Andre Shen is the founder and CEO of Bridge Consulting, a global health communications firm based in Beijing. A seasoned consulting professional and social entrepreneur with 15 years of experience in promoting health and wellbeing through communications and education efforts, Andre is passionate about developing innovative, impactful partnerships that enable China to play a larger role in global health and development.

Dr Biao Xiang is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, one of the world’s leading centres for research in socio-cultural anthropology. His research addresses various types of migration and mobility in China and other parts of Asia and examines a wide range of political and economic issues, such as state-society relations, labor, social reproduction, and mobility governance.

Angel Martinez is a culture writer and content strategist based in Manila, Philippines. She recently finished a one-year fellowship at Kontinentalist, an award-winning editorial studio that tells data stories about Asia. Today, she writes about the internet, identity, and their intersections for publications like VICE, i-D, Vox, and Teen Vogue. When she’s not knee-deep in the written word, you can find her crying over the New Year’s Eve scene from When Harry Met Sally… (1989) and cafe-hopping in pursuit of the perfect Spanish latté.