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Time2017-12-12 | 08:30 - 12:00
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Venue:Sofitel Shanghai Hongqiao
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According to IMF Country Report No. 17/247, China has the potential to sustain strong growth. But to do this safely requires accelerating reforms to rebalance towards less credit-intensive growth, while using still-sizeable buffers to smooth the transition.
During his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Xi Jinping presented China as strongly committed to economic globalisation. He also stated that China would openup to foreign investors and level the playing field for all market players.
What do experts foresee for China in 2018? How will the New Party Congress’ Politics rule Economics in the New Year?
The European Chamber is delighted to welcome experts in the field of China’s Economy and Trade Relations with EU and US.
Agenda
8:00 - 8:30 Registration and Networking Breakfast
8:30 - 8:50 Welcome Address by Mr Mats Harborn, President, European Chamber and Executive Director at
Scania Group
8:50 - 9:50 Panel Discussion I: Economic Outlook, Productivity & Competitiveness
Moderator: Mr Jens Ewert, Partner at Deloitte and Vice Chair of the Investment Group at the European
Chamber
Panellists confirmed:
- Mr Francis Bassolino, Managing Partner, Alaris
- Mr James McGregor, Chairman, Greater China, APCO Worldwide
- Mr Jude Blanchette, Engagement Director, The Conference Board's China Center for Economic
and Business in Beijing
9:50 - 10:15 Networking Break
10:15 - 11:15 Panel Discussion II: Regulatory Dynamics and Playing Fields
Moderator: Mr Gabriel Wildau, Shanghai Bureau Chief, Financial Times
Panellists confirmed:
- Mr Mats Harborn, President, European Chamber and Executive Director at
Scania Group
- Dr Liu Shengjun (Dr Gary Liu) , Economist, Author of Next Decade of China, President of China
Financial Reform Institute , Founder of WeFinance
- Ms Mary Boyd, Director, Corporate Network, The Economist Intelligence Unit
- Dr Michael Kuan, Vice Chairman, Center for China and Globalization (CCG) and Founder &
Chairman of Kuan Capital
- Dr Chen Han, Co-CEO, China Europe International Exchange AG (CEINEX)
11:15 - 11:25 Closing Remarks
11:25 - 12:00 Networking
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Speakers
Mr. Mats Harborn
Mr. Mats Harborn
Mr Mats Harborn is President of Scania China.
From May 2017 to May 2019 Mats Harborn was the President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. He had served on the Chamber's Executive Committee since 2013, as Vice President and as States' Representative.
Mr. Harborn has been actively involved in Sino-European trade and business relations. In 2005, he was appointed as the Chairman of Swedish Chamber of Commerce in China, a position he held for 8 years. He has been the Chairman China Commercial Vehicles Board of ACEA (European Automobile Manufacturers' Association) since 2010.
Mr. Harborn has a proven record of successful introductions of products and companies into China over years. He is now the Executive Director of Scania China Strategic Office, responsible for setting strategies and paving the way for high end CV sales. He joined the company as the Managing Director of Scania China Representative office as well as Scania Sales (China) Co., Ltd in 2004 and held that position until 2010. From 1997 to 2000, he had been working for Swedish Embassy in Beijing as Commerical Councelor, a key position in Sino-Swedish commercial relations. In June 2000, he became the Marketing and Information Director of Ecolean AB, helping establish Ecolean as a credible business partner in juice and dairy industry and define it as a sustainable packaging solutions provider.
Mr. Harborn received a bachelor degree from Lund University on Oriental Studies and Business Admin (1984), and a training course from The Institute of Leadership (IFL) (2008).
As a multilingual user, Mr. Harborn has a wide ranging knowledge of Chinese culture and society beyond his business and rich expertise in cross-cultural management.
Mr. Jens Ewert
Mr. Jens Ewert
Jens Ewert, a Senior Partner with Deloitte China, has over 30 years of working experience in the professional services, based in Shanghai since end 2002 – he has been a member of Deloitte China Eastern Region Management team since then. Jens is the national leader for Deloitte China Life Science & Health Care Industry, leading a dedicated industry team comprising over 1000+ partners and professionals. He also covers our full range of multidisciplinary services, from consulting, risk & financial & tax advisory and audit & assurance, offering to Multinational Clients in China.
Jens has received the ‘Magnolia Silver Award’ from the Shanghai Government in September 2021, recognizing foreign business leaders for their special and outstanding contribution to the City’s development. He is also a Board member at the EUCCC Shanghai and the National Vice-Chair of the Investment Working group at the EU Chamber in China.
Prior to moving to China, he has been working in numerous countries always in professional services, such as France, Hungary, Vietnam and Indonesia. He hold a Master degree from University Paris X Dauphine in Business & Finance and a Diploma of Political Science from Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He also attended numerous executive programs at IMD and Insead. He is married to Christine and calls France his home.
Mr. Francis Bassolino
Mr. Francis Bassolino
Francis Bassolino serves as Managing Partner of China Region of Alaris Consulting, Inc. Mr. Bassolino's experiences in Asia over the past 20 years span consumer finance, marketing, and manufacturing. He specializes in providing Strategic and Operational Support to companies building businesses in Asia. Mr. Bassolino implements Sourcing programs, develops Strategic Initiatives, and designs Global Expansion Plans. He served as Senior Manager at Deloitte & Touche, China Business Services, where he focused on corporate finance, conducting Financial and Operational Due Diligence for mergers and acquisitions. He served as Business Development Manager at MSL Express, Inc., and Business Development Manager at China International Industry & Commerce. He advised the Houston Rockets basketball star, Yaoming on his endorsement strategy for China. Mr. Bassolino has been a Lecturer at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, has published articles on doing business in China, and aired commentaries on China for National Public Radio in the United States. He serves on the Board of Directors Caney Valley Drilling and Digital Energy & Farming Inc. He serves as Director of Shanghai office at Alaris Consulting, Inc. Mr. Bassolino holds a Masters of Business Administration in International Business from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, a Bachelor of Arts from Lock Haven University, and graduated from the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies.
Mr. James McGregor
Mr. James McGregor
James McGregor is Greater China Chairman for APCO Worldwide, and author of two highly regarded books: No Ancient Wisdom, No Followers: The Challenges of Chinese Authoritarian Capitalism, published in October 2012, and One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China, published in 2005. He was a veteran reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and prior to joining APCO he was founder and CEO of a China-focused consulting and research firm for hedge funds. He also held previous roles as a senior advisor for Ogilvy Public Relations China and the China managing partner for GIV Venture Partners, a venture capital fund that focused on technology and Internet investments in China and India. In 2014, he received a SABRE Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement from The Holmes Group.
Mr. McGregor was a reporter in the Washington bureau of Knight-Ridder newspapers during the Reagan administration. After serving as the Taiwan bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal from 1987 to 1990 and China bureau chief from 1990 to 1994, he spent seven years building Dow Jones’ media business in China as CEO of Dow Jones’ China. During this time, he established CNBC in China and created the Chinese language Web site of wsj.com, Dow Jones’ Chinese-language newswires, Chinese stock-market indexes and the first weekly business-television show in China. He was also a Series A investor in Sohu.com and served on the Sohu board for several years. After successfully preventing Xinhua News Agency from obtaining a monopoly on financial information in China, he received the Barney Kilgore award, Dow Jones’ highest employee accolade.
Mr. McGregor is a professional speaker, regular television and radio commentator and a contributor of essays and opinion articles for a variety of publications. He has lived in China for more than two decades, and can speak and read Chinese. He was an active member of the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in China (AmCham) for nearly a decade and served as chairman in 1996. He is currently chairman of the U.S. Government Relations Committee for AmCham. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council, a Global Council member of the Asia Society, a board member of the U.S.-China Education Trust and a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
Mr. Jude Blanchette
Mr. Jude Blanchette
Jude Blanchette is the engagement director at The Conference Board’s China Center for Economics and Business in Beijing. Previously, he was the assistant director of the 21st Century China Program at the University of California, San Diego.
In his role at The Conference Board, he is responsible for coordinating Center’s program development and member engagement, as well as leading the Center’s research on China’s political environment, with a focus on the workings of the Communist Party and its impact on foreign investors. He holds a Master’s degree in modern Chinese studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in economics from the Loyola University Maryland.
His book, Under the Red Flag: The Battle for the Soul of the Communist Party in a Reforming China, will be published by the University of Oxford Press in 2018.
Mr. Gabriel Wildau
Mr. Gabriel Wildau
Gabriel Wildau is Shanghai bureau chief for the Financial Times, where he writes about China’s macro-economy and financial system. He previously served as China finance correspondent and markets correspondent for Reuters, where he wrote daily reports on China’s interbank foreign exchange and money markets. He worked as a research analyst for SK Group China and Beijing bureau chief for GaveKal-Dragonomics, a macro-economic consultancy. He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and earned a certificate in Chinese from Tsinghua University.
The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading business news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Providing essential news, comment, data and analysis for the global business community, the FT has a combined paid print and digital circulation of almost 860,000. Mobile is an increasingly important channel for the FT, driving more than half of total traffic.
Dr. Shengjun Liu (Dr Gary Liu)
Dr. Shengjun Liu (Dr Gary Liu)
Dr. Liu Shengjun is an independent economist well known for his research on China’s economic and financial reforms. He is currently founder of China Financial Reform Institute. As a KOL, his microblog has more than 1600,000 followers and his WeChat has nearly 170,000 subscribers. He was a member of Global Agenda Council, World Economic Forum (2012-2014). In 2014, he was invited to a policy-consultation meeting chaired by the Chinese Premier LI Keqiang. Dr. Liu is a columnist for FTChinese.com, cn.WSJ.com and Caixin.com. Dr. Liu was elected Person of Year 2012 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek China, 2013 Chinese Young Economist by Beijing Newsand Person of Year 2016 of New Finance by Hurun Report, top 10 financial writers by TOUTIAO. His publications include the popular book The Next Decade of China. Dr. Liu has been invited to speak frequently by chambers of commerce and consulates, multinationals, universities and governments.
Ms. Mary Boyd
Ms. Mary Boyd
Mary Boyd is responsible for programme development and client servicing in Shanghai. She also provides research and conceptual support on China for Corporate Network programmes.
Before joining the Economist Group Mary Boyd was in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, serving on assignment in Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan and China (in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing). Since leaving government service she has researched and published on economic development and governance issues in China, and has undertaken consultancy work for the World Bank and other international institutions, as well as multinational companies. She has written for a number of Economist Intelligence Unit publications, including Country Report, China Hand and Business China. She co-authored the Economist Intelligence Unit report Taking on the Competition: Domestic Companies in China in 2005.
Ms Boyd has an MA (Area Studies) and an MSc (Public Policy and Management) from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and has also completed language studies at Nanjing University. Her research interests include local governance and decentralization policies, and public-sector reform.
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Mary is an expert on economic development and governance issues in China and has written for a number of Economist Intelligence Unit publications, including Country Report, China Hand and Business China.
Dr. Xin Guan (Michael Kuan)
Dr. Xin Guan (Michael Kuan)
Guan Xin (Michael Kuan) is the founder and chairman of Kuan Capital, an investment and asset management firm based in Shanghai, China. Prior to establishing Kuan Capital in 2013, he served as the co-founder of CyberCity Investment, SIG Capital and was a partner of GGV Capital.
Born in China and educated in the United States, Michael’s investment career spans over thirty years-- starting in 1986 as a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. He returned to China in 1992 to become one of the pioneering investors in TMT, Internet, Education and the Biotech Industry.
Michael has invested and played key roles in some of the most successful ventures, which include Quantech Electronics, China.com, Sina.com, Liming Networks, China Cable Networks, Grandhope Biotech and Hippo Animation. Kuan Capital is also an investor in Anchor Pacific Capital, RedBird Capital and Singularity University in United States.
Michael was also the co-author of InvestAmerica (1989), an investment guide for foreign investors seeking US investment opportunities. He was the 2006 commencement speaker at Pepperdine University and has served a number of board members of private and publicly traded companies in the US, China and Hong Kong.
Additionally, Michael serves as a founding council member of TEDx Global.
Dr. Han Chen
Dr. Han Chen
Dr. CHEN Han is the Co-CEO of China Europe International Exchange AG (CEINEX). CEINEX is one of the important accomplishments of the first Sino-Germany High Level Financial Dialogue in 2015 and a joint venture of Shanghai Stock Exchange, Deutsche Boerse AG and China Financial Futures Exchange with the signing being witnessed by Chinese Premier LI Keqiang and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. On 18 November 2015, CEINEX started operations in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. CEINEX strategically targets to establish an offshore trading market place for China related assets and RMB financial instruments to support RMB internationalization. As a financial service platform CEINEX supports the cooperation and development between China-Europe real economy as well as infrastructure construction on ‘One Belt One Road’. Connecting the European and Chinese capital markets it also serves as a financial communication and training platform to support Chinese and European financial practitioners. With both ETFs and RMB silk road bonds already in its product basket, CEINEX aims to attract high-quality Chinese enterprises to issue D-Shares and bonds in Frankfurt and cultivate an offshore China related financial derivatives market step by step.