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Our FCC Speakers Series is a unique opportunity for our members and their guests to listen, engage and discuss the latest local and international events and trends at the Club. The talks, organized by the Club’s Professional Committee, are hosted in the FCC’s main dining room, usually over lunch and occasionally over breakfast or dinner. The speaker typically gives initial remarks for 30-40 minutes and then takes questions for 10-15 minutes. The events are on the record, and videos of them go up on the Club’s website.

Aside from organizing guest speakers, the Professional Committee plans and produces evening documentary screenings, educational workshops, debates, speed-networking opportunities and events that benefit FCC members and provide opportunities for correspondents and journalists to grow professionally. See below for a full list of all club activities.
9 Jan 2020 08:30 AM
BREAKFAST TALK A Conversation with Professor Niall Ferguson   SPEAKER Niall Ferguson Historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution   Thursday, January 9, 2020 8:30am for 8:45am - Breakfast 9:15am - Address 1st Floor   Historian, author, filmmaker, political advise...
4 Dec 2019 12:30 PM
LUNCH TALK How To Be A Dictator   SPEAKER Frank Dikötter Chair Professor of Humanities, University of Hong Kong Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch 1:10pm – Address 1st Floor   What does it take to become a dictator? Modern day leaders with authoritarian ...
28 Nov 2019 12:30 PM
LUNCH TALK China: Seventy Years and My Vision for the Future   SPEAKER C.Y. Leung Vice Chairman, National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Thursday, November 28, 2019 12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch 1:10pm – Address 1st Floor   As China celebra...
26 Nov 2019 12:30 PM
LUNCH TALK Reinvigorating Democracy in Asia and Beyond   SPEAKER Derek Mitchell President, National Democratic Institute; former U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar Tuesday, November 26, 2019 12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch 1:10pm – Address 1st Floor   Authoritarianism may be on the rise -...
14 Nov 2019 12:30 PM
LUNCH TALK China Tomorrow: Democracy or Dictatorship?     SPEAKER Professor Jean-Pierre Cabestan Professor in Political Science, Hong Kong Baptist University           Thursday, November 14, 2019 12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch 1:10pm – Address 1st Floor       Could China become a...
13 Nov 2019 12:30 PM
LUNCH TALK Kashmir, Karachi, and the Politics of Pakistan Through the Eyes of Novelist Mohammed Hanif      SPEAKER Mohammed Hanif Novelist and Journalist           Wednesday, November 13, 2019 12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch 1:10pm – Address 1st Floor       From the Kashmir dispute ...
12 Nov 2019 12:30 PM
LUNCH TALK ON THE EDGE A Conversation with Motorcycle Racing Champions Michael Rutter and Peter Hickman          Tuesday, November 12, 2019 12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch 1:10pm – Address Bert's       It’s fast, it’s dangerous and it’s time for one of the classic races on the calendar...
6 Nov 2019 07:00 PM
DINNER TALK A Conversation with the Editor in Chief of The Wall Street Journal            Wednesday, November 6, 2019 7:00pm – Dinner 7:30pm – Talk 1st Floor       Since being named editor in chief in 2018, Matt Murray has steered The Wall Street Journal's coverage through a tumu...
5 Nov 2019 12:30 PM
LUNCH TALK Beyond the Trade War: The Fight for China's Future       SPEAKER Willy Wo-Lap Lam, Adjunct Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Centre for China Studies           Tuesday, November 5, 2019 12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch 1:10pm – Talk 1st Floor       While the...
24 Oct 2019 12:30 PM
LUNCH PANEL Foreign Interference in Hong Kong Affairs or Welcome Support for Democracy? A Panel Discussion on the US Congress’s Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.       Thursday, October 24, 2019 12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch 1:00pm – Panel 2:00pm - Event Ends 1st Floor       ...
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