Campaign Statement
The coming year will continue to be critically important with respect to repairing the serious damage which has been done to the U.S.-China relationship. I am proud to have spent the last 40 years engaged in ac:vi:es to further this important relationship, whether as an entrepreneur bringing new concepts in medicine and healthcare to the Chinese market; or as a philanthropist in my role as founder of the United Foundation for China’s Health; or as a community organizer in my role as the founding chair of the China Healthcare Partnership; or as a member of the U.S.-China Business Council Board of Directors. I have taken seriously the responsibility to maximize my impact as an individual, and as a leader, to further the peaceful relations between our countries, through promoting our business and societal collaboration and understanding.
In addition to the past pivotal year, I have previously served for several years as a member of the Amcham-China Board of Governors in the lead-up to PNTR and China’s WTO accession in the 1990s. I believe that the work that we did at that :me as a board, both with the U.S. and Chinese Government, as well as with the business communities, had a positive impact throughout that critical juncture in the relationship. During that crucial period, I had the honor of participating in the Amcham-China Door Knock and speaking to many senior members of the US government about the realities and the importance of the US-China relationship to both countries. After that, I continued to contribute to Amcham through the Healthcare Forum and the Healthcare Cooperation Program. Each year I contributed to the writing of the Healthcare section of the Amcham White Paper. Over this past year I have returned to the AMCHAM board; and have done my best to represent the board, in meetings with government officials in China and the U.S, both nationally and locally, as well as in the business communities and civil society of both countries, about the realities on the ground, the importance of the relationship, and the potential dire danger of any further deterioration of the U.S.-China relationship.
I am the proud recipient of AMCHAMs inaugural “Pioneer Award.” as well as the Beijing “Friendship Great Wall Award” and the U.S State Department’s Award for Corporate Excellence.
If elected I would like to commit to further increasing my efforts toward the improvement of the relationship and supporting and improving the business and investment environment.
Biography
Roberta Lipson is the founder of United Family Healthcare (UFH) and the V. Chair of New Frontier Health. She has over 40 years of experience as a pioneer in the healthcare industry in China. She originally co-founded United Family Healthcare’s predecessor company Chindex in 1981, expanding the business from China’s top medical equipment distribution company into China’s first and largest foreign-invested healthcare system. After over two decades, UFH’s healthcare platform includes 11 hospitals and almost 20 clinics in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Qingdao, Hainan and Shenzhen, as well as an internet hospital serving patients nationally. The company has become the provider of choice for those seeking premium, personalized healthcare. United Family Healthcare was rated in 2016 as “The Most Trusted Healthcare Brand of China” by the Chinese Business Journal, and has appeared at the top of private hospital listings every year since .
As founder and CEO Ms. Lipson took her company public on NASDQ in 1994, and then again merged with a NYSE:NFH in 2019, and in 2021 was again part of the buying consortium to again privatize the company .
Ms. Lipson is an active leader in the business community in Beijing, currently serving for the ninth year as a director and audit committee chair of the U.S. China Business Council, and serving her sixth term on the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham), and as Co-Chair of the AmCham Healthcare Forum and founding Chair of the Healthcare China Program (HCP) . She also chairs the Board of the United Foundation for China’s Health (UFCH), and is a co- founder of Beijing’s Jewish Community – Kehillat Beijing. Because of her outstanding contribution in China, Roberta Lipson received “The Great Wall Friendship Award” in 2009, the highest honor that Beijing government gives to foreign experts in Beijing. In 2014 Roberta was honored by AmCham as the inaugural recipient of the China Pioneer Award. She was named as a “Top 10 Business Leader of China” by Sina.com in 2015, the Brandeis University Asper Award for Entrepeneurship and earlier she led the company to win the U.S. State Department ACE Award for Corporate Excellence. She has lived and worked in Beijing for over 40 years, and in 2017 Ms. Lipson received Foreign Permanent Resident Card. Ms. Lipson holds a BA from Brandeis University and an MBA from Columbia University.