BIOGRAPHIES
GUEST SPEAKERS
Lou Anna K. Simon, the 20th president of Michigan State
University, leads the university’s work to advance the
common good in Michigan and around the world. She
began her career at MSU after earning her doctorate here in
1974. Simon has held a variety of administrative roles,
including assistant provost for general academic
administration, associate provost, and provost and vice
president for academic affairs. She was appointed
president in January 2005. As president, Simon has
engaged MSU in a strategic and transformative journey to
adapt the principles of the land-grant tradition to
21st-century challenges. She has expanded MSU’s reach in
the state and around the world by focusing the university’s
strengths on solutions that enhance and protect quality of
life: clean and affordable energy, access to education, safe
and plentiful food, and health care.
Jack Chang, Vice Chairman of the Quality Brands Proection
Committee (“QBPC” www.qbpc.org.cn). He was one of the
founders of the QBPC and was elected as the Chairman
from 2003 to 2013 and served as the Honorary Chairman
from 2014 to June 2015. Jack is now the Special Counsel to
the Chairman of L Brands International. He was the
Corporate Senior IP Counsel for Asia for General Electric
Company from 2006 to 2014. Before then, he served
Johnson & Johnson (“J&J”) for 17 years. Jack was relocated
to Shanghai, China, in Jan. 1998 to set up the Asia/Shanghai
Office of the Corporate Law Dept. of J&J. Later he set up
and led the IP Protection Office of the J&J operating
companies in China in addition to his responsibility as the
Corporate Assistant General Counsel in Shanghai. Jack
served as a pro bono IP Advisor to the Shanghai IP
Administration from 2007 to 2014. His comments were
adopted into the Chinese Trademark Law, Patent Law,
Product Quality Law. Jack was selected by the Managing IP
as one of the 50 IP figures in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013 and 2014. In 2012, Jack was awarded by the
Global Anti-counterfeiting Group the prize of Personal
Achievement of The Year in Anti-Counterfeiting.
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