Beida Monthly on 6/19/12: Saving the China Tigers - in Africa - Thinking Outside the Box

- A career path from fashion to wildlife; a charitable enterprise across China, Africa and Europe; a journey never taken before (Click here for a CNN report)

Date: Tuesday 6/19

Time: 7-9pm

Venue: Evergreen Restaurant, 10 E 38th St. (between 5th Ave. and Madison)

Speaker Bio:

Li Quan (全莉）was born and raised in Beijing, China. After graduating from Peking University with a bachelor’s degree in English and American Literature, she lived and worked in Belgium before obtaining an MBA/MA degreefrom the Wharton School of Business and the Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania. She pursued a career in fashion business after Coca-Cola in France and Spain, culminating in the position as head of worldwide licensing business at Gucci . After leaving the fashion business, Li pursued her passion for wildlife and nature. She established the charitable foundation in the UK, US and Hong Kong- “Save China’s Tigers”, in order to raise awareness and provide funds and expertise to help China’s effort to save umbrella wildlife species, especially the most endangered South China Tiger. She launched an innovative but controversial conservation model tiger rewilding and reintroduction, which is now being championed as a viable alternative tiger conservation model by some of the world's foremost scientists. She is on her way to DC to give a congressional briefing on her project and the concept of rewilding and reintroduction, together with the Smithsonian Institution.

Li has assumed a pivotal role in bridging between China and the West in the field of conservation, promoting much needed communication and cooperation. She currently resides in London, United Kingdom with her husband Stuart Bray, but travels frequently between China and South Africa, where the Chinese Tiger Rewilding project is taking place in Laohu Valley Reserve, which she and Stuart established.

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