Speaker Biographies
John Frisbie was named president of the U.S.-China Business Council on November 1, 2005. He has over twenty years of experience in business and government relations with China, including nearly ten years living and working in Beijing. Mr. Frisbie joined the trade consulting practice of Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw after serving as General Electric’s (GE) director for business development in China and Singapore from 1993–2000. Prior to working for GE, Mr. Frisbie worked in the U.S.-China Business Council from 1986–1993, spending the last five years of that tenure as director of Chinese operations in Beijing. He regularly authors articles for the China Business Review, the U.S.-China Business Council’s bimonthly magazine.
Ethan Gutmann is author of Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal (Encounter Books, 2004), a Chinese edition of which was published in July 2005. Prior to completing this book, Mr. Gutmann worked in Beijing as senior counselor at APCO China, a leading public affairs firm, and as executive producer for Beijing Television. In the 1990s, he served as chief investigator for the America’s Voice Television network in Washington, D.C. Mr.Gutmann has been both a foreign policy analyst at the Brookings Institution and a visiting fellow at the Project for the New American Century. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal Asia, Investor’s Business Daily, the Washington Times, Red Herring, The Weekly Standard, and other publications.
James L. McGregor is a journalist-turned-businessman who has lived in Beijing for fifteen years. He is the author of One Billion Customers: Lessons From the Front Lines of Doing Business in China (Free Press, 2005). He is currently an investor, advisor, and entrepreneur in China and a founding partner of BlackInc China. He also serves as senior advisor for Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide and SpencerStuart. Mr. McGregor is a senior director of Stonebridge International LLC, an international strategic advisory firm. Mr. McGregor has held senior positions in China for GIV Venture Partners, Dow Jones & Co., Dow Jones International Group, and the American Chamber of Commerce. From 1990 to 1994, McGregor was the China bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, and from 1987 to 1990 was a Taiwan correspondent for the Wall Street Journal Asia.
Ying Ma is a National Research Initiative fellow at AEI, where she studies international law, sovereignty, and Asia. Ms. Ma has worked on China-related issues for the Congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and for the Council on Foreign Relations. She has also managed corporate communications for Sina.com, the first mainland Chinese Internet company to be listed on NASDAQ. Ms. Ma has written for The American Enterprise, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Policy Review, Los Angeles Times, and other publications.
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