International Vice President of BYU

Sandra Rogers is the international vice president at Brigham Young University. Rogers previously served as the associate academic vice president for International, Distance and Continuing Education. With broad experience in the international arena, Rogers has studied, served, and worked in countries such as the Philippines, Nigeria, Jordan, and Romania.

Co-Chair, China Institute

People magazine called her "the most famous woman in China" and Time magazine proclaimed her "the Queen of the Middle Kingdom. Her popularity has drawn comparisons to Oprah's influence in the United States. Chinese-American Yue-Sai Kan is an Emmy-winning television producer, best-selling author, entrepreneur, and humanitarian.

Director of China Strategy, Microsoft

Jared Andersen has spent most of his 18-year career growing incubation technology businesses in China—spanning AR/VR, mobile apps, PC hardware, search, digital marketing platforms, and cloud services. He also spent four years living in Beijing, where he set up Microsoft's cloud services in China. In 2015 and 2016, he was the speechwriter for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

EnRoute Global Founders

Jon and Jinhua were colleagues when they both worked with Goldman Sachs. In 2016, Jon and Jinhua met and decided to build a company, EnRoute Global.They focus on helping clients expand business between China and the U.S

President of the Helen Foster Snow Foundation

Adam Foster is the President of the Helen Foster Snow Foundation whose mission is to preserve, promote, and continue Helen's legacy of building bridges of international understanding between the US and China. Adam holds a Master's in Business Administration, and is currently the Director of Talent Success at Workfront, an Adobe company. Adam lives in Lehi, Utah with his wife and 5 beautiful children.

Associate Professor of Political Science, BYU

Eric Hyer received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 1990 and is presently an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Brigham Young University and the Coordinator for Asian Studies. His research focuses on China's foreign relations. He has authored many articles on China’s arms sales, territorial issues, and US-China relations. He was the associate producer of “Helen Foster Snow: Witness to Revolution,” documentary movie (2000) and “From the Masses to the Masses: An Artist in Mao’s China” (2005). His book, The Pragmatic Dragon: China’s Grand Strategy and Boundary Settlements was published by University of British Columbia Press in 2015.

Modern Chinese Historian

Sharon Crain is a Specialist in Modern Chinese History and has been involved in China since 1977. She served as a Trustee of China Institute in America for 20 years where she helped develop the Chinese Scholars’ Program after the normalization of relations between China and the United States in 1979. At this time she also became close friends with Helen Snow and An Wei, both of whom greatly influenced her deeper immersion into China.

Curator, L. Tom Perry Special Collection at BYU

John Murphy is Curator for 20th Century Mormon and Western Manuscripts in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections. He has a BA in History from Brigham Young University, a MSLIS degree from Simmons College, and an MA in Comparative History from Brandeis University. John worked as a Special Collections Librarian at the University of Arizona and began his career at BYU in 2002. He and his wife, Leslee Thorne-Murphy, are the parents of three sons. They enjoy skiing, hiking, traveling, and camping as a family.

Author, speaker, entrepreneur, and executive coach. Josh is the founder of MWI, a digital marketing agency with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, the UK, and the US. He is also the founder and CEO of Influencer Inc, a publishing, training, and events company that provides personal branding and thought leadership services to CEOs and other executives. He is also a TEDx speaker, has presented to audiences in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America, and has been interviewed on local, national, and international radio and TV programs and on more than 50 podcasts on topics related to technology, marketing, personal influence, and entrepreneurship.

VP of Marketing at Huawei Technologies. Greg leads Huawei Technologies corporate marketing and brand strategy, which has propelled the $92 billion company to the leading ICT solutions provider in the world, and now the number 2 global smartphone leader. For the previous two years, Greg led Huawei Partner and Alliances, growing partnering capabilities, and revenue from $100 million to nearly $1 billion annually. He has been instrumental in promoting the value and the role that ICT and enabling technologies such as broadband, data center, cloud, IoT, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence, play, in driving country digital transformation and country GDP. He received his MBA from Brigham Young University.

