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I am an HIV/AIDS advocate and activist who has been living in China since 1987. My passion and deepest belief is that I have to “be the change” I “want to see in the world”! I was born in The USA, my wife is from Hong Kong and I have two children. My daughter is 25 years old and in Grad School in the USA. Not having to adhere to China's "one child policy" I also have a son who is 13 years old. I am the General Manager of Bayer’s Corporate Communications for Greater China handling mainly Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development issues. I have been working for Bayer in China since 1987. I am currently also at Tsinghua University, as the Co-director of the Tsinghua-Bayer Public Health and HIV/AIDS Media Studies Program and also a Research Fellow and Senior Guest Lecturer at the School of Journalism and Center for International Communications. My academic background includes a MBA from Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management in Arizona and a Masters degree in Instructional Technology and Media from Columbia University, New York. I am the Chairman of the European Chamber’s Corporate Social Responsibility Working Group in Beijing and also the Chairman of the “China Business and Aids Working Group” established in Beijing in 2004 under the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS in New York and Beijing. In August 2006, I was a Journalist Fellow selected to participate along with 39 journalists from China and 59 international journalists in a “Journalist to Journalist” training on HIV/AIDS and to attend AIDS 2006 – XVI International Aids Conference in Toronto, Canada. This was sponsored by the National Press Foundation, Washington DC, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Tsinghua University, and the International AIDS Society. In June 2006 I participated in the ‘Intensive Course in Health and Human Rights” at The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. I have been tested as HIV negative. I count many HIV positive persons among my closest friends. This gives me a deep understanding that dignity and respect comes from who we are as human beings and not from a label of health status. I will continue to educate to prevent the spread of HIV but will always remain close to friends and people living with HIV/AIDS because they add such meaning to my life as friends and acquaintances and they constantly remind me of my own value as a human being.
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