Bios and pictures of the participants at the Launch Event follow
William Nee
William Nee is the Research and Advocacy Coordinator at Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), where he carries out research regarding a wide array of human rights concerns impacting human rights defenders in China. Previously, Nee worked as a Business and Human Rights Analyst and China Researcher at Amnesty International, where he researched human rights abuses caused by multinational companies and focused on freedom of expression, censorship, criminal justice developments, and the death penalty in China. Before that, he was Development Director at China Labour Bulletin.
Keren Wang
Keren Wang; Website (http://sites.psu.edu/kerenw/) Education: PhD in Communication Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania State University; Master of International Affairs, Pennsylvania State University. Research Area: I study political communication and rhetorical theory from transnational and critical-legal perspectives. My current research investigates the past, present, and future of ritual and sacrifice in a globalized world. Author of Legal and Rhetorical Foundations of Economic Globalization: An Atlas of Ritual Sacrifice in Late-Capitalism.”
Shan Gao
Dr. Gao, Penn State Law graduate, licensed in New York and China, currently works at regulatory affairs for Dexcom, Inc. As a member of Coalition for Peace and Ethics, Dr. Gao produced and published legal education pamphlet Know your Rights, an Information Guide to Basics of New York State Legal System under the supervision of professor Baker. His academic research focuses on the dynamic interaction between law and social order through the lens of commercial activities of multinational corporations and ever evolving technology. His S.J.D thesis: The Evolution of China’s Foreign Investment Policy and Law captured the modernization of China’s commercial legal system during the past three decades, which provided a well documented development of foreign investment system during the pre-trade-war era.