Two Sessions 2024: What’s Next for Businesses Go back »
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Time2024-03-19 | 16:00 - 18:00
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Venue:European Chamber Shanghai Office
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Address:Unit 2204, 22 Floor, Shui On Plaza, 333 Huai Hai Zhong Road, Shanghai
上海市淮海中路333号瑞安广场2204室 -
Fee:Members: 300 |
Non Members: 700
Speakers
Mr. Carlo Diego D’Andrea
Founder and Managing Partner of D’Andrea & Partners Legal Counsel, and Founder of DP Group.
Graduated in Law at the University of Teramo (Italy), he then subsequently obtained a Masters’ degree in Corporate Advisor at LUISS University in Rome and a Diploma in Chinese Studies at Nanjing Normal University and is a member of the Italian Bar Association.
Mr. D’Andrea arrived in China in 2005 and is fluent in Italian (mother tongue), English, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. He mainly deals with cross-border mergers and acquisitions, assistance in ODI/FDI and intellectual property rights.
He is also acting as National Vice President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.
Mr. Steven Basart
Steven has lived and worked in China for over 15 years in the non-profit management industry leading and representing global trade associations, professional societies and business interest groups in the region.
Steven is a Dutch national and a Permanent Resident of China. He is a lawyer and sinologist by training. He has a native level language proficiency in Mandarin, English, and Dutch.
Mr. Kent Kedl
Kent Kedl is a Partner in Control Risks, Greater China and North Asia. He is responsible for Control Risks’ practices across mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, the Koreas and Mongolia. He has worked in Asia since the early 1980s.
Kent has consulted with multi-national and Asian corporations on a range of risk and strategy issues, such as M&A and organic growth strategy, crisis management and operational business controls, and strategic and organisational development programs. Kent has particular expertise in the Asia-Pacific healthcare, food and beverage, and consumer products sectors.
Formerly, Kent was responsible for the Compliance, Forensics and Intelligence practice throughout Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining Control Risks, Kent was general manager and co-owner of Technomic Asia, a market strategy consulting firm.
Ms. Rebecca Bailey
Rebecca is AFP's Shanghai Bureau Chief. She moved to China in April after previously working as a news editor on the agency's Asia-Pacific desk in Hong Kong. Before this she worked at the BBC for seven years, where she edited one of BBC News' flagship TV programmes, Outside Source. She was also one of the founding producers of the BBC’s award-winning diversity project, 50:50.
She started the Asia Matters podcast with NPR's Vincent Ni and The Wire China's Andrew Peaple, and still acts as a producer for the show.
Prof. Ning Zhu
Zhu Ning is appointed as Senior Partner and Head of China at Brunswick Group. He was Oceanwide Chair Professor of Finance, Deputy Dean, National Institute of Financial Research, Tsinghua University, Co-director of the DBA/EMBA/EE programs and a Professor of Finance at Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), a faculty fellow at the Yale University International Center for Finance, and a Special-Term Professor of Finance at University of California, Davis and at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University.
Professor Zhu is an expert on behavioral finance, investments, corporate finance, and the Asian financial markets. He has published numerous articles in leading journals in the finance, economics, management and legal fields, including Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Legal Studies, etc. Professor Zhu has also written or co-authored several books, including most recently "China's Guaranteed Bubble".
Mr. Weisi Xie
Weisi Xie is the Shanghai Director at the Economist Intelligence Corporate Network (EICN), and is responsible for engaging with top executives in the region on key economic and political issues as well as industry-specific analysis to support their businesses in the dynamic Chinese market.
Mr Xie served as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University before joining EICN. As a trained trade economist, his teaching and research mainly focused on the fields of international trade, industrial economics and economic development, with a particular emphasis on China’s economy in a global perspective. He also possesses extensive expertise in the non-profit sector through work experience with think tanks and international organisations, including the Shanghai Institute for National Economy and the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland, where he contributed to multiple government counselling projects and policy studies. His work has appeared in leading academic journals as well as major economic policy publications.
Mr Xie has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a B.A. in International Business from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics.
Mr. LI Wei
LI Wei re-joined Standard Chartered Bank in 2017 as Senior China Economist. Prior to this role, Wei was Director and Asia economist at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and China economist at Everbright Securities. Wei provides analysis on key economic and policy developments in China to the bank’s internal and external stakeholders.
Mr. Sitao Xu
Xu Sitao is Chief Economist and Partner of Deloitte China, spearheading Deloitte's economic and industry research.
Prior to Deloitte, he was Chief Representative of China and EIU forecasting director at the Economist Group from 2004
to 2014. Sitao worked for MMS International of Standard and Poor’s Group in Singapore as the Economist for Indonesia, Korea and Thailand in 1995.
He joined Standard Chartered Bank as Regional Treasury Economist in 1996. From 2000 to 2002, he was Societe Generale’s Chief Economist for Asia. In 2003, he became the Head of Economics of ICBC (Asia).
Sitao has written for YaleGlobal Online, the Asian Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Caijing, Caixin and 21st Century Business Herald. He appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg, CCTV, and other TV shows as a commentator on China. He is on the Speaker Retainer Program for the Virginia-based CFA Institute and is often invited by leading MNCs to their board rooms, to present key issues on China.
Sitao holds a B.A. in Economics from Peking University, a M.A. in Economics from the University of Connecticut, and a M.S. in Finance from Boston College. He was a visiting scholar at Hoover Institution at Stanford University in 2012. He is also a guest professor at the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University. He has sat on the board of Forterra, a listed company in Singapore, Valin, a major steel companies which is partially owned by ArcelorMittal, Hisun, a technology company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and a joint venture between Bank of New York Mellon and Western Securities.
Ms. Andréa Buchin
Having held positions in Marketing Management in international companies, Andréa has supported firms in their development and positioning strategy, particularly in Asia. She joined DS Avocats in 2011, contributing her expertise to the management of DS Avocats' offices in China and to Business Development. Her efforts also aim to optimize resources effectively in a high-growth environment. She currently serves as the main contact in Shanghai for our clients regarding general business structuring and compliance issues in China.
Mr. Michele Geraci
Michele Geraci is an Italian politician and economist who focuses on policy-oriented research on International Trade, USA-EU-China Relations, Belt&Road, AI and Universal Basic Income and other current affairs. He served as the Undersecretary of State at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development, responsible for International Trade and Investment, and was the architect of Italy's participation in the Belt & Road Initiative and was a nominee for the role of Prime Minister of Italy. Recently, he has been appointed as the Head of the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Department of Independence Movement, a newly formed Italian political movement. The primary objective of this movement is to bridge the gap between the West and East within the context of the evolution towards a multipolar world. He holds the position of Adjunct Professor of Finance and Economics at New York University Shanghai and is an Honorary Professor at Peking University. Prior to his current roles, he worked for two decades as an Investment Banker (Merryll Lynch, Bank of America, DLJ, Schroders Asset Management) and Engineer (British Telecom) in London. He has been Knighted by the President of Italy, Mattarella, and the President of Georgia, Margvelashvili. He holds an MBA from MIT, speaks five languages and he is a frequent guest on international media and conferences.
Ms. Eugenia Victorino
Eugenia Victorino joined SEB in August 2018 as the Head of Asia Strategy focusing on macro and FX strategy research on China and the rest of Asia Pacific region. Prior to SEB, Eugenia spent almost 6 years as an Economist at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ Bank) in Singapore covering ASEAN and South Korea. She is a frequent speaker at major international media outlets like Bloomberg TV, CNBC, and BBC. She has also worked at ING Bank in Amsterdam focusing on country risk in Emerging Markets. Previously, she worked as a university lecturer handling Microeconomic Theory, Mathematics for Economics, and Statistics for Economics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Ateneo de Manila.
Mr. Ether Yin
Ether Yin is the Co-founder and Head of Policy Research at Trivium China, a Beijing-based strategic advisory firm.
Before founding Trivium, Yin was the China analyst at BowerGroupAsia, a US strategic advisory firm, where he advised multinational companies on developments of China’s political and policy space. Previously, Yin was the senior consultant at North Head, a Beijing-based public affairs consultancy, where he advised multinational companies and foreign governmental organizations
Associate Prof. Alessandra Cappelletti
I am a researcher working at the intersection of sociology and political sciences. In my publications, I explore dynamics of collective memory, remembrance, alternative identities and narrative shaping. What I investigate is how diversity is conceptualised and understood in different contexts, across multiple cognitive environments, and how its management is linked with notions of power and space. I am an ethnographer specialized in Grounded Theory and capability approach, which I adopt to look at how diversity and development intersect with political dynamics.
My expertise revolves around Chinese society and politics and the issues of diversity and ‘otherness’, focusing on Islamic communities and especially Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. I mainly explore policies and actions put in place by national and local governments to dilute identities of integrate religious and cultural minorities.
China’s attitude to diversity and ‘otherness’ is reflected in its foreign policy and projection to other contexts through the Belt and Road Initiative and other schemes. I explore how domestic targets and narratives are translated into foreign policy actions and discourses, with an effort to conceptualize the dimensions and criteria in projecting a country’s image abroad.
I welcome students who would like to engage in Ph.D. research in any of the following areas: Chinese society with a focus on identity and marginality; China's cultural diplomacy and Belt and Road Initiative; China's periphery; policy processes in socio-economic development; Islam in China.