After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and after finishing his studies in at Utah, Cornell and Harvard, John Naisbitt worked as an executive in the corporate world. He was then invited to serve as Assistant Secretary of Education under President Kennedy when he was 34, and worked as Special Assistant for President Johnson. He has witnessed America going through both troubled times and good times.

He has been traveling around the world since the late 1960s, keeping in close touch with corporations and people in many fields of endeavor. He has spoken to virtually every major corporation, to many several times. His cultural life and residence in the United States, Europe and now China keeps him directly in touch with a changing economic environment - experience that is reflected in the books he has written.

John Naisbitt's international bestseller Megatrends sold more than 9 million copies and was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than two years, mostly as number one. He then published the international bestsellers Re-inventing the Corporation in 1985, Megatrends 2000 in 1990, which was published in 32 countries and was the Number One bestseller in the U.S., Japan, and Germany, and Megatrends for Women in 1992 (co-authored with Patricia Aburdene). His Japanese language book, Japan's Identity Crisis, was released in 1992 and was a bestseller in Japan.

His 1994 book, Global Paradox, received England's World Review Award for The Best Book of The Year. Megatrends Asia 1995, was a bestseller in the German language and in Asia. High Tech High Touch was published in the fall of 1999 and has since been published in 17 countries. His book "Mind Set!" was published in 42 countries. The Wall Street Journal called his work "triumphantly useful … taking bearings in all directions and giving us the courage to do the same." His most recent book, China's Megatrends: 8 Pillars of China's Success, was published in 2009 in both English and Chinese.

To summarize his experiences, he is
• Graduate of Harvard, Cornell and Utah Universities
• Former executive with IBM and Eastman Kodak
• Assistant Secretary of Education to President Kennedy
• Special Assistant to President Johnson
• Former visiting fellow at Harvard University, visiting professor at Moscow State University, and current faculty member at the Nanjing University in China
• Distinguished International Fellow, Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), Malaysia -- the first non-Asian to hold this appointment
• Recipient of 15 honorary doctorates in the humanities, technology and science

John Naisbitt is a powerful speaker. His goal is to help his audience to step back from short term disruptions, alternating favored business theories and practices and create a picture of the fundamental restructuring that is taking place in the world today.

Doris Naisbitt, an observer of global social, economic and political trends, is the Director of the Naisbitt China Institute in Tianjin, China and co-author of the bestseller Megatrends China: Eight Pillars of a New Society, co-author of The China Model and author of Mai-Lin My China (CITIC October 2010) She holds professorships at Nankai and Yunnan University, and at Yunnan Normal Universities in China.

Mrs. Naisbitt has a distinguished career in publishing, serving as head of the Austrian publishing house, Signum Verlag. During her tenure she upgraded the company by acquiring internationally known authors and establishing Signum as a player in the broader German Language market, including Germany and Switzerland.

Among Mrs. Naisbitt's first new authors was John Naisbitt, whose book, Megatrends Asia, published 1995, became a bestseller in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, under the Signum imprint. From 2002 to 2006 she worked in close collaboration with John Naisbitt's public lecturing in editing and translating his books and other works for the German publishing houses of Hanser, Bertelsmann and Frankfurter Allgemeine Buchverlag.

Other international authors Doris Naisbitt has brought to the German language market include Peter Senge, the author of the world-acclaimed Fifth Discipline and Don Tapscott, author of the ground breaking new book, Wikinomics. Mrs. Naisbitt entered the publishing world at the age of 39, after working in the production of television documentaries for Walter Davy, an award-winning director.


Mrs. Naisbitt studied fashion and theatre in Vienna at the acclaimed Academy of Performing Arts under the tutelage of Susi Nicoletti and Pula Wesseley, two of Austria's most famous actresses. She and John Naisbitt live in Vienna, Austria and Tianjin, China.

Professor SP Chow, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong since July 2008, graduated from The University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Medicine in 1968 and joined the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1973 as Lecturer. He pursued his specialty training in orthopaedic surgery in Hong Kong, United Kingdom, and USA in 1972-1977. He advanced to Senior Lecturer, Reader, and eventually Chair Professor in 1990.

