Diane Brady is an award-winning business journalist and author who has interviewed newsmakers worldwide and often speaks about the global business landscape. As senior editorial director of the Fortune CEO Initiative, she brings together a growing community of global business leaders through conversations, content, and connections. She is also executive director of Fortune Live Media and interviews newsmakers for the magazine and the CEO Daily newsletter. Prior to joining Fortune in February 2024, Diane was Assistant Managing Editor at Forbes, where she oversaw leadership coverage, C-suite networks, and editorial video while building out new events and franchises. She previously worked for McKinsey, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Wall Street Journal, and Maclean's. Her book Fraternity was named one of Amazon's best books of 2012, and she also co-wrote the acclaimed Connecting the Dots with former Cisco CEO John Chambers.

Clay Chandler is Fortune’s Asia editor. Based in Hong Kong, Clay oversees Fortune’s editorial operations throughout the region, contributes feature articles, commentary, and news analysis to the magazine and Fortune.com, and leads the Asia- and China-based conferences. Clay writes Eastworld, a twice-weekly newsletter with analysis of developments in Asian business, finance, and technology. Clay returned to Fortune after a six-year stint at McKinsey & Company. He worked previously for Fortune as Asia Editor in Beijing, and before that covered business, economics, and technology in the U.S. and Asia as senior staff writer for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Clay has lived in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, and Tokyo, and reported from every major Asian capital. He speaks Mandarin and Japanese, is a graduate of Harvard University and a former fellow of Harvard’s John King Fairbank program on Chinese studies.

Ms. Nicole Chen serves as Managing Director for North APAC and Country Head for China at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). She is responsible for overseeing business development and strategic execution across Greater China and the North Asia region. Her focus is on delivering world-class data and financial infrastructure solutions that span capital markets, data analytics, indices, risk management, and post-trade services. 

Since joining the data and analytics industry in 2006, Ms. Chen has cultivated nearly two decades of deep expertise in the field. She has accumulated extensive leadership experience and played a key role in driving LSEG’s strategic execution and long-term growth across China and North APAC. Her strengths include corporate strategy development, digital transformation, cross-border collaboration, and capital markets advancement. 

Prior to joining LSEG, Ms. Chen held various strategic and management consulting roles at leading global firms, including IBM. In recognition of her outstanding contributions to financial services and data analytics, she was named one of Fortune magazine’s “Most Powerful Women in Business” from 2021 to 2024. Ms. Chen is a graduate of the EMBA program at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management.