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DR. RICHARD VAN OSTENDE
PROFESSOR at CHINA STUDIES AT UGSM-MONARCH BUSINESS SCHOOL SWITZERLANDDr. Richard van Ostende is Professor of China Studies at UGSM-Monarch Business School Switzerland, where he got promoted last year on the subject of strategic decision-making process of companies considering to performing Foreign Direct Investment into China. Mr. Van Ostende has been in China over 14 years and has mainly been working in senior financial management positions and has published extensively on aspects of doing business in China.
ANN SOPHIE DE MEESTER
HEAD OF CORPORATE SERVICES at R&P LAWYERSAnn Sophie joined R&P China Lawyers in 2018 as the Director of Corporate Services. Prior to joining R&P, she worked in Shanghai as a Group Financial Controller for a Norwegian multinational.
Ann Sophie has extensive experience advising foreign companies on tax compliance for various cross-border operations, including VAT and CIT optimization. She specializes in intercompany transactions, and reconciliation of financial statements so that they comply with IFRS and China GAAP.
She was educated at Aarhus University, Denmark, with a dual BA in Chinese and Business Administration, Ann Sophie also attended programs at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Shanghai Donghua University.
Ann Sophie has lived in China since 2009, is a native Danish speaker and fluent in English, Norwegian, Swedish and Chinese (Mandarin).
Cécilia Vermeulen
General Manager at Benelux Chamber of Commerce ShanghaiCécilia Vermeulen is the General Manager of the Benelux Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, the BenCham. For 7 years in Shanghai and with a mix background in public and private sector, she is now serving her community with BenCham. She has launched an experts panel program to help BenCham companies to thrive through the coronavirus crisis.