Professor Chow is a world renowned Orthopaedic Surgeon in the area of upper limb surgery and microsurgery having over 150 publications in this area. He performed the first successful microsurgical replantation of a severed thumb in Hong Kong in 1977 and his experimental repair of blood vessels of 0.15 mm diameter is still a world record. He has held esteemed positions in many international professional bodies, the latest of which being the President of the Asian Pacific Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand, and Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Hand Surgery".

Professor Chow was Dean of Medicine from 1995-1998 during which he initiated a curriculum reform with far-reaching effect on the whole sector of tertiary education. He was also successful in planning and securing the funding for the new medical complex on Sassoon Road, with state of the art laboratories of world standard. Professor Chow was also Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 2000-2001, taking charge of staffing matters.

Professor Chow was involved with many voluntary and charity activities. He has worked as a volunteer surgeon in Bangladesh, Africa, Indonesia, Mainland China, and Vietnamese refugee camps in Hong Kong. He is the Honorary President of the Hong Kong Physical Handicapped and Able-Bodied (PHAB) Association, and is involved as advisor to the Salvation Army, Red Cross, and NGO’s in special education. He also sits on numerous statutory and non-statutory bodies.

Professor Chow's hobbies are diverse including trailwalks, Chinese painting and music appreciation.

Dr. Fung is the Chairman of Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings Limited, a publicly listed company at the Main Board on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, since its inception. Apart from being a founder, he was also the first Publisher and Chief Editor of the Hong Kong Economic Times (HKET) launched in 1988. Dr. Fung is responsible for the corporate missions setting, the overall strategic planning and development of the Group. He laid the foundation of HKET to become the leading business daily in Hong Kong and steers the multimedia diversification of the Group.

Dr. Fung has accumulated 30 years of entrepreneurial experiences in various disciplines. Prior to founding HKET, Dr. Fung and his partners ventured into various business areas including acting as media representatives of overseas renowned publications, advertising, publishing of trade journals, exhibition services, China trade, securities brokerage, computer trade and system development, electronics and toys manufacturing.

Dr. Fung has been very active in student activities in his University days and was elected as the President of the Students’ Union of The University of Hong Kong in 1971. He obtained a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree from The University of Hong Kong (1972) and a Master of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom (1977).

In August 2006, Dr. Fung made a personal donation in the name of him and his wife of 10% of the issued share capital of Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings Limited to The University of Hong Kong (HKU) through the establishment of Azalea (1972) Endowment Fund, which provides funding for HKU designated projects that benefit HKU and the Hong Kong community.

Dr. Fung was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2003. He was granted "40 under 40 Distinguished Alumni Awards" by the Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU, in 2007. In recognition of his contributions to academia and Hong Kong, HKU conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Social Sciences honoris causa in 2010. Dr. Fung is currently a Director of Musketeers Education and Culture Charitable Foundation Limited and the Chairman of Hong Kong Ideas Centre Limited.

Professor Shih Chi-Ping is presently taking up positions as senior news commentator of Phoenix Satellite Television (HK), honorary researcher in the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, visiting professor of HKU SPACE and columnist for magazines including Money Weekly, Sino Foreign Management and Oriental Business. He is also the author of the following publications: 《中國大趨勢‧大博弈》、《當代個體經濟理論與應用》、《當代總體經濟理論與政策》、《經濟現代化之路》、《問題在哪裡 — 我對劇變中臺灣經濟情勢的觀察與省思》、《歷史的巨變 — 我對中國大陸政經改革的一些觀察》、《經濟中國 — 二十一世紀中國的展望》、《對話前的思考 — 兩岸中國的思維革命》、《新中國—二十一世紀海峽兩岸的出路》. Mr Shi has been a counselor and Executive Officer of the Council for Economic Planning and Development, Government Information Office of Taiwan, the first Assistant Secretary General of the Straits Exchange Foundation, editor-in-chief of China Times and Commercial Times, and host of programmes broadcasted by Chinese Television System, Chinese Satellite TV and 真相電視公司.