Thursday, March 13, 2008

Hartcourt forms strategic advisory committee

by Jo Black

China based Hartcourt Companies, Inc. has formed the Strategic Advisory Committee. Six members have been appointed to the Advisory Committee. These members are Xiping Tao, Senior Education Expert; Min Tang, Deputy Chief Representative and Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank, Beijing Office; Gary Locke, Partner and Co-Chair of China Practice Group, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP; Andy Rothman, Chief China Strategist, CLSA, Ltd.; Brian Outlaw, Director for China for the China Britain Business Council and Executive Vice President of the Western Management Institute of Beijing; and Yungeng Hu, President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

Mr. Xiping Tao is currently the General Advisor of the China National Education Supervisory Board, the Chairman of Beijing Social Science Association, Vice Chairman of China Education Association, and Chairman of Asia-Pacific Regional Association of United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Mr. Tao used to be the Secretary-in-General and the Commissioner of Beijing Education Bureau, assistant to Beijing mayor and vice director of Beijing People’s Representative Standing Committee. As a senior education expert, Mr. Tao published numerous articles and books on education.

Dr. Min Tang graduated from and taught at Dept. of Economics and Management of Wuhan University in 1982. In 1984, he went to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and obtained a Ph.D. in 1989, when he was hired by Asian Development Bank as an economist, covering the East Asia economy, regional economic cooperation, Asian debts and Asian financial markets. In 1985, Dr. Tang was promoted to Senior Economist at ADB’s Planning Section, responsible for the economic policy and development strategy of Southern Asia, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. In 2000, Dr. Tang was transferred to Beijing as the Deputy Chief Representative and Chief Economist at ADB’s Beijing Office. Dr. Tang was the first man who proposed to the State Council of PRC to expand the college and vocational education in China and thus named by the public as an “Education Activist.”

Mr. Gary Locke was elected Washington’s 21st governor on November 5, 1996, making him the first Chinese American governor in U.S. history. On November 7, 2000, Gary, a Democrat, was reelected to his second term by an overwhelming margin. As governor, he worked to make Washington a better place to live, work and raise a family by dramatically raising academic achievement in the public schools; strengthening the state’s economy, improving transportation, expanding health care to vulnerable children and adults, and making the state government more accessible and user-friendly. Gary’s organizational and managerial accomplishments have been recognized by Governing Magazine as one of America’s five best managed states, as a finalist in the Harvard Innovations in Government program, and as the most Digital State Government. Gary obtained his J.D. from Boston University in 1975 and B.A. from Yale in 1972.

 

 

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