Charles-Edouard Bouée is President of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Asia, has been a member of the firm's Global Executive Committee since July 2010, and is Chairman of the French, Belgian and North Africa offices. He joined the firm as Senior Partner in the Paris Office, where he headed the Financial Services and Utility & Energy Competence Centers, and the firm's private equity activities. Before joining Roland Berger he was Vice President of another leading strategy consulting firm from 1997 to 2001. Mr. Bouée began his career at Société Générale as an investment banker in Paris and London, where he was involved in projects in Europe, the Middle-East, America and Asia working mainly on strategy, mergers and acquisitions and large-scale performance improvement projects. He is an economic advisor to the French Government (Conseiller du Commerce Extérieur) in China, and a member of the Shanghai board of the European Chamber of Commerce in China, where he has promoted co-operation among member companies, governments and business communities in both China and Europe. In 2010, he was awarded the Magnolia Award by the Shanghai Municipal Government for his civic leadership and business contributions to Shanghai's development. Mr. Bouée is a frequent guest analyst onfinancial news media such as Bloomberg and CNBC. He holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, a Master of Science degree from Ecole CentraleParis and a Master's degree in Law from Paris University.