Ms. Ardi Bouwers
Strategic Consultant of China Circle, Lecturer of Uni of Amsterdam, Keynote speaker on China and Trainer Culture & Communication.
Ardi Bouwers is a China expert, strategic advisor, keynote speaker and university lecturer on China in the 21st century, media and communication. She is the founder of China Circle (www.chinacircle.nl), a strategic consultancy, advising government, business and educational organisations. At universities in the Netherlands she lectures on China and in China she teaches International Journalism. She facilitates workshops on dealing with China and on dealing with the Dutch, on intercultural communication and storytelling. She also moderates debates and gives keynote presentations. With strategy consultant Alex Krijger, she organizes China Business Lunches, to discuss economic and, increasingly, political challenges when doing business in China. In her two-decades-long career in journalism, she was a.o. editor-in-chief of RNW, the Dutch international broadcaster. She managed over 200 journalists from around the globe, set up a Chinese language website and projects in Africa, the Arab world and Indonesia.