Global CSR Foundation Hosts Omaha Dialogue: 11th Sino-U.S. Investor Reception 

Under the theme “Reinterpreting Value · Envisioning the Future,” the gathering brought together global investors to examine the convergence of value investing, sustainability, and long-term resilience.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA — The Global CSR Foundation today announced the successful conclusion of the Omaha Dialogue: 11th Sino-U.S. Investor Reception, held on May 2, 2026 at the Omaha Marriott Downtown at the Capitol District, coinciding with the 61st Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting. Now in its eleventh year, the Omaha Dialogue has become one of the most influential cross-border gatherings of value-oriented investors in the world, convening senior asset managers, public company executives, institutional allocators, and academic thought leaders in the city Warren Buffett has made synonymous with long-horizon capital stewardship.

This year’s program was organized around the theme “Reinterpreting Value · Envisioning the Future” — a reaffirmation of the principles underlying Berkshire Hathaway’s six decades of compounding success, and an examination of how those principles must adapt to an investment landscape transformed by artificial intelligence, geopolitical realignment, and shifting demographics.

A Symbolic Year for Long-Termism

This year’s shareholders meeting carried particular significance, as Greg Abel chaired the proceedings for the first time with Warren Buffett seated in the front row. In an exclusive interview with Sina Finance on the sidelines of the Omaha Dialogue, Jing Zhao Cesarone, CEO of the Global CSR Foundation, observed that the image was itself a symbol of long-termism: a sixty-year-old system continuing to operate steadily as its founder gradually steps back. “That structural capacity to transcend any individual or any single cycle,” she noted, “is precisely what sustainable development aspires to achieve.”

Value Investing and Sustainability: One Logic, Two Expressions

“Value investing and the SDGs have never been in conflict,” Ms. Cesarone told Sina Finance. “In essence, they are two expressions of the same way of thinking.” Investment, in her view, is never merely about extracting returns; it is an answer to a deeper question — whether one is planting trees for the future or consuming the future to fund the present.

Over the past eight years, the Global CSR Foundation has worked to encourage private-sector institutions to embed the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into their core strategy. The companies and funds that embraced this transition earliest, she observed, have in many cases gone on to become leaders within their industries.

From ESG Compliance to Long-Term Value Creation

Asked how companies can move beyond compliance toward genuine value creation, Ms. Cesarone described the difference as one of mindset. “ESG compliance is a threshold,” she said. “True value creation is a direction.” The most durably competitive enterprises, she added, treat ESG not as a reporting framework but as a strategic language for answering whether their business model will still be viable twenty years from now.

In an environment shaped by accelerating AI, supply chain reconfiguration, and economic volatility, the companies that demonstrate genuine long-term resilience share certain traits: clear ethical boundaries, deep relational capital with employees and partners, and the discipline to remain anchored amid shifting market sentiment.

The Rise of the Female Economy and the Question of Trust

Ms. Cesarone also highlighted the evolving role of women in global capital markets, framing it not as a gender question but as a structural transformation. By 2030, women globally are projected to control approximately $34 trillion in investable assets — roughly three times the level of a decade earlier.

Drawing on three decades of work between China and the United States, she offered a pointed observation on cross-cultural collaboration: “Genuine collaboration has never been a question of information. It is a question of trust.” This, she suggested, is the distinctive value of Omaha itself — an environment that invites investors to slow down, return to fundamentals, and recalibrate their judgment.

Looking Ahead

Looking out over the coming decade, Ms. Cesarone identified three areas she believes remain underpriced relative to their structural significance: impact capital, where financial return is deeply aligned with social value; the female economy, an underappreciated structural opportunity; and what she termed “civilizational resilience” — the capacity of organizations and individuals to provide long-term stability and cross-cultural understanding in an era of accelerating change.

“Investing in your own capacity to understand,” she concluded, “matters more than investing in any single asset.”