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Francis was appointed Vice President, Atlas Copco (China) Investment Co., Ltd. in August, 2016. Based in Shanghai, he oversees Atlas Copco’s operations in Greater China and Mongolia, with more than 35 legal entities.
Over the past 23 years, he has held various managerial positions with increased responsibility within Atlas Copco Group and has been working most of his time in different countries in Europe and Asia. Prior to his current position, he was the General Manager of Atlas Copco Singapore & Malaysia.
Francis is a Belgian citizen, and holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration.

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Jeanette Yu is Partner and head of Employment & Pensions Practice Area Group of CMS, China. She has more than 20 years’ experience in providing advice for international companies on labour law issues and compliance management. Her extensive track record comprises recruitment and dismissal of employees, formulating employee handbooks and implementing its policies, work permits and visa issues of expatriates, international secondment, data privacy, non-competition, social security, trade union and labour disputes. She has also been involved in significant projects of business transactions and restructuring, advising clients on employee transfer, relocation and lay-off of employees as well as negotiation of employment contracts and separation agreements.
Since 2017, Jeanette has been acting as the National Chair/Vice Chair of HR Working Group of European Chamber of Commerce in China. This year Jeanette was elected as the National Chair of HR Working Group of European Chamber of Commerce in China.
Starting from 2017, Jeanette acted as the Vice Chair of HR Working Group of European Chamber of Commerce in China, and the Chair in 2019. Jeanette is also a member of Shanghai Law Society Labour and Social Security Law Research Branch.

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During her 18 years at Bosch, Susan worked as the head of Sustainability and EHS in China, Korean, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, coordinated the Sustainability strategy and projects implementation in the region, as well as Sustainability reporting. She had extended her expertise and capability in international assignments in Germany, taking the role of Corporate Office EHS with the responsibility of strategy, targets, standards and reporting within the Bosch group. Currently she is the consultant of Sustainability and EHS in Bosch China, and the Vice Chair of the CSR forum at the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.

Since 2020, the Bosch Group with its more than 400 locations worldwide has been climate neutral (scopes 1 and 2). Susan led the project team and coordinated the implementation in China.

Since 2003 she has been the member of Steering Committee of Shanghai Multi-National EHS Association.

Prior to Bosch, Susan served in a major global semiconductor company, taking EHS management position in China and international job rotations in the United States, Malaysia and Philippines.

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Roy Bao has been working in Merck for more than 6 years. Focus on corporate and government affairs. At the same time as Chairman of Merck Holding (China) co., LTD., Labor Union chairman, and Chairman of Merck China United Labor Union Committee.

Responsible for supporting Merck Life Science, Healthcare and Electronic three busienss sectors in development strategy, as well as related to the Chinese government at all levels of project cooperation investment plans, including project of 100 million euros Merck life science training center in Shanghai, China's first public OLED materials research and development center. Supporting the global strategy for the development of the national Merck group in China. As well as support the inheritance and carry forward the company 350 years long history and good reputation.

7+ years’ government working experience & unique views in 2-ways international trade and investment area, highly understand different political-geography related to business environment in China, Europe, USA and APAC. Total 19+ years’ work experience in government affairs, with a strategic thinking during the business development and be able to understand the „language“ from different governments perspective. Familiar with how to work with different levels Chinese government, even central government to support foreign investment and operation, i.e. provide strategy advice of state and local investments, policies and regulations, and advice about different level government internal approval procedure, process and characters. Highly understand government working attitude and focusing point of different government departments, such as ARM, NDRC, MOFCOM, FDA, Construction Bureau, Safety Bureau, Public Security Bureau, Environment Bureau, Science and Technology Bureau, Foreign Affair Office, Education Bureau, Tax Bureau, FTZ, Charity Foundation, etc.

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ZHU Bin is the Head of HR Business Partner, Merck China. In his current role, he leads the HR Business Partner function of Merck Life Science and Electronics in the Country.

Mr. Zhu has 20 years working experience in HR field across Chemical, Manufacturing, Electronics and Life Science. He started his HR career in Minebea as HR Generalist. After 2 years, he joined Bayer as HRBP and Compensation & Benefits Supervisor. In 2011, He joined Saint-Gobain as HRBP and Recruiting Manager. From 2016, he served as Country HR Manager in Versum Materials, which was acquired by Merck in 2019.

Mr. Zhu holds an MBA degree at Hongkong University and he resides in Shanghai with his 2 children along with his wife.

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Mr Zhang joined Merck in 2018 and served as EHS Head, Merck China. He has an extensive Environmental, health and safety management experience in multinational companies. His current role in Merck is to develop and implement EHS policy and strategies in Merck China, build and maintain an advance EHS management system to protect the safety and health and to ensure the regulation compliance and business continuity.

Before joining Merck, he worked as senior China EHS manager for Carestream Health, and industrial hygienist for Kodak company.

Mr Zhang graduated from School of Public Health, Fudan university and held the master degree, majored in occupational and environmental health.

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Ioana has been based in Shanghai since 2003 where she worked for the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (European Chamber) from 2004 to 2022. From 2009 to 2022 she served as General Manager of the Chamber’s Shanghai Chapter and was responsible for implementation and development of European Chamber objectives, visibility, and advocacy activities on a regional level in Shanghai and neighbouring regions.
Ioana is currently an Associate Director with X-PM Transition Partners, a leading European Executive Interim and Transition Management firm with teams in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong. X-PM is part of the WIL group, a network of 13 firms operating in 35 countries that deliver interim and transition solutions to clients around the world and offers a unique international “multi-sourcing” model that leverages the assets of each member firm and ensures the best assignments globally.
A German-qualified lawyer, Ioana practiced with a German law firm in Shanghai from 2003 and 2004. She also holds a PhD degree in law from Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, where she worked from 1999 to 2003 as a Senior Research Assistant focussing on the areas of Civil Law, Insurance Law, Comparative Law, International Private Law and Labour Law.