Author of "Chinese Workers in the Construction of the Central Pacific Railway" and "Golden Road Passing". Ph.D., Associate Professor. In July 1985, Dr. Sheng graduated from Shanghai Normal University and stayed on as a professor. In 1998, she served as the deputy dean of the Sino-US Cooperation Utah Institute of Science and Technology at Shanghai Normal University. She was a pioneer in educational cooperation projects between Shanghai and Utah. From 2000 to 2001, she was a visiting scholar at Weber State University in Utah and visited Brigham Young University many times. She had supervised multiple charity projects between LDS Charities and the city of Shanghai. Previous appointments include: the deputy director of the Shanghai Oriental Forum Office, and the director, the chairman of the labor union, and the secretary general of the Shanghai Social Science Federation. She currently serves as Deputy Director of Shanghai Local Records Office and President of Shanghai Yearbook Association.

VP of Asia Pacific, International School Services. Dr. Cox received his doctorate in educational leadership from Lehigh University, his M.Ed. in educational administration from Arizona State University, and his B.A. in history from Brigham Young University. He worked for 25 years in public education in the United States before becoming an international school administrator in Beijing in 2006. He has served as the Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Association of China and Mongolia International Schools and has presented and trained on teacher recruitment, school improvement, learning innovation, board governance, and school leadership. Having lived in Asia in his youth, he is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese. He and his wife Rhoda are the parents of six children and the grandparents of thirteen grandchildren.

Republican member of the Utah House of Representatives representing District 38 and CEO and founder of Regeneris Group Renewable Energy. Eric Hutchings has served in the Utah State House of Representatives since 2001and currently holds the position of Speaker Pro-Tem. He also is the Chairman of the Utah State International Relations and Trade Commission for the legislature, and the Chairman of the Law and Criminal Justice Committee for the National Conference of State Legislatures. Representative Hutchings serves on the Board of Directors for the World Trade Center Utah and the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation that oversees all of the Olympic venues and events for the State. Representative Hutchings was also on the team that helped the University of Utah open its Asia campus on South Korea.

Representative Hutchings served a mission for the LDS Church in TaiChung Taiwan and still speaks what he considers to be conversational Mandarin. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Asian Studies from Brigham Young University, and a Masters Degree in International Affairs and Global Enterprises from the University of Utah. He currently works in the renewable energy industry, and travels extensively in Asia and Europe with his wife Stacey, sometimes for work, often to help lead trade mission delegations and even sometimes just for fun.

VP of International, Melaleuca, Inc. Jake joined Melaleuca in 2015 as their Global Controller and has served as their Vice President of International Operations since early 2016. In this capacity, Jake manages a portfolio of international markets in Asia and Mexico. Prior to Melaleuca, Jake spent several years living and working in Latin America as the Finance Director for Argonaut Gold and as the Regional Controller for Boart Longyear. Mr. Mangum graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. Jake also earned a Master of Accountancy from Brigham Young University with an emphasis in federal taxation.

Chief Digital Innovation Officer, Melaleuca, Inc. In his role of Chief Digital Innovation Officer, John is responsible for leading the company’s transformation of the digital customer experience, in addition to the company’s entrance into the China market. Prior to joining Melaleuca, John has a long history of technology leadership with a focus on Digital/ ecommerce with several retailers including The Vitamin Shoppe, Charming Charlie and eToys. John is a native of Cleveland, Ohio where he received his B.S. in Computer Science.

Associate International Vice President at BYU. Jeffrey R. Ringer was the previous director of the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at BYU. In addition to the overall management of the center, including its academic and research programs, he has also directed the China Teachers Program since 1992. He is an instructor in political science, where his research and teaching interests include U.S. foreign policy and Asian politics. He received his BA in Political Science and MA in International Relations from BYU and PhD in International Politics from University of Colorado Boulder.