Global China Connection

Global China Connection
GCC
Founded 2008
Type Non-profit organization
Location
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Ben Wang (王韵墨)
(President)
Daniel Tedesco
(Chairman of Board of Trustees)
Mission Foster deep and trusting personal relationships among Chinese and non-Chinese university students
Website www.gccglobal.org

Global China Connection or GCC (Mandarin Chinese: 全球中国联接) is a student-run 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works to develop personal relationships between young leaders from China and those from the rest of the world. The network currently consists of 62 chapters at universities around the world. GCC's main activities include hosting delegations of university students, China-focused social and professional events, and annual summits in China and the United States. The official languages of GCC are English and Mandarin Chinese. Global China Connection was founded in 2008.

Organization

GCC's structure is divided into two components: GCC Central Management and Chapter Network. GCC Central Management manages overall communication and strategic activities, directs the network, and coordinates most of the organization's larger international events. The Chapter Network consists of individual groups and structures. Each chapter is governed by their own presidents and executive boards.

At the top level, GCC is governed by a board of trustees (highly distinguished GCC members) and senior advisers (highly distinguished individuals outside of GCC), who currently are:


Board of Trustees:
Daniel Tedesco (谭德馨) (Chairman)
Yihao Li (李一豪)
Yijiao Wang (王宜骄)
Derrick Fu (傅德伦)


Senior Advisers:
John Watkins — Former Chairman of American Chamber of Commerce China; CEO of ASC Fine Wines
John Holden — Nonresident Senior Associate in the Carnegie Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former President National Committee US-China Relations
James L. McGregor — Greater China Chairman, APCO Worldwide; Author of “One Billion Customers”
Warren Liu — Accomplished Businessman; Author of “KFC: Number One in China”

Chapter Network

The GCC network currently consist of 62 active chapters in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Germany and the United Arab Emirates, including:

American University
Bard College
Boston University
Brandeis University
Bryant University
Carleton College
Colby College
Colby–Sawyer College
Colgate University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Denison University
Drexel University
Duke University
Emory University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Georgia Tech
Harvard University
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong University
Indiana University
Johns Hopkins University
McMaster University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McGill University
Mount Holyoke College
New York University
NYU Abu Dhabi
Oberlin College
Phillips Exeter
Pomona College
Princeton University
Purdue University
Queen's University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rice University
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Stony Brook University
Syracuse University
Tufts University
UC Irvine
UCLA
UCSD
University of British Columbia
University of Canterbury
University of Georgia
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Notre Dame
University of Pennsylvania
University of South Carolina
University of Southern California
University of Texas
University of Toronto, St. George
University of Toronto, Mississauga
University of Virginia
University of Waterloo
University of Western Ontario
University of Wisconsin
Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Wilfrid Laurier University
Yale University

Events

GCC events connect companies, social organizations, and individuals through annual conferences as well as smaller scale forums. The organization hosts two major conferences each year, generally in New York City (spring) and Beijing (summer). Conferences contain discussion on subjects such as politics, economics, international relations, business, journalism, and culture related to China. Smaller conferences and events are also hosted by chapters within GCC.

Previous speakers at GCC conferences include:

Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia

Steve Forbes, president and CEO, Forbes Inc.

Stephen Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and chief economist at Morgan Stanley

Orville Schell, director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S. China-Relations

Susan Shirk, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator from New York

Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist and Columbia University professor

Zhang Weiying, Dean of Guanghua School of Management at Peking University

Bai Yansong, CCTV anchor

Liu Xiao Ling Tong prominent actor in China best known for his role as the Monkey King in Journey to the West (1986 TV series)

The smaller forums are based on subjects such as China's sustainable development/environmental protection challenges; the stimulus packages passed by China and the U.S.; the current state of the American media; U.S.-China relations; and China's developing capital markets.

Delegations

GCC hosts and leads numerous student delegations in both the United States and China. GCC generally collaborates with student association partners such as the Western Returned Scholars Association, the Students International Communication Association of Peking University (SICA), as well as student government groups, in managing these events. GCC delegations have visited companies such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Ernst & Young, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Microsoft, The New York Times, Baidu, and Lenovo, among others.

Partners

Global China Connection's partners include:

References

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