Michael Crook is the Chairman of the JGI China Board. He a British citizen but born and raised in Beijing, and has been a teacher in Beijing for more than 20 years. Michael became a member of the Jane Goodall Institute China's Board of Representatives at its founding, and served as Chairman until 2005, now to return to this position in 2011. He is a founder of the Western Academy of Beijing, and member of the Board of ICCIC, a Chinese NGO.
Matthew E. Durnin is a Wildlife Ecologist and has been conducting research on wildlife in China since 1994. He has been studying wild giant pandas in the Wolong Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province, China, since 1998 and published his Ph.D. Dissertation, Reproductive Behavior, Ecology, and Demographic Patterns of Free Ranging Giant Panda in China's Wolong Nature Reserve, in 2005. He is currently the Regional Science Director at The Nature Conservancy's China Program. He is also a council member of the International Association for Bear Research and Managing Editor of the International Bear News.
Stuart Eunson is the Founder and the Managing Director of Arabica Coffee Roasters, the first Fair Trade Certified coffee roaster in China. Buying coffee beans from local farmers in southwestern Yunnan, he works closely with the coffee growers to advocate for environmentally sustainable farming practices. Stuart was a Co-founder of Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise in 1994 and currently manages the offices in Beijing and Shanghai. He continues to initiate environmental sustainability as one of the founders of the Pro-Farmer project with the Western Academy of Beijing. He graduated from Colby College with a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies and has been living and working in China for the past 18 years.
Mac Fan has served as the director of the board of the New School of Collaborative Learning since 1996. He is an avid supporter of environmental education, and has organized many environmental activities for students in schools around Beijing. In addition to his work in Beijing, he has also been involved in various environmental protection activities in Guangxi Province and Mongolia. While in Guangxi, Mac joined Dr. Pan Wen Shi's team from Peking University to establish an environmentally sustainable village. Fan started a small organic food farm in Beijing 2003, and joined the JGI China Board of Directors in 2005, and served as Chairman from 2006 -2010.
Frances Fremont-Smith graduated with a Masters degree from Harvard University in 1985. She has lived in Great China for over 30 years taking on key roles in cross-cultural and language education, including creating the first high school homestay education program for foreign students in Beijing. Frances joined Future Generations in 2004 and was responsible for the community development programs throughout the Tibet Autonomous Region, acted as a consultant to the Qomolangma (Mt. Everest) National Nature Preserve, coordinated the task force for the creation of the Four Great Rivers Conservation Management Plan, and created the Green Long March youth conservation movement in cooperation with Beijing Forestry University and the China Youth League. She is currently the Resident Director for the School Year Abroad in China, a school affiliated with Beijing Normal University #2. High School. Frances serves on the Board of Trustees at the Western Academy of Beijing where she chairs the Development Committee; Jump! International and Jane Goodall Institute China. In 2009, Frances was made an Honorary Professor at Beijing Forestry University and received the award for Outstanding Contribution to the Green Long March from the State Administration of Forestry. In December 2010, Insider Magazine nominated Frances as one of the 100 most influential women in China.
Mike Furst is a Chairman and Founder of a Beijing-based company that develops and manages schools for Chinese students as well as other educational ventures in China. He has been a professor of Economics and Business at the Beijing Center for Chinese Studies as well as the Associate Dean and Professor at Beijing International MBA Programs at Peking University. Mike served as the Executive Director of the American Chamber of Commerce in China from 1998 to 2003 with a key effort to bring China into the WTO. He has worked on trade and investment issues since 1988 and has frequently acted as a consultant on U.S.-China trade issues to both governments. While at AmCham, he was also publisher of the monthly magazine China Brief and contributing photographer. Prior to AmCham, Mike was the Managing Director of Omega Management Limited consultancy firm in Hong Kong. He currently serves as a Board Member for JGI China and many other organizations. Mike has a Ph.D. from the University of Santa Barbara, an MBA from the Drucker Management Center at Claremont Graduate University, and a BA from the University of Vermont.
Erika Helms has continued to stay involved in Roots & Shoots and the Jane Goodall Institute China (JGI China) after first serving on the board of JGI China in 2000 and later as Executive Director. She served in the role of Executive Director from late 2005 to July 2010, and in the five years she successfully established and grew the number of student groups, programs and office operations, contributing significantly to the overall growth of Chinese youths making a positive impact in China. Erika had lived in China for more than ten years; more than five of those working in the non-profit sector, has a Master's degree in Public Administration (MPA) from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Johns Hopkins University. Now relocated to London, she is a visiting researcher for the China in Comparative Perspective Network at London School of Economics.
Greg MacIsaac currently works for the Western Academy of Beijing as a videographer. He is a teacher by training and has taught in many countries around the world. As one of the initial R&S organizers with Dr. Goodall in Tanzania in 1991, he has continued with the Jane Goodall Institute and Roots & Shoots ever since. He brought Roots & Shoots to China in 1994.
Mary Peng is a co-founder and an executive director of the International Center for Veterinary Services (ICVS), the first full service international animal hospital and pet care facility in China. Prior to co-founding ICVS, she was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in New York, Beijing and Shanghai and a senior executive in the advertising and marketing industries in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the USA. She was formerly the General Manager and Chief Representative for Dentsu, Young & Rubicam Advertising, China based in Shanghai and Beijing. Mary is the President of the International Newcomer's Network (INN) in Beijing and a member of the Executive Committee of the Columbia Alumni Association of Beijing. Mary is also a certified Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) practitioner and teaches TNR best practices and manages the ICVS animal welfare and rabies vaccination programs across China. She is a graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Originally from New York, she has been permanently based in China since 1991.
William Valentino, the Bayer Vice President Corporate Communications Greater China, came to China for Bayer in 1987 as Bayer's first foreign expatriate, opening and heading the company's first representative offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. In 1995 he took over as head of Bayer's Crop Science business in China until 1998 when he was entrusted with establishing Bayer's first Corporate Communications Division for China in Beijing. He became Bayer's communications head for Greater China in 2000. In addition to his position at Bayer, he is also actively engaged at Tsinghua University, as the Co-director of the Tsinghua-Bayer Public Health and HIV/AIDS Media Studies Program and he is also a Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer, teaching courses on media at the School of Journalism and Center for International Communications. He is currently enrolled in a certificate program in Corporate Community Involvement at the Center for Corporate Citizenship at the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management, Boston College. He is the Chairman of the European Chamber's Corporate Social Responsibility Working Group. In 2006 he began serving as a Board member of the Jane Goodall Institute China. In April 2006 he was elected to serve for one year as a Regional Board Member of the German Chamber of Commerce in Beijing.
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