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Chris Carr
Partner at MinterEllisonChris Carr is a partner in MinterEllison's Shanghai office. He specialises in cross border M&A, private equity, joint ventures, foreign direct investment (FDI) and other commercial transactions.
Chris has extensive experience working with Chinese clients and counterparties and has worked on some of the most prominent China related M&A transactions in the past decade. He has lived in China for almost a decade including 7 years working on the ground in Beijing with a magic circle law firm. Chris is fluent in both spoken and reading Chinese (Mandarin) and English which, combined with his Australian education and training is highly valuable to clients in complex and difficult cross border negotiations.
Erlend Ek
Research Manager at China PolicyErlend heads research on international trade at China Policy. Advising a global client network, his team tracks Chinese policy-making and debate on market
access, investment, trade agreements and food security, mapping the strategic dimensions of trade policy. At the company since 2013, Erlend spent years following agriculture policy, and is known for his deep knowledge of and extensive reporting on trade in agricultural commodities.
As China seeks a more prominent role in the governance of emerging forms of digital and other high-tech trade, he monitors new trade modes and patterns emerging from the country’s more active engagement with the world, in particular through its Belt and Road Initiative.
Erlend studied social anthropology at University of Oslo and University College London.
Dan (Diane) Hu
Assistant Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU)Ms. HU Dan teaches “Australian Economy and Its Economic Relations with China”, “Legal Translation”, “Public Speaking” and other BA and MA courses at the School of English and International Studies. Her course “Australian Economy and Its Economic Relations with China”, the only course in China featuring Australian economy, compares Australian and Chinese economies and regulatory systems and examines key issues in bilateral economic relations like trade, investment and FTA.
Ms. Hu has chaired or participated in several projects on China-Australia economic relations, with funding from the National Social Sciences Fund, Ministry of Education, Australia China Council, Foundation on Australian Studies in China (FASIC) and BFSU. She has also been an active commentator on Australia-related issues on media, including China Central Television (CCTV), China Radio International (CRI), China News Agency, Jiefang Daily (affiliated to Shanghai CPC Committee) SBS and UTS ACRI podcast.