Paper R&D Center in Glens Falls, USA. He has been heavily involved in developing the laboratory simulation on ANDRITZ’ technological solutions for dissolving pulping and in managing various dissolving pulping studies carried out at the laboratory. Jussi has been involved in all dissolving pulping conversion projects ANDRITZ has supplied globally to various pulp mills. He has also participated in the start-ups of those systems.
Prior to ANDRITZ, Jussi worked for 3.5 years at SciTech Process Research Oy Inc. His latest position was the Research & Account Manager.
Jussi has graduated as Master of Science (Tech.) on Chemical Pulping from Department of Forest Products Technology at Helsinki University of Technology.
He is a member of Paper Engineers’ Association in Finland and TAPPI.

Yu Hanjiang graduated from Hebei University of Science & Technology whose major is chemical fiber. He is currently working for Tangshan Sanyou Group Xingda Chemical Fiber Co., Ltd, responsible for planning, innovation, research and development. In the past 20 years, he led the integrated development of 20-80kt/yr viscose fiber single line and won the first prize in China Textile Science & Technology Progress. He hosted the development of novel fibers such as VSF for nonwovens, fire-retardant VSF and Modal. He won the honor of “Hebei 333 Talent”, “Hebei Excellent Inventor” and “Hebei Model Worker”.

Mr. Richard Bassett is the Managing Partner of Charlestown Investments which previously acquired the Port Alice dissolving wood pulp mill in British Columbia, Canada renamed Neucel. It was restarted by Mr. Bassett and his colleagues from Charlestown Investments.
More recently, Charlestown Investments acquired the Cosmopolis dissolving wood pulp mill in Washington State together with private equity partners Gores Capital and Mr. Dermot Smurfit. Prior to becoming an investment principal, Mr. Bassett served as a corporate finance adviser to more than 250, Fortune 500 Companies and Banks including Shell, Hoechst/Aventis, IBM, Citibank, Novartis, Total, UBS and more than 100 other firms.
During his tenure as an adviser on: creating shareholder value, M&A, optimal capital structure and capital budgeting / corporate investment strategies, Mr. Bassett advised on more than $65 billion in closed transactions and more than $100 billion in internal investments. These transactions and investments provided Mr. Bassett with the opportunity to work in more than 35 countries and across a range of industries. Mr. Bassett has a BA in Political Science and History and an MBA earned from Boston College and INSEAD, France.