The US, the EU and Germany’s Recent Discussion and Decision on Supply Chains and the Potential Implications on the European Business in China Go back »
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Time2021-08-25 | 16:00 - 17:30
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Venue:Zoom
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Address:Online
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Fee:Members: 150 |
Non Members: 300
Speakers
Ms. Agatha Kratz
Agatha Kratz is an Associate Director at Rhodium Group.
Agatha coordinates Rhodium Group’s European activities and leads research on European Union-China relations and China’s commercial diplomacy. She contributes to Rhodium work on China’s global investment, industrial policy and technology aspirations. Agatha is a non-resident Adjunct Fellow of the Reconnecting Asia Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies under the Simon Chair in Political Economy.
She holds a Ph.D. from King’s College London, on China’s railway diplomacy. Her previous positions included Associate Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and Editor-in-Chief of its quarterly journal China Analysis, Assistant Editor for China Economic Quarterly, and Junior Fellow at Asia Centre in Paris. Agatha has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a Masters in Finance from SciencesPo Paris, as well as a Masters in Public Administration from the London School of Economics and Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.
Mr. Ferdinand Schaff
After an internship at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Ferdinand Schaff took up his position as Senior Manager Greater China at the Federation of German Industries (BDI) in 2015. His work at BDI (and the Asia-Pacific Committee of German Business) focuses both on German companies in China as well as German and European foreign economic policy towards China. He was coordinating author of BDI’s influential 2019 policy paper on “China as a partner and systemic competitor".
Ferdinand Schaff holds an M. Sc. in Chinese Studies from the London School of Economics and a B. A. in Chinese Studies and Economics from the University of Cologne. During his studies, he spent a year studying Chinese at Beijing Normal University in Beijing.
Mr. Jörg Wuttke
Jörg Wuttke is Chief Representative of BASF China, based in Beijing. Wuttke is President of the EU Chamber of Commerce in China – an office he already held from 2007 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2017. Wuttke is a member of the Advisory Board of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin. He contributes regularly to the Swiss financial blog https://themarket.ch/. Wuttke has lived in Beijing for more than three decades.
Mr. Sean Stein
Sean Stein is a senior advisor in Covington’s Public Policy Practice Group. Prior to joining Covington, Sean served as the U.S. Consul General in Shanghai. He has over twenty years of diplomatic experience in Asia and has served in leadership positions in China, Washington, and the region. His insights informed policy making at the highest levels in Washington and he assisted dozens of U.S., Chinese, and international firms to develop strategies, manage risk, and identify opportunities for growth in response to the changing U.S.-China relationship.