China’s recent financial turbulence has raised many burning questions: How has it already impacted both the US and Chinese markets? What is the trajectory for the future? What best practices should businesses develop in response?
Join an expert panel of elite academics and executives for an in-depth financial discussion of the current and future state of China’s economy. Click here to register.
5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, December 10, 2015
CKGSB New York Office
601 Lexington Ave., Floor 26
New York, NY 10022
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AGENDA
5:30PM – 6:00PM: Registration
6:00PM – 7:05PM: Opening Remarks and Panel Discussion led by ZHOU Li, Assistant Dean of CKGSB
Panelists:
7:05PM – 7:25PM: Q&A
7:25PM – 7:30PM: Closing Remarks by Alan CHEN, Director of Business Development, CKGSB Americas
To register for this free event, please click here.
BIOGRAPHIES
CAO Huining (Henry)
Professor of Finance and Chair of Finance Department at CKGSB
Cao’s research has been published in journals including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Business, Review of Finance and Marketing Science. Cao is the editor of International Financial Review and sits on the editorial board of Annals of Economics and Finance and China Financial Review.
Blake ZHANG
Chairman of Asian Financial Society (AFS), Vice President at Deutsche Bank Securities Asset & Wealth Management Division
Zhang is originally from Beijing, China. He graduated with an MBA degree from NYU (Stern), MSc from National U. of Singapore and BSc from UIBE in Beijing. With over 20 years of experience across China, Singapore and USA markets, Blake is enriched with hands-on skills and professional experience to diagnose businesses from multiple angles and with various solutions on issues.
Zhang was elected by the Board and has served as AFS Chairman since November 2012. He joined AFS in 2008 and was AFS Vice Chairman in 2011 and Co-Chairman in 2012.
Henry MO
Managing Director and Deputy Chief Economist at AIG, Board Member of The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA)
Dr. Mo is a managing director and the deputy chief economist at AIG, where he is responsible for developing international residential and commercial real estate forecast models, and provides macroeconomic projