The UCLA Anderson School of Management hosted the ninth annual Wilbur K. Woo Greater China Business Conference on April 10. This year’s conference was titled, “U.S.-China: Economic Ties, Growth Strategies and Investment Opportunities.” Both U.S. and Chinese business leaders, cross-border investors and academics came together during the conference to discuss the trends, strategies and opportunities, challenges, issues and dynamics presented by changing cross-border business and investment between the two countries.
Anderson’s dean, Judy Olian and Michael Woo, Los Angeles’ first Chinese-American city councilman and son of conference founder Wilbur K. Woo, delivered the opening remarks for the conference. Other speakers included representatives from BYD Motors Inc., China Mobile International Ltd., Twentieth Century Fox Filmed Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures Asia, China Fisheries North America, A&J Capital Investment Inc., Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., Emerging Transformational Ventures and Asia Strategic Growth Enterprises, Pillsbury, U.S.-China Real Estate Investment Center and Beijing Construction and Engineering Group.
The conference was born from an endowment by the late Wilbur K. Woo, a UCLA alumnus. Woo was born in China in 1916. He endowed the Wilbur K. Woo Greater China Business Conference at UCLA Anderson with the goal of promoting understanding of the economic ties between the Greater China region and United States.
This year’s Wilbur K. Woo Greater China Business Conference was sponsored by PwC and Cathay Bank. This year’s conference was organized by the Center for Global Management at Anderson in association with UCLA Anderson’s Greater China Business Association (GCBA) and UCLA’s Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA).