Our Advisory Council

 
John Howkins Visiting Professor Shanghai School of Creativity, and Chair of its John Howkins Research Centre on the Creative Economy, is a frequent visitor to China.

An adviser to TV, film, and entertainment companies worldwide he is the author of ‘Understanding Television’ (with David Frost), ‘Communications in China’, and  ‘Four Global Scenarios for Information’. Founder and Director of the Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property (www.adelphicharter.org), launched in 2005,  he devised the London Intellectual Property Advisory Service (called ‘Own It’). A Member of the United Nations Advisory Committee on the Creative Economy he is also Deputy Chairman of the British Screen Advisory Council (BSAC), a former Chairman of the London Film School, Vice Chairman of the Association of Independent Producers and a former Executive Director of the International Institute of Communications (IIC).

 
Ben Papé a Business Adviser to UKTI improving UK companies’ access and
performance in the China/HK markets. Prior to joining UK government in 1999, he was the Far East Director for Pirelli International based in Hong Kong spearheading market entry into China.

Ben, no stranger to China, has visited 28 of the 33 provinces in the past 30 years negotiating contracts, joint ventures, and advising Chinese companies on international capital raising.

Ben is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (FIET) and the Institution of Materials, Minerals & Mining (FIMMM).  He was inaugural Chairman of the UK Chapter of the HK Institution of Engineers (FHKIE).  Currently he sits on the IET China Steering Group and is Chairman of the IET Built Environment Technologies (BETNET) Technical and Professional Network (TPN).

 
Caroline Butler, Chair of the Advisory Council is a Director of Lord North Street Ltd, a leading independent private investment office in London managing the assets of wealthy families, charities and university endowments. Prior to 2004, Caroline was Managing Director and Head of UK Private Wealth Management at Deutsche Bank, London.

Caroline’s financial career spans roles in N.M..Rothschild and Sons and S.G. Warburg & Co in London and in Goldman Sachs and Louis Dreyfus Corp in New York.

She was the first woman elected to the Board of S.G.Warburg in 1984. Between 1989 and 1996 Caroline founded and ran Auction Forum USA a publishing and financial consultancy business based in New York.

 
Graham Davies Trustee of China Children and Teenagers’ Fund UK is also a Trustee of GEXSI the Global Exchange for Social Investment and Founding Principal of Pall Mall Principals, raising market capital for Chinese development.

Graham has advised the World Bank and governments in some 18 countries on development and institution building working  in Asia, Africa, the Pacific, North America, the Middle East and Europe. Graham’s has held positions as Director of MeesPierson Private Bank & Trust in Hong Kong and Australia, Managing Director of Jardine Matheson Trust Company off-shore fiduciary services in the Channel Islands, and in the third sector at Charities Aid Foundation in the UK where he founded Global Charity Trustees and Family Philanthropy.

He is a Fellow Commoner of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce.

 
Vivian Wang-Davies Vivian has over the past 12 years worked with many of the world's leading brands in communications and technology, non-profit organisations and multi-national corporations. First with Microsoft in Beijing and subsequently with US and Hong Kong PR agencies as China Director, then as a Consultant to Ogilvy & Mather she worked in the field of strategy planning, market research, campaign management and media and government relations as well as corporate social responsibility, brand positioning and image enhancement. She then practised as a Communications and Fund-raising Consultant in the UK and China and was invited to include China Children and Teenagers' Fund hitherto dormant English charity, in 2006 as part of her portfolio.  Since that time she has successfully supported the charity in Britain working closely with her colleagues in Beijing and the Advisory Council in the UK. Vivian has an MBA from Durham University and graduated in Architecture in Beijing. Ben, no stranger to China, has visited 28 of the 33 provinces in the past 30 years negotiating contracts, joint ventures, and advising Chinese companies on international capital raising.