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Mary Darby, Senior Research Scholar
China specialist with over twenty years of professional executive experience in Chinese financial markets. Mary Wadsworth Darby worked most recently for Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong as Vice President and China Business Manager of Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM). She was responsible for institutional sales to China as well as developing strategic relationships with Chinese entities and overseeing the strategic and marketing plan for entry into the investment management business in China. Prior to her work in Hong Kong, Darby was Vice President and Head of the Asia Desk in New York. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Darby was Executive Director of the America-China Society, and previously Senior Director China for Sears World Trade, Inc. with line responsibility for all of SWT’s operations involving China and its New York, Hong Kong and Beijing offices. Before joining SWT, she was Corporate Vice President of Allis-Chalmers Corporation. She also worked for Chase Manhattan Bank and was International Marketing Director- Asia for Allied Chemical. Darby received her B.A. from Princeton University, and her M.B.A. and M.I.A. degrees from Columbia University.

Harpreet Khurana, Senior Research Scholar
Harpreet Khurana currently advises senior executives across a variety of industry verticals as an Associate of the management consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton.  Khurana has co-authored research papers on India and the global services sourcing sector, which have been covered by The Wall Street Journal and leading Indian publications.   Khurana’s work has been sited in the World Investment Report (2004), a flagship publication of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and was invited to speak to a committee of global trade experts of the UNCTAD in January 2005. His report, with Professor Jeffrey Sachs, “Outsourcing: Costs and Quality Issues” was presented to the Indian Prime Minister to aid policy decisions. With funding from the Sloan Foundation and Columbia University’s CIBER, Khurana also developed a report on “Beyond Cost Reduction: The Risks and Rewards of Global Services Sourcing.”  Khurana has been a columnist for The Times of India and published articles for leading news dailies in India and the US. Khurana holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Bombay.

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