Sino-Swiss Summer University in Intercultural Management is led by Prof. Dr. Anna Lupina-Wegener and Prof. Dr. Shan Juan.

Anna Lupina-Wegener is a Full Professor at the IIDE within HEIG-VD and she is head of the Intercultural Management Team. Anna built her expertise on enabling effective cross-cultural collaborations over 20 years. She provides guidance and advice to managers and executives based on the insights she gathered through multiple projects looking into collaborations of European managers and managers in economies in transition: Brazil, China, Mexico, Poland and Russia.

Dr. Juan SHAN is Associate Professor of Marketing, Vice-Director of Department of Business Administration at School of Management, Shanghai University. She got her Ph.D. degree in Management from University Aix-Marseille III in 2011. Her research interests include brand management, luxury and counterfeited luxury consumption behavior, and business innovation in emerging economies. She has published around 50 articles in international and Chinese refereed journals and conferences. She works as a consultant for both local and international companies in the field of marketing, brand management and innovation management. She has more than 10 years of teaching experience in the Universities in France, China, America, and Switzerland.