As the first developing country to host a World Expo, China can be the bridge that connects developed and developing nations by creating a platform for cooperation between the different cities.
As Secretary General of the BIE, I have had the privilege to be part of the development of World Expo Shanghai 2010 from its genesis to today. Shanghai 2010 is a unique opportunity to promote the urgent theme of urban quality of life and to inject new energy not only in the host city and country, but also in World Expos themselves. This is why I look forward to the opening of this major event with great expectations. Shanghai 2010 is setting...
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Global wisdom and culture pooled at Expo
Jan 20, 2010
"100 celebrities talking about the World Expo Shanghai" campaign organizers receive nearly 90 manuscripts
Dec 10, 2009
Celebrities convey support to Expo
Sep 29, 2009
Yasuo Fukuda
Former Japanese Prime Minister
Henry Kissinger
Former United States Secretary of State
Jean-Jack Queyranne
Regional president of the Great Rhone-Alpes since June 2002, a deputy in the National A...
Panagiotis Fasoulas
Mayor of Piraeus. Greece
Jordi Hereu
Mayor of Barcelona, Spain
Boris Johnson
London Mayor
Gavin Newsom
Mayor of San Francisco, USA
Letizia Moratti
Mayor of Milan, Italy
Hannes Androsch
Hannes Androsch was Finance Minister of Austria from 1970 to 1981 and served as vicecha...
Komura Masahiko
President of the Japan-China Friendship Parliamentarians' Union and minister for foreig...
Hussein El Kamel
Internationan Cooperation Senior Advisor for the Egyptian Cabinet Information and Decis...
Jean-Jack Queyranne
Regional president of the Great Rhone-Alpes since June 2002, a deputy in the National A...
Shaukat Aziz
Former Pakistani Prime Minister
Gerhard Schroeder
Former German Prime Minister
Peter Megyessy
Former Hungarian Prime Minister
Lee Kuan Yew
Minister Mentor of Singapore
Oh Hyun-sup
Mayor of Yeosu, South Korea
Masaaki Kanda
Governor of Aichi, Japan
Toru Hashimoto
Governor of Osaka, Japan
Letizia Moratti
Mayor of Milan, Italy
Kadir Topbas
Mayor of Istanbul
Gavin Newsom
Mayor of San Francisco, USA
Peter Chin
Mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand
Boris Johnson
London Mayor
Vicente Gonzalez Loscertales
Vicente Gonzalez Loscertales is the secretary-general of the Bureau International des E...
Supachai Panitchpakdi
Supachai Panitchpakdi, born in 1946, is the secretary-general of the UN Conference on T...
Irina Bokova
Irina Bokova, born in 1952, is a Bulgarian politician. She was appointed the 10th direc...
Jose Villarreal
Jose H. Villarreal has been named commissioner general responsible for oversight of the...
Hamadoun Toure
Secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union, a specialized agency of...
Achim Steiner
Executive director of the United Nations Environment Program
Juan Antonio Samaranch
a Spanish sports official who served as the 7th president of the International Olympic...
Mohsen Bilal
Syrian Minister of Information
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy is an Indian industrialist, software engineer and foun...
Michel Pebereau
Michel Pebereau, born in 1942, is chairman and former chief executive officer of BNP Pa...
Ellen Kullman
Ellen J. Kullman is president, chairman and chief executive officer of E. I. du Pont de...
Philip Brass
Philip Brass was managing director of Pacific Dunlop Ltd between 1988 and 1996 and has...
Samuel DiPiazza
Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr was CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Before that he served as chair...
Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Senior advisor at Citigroup Global Investment Banking and a partner of IMG, the world's...
Stephen Perry
chairman of The 48 Group Club
Stephen Green
Chairman of HSBC Bank
Alison Richard
Alison Richard, born in March 1948, is the current vice chancellor of the University of...
Henry Chang-Yu Lee
Henry Chang-Yu Lee, born in Jiangsu Province in 1938, is a world-renowned forensic scie...
Manoranjan Mohanty
Chairman of the Indian Institute of Chinese Studies and professor at the University of...
Uli Sigg
Former Swiss Ambassador to China and one of the world's most influential collectors of...
Shing-Tung Yau
Professor at Harvard University, an International Medalist for Outstanding Discoveries...
Tsui Lap-Chee
Vice-Chancellor and President of The University of Hong Kong
Iokibe Makoto
President of the National Defense Academy of Japan
V.A.Sadovnichii
President of Moscow State University
Mario Molina
Nobel Chemistry Prize in 1995
Tsung-Dao Lee
Nobel Physics Prize in 1957
Samuel Chao Chung Ting
Nobel Physics Prize in 1976
Robert John Aumann
Nobel Economics Prize in 2005
Lee An
Promotion ambassador in South Korea for Expo 2010 Shanghai China, famous Korean actress
Ai Fukuhara
Japanese table tennis player and the youngest player ever to become a member of the Jap...
Roger Federer
Champion tennis player
Quincy Jones
Well-known composer and musician, Shanghai Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award winner
Zhao Qizheng
Zhao Qizheng, born in Beijing in 1940, graduated in 1963 from the University of Science...
Sha Zukang
Sha Zukang, born in 1947, is a Chinese diplomat who is currently head of the United Nat...
Li Wuwei
A well-known economist specializing in industrial, quantitative and management economic...
Li Zhaoxing
Director of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the 11th National People's Congress and pr...
Sun Jiazheng
Born in 1944 in Siyang, Jiangsu Province, Sun Jiazheng graduated from the Department of...
Zheng Xinmiao
National Palace Museum Director
Yang Liwei
China’s first astronaut
Wu Guanzhong
Master in 20th-century Chinese painting
Du Weiming
Du Weiming, born in 1940, is Chair Professor with Harvard University and Dean of the In...
Ding Yihui
Deputy director-general of Climate Change Experts Committee and executive director of t...
Li Yining
A highly regarded economist who has been involved in China's economic reform process, p...
Si-Chen Lee
Professor of electronic engineering at National Taiwan University and the president of...
Fan Gang
Economics professor at Peking University and the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of...
Zheng Shiling
Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, a professor at Architecture and Urban Space...
Ye Shuhua
Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the first female director of astronomical o...
Wu Mengchao
Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, a famous hepatobiliary surgery scientist an...
Yao Ming
Shanghai image ambassador, champion basketball player
Lang Lang
Ambassador for the World Expo Shanghai, famous pianist
Jackie Chan
Ambassador for World Expo Shanghai, action film star
Liu Xiang
Shanghai image ambassador, champion hurdler



