Ms. Julie Broussard is the Country Programme Manager for the UN Women China Office. She is the Chair of the UN Task Force on China’s first national domestic violence law and the Chair for the UN Theme Group on Gender, a forum which advocates gender equality in the work of the UN System and wider donor community. As Head of the UN Women China office, Ms. Broussard oversees a variety of programs addressing gender & corporate social responsibility, gender dimensions of climate change and natural disasters, eliminating gender-based violence, women’s economic participation, and women’s political participation and leadership. Through the UN, she has worked closely with a variety of government institutions, including several ministries and the All China Women's Federation, to hold advocacy events and arrange high-level visits. Before coming to UN Women, she worked for UNFPA, UNESCO, and the World Bank. Ms. Broussard received her MPA from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs from Indiana Univeristy and her EdD from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

UK National Representative of the Supervisory Board of the European Chamber -- Clare is the International Development Director at DLA Piper.  Her role involves advising Chinese clients on outbound strategies and foreign companies on opportunities in China.  Clare also advises foreign corporate foundations and non-profit organizations on their operations in China and Chinese charities on expansion overseas.  She is the Chair of China Development Foundation, which is a not-for-profit which focuses on providing teacher training opportunities for teachers from western provinces in China at international schools in Beijing.  A previous Chair of the British Chamber of Commerce in China, Clare now represents the UK on the Supervisory Board of the European Chamber.  She has lived in Beijing for twelve years.

• March 2015 - today  HR-Director BASF-YPC Company Ltd., Nanjing
• 2007 – 2015             Director HR Policies BASF SE, Germany
• 2005 – 2007             HR Manager Europe BASF IT Services, Switzerland
• 2002 – 2005             Legal Counsel Mergers & Acquisition BASF AG Germany
• 2000 – 2002             Legal Counsel HR Principles and HR Manager
• 2000                         Admission to the Bar
• 1999                         Second legal State Examination and completion of legal clerkship at court

 

• Born February 1971 in Germany
• PhD in Labor Law at Legal Faculty of University Mannheim Germany in 2003

Julia Güsten is a Managing Partner of Sharehouse (Nanjing) Co., Ltd. , a platform for SME to enter the Chinese market.  Before starting her own company, she worked 17 years for the German state of Baden-Württemberg as their China representative. She is a founding member of the Pfrang Association, a nonprofit charity organization that provides funds to underprivileged children in Jiangsu and Anhui Provinces to attain an education. She is the Chair of the Board of Nanjing International School.

She has been working in the philanthropy field since field 1995. She holds Bachelor degree of English Literature. She has been engaged in fields of rehabilitation, health, education, NGO capacity building as well as international exchange. In recent years, she has been dedicating herself to capacity building of newly established philanthropy organizations and the sector development. She is also on the on the board of Jiangsu Provincial Red Cross Association and Amity Printing Company.

• Principal - KOEHLER & CO Limited , Hong Kong
• Advisory Board member FIDUCIA Management Consultants Hongkong/Shanghai/Shenzhen
• Director CanadAsia Management Development Co., Ltd. (CAMD) Shanghai
• Chairman Baby World Language Ltd., Canada
• Board member German Chamber of Commerce in China –Shanghai (GCC)

Corporate Background

Rolf H. Koehler worked for the Freudenberg Group for 40 years, thereof 25 years in Asia, last as General Manager of the Freudenberg Regional Corporate Center Asia (until December 2012). Freudenberg is a German family owned industrial company with over 165 years history, supplying seals, vibration control technology components, filters, nonwovens, household products, release agents and lubricants as well as IT services for the automotive and general industry. As part of his corporate assignments he lead the set-up the Groups’ first own nonwovens factory in Greater China in 1988 (Taiwan). Later he was responsible for the Asia Nonwovens business including Japan, Korea and India for 6 years. In early 2004 he moved to Shanghai as Regional Director Asia for the Freudenberg Nonwovens Group. Three years later, as General Manager for the newly created Regional Headquarter and simultaneously as HR Director Asia, where he focused on corporate services and HR. In the years in Asia, he was particularly successful in guiding Joint Venture companies with Asian partners. Additionally he displayed strong personal dedication for social responsibility projects as an initiator and for a Freudenberg earthquake project to rebuild a school in Sichuan after the 5/12/2008 earthquake in China. Acting in China for “Freudenberg Help” he is still coordinating support for students and the school e.g. through annual summer-camps etc.

Current Roles and Responsibilities

Following his Executive Coach Certification program from Coaching Australia in 2009, Mr. Koehler found his client base among senior executives and managers mostly from European based companies in China. He carries out coaching as well as coaching/mentoring assignments, with priority on leadership and European/Asian cross-cultural management issues, team building, HR subjects, career development and work/life balance subjects. He further consults Chinese and Western companies on business projects in/from China and acts on the advisory Board of Fiducia Management Consultants.. Besides being an Executive Coach in Shanghai, he is Director of CanadAsia Management Development Co., Ltd., Shanghai, and Chairman of a Canadian company, Baby World Language, a highly innovative start-up company with global focus on foundational English learning for newborn babies via their mothers. Mr. Koehler serves as board member of the German Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai now for over 6 years with focus on HR and business and society issues. Currently he is guiding a major initiative to let German companies strengthen their roots in China through social responsibility: www.MoreThanAMarket.cn which will showcase German CSR work in China on May 25th, 2016 at the More than a Market Forum and Gala.