Charles Y.S. Liu
Chairman and Founder, Hao Capital; Senior Fellow, Peking University Center on China and Global Affairs
Charles Y.S. Liu is chairman of Hao Capital, which manages Hao Capital China Fund I LP and Hao Capital China Fund II LP. Liu is also a senior fellow at the Peking University Center on China and Global Affairs. He founded Hao Capital in 2005 as a private equity fund, investing in Chinese companies in a wide range of industries. Liu previously served as managing director of Lazard Asia Ltd. and spent 15 years working for the United Nations organizing international economic conferences and executing development projects for international organizations and agencies. Liu has been a guest host on CNBC and regularly appears on CCTV, BBC and Bloomberg. He served as chairman and a board member of the Investment Committee of Applied Materials Inc., becoming the first Chinese national to serve on a Fortune 300 board. Liu graduated from Princeton University and attended the J.D. program of New York University Law School.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.