BOARD OF ADVISORS

Carol Rattray is a private investor and co-founder of Zoomdojo LLC, a social enterprise and career success initiative for college students and recent graduates and the Rattray Kimura Foundation, a private foundation focused on education and conservation.Carol began her career at Bankers Trust Company’s Capital Markets Group specializing in private placement origination from straight debt to complex structured financings for corporate clients in healthcare, media, transportation, utilities and other sectors. For more than 25 years, Carol has been investing and advising startups in technology, media, sustainability and other fields. More recently, Carol and her Zoomdojo co-founder developed a proprietary online jobs search database and offline have been providing programs and advisory services for students and educational institutions.Carol is also Senior Advisor to Trella Urban Forestry Technology LLC and Advisor to Sustainability Partners LLC.  In philanthropy, Carol is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Asian Cultural Council and the Re Foundation, and a Trustee Emerita of Bates College. She sits on the Advisory Boards of the Columbia Graduate School of Business Lang Center for Entrepreneurship, Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Advisory Council and the Cornell University Council. She was previously a Member of the Board of The Nature Conservancy New York State Chapter, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Friends of the Chinese University Museum in Hong Kong and the College Women’s Association of Japan.

Dr. Robert Garris as Global China Connection’s new Senior Advisor. Dr. Garris is the Global Director of Admissions at Schwarzman Scholars, where oversees the recruitment effort for elite scholars from around the world to join the highly selective 1-year Schwarzman Scholars master’s program at Tsinghua University. Previously, he was a Managing Director at the Rockefeller Foundation, Senior Associate Dean at Columbia University SIPA, and Director of Admissions at Johns Hopkins University SAIS. Dr. Garris holds a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Wang Huiyao is the Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a top independent think tank in China dedicated to China and globalization studies, including the globalization of Chinese talent and enterprises. Dr. Wang is a well-known Chinese expert on China and globalization issues, on global migration, global talent, overseas Chinese, students, returnees and on Chinese firms going global and multinational companies in China; he is also a founder of several well-known Chinese overseas returnees organizations, a social entrepreneur and a top adviser to the Chinese government at both central and provincial levels as well as to international organizations and large enterprises. Among his numerous other appointments, Dr. Wang was appointed in 2015 by Premier Li Keqiang to the Councilor’s Office of the State Council of China.