17 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Tony TYLER
Chief Executive of Cathay Pacific Airways
Topic: It’s au revoir Hong Kong - but never goodbye
Tony TYLER promises a not-too-corporate look over his life and times in Hong Kong.
Mr. TYLER, an FCC member, is retiring as Chief Executive of Cathay Pacific Airways on 31 March after...
15 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Mina Hanbury-Tenison
Author
Topic: Wisdom of Shanghai: Feminism as defined by some women born and raised in the Pearl of the Orient
Why is Shanghai (in)famous for women who are beautiful and cunning? Mina Hanbury-Tenison will discuss her book, Shanghai Girls: Uncensored & Unsentimental, ...
14 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Mick CHINOY
CNN’s former Beijing Bureau Chief and Senior Asia Correspondent
Senior Fellow of U.S.-China Institute, University of Southern California
Topic: “Assignment : China” – A documentary film on the first American reporters in the PRC
It was 1979. The U.S. and China had just establ...
8 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jeffrey WASSERSTROM
Chair Professor, History Department, University of California, Irvine
Topic: "Media and Revolution from SUN Yat-Sen's Day to the Present"
Professor WASSERSTROM will move between the Chinese events of 1911 and the North African events of 2011 with a focus on how breakt...
8 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Baizhu CHEN
Faculty at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Academic Director, Global Executive MBA in Shanghai
Topic: The RMB, labour costs and implications for China-based enterprises
With the shift of China’s strategic economic focus, and mounti...
2 Mar 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Andrew LANG
Director / Producer
Topic: "Sons of Cuba"
Cuba, an isolated island of 11 million people, has dominated the world of Olympic boxing for the past 40 years, notching 63 medals including 32 gold. Just how this impoverished country achieved such results was unknown outside Cuba un...
23 Feb 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Artem VOLYNETS
CEO of En+ Group; Member of the board for EN+ Group, UC Rusal EuroSibEnergo
Topic: “Russian Power fuelling Chinese and global growth”
As China’s economy expands rapidly, its dependence on power generation increases its reliance on the use of fossil fuels such as oil and ga...
22 Feb 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Murong Xuecun
Author
Topic: Absurdities of China’s censorship system
Celebrated for his darkly funny novels of contemporary urban Chinese life, Murong Xuecun had prepared to use the occasion of receiving the People’s Literature Prize in China to make a speech calling for a more relaxed a...
10 Feb 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Humphrey HAWKSLEY
BBC Foreign Correspondent
Topic: “HELLO, GOODBYE - AND HAVE A NICE LIFE - with all conversations in between on how Bin LADEN and Steve JOBS changed the world”
Mr. Humphrey HAWKSLEY has been invited to Hong Kong, courtesy of IQ2. From Africa to Latin America to the Middl...
24 Jan 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jing ULRICH
Managing Director & Chairman, China Equities & Commodities, J.P. Morgan
Topic: China in 2011: cultivating sustainable growth
Jing will discuss China’s rapidly changing policy environment and examine potential risks: 1) How will policymakers address the risk of rising inflatio...
