James Edgar is the new Deputy Bureau Chief at AFP news agency in Beijing. Edgar previously worked for AFP in Hong Kong. Hou Yue is the new Chinese Ambassador to Norway. She presented her certificate of authorization to the Royal Palace at the end of January. Hou succeeds Yi Xianliang. Is something changing in your […]
President Xi Jinping has named a number of new ambassadors, including two new representatives in Europe. Hou Yue is the new ambassador to Norway, replacing Yi Xianliang in Oslo. In the small state of San Marino, Jia Guide now represents the People’s Republic as successor to Li Junhua.Is something changing in your organization? Let us […]
Making an effort and standing up for her cause is something Haifen Nan learned at an early age. She grew up in a small village near the southern Chinese city of Wenzhou; her parents had spent their own childhood in severe poverty and wanted their children to have it better. “My father always said, ‘Everything […]
Piotr Buras was 15 years old when the socialist dictatorships in Eastern and Central Europe crumbled and a democracy emerged in Poland. When he studied international relations in Warsaw in the 1990s, Europe was still a myth in Poland. Today, Buras heads the Warsaw office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and defends […]
Amy Hawkins is the new China correspondent at the British newspaper The Guardian. Hawkins had previously written for The Economist for three years. Huxiong Xu is a new Partner at the German consultancy Roland Berger in Shanghai. His focus is on the automotive sector. Is something changing in your organization? Let us know at heads@table.media!
When Andreas Schmid was growing up near Stuttgart, Chinese was sometimes spoken at the dinner table. His grandparents, who had worked as missionaries and teachers for blind children in Hong Kong and Guangdong for almost 30 years, used Chinese to exchange ideas in secret. “That naturally made me curious,” Schmid says. So did the fact […]
Peter Catterall is the new China and Mongolia correspondent for AFP. Catterall works from Beijing. He was previously a journalist at the tech media platform Pandaily. Beijing has appointed several ambassadors to African countries: Li Qinfeng will succeed Chen Dong as ambassador to the Central African Republic. Wang Qing was appointed ambassador to Sierra Leone, […]
“I think this city is simply beautiful” – Tanja Baerman really goes into raptures when she thinks about what she particularly appreciates about Brussels. The “diversity of architecture” is spectacular. She is a big fan of Art Nouveau and Art Deco. Baerman is head of the Bremen State Representation in the European City of Brussels.After […]
Gu Kaman accepted another function at China Southern Airlines at the Frankfurt/Main branch at the beginning of the year. In addition to her role as Business Development Manager, she has also been Deputy Cargo Sales Manager since January. Gu has been working for the airline from Guangzhou in southern China for almost ten years.Is something […]
Liu Zhengrong was Head of Human Resources at Beiersdorf in Hamburg for almost ten years. Now he is retiring and allowing himself a six-month break. Time to reflect, as he says. After all, the 55-year-old has had an eventful few years.Born in Shanghai in 1968, Liu first studied Chinese as a second language and then, […]