3 May 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: James GUEST
Vice-president of Comsumers International
President and CEO of US Consumers Union
Topic: The fight for fair financial services: a battle the consumers movement must win
In 2010 Consumers International (CI) launched a major international campaign for fairer financial services....
28 Apr 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Richard H. JONES
Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency
Topic: Clean energy: an update on global progress
Impressive progress has been made in developing clean energy technologies in recent years, and yet the success stories are being overshadowed by surging demand ...
20 Apr 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Paul SCHULTE
Global head of Financial Strategy and Asia Banks, CCBIS, China Construction Bank Corporation Group
Topic: The economic cycle is the credit cycle: let's not kid ourselves
Everything depends on the banks whether we like it or not.
Euro banks are broken. US banks are recovering...
18 Apr 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Allan CHIANG
Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data
Topic: Expanding sharing Consumer Credit Data: Where do you draw the line?
To evaluate the credit standing of borrowers, credit providers in Hong Kong rely on a system of consumer credit data sharing through the use of a central credit ...
13 Apr 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Larry LIPSHER
An American C.P.A
Topic: The IRS – more invasive than ever for U.S. Expats?
The Offshore voluntary disclosure initiative, introduced on February 8 and running through August 31, is taxation's version of a venus fly trap, if ever there was one! People are obviously very upse...
7 Apr 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Vincent CHAN
Head of China Research, Credit Suisse
Topic: China in 2015: From the “Gilded Age” to the“Progressive Era”?
Vincent CHAN will present his analysis of how China's changing policy priorities will lead to structural shifts in the economy, society, consumption and different indus...
6 Apr 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speakers:
BAO Pu
Publisher of Hong Kong New Century Press
Derek SANDHAUS
Chief Editor of Earnshaw Book
Topic: Empress Dowager & I
At the turn of the 20th century, a young British aristocrat, Sir Edmund BACKHOUSE was uniquely positioned to be an important eyewitness of the tumultuous birth of mode...
29 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Regina IP
LEGCO member (Hong Kong Island constituency) New People's Party
Topic: The roles of political parties and their prospect for development in Hong Kong
Mrs. IP discussed Hong Kong's party development in the context of Western political theory on the roles, functions and typology ...
23 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: David MULFORD
Vice-chairman, International of Credit Suisse
Former US Ambassador to India
Topic: Emerging markets in the new global economy
The financial crisis of 2008 showed that emerging markets could be both resilient to the crisis and could recover growth relatively quickly. The lau...
21 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Steve CRAWSHAW
International advocacy director, Amnesty International
Topic: Of courage and mischief: achieving political change in surprising ways
Steve CRAWSHAW will ask if we believe too little in the power of change -- a question which now seems especially relevant in the context of ...
