Shi Han

Shi Han is the founder and managing partner of ChinaLine, LLC, a Chicago- based management consulting firm that specializes in international corporate development. He advised leading multinationals such as Illinois Tool Works, Spectrum Brands, The Marmon Group, Eastman Kodak, and Bausch & Lomb in the areas of strategic acquisition and supplier relationship development in China and established some of the business structures that were ground-breaking and market-changing at the time and supplier relationships that generated cost savings in the millions of dollars.

He is formerly a lecturer and research fellow at Peking University's Department of World Economy and Center of Soviet and Eastern European Studies, and a research fellow at the J. F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of several books on international economics and some of his research works in the field of international management were funded by the Ford Foundation, the US Department of Education and the Foundation for Trans- cultural Studies of Japan.

As an expert on international management, Mr. Han is featured by news media such as Voice of America, Crain's Chicago Business, NBC Boston, and Rochester Business Journal. He speaks at national and international conferences regularly, lectures at leading universities in the US and China and was referenced in Marquis' Who's Who in the East.