The American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing has a special Forum dedicated to the Beijing 2008 Olympics. It is not so easy to find exciting topics and speakers – many people are quite reluctant to talk here about the Olympics, Chinese government officials in particular (if they do talk, don’t have too high expectations…).

So, it was refreshing to have an interesting overview on the role of the IOC delegate here in Beijing as well as the history of the Olympics. Ms. Hong Li Glauser, from the Television and Marketing Services of the IOC attracted a full room at the American Club to tell her story.
Sen Yang of Nike and Colin Pine of the NBA chaired the meeting and introduced the new co-chair, Adam Steinberg of Edelman.
Gilbert had of course a pointed question to ask in the Q&A…