Time: Saturday, March 8, 2008, 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Henry Liu

Managing Director of HankPacific Group, former Director-General at the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)

Henry Liu is Managing Director of HankPacific Group, LLC, an international merchant banking and advisory firm focusing on China. Mr. Liu also serves as Of Counsel and a senior advisor to the law firm of Heller Ehrman LLP, providing strategic advice to the firm's Asia and China Practice.

Mr. Liu served as the General Counsel and Director-General at the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), China's national regulator for securities, futures and mutual fund industries, from 1995 to 2000. During his tenure at the CSRC, Mr. Liu was responsible for administering and implementing laws, regulations and policies for China's financial and capital markets.

Mr. Liu's investment banking background has included serving as a Managing Director of Investment Banking responsible for China at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) and Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) from 2000 to 2002.

In the early 1990s Mr. Liu was a principal at a U.S. law firm where he built up a China practice group and established one of the earliest formal presences in China of a U.S. law firm.

Mr. Liu was honored in the Asia Star Awards by BusinessWeek as China's national policy-maker, consecutively in 1998 and 1999. He received the Global Leader for Tomorrow Award from the World Economic Forum at the Global Summit in Davos in 1999. AsiaWeek (Time Inc.) recognized him as a "Nation Builder" at the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic of China in 1999.