8 Sep 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch
1:15pm – address
1st Floor
Speaker: Alastair Campbell, Author
Former Chief Spokesman and Strategist for Tony Blair
How do sportsmen excel, entrepreneurs thrive, or individuals achieve their ambition? Drawing on the wisdom of an astonishing ar...
31 Aug 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, August 31, 2015
12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch
1:15pm – address
1st Floor
Speaker: Mr. Tom Grundy
Editor-In-Chief/Co-Founder, Hong Kong Free Press
After a round of crowdfunding and much publicity, Hong Kong Free Press finally 'went live' at the end of June 2015. Its team of young reporters ...
24 Aug 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, August 24, 2015
12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch
1:15pm – address
1st Floor
Speaker: Xu Sitao
Chief Economist, China
Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Mr. Xu presented what was likely to unfold, in terms of financial liberalization, against the backdrop of slowing economic growth and stock mar...
31 Jul 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Friday, July 31, 2015
8:15AM for 8:30AM - Continental Breakfast
9:00AM - Address
Speaker: Nicola Sturgeon,
First Minister of Scotland
In 2007, the Scottish National Party began a series of political firsts. They became the first party to form a sustainable minority government in the Scottish Par...
7 Jul 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
12:30PM FOR 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Professor Paul Yip, HKU
Director, Center for Suicide Research and Prevention
Professor Yip started with a summary of how suicide news was reported in Hong Kong, and make a comparison with overseas press. Researc...
6 Jul 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, July 6, 2015
12:30PM FOR 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Wong Chen
Malaysian Opposition Member of Parliament
Of late, Malaysia had been in the news for all the wrong reasons. There had been the still unresolved mystery of Flight MH370 last year, the downing of Flight M...
23 Jun 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
12:30PM FOR 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: John Rice, GE Vice Chairman
Four years ago John Rice opened GE's Global Growth headquarters in Hong Kong, highlighted the importance of non-U.S. markets to the company and the city's role as a global city. Duri...
15 Jun 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, June 15, 2015
12:30PM FOR 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: Binod Chaudhary, Founder of Chaudhary Group
Philanthropist and Industrialist in Nepal
On April 25th, 2015, a 7.8 Magnitude earthquake ripped through Nepal, destroying a half million homes, killing over 8,500 p...
12 Jun 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Friday, June 12, 2015
12:30PM FOR 12:45PM – LUNCH
1:15PM – ADDRESS
1ST FLOOR
Speaker: William Horsley, Former BBC correspondent and international director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media, University of Sheffield
Introductory remarks by Caroline Wilson, British Consul – General, HK
Journa...
1 Jun 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, June 1, 2015
7:00pm – dinner
1st Floor
Speaker: Mike Chinoy, Senior Fellow
The U.S.-China Institute, University of Southern California
China in the 1990s was a paradox. In the wake of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square, political repression intensified. At the same time, however, fol...
