Speakers

	Mr Bo Landin (The Moderator)    Chairman, Sweden-China Trade Council Bo Landin is since 2000 Chairman of Sweden-China Trade Council (SCTC). He joined the board already in 1991. SCTC has some 220 members, companies, institutions and organisations. SCTC is supporting its members in order to facilitate business contacts in China. SCTC has a program for information and exchange of experience among the members.   Bo Landin has had a long career in Ericsson. He joined the Group Management in 1978, when he was named Senior Vice President. He held a number of executive positions until he retired in 2000.   From 1995 to 1999 he had a Group responsibility for Ericsson’s activities in Asia and Oceania, based in Hong Kong. He also held the position of Chairman, Ericsson China.   Bo Landin is also Chairman of Swedish Business Council for Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.   Bo Landin was born 1938.
	Ms Sarah Wu    Director-General, Hong Kong Trade and Economic Office, London Ms. Wu took up her post as Director-General of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, London in April 2006.  As a senior representative of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, she is responsible for leading the development and expansion of Hong Kong's economic and business partnership across the United Kingdom and eight other European countries.   Upon graduation from the University of Hong Kong, Ms. Wu joined the Hong Kong Government as an Administrative Officer in 1978 and attended a one-year course at Oxford University on Administrative Development in 1979.  She received a Master of Tourism degree from Griffith University, Australia in 2003.   Ms. Wu has worked in a wide variety of positions within the civil service.  She was formerly the Director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in New York from June 2002 to March 2006.  Other recent positions she held include Deputy Director of Information Services and Deputy Director of the Food and Environment Hygiene Department.   Ms. Wu loves travelling and is interested in World Heritage Sites.
	Mr Lars Danielsson    Consul-General of Sweden to Hong Kong Lars Danielsson is Sweden's Consul-General in Hong Kong and Macao. After having served as a Swedish diplomat in Beijing, Geneva and New York, Lars Danielsson worked for 15 years as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor and State Secretary to two Swedish Prime Ministers before taking up his present post in October last year.
	Mr Simon Galpin    Director-General, Invest Hong Kong Mr Simon Galpin is the Director-General of Investment Promotion of Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK), the Government Department responsible for attracting and facilitating foreign direct investment into Hong Kong.   Mr Galpin joined InvestHK as Associate Director-General in 2001, soon after the establishment of the Department. His contribution in shaping the strategy and business planning process has helped establish InvestHK as one of the world's leading investment promotion agencies.   Having accumulated solid management experience across the Department’s main investment promotion sectors, Mr Galpin was also heavily involved in the development of its global network, establishing overseas representation in the Americas, South East Asia and Japan, India, and the Middle East.   With senior management experience in both the private and public sectors, Mr Galpin’s work experience combines international marketing, economic development and investment promotion. Prior to joining InvestHK, Mr Galpin spent ten years as the Head of Asia Pacific with Scottish Enterprise - at that time Europe’s largest economic development agency. He was initially posted to Hong Kong in 1992 but also worked in Glasgow, Taipei, Sydney and London.   Mr Galpin, 47, holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Sheffield University Management School, a Master of Science degree from the University of Glasgow and a Master of Law (International Business Law) degree from the University of London.
	Mr Zhang Qiu    Deputy Director-General, Fujian Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation   Mr. Zhang Qiu was born in November, 1956. He graduated from Fujian Normal University with a bachelor's degree in Chinese and a master's degree in Economics. Mr. Zhang initially taught at Fuzhou No. 1 Middle School and worked as a secretary in the general office of Fuzhou University. Later he joined the government. He has held a number of government administration positions in economy and trade area. He has worked as the secretary in general office of Fujian provincial government, deputy director of the general office of Fujian Agriculture Comittee, deputy secretary of district Party committee of Fuzhou Suburb Committee. He was the Chief Executive of Minhou County of Fuzhou and deputy secretary of county Party committee of Minhou County of Fuzhou. He also served as the secretary of district Party committee of Mawei District of Fuzhou, Party committee secretary of Fuzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, director of the management committee of the Fuzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone and director of management committee of Fuzhou Bonded Area. Presently, Mr. Zhang is deputy director-general of Fujian Provincial Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. He also serves on the Committee for the Promotion of Fujian-Taiwan Economic Cooperation as deputy director of the office. He is appointed as the member of the standing committee of the 10th Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
	Mr Kenneth Öst  General Manager (Hong Kong), Svenska Handelsbanken Kenneth Öst joined Handelsbanken 1986 and have worked as Account Manager in a Branch, Analyst at Credit Department and as Branch Manager at five different Branches in Sweden (Kungsör, Örebro Ekersgatan, S:t Eriksgatan in Stockholm, Sundsvall and Västerås City). After that he worked as Area Manager in Stockholm. Kenneth Öst is General Manager for Handelsbanken in Hong Kong since 1 May 2008.
	Mr Roger Halvarsson    Director of Buying, ICA Non Food The ICA Group is the Nordic region’s leading retail company with about 2,230 own and retailer-owned stores in Sweden, Norway and the Baltic region. The Group includes ICA Sverige, ICA Norge, Rimi Baltic, and ICA Banken. Mr Roger Halvarsson, Head of ICA Group´s Non food Assortment, joined Ica in 2007. Roger has worked in the retailing industry in various positions for more than 20 years.
	Mr Björn Aschan    Advokatfirman Björn Aschan AB From 1 January 2009 Mr. Aschan works through his own law firm, Advokatfirman Björn Aschan AB.   Mr. Aschan has more than 25 years experience from assisting clients in their business activities in China.   Mr. Aschan is a Member of the Swedish Bar Association and of the Board of Directors of Sweden China Trade Council and the China Council in Gothenburg, Sweden.   Mr. Aschan has for almost 40 years been working with international business law as a lawyer and a partner of Advokatfirman Vinge, one of Sweden's largest law firms. In 1985, Mr. Aschan opened Vinge's office in Hong Kong where he then worked as Vinge's Resident Partner for more than four years. In 1989, Mr. Aschan moved to Brussels, Belgium, where he opened Vinge's Brussels office. He then worked as Vinge's Resident Partner in Belgium for four years. In 1999, Vinge became the first Scandinavian law firm to recieve a license to open a Representative Office in Shanghai, China. In 2006, Mr. Aschan returned to Hong Kong heading Vinge's China Practice Group until his retirement from Vinge in 2008.