4 Nov 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jane PERLEZ
Chief Pakistan Correspondent, The New York Times / International Herald Tribune 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner
Topic: Can Pakistan be saved?
A nuclear-armed nation of 170 million people, Pakistan is of vital interest to the United States and the West. But it has also been the sit...
3 Nov 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Mike ROWSE
Former Director – General of Invest Hong Kong / Author
Topic: No Minister & No, Minister: A Civil Servant’s View
The Accountability system, whereby a layer of Ministers and other political appointees has been installed on top of the civil service, is now seven years old. Yet t...
19 Oct 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dominic NAHR
War Photographer
Topic: A Conversation with Dominic Nahr: War Photographer
To coincide with an exhibition of Dominic NAHR’s photographs on the FCC Wall, which opens 19 October, award-wining photographer NAHR will discuss his work and challenges as a photojournalist working i...
15 Oct 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speakers:
Aki RA
Cambodia Landmine Museum Founder
V. Tony HAUSER
Photographer
Topic: The story of a former Khmer Rouge child soldier
Aki RA will share his life story. Growing up knowing only war, he was co-opted into the Khmer Rouge as an orphaned child. He was praised for carrying a heavy rifle ...
8 Oct 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Terry DUFFY
Executive Chairman, CME Group
(Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade and NYMEX)
Topic: Preventing the Next Financial Crisis
As head of the world’s largest derivatives marketplace, Terry DUFFY will discuss how the financial community’s approach to risk management...
7 Oct 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Stanley HARPER
Film director of "Cambodia Dreams"
Topic: Screening of “Cambodia Dreams”
Cambodia was the epicenter of the proxy Cold War. It resulted in civil wars and revolution, tearing apart the nation and creating a diaspora.
“Cambodia Dreams” has a timeless universal theme, the indo...
6 Oct 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Tom CURLEY
Topic: The way forward: new opportunities for global news in the digital age
Tom CURLEY will discuss the crisis facing the global news industry and show how the changing media environment provides opportunities to allow companies to continue supporting authoritative, original ...
24 Sep 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Martin JACQUES
Senior Fellow – IDEAS institute, London School of Economics
Columnist – the Guardian
Topic: When China rules the World
Until recently the idea of modernity was synonymous with being western.
There was a widespread belief that there was only one version of modernity, namely...
23 Sep 2009 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Nicole KEMPTON
Author / Washington Director of the Laogai Research Foundation
Topic: Laogai: The Machinery of Repression in China
To coincide with the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China and a new book under the same title as this lunch, Ms. KEMPTON will take an in-depth l...
