Dinner Reception for China’s Leading Economists on Jan 6.
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Dinner Reception for China’s Leading Economists
on January 6th, 2010
Dear Friends,
The Peking University Alumni Association of Greater New York sincerely invites you and your friends to join us for a dinner reception for a delegate of China’s leading economists, who are coming for “China’s economy in 2010” forum in New York Stock Exchange on January 7th, 2010. The delegate include (partial list):
Dr. Justin Yifu Lin （林毅夫）, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank
Dr. Xiao Qin (秦晓), Chairman, China Merchants Group
Dr. Jianye Wang （王建业）, Chief Economist, China Import and Export Bank
Prof. Feng Lu （卢锋）, China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Peking University, China
Prof. Yang Yao （姚阳）, CCER, Peking University, China
Prof. Ho-mou Wu （巫和懋）, CCER, Peking University, China
Prof. Yiping Huang （黄益平）, CCER, Peking University, China
Prof. Geng Xiao （肖耿）, Director, Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy, Tsinghua University, China
Time: 6:30pm – 9:15pm, January 6th, 2010
Venue: Harvard Club, 35 West 44th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenue), New York, NY 10036
Tentative Schedule:
6:30pm – 7:30 pm Sign-in and network with open bar
7:30pm – 8.10 pm Appetizer and informal discussions from several economists
Dr. Justin Lin: China and world economy in 2010
Dr. Xiao Qin: China’s financial market development in 2010
Prof. Ho-mou Wu: Cross straight economic collaboration
Prof. Geng Xiao: China government’s role in the financial market
8:10pm – 8:45pm Dinner
8:45pm – 9:15pm Q&A
Cost: $160
This is a high profile reception with many distinguished guests at a very prestigious venue. As
a result, we only have a very limited number of seats open to our
alumni and friends. To secure your seat, please register online as soon
as you can by visiting. http://www.pkuaagny.org/?q=
For any questions and suggestions, please contact us at pku.nyalumni@gmail.com, or call Hong Zhou at 551-200-2019 or myself at 212-300-6564.
Thank you very much!
Daniel Lou
President
Peking University Alumni Association of Greater New York (PKUAAGNY)
We sincerely thank BOC International USA and Bank of Communications New York Branch, and Sinopec USA for their generous sponsorships.
Justin Yifu Lin
Mr. Lin received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1986 and is the author of 16 books, including The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform, which has been published in seven languages, and the State-owned Enterprise Reform, which is available in Chinese, Japanese, and English. He has published more than 100 articles in refereed international journals and collected volumes on history, development, and transition.
Justin Yifu Lin was Vice Chairman, Committee for Economic Affairs of Chinese People’s Political Consultation Conference and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He served on several national and international committees, leading groups, and councils on development policy, technology, and environment including: the United Nations Millennium Task Force on Hunger; the Eminent Persons Group of the Asian Development Bank; the National Committee on United States-China Relations; the Hong Kong-U.S. Business Council; the Working Group on the future of the OECD; and the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee.
He was awarded the 1993 and 2001 Sun Yefang Prize (the highest honour for economist in China), the 1993 Policy Article Prize of Centre for International Food and Agricultural Policy at University of Minnesota, the 1997 Sir John Crawford Award of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, the 1999 Best Article Prize of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the Citation Classic Award in 2000 (by the publisher of Social Science Citation Index), Docteur Honoris Causa of Universite D’Auvergne in France in 2004, fellow of Academy of Sciences for Developing World in 2005 and various other prizes.
Xiao Qin
Dr. Qin received his PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge, and is Chairman of China Merchants Group and China Merchants Bank. He is an independent non-executive director of China Telecom; an independent non-executive director of HKR International Limited. He is a member of the 11th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Honorary Chairman of Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association, guest professor at the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University and the Graduate School of the People’s Bank of China. Before joining China Merchants Group, he served as President and Vice Chairman of China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC), and Chairman of CITIC Industrial Bank. He was a deputy to the Ninth National People’s Congress, an advisor on the Foreign Currency Policy of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, and a member of Toyota International Advisory Board, he also served as Chairman of APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) for the Year 2001. He is the author of several papers and books in economics, management and social transformation.
Jian-Ye Wang
Dr. Jian-Ye Wang is Chief Economist of the Export-Import Bank of China. His current research interests include reform of the international monetary system, China’s overseas investment, Renminbi internationalization, and other areas that are related to China’s foreign economic relations.
Dr. Wang worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1989-2008. While in the IMF, he led IMF policy surveillance and lending missions to countries in Asia, South America, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa. He represented the IMF in the Republic of Georgia (1994-96), various international forums including the Steering Committee of Debt Relief International, UNTADC Debt Management Advisory Committee, the Paris Club, OECD, WTO, Bern Union, and Asian Export-Import Banks. He was an adjunct professor at Tbilisi Business Academy (1994-96) and gave lectures at Peking University (2003, 2005) and Japan Center for International Finance (2002-03)
Dr. Wang was educated at Peking University, pursued graduate study at Columbia University as a Fulbright Scholar and received his Ph.D. in economics there in 1989.
Geng Xiao
Professor of School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, Senior Fellow of the John L. Thornton China Center and Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution, and Director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy.
He worked at the World Bank, Harvard University, University of Hong Kong, and the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong. At SFC, Geng was Adviser to the Chairman and Head of Research. He was also Vice President of the Chinese Economists Society in US during 2008-2009. He is also an Honorary Professor at University of Hong Kong, a member of the Supervisory Board of the Shenzhen Development Bank in China, and a member of the International Commission on Education of Sustainable Development Practice and of the International Advisory Board for Global Master’s in Development Practice, setup by MacArthur Foundation and Columbia University’s Earth Institute.
Geng obtained his M.A. & Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA. Professor Xiao has done extensive empirical and policy research on the Chinese economy, macro and finance, and institutional economics, providing provocative, timely and useful analysis and recommendations for policy-makers in Beijing, Hong Kong and Washington.
Feng Lu
Professor Feng Lu is a Deputy Dean of National School of Development (NSD), and Deputy Director of China Center for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University. He serves editor of “China Economic Journal”, the official journal for China Center for Economic Research at Peking University. Dr. Lu publishes extensively on the issues regarding China’s open macro-economy, including exchange rate policy, external imbalance, inflation, capital return, food security and food trade etc. His analysis on these issues has been widely reported by media in China.
Dr. Lu also coordinates a quarterly conference “CCER China Economic Observer” that provides the most cutting edge information with regard to China’s macro-economic situation and “Long-Run Forecast” that integrate projection with respect to China’s macro-economic variables by leading research institutions based in China.
He has visited Harvard University, Australian National University, Institute of Development Studies in UK as research fellow. Professor Lu obtained his Ph.D. from Leeds University, UK in 1994.
Yiping Huang
Professor, the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) and the National School of Development (NSD), Peking University. He also holds a professorial position at the Crawford School of Economics and Government of the Australian National University. Previously he held positions of Chief Asia Economist at Citigroup, General Mills International Professor at the Columbia Business School, Director of the China Economy Program at the Australian National University and policy analyst at the Research Center for Rural Development of the State Council. He has also been consultant to various international organizations including the IMF, World Bank, OECD and ADB.
Professor Huang’s current research areas include macroeconomic policy, international finance and rural development. He has published numerous journal articles and academic books, including Agricultural Reform in China (Cambridge University Press), China's Last Steps across the River (Asia Pacific Press) and Growth without Miracles (Oxford University Press).
Professor Huang received his PhD in economics from the Australian National University and Master of economics from Remin University of China.
YANG YAO
Professor, the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) and the National School of Development (NSD), Peking University. He currently serves as the deputy director of CCER and deputy dean of NSD in charge of academic affairs and the editor of the center’s house journal China Economic Quarterly. His research interests include economic transition and development in China. He has published widely in international and domestic journals as well as several sole authored and coauthored books on institutional economics and economic development in China including Ownership Transformation in China (co-author, World Bank, 2005), Globalization and Economic Growth in China (co-editor, World Scientific, 2006), and CSR and Competitiveness in China (co-author, Foreign Languages Press, 2009). He is an associate editor of Agricultural Economics and serves in the editorial boards of several domestic and international journals. He is also a prolific writer for magazines and newspapers.
He was awarded the 2009 Sun Yefang Economics Award --- the highest economics award in China, the 2008 Pu Shan Award in International Economics and the 2008 Zhang Peigang Award in Development Economics. He was awarded the title of Best Teacher by the Peking University Student Union in 2006 and was named a Young Leader by the Nanfang People Weekly in 2008.
Dr. Yao obtained his B.S. of geography in 1986 and M.S. of economics in 1989, both from Peking University, and his Ph.D. in agricultural and applied economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in1996.
Ho-Mou Wu
Langrun Chair Professor, the Executive director of China Center for Economic Research (CCER) and Executive dean of National School of Development (NSD) at Peking University. His research interests and teaching fields include Economic Development, China’s Financial Market, International Economics, Industrial Policies and Strategic Competition. He has published widely at international journals such as Econometrica, Economic Journal, Economic Theory, and Journal of International Economics.
Professor Wu is also honored with Academic Excellence Award in Humanities and Social Sciences (awarded annually to one scholar) by Ministry of Education of Taiwan; Research Excellence Award in Economics by National Science Council of Taiwan; EMBA Teaching Award by Management School of National Taiwan University and University Teaching Excellence Award by Peking University.
Before joining Peking University, he was the special-appointment professor of National Taiwan University; visiting professor of Stanford University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University; special-appointment professor of Guanghua School of Management, Peking University; vice president of Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER, the largest think tank in Taiwan); consulting member of the Economic Construction Council of Taiwan.; consulting member of the Mainland Affair Council of Taiwan.; board member of Taipei Fubon Bank, Taiwan Futures Exchange, and Overseas Chinese Bank in Taiwan and senior advisor of Taiwan Semiconductor Corporation (TSMC), Taiwan.
Professor Wu obtained his B.A. in Economics from National Taiwan University, 1974, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University, 1981 and 1982.
