Panel Discussion on “China’s Urban Sustainability Challenges”

Date: Wednesday May 2nd
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Korn Hall, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Cost: Free
Action: RSVP here
Contact: Nurit Katz @ (818) 384-9493
Perks: Coffee and desserts from Organic to Go after the panel

Detailed Information:
How can China address the colossal challenge of reconciling incredible rates of economic growth and massive urban migration with protection of health, environment, and quality of life? And how should the U.S. and the rest of the world respond?

Speakers:
Woodrow Clark, Senior Foreign Energy Advisor, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, PRC
Todd Maurer, Managing director, Sinica Advisors, LLC
Perry Wong, Senior Economist, Milken Institute
Michael Woo, LA City Planning Commissioner and Professor of Urban Planning

Bios:
Woodrow Clark Biography
Woodrow W. Clark II, MA3, Ph.D. is Lecturer, Anderson School, University of California, LA and Heckmann Center for International Entrepreneurship at University of California, Riverside. He is a “qualitative economist” and has published dozens or articles and a book on the California energy crisis “Agile Energy Systems”. Clark was Senior Renewable Energy, Emerging Technologies, and Finance Advisor to Governor Davis. During the 1990s, he was Manager, Strategic Planning, Energy Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Visiting Professor, International Entrepreneurship, Aalborg University, Denmark. He was a co-editor and co-author on separate chapters for the Inner Governmental Panel on Climate Change (1999). In 2005, Clark founded Clark Strategic Partners in Los Angeles, California whose clients include the Los Angeles Community College District, Energy Director; Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) Peoples Republic of China, Senior Foreign Energy Advisor; and Milken Institute, Senior Fellow. Dr. Clark serves on several boards, including the University of California, Berkeley Alumni Board.

Todd Maurer Biography
Todd Maurer is Managing Director of Sinica Advisors LLC and brings nearly two decades of
investment banking, consulting, and growth start-up experience in China and the Asia-Pacific
region. He was previously a Partner of Lotus Asset Management Ltd, a Hong Kong-based
hedge fund and alternative investment firm, and from 1992 to 1998 held senior corporate
finance positions at Peregrine Investments Holdings based in Hong Kong, Seoul and Beijing.
While at Peregrine he was involved in numerous financial and commercial transactions
including China’s first privatizations, global offerings, and M&A advisory assignments for
leading multinationals. He was also General Manager and Director of one of China’s first joint
venture investment consulting firms with the Beijing municipal government and the Ministry of
Foreign Economics and Trade. Mr. Maurer began his career as an economist for KOTRA, a
Korean government agency.

Mr Maurer has worked on China-related assignments with the University of California, the
Centers for Competitive Technologies, GMAC Commercial Finance, Apollo Group, Inc., The
University of Phoenix, CIBER (Center for International Business and Economic Research at
UCLA), Haute Ecole Commercial (Paris), UT Starcom, the Cheung Kong Graduate School of
Management in Beijing and TheatreDreams.

In addition to his consulting practice Mr. Maurer is a frequent speaker and has lectured at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong, USC Marshall School of Business, Pepperdine University,
and the Anderson School at UCLA. Since 2004 he has been an Instructor at UCLA where
he teaches courses on China, the Pacific Basin and Emerging Market Investment. He is a
member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the West Coast affiliate of the Council
on Foreign Relations, and is Board Director of the Columbia University Alumni Association.
Mr. Maurer was educated at Columbia University ( M.I.A, School of International and Public
Affairs), UCLA (B.A., Economics) and has conducted post-graduate study at Peking
University and Nanking University. He speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese, and
conversational Korean and Russian.