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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.
20 Feb 2020 12:30 PM
LUNCH PANEL Beyond the Protests: How Can We Rebuild Hong Kong? Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch 1:15pm – Panel 1st Floor Since June, the world has watched as the Hong Kong protests sparked by the extradition bill have morphed into a wider anti-government m...
22 Jan 2020 12:30 PM
LUNCH PANEL Policing Hong Kong’s Police: How to Restore Trust Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch 1:15pm – Panel 1st Floor After seven months of protests, the Hong Kong Police Force has become villainised by a large swath of Hong Kong society. Sympathisers sa...
21 Jan 2020 12:30 PM
LUNCH TALK Like Ice, Like Fire: The Art of Liu Xia, with Nick Frisch   SPEAKER Nick Frisch Media Fellow, Yale Law School Tuesday, January 21, 2020 12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch 1:10pm – Address 1st Floor   Liu Xia, born to a Communist cadre's family in 1961 in Beijing, became o...
14 Jan 2020 12:30 PM
LUNCH PANEL After the Earthquake: The District Council Elections Amid Hong Kong’s Shifting Political Landscape Tuesday, January 14, 2020 12:30pm for 12:45pm – Lunch 1:15pm – Panel 1st Floor The district council elections held November 24 have been described in some press reports...
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 ...
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