Register Now: Can China and the U.S. Compete Without Conflict?

John A. Quelch, American President of Duke Kunshan University, joins CCG for a discussion on managing competition and preserving cooperation in China–U.S. relations

The Center for China and Globalization (CCG) will host Professor John A. Quelch, American President and Executive Vice Chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, for a dialogue with Henry Huiyao Wang, Founder and President of CCG. The dialogue, themed “Coopetition: How Can China and the U.S. Coexist?”, will conclude with a live audience Q&A.

Event Information

Date: 23 July, 2026

Venue: Beijing

Language: English

Format: A dialogue between Professor John A. Quelch and CCG President Henry Huiyao Wang, followed by an audience Q&A

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Featured Speaker

John A. Quelch CBE

American President and Executive Vice Chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, Distinguished Professor of Social Science at DKU and the John DeButts Professor at the Fuqua Business School, Duke University. Between 2017 and 2022, he was the Leonard M. Miller University Chair, Vice Provost of the University of Miami and Dean of the Miami Herbert Business School. Before 2017, he was both the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health.

Professor Quelch has substantial experience as a non-executive director. In the United States, he has served on the boards of Alere (14 years), Amerant Bancorp (4), Aramark (5), Gentiva Health Services (4), Pepsi Bottling Group (6) and Reebok International (12). He has also served as a board member of three pre-IPO data analytics companies, Datalogix and Vitrue (both sold to Oracle) and Affinnova (sold to A.C. Nielsen). He currently serves as a director of GenScript, Smithfield Foods and the fintech Surfin Meta.

In the United Kingdom, Professor Quelch served on the board of WPP, the world’s leading marketing services company, for 25 years (including seven years as chair of the audit committee). In the UK, he has also been a director of Blue Circle Industries (2), easyJet (3) and Pentland Group (3).

Professor Quelch has significant experience as a board chairman. He was appointed pro bono chairman of the Massachusetts Port Authority following the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 and served three Massachusetts governors, both Republican and Democrat, during his eight year tenure. He also served pro bono for thirteen years as Honorary Consul General in New England for the Kingdom of Morocco and three years as Chairman of the British American Business Council of New England.

Professor Quelch’s executive experience includes service as Dean of three business schools: London Business School (1998-2001), China Europe International Business School (2011-2013) and Miami Herbert Business School (2017-2022). He is one of only three persons to have served as Dean of three leading business schools on three continents.

Professor Quelch is an expert on corporate strategy, global brand-building and customer behavior. His books include Choice Matters: How Healthcare Consumers Make Decisions (Oxford University Press, 2018), Consumers, Corporations and Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2016) and All Business is Local: Why Place Matters More Than Ever in a Global, Virtual World (Penguin Portfolio, 2012). He is (co)author of seventeen Harvard Business Review articles including a landmark paper on corporate governance titled “Bringing Customers Into the Boardroom”.

Professor Quelch was educated at Oxford University (BA and MA), the University of Pennsylvania (MBA) and Harvard University (SM and DBA). He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to British business in 2011 and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2020. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Henry Huiyao Wang

Founder and President of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) and former Counsellor to the China State Council.

Wang pursued his PhD studies at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Manchester. He was a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. A leading scholar on global relations, international business, global governance, talent migration, global investment and trade, he has published more than 100 works in English and Chinese. His latest English-language book, China and the Next Global Order: Coming Multipolar World and Great-Power Coopetition, was published by Springer Nature in 2026.