BILL WATSON

A psychologist with a specialty in intercultural business management, Bill brings more than 30 years commercial experience in intercultural training, negotiation and strategic alliance formation, much of that time "on the ground" in Asia. Bill's understanding of Asian culture and strategy has grown out of his research and practice in the areas of East-West psychology and cultural anthropology. He combines a psychologist's depth of analysis with a businessman's attention to practical concerns. He has been visiting professor of psychology at South China Normal University, Guangzhou, and China Medical College, Taichung; he has taught in the graduate programme of international business at the University of California, Berkeley campus; Auckland University Department of Management Studies; The Institute of Transpersonal psychology, Palo Alto; California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. He was a speaker at the 2004 Gateway to China Trade Summit.

Dr. XIN CHEN
(Ph.D. Political Science, University of Hawaii)

Access Asia's research specialist is also a Programme Officer at the New Zealand Asia Institute of the University of Auckland. Prior to joining the Institute as a Research Fellow in 1997, Dr Chen was with the East West Centre in Honolulu for 11 years-first as a degree fellow, then a research assistant and finally a research fellow. The East-West Centre is an American think-tank with a research focus on policy development in the Asia-Pacific region. She has also been a lecturer at Peking University and China Foreign Affairs University.