Russell Flannery
President
Russell Flannery is a senior editor and the Shanghai bureau chief of Forbes magazine. A fluent Mandarin speaker, he compiles the Forbes China Rich List, Hong Kong Rich List, and Taiwan Rich List, and is the editorial liaison between Forbes magazine and its Chinese-language licensed edition, Forbes China. He was previously a correspondent for Bloomberg News in Taipei and Shanghai and for the Asian Wall Street Journal in Taipei. A Massachusetts native, he holds degrees from the University of Vermont and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Lauren Hilgers
Vice President of Membership
Lauren Hilgers has been living in China since 2006 and is currently the Shanghai correspondent for Plastics News. She has also contributed to a range of other publications. Before arriving in China she worked at a community news section of the Los Angeles Times.

D'Arcy Doran
Vice President of Events
D'Arcy Doran is Shanghai bureau chief for Agence France-Presse. Before coming to Shanghai, he worked for six years at the Associated Press as a correspondent in the United Kingdom, Singapore and Nigeria. He started wire reporting with Reuters in Nigeria. He previously worked for The Toronto Star, and as a London-based freelancer wrote for The Independent, The Mail on Sunday and The Evening Standard. A graduate of McGill University, he first came to China in 1997 on a study program at Nankai University. He has also served as board secretary for the Singapore Foreign Correspondents Association.

Malcolm Moore
Correspondent Representative
Malcolm Moore is the Shanghai correspondent for the UK's Daily Telegraph. He has worked for the Telegraph for over a decade, and has spent the last five years as one of its foreign correspondents,  first in Rome and then, since 2008, in Shanghai. Before that, he was Economics correspondent and a business reporter working in London. He has a degree from University College London, did a postgraduate fellowship at McGill University in Montreal and did his journalism training at the Press Association centre in Hastings.


Jessica Beaton
Media Representative
Jessica Beaton is Shanghai City Editor for the CNNGo, CNN’s lifestyle and travel product in Asia, and was previously the Shanghai City Editor of City Weekend Shanghai. Before that she worked as a freelancer for outlets ranging from the Shanghai Business Review to a column in CosmoGirl! magazine. This experience has given her a wide network of community connections, including experts in a variety of fields from social media to entertainment, business to academics.

Mary Boyd
Associate Representative
Mary Boyd is Director, Corporate Network, at the Economist Intelligence Unit in Shanghai, responsible for programme development and client servicing. She previously worked for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, serving in Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan and China (in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing). She has an MA (Area Studies) and an MSc (Public Policy and Management) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and also studied at Nanjing University. She has researched and published on a number of issues, including economic development, local governance and decentralization policies and public-sector reform in China. She has also undertaken consultancy work for the World Bank and other international institutions and companies, and co-authored the Economist Intelligence Unit report Taking on the Competition: Domestic Companies in China in 2005. She has served as SFCC Associate Members’ Representative for the past year.

John D Van Fleet
Treasurer
In addition to independent work in marketing and education, John D. Van Fleet is managing editor and columnist for The NNA China Report. Resident of east Asia since 1991 and Shanghai since 2001, he is a founding director of the China Direct Marketing Association as well as advisor and (occasional) adjunct faculty at the Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai JiaoTong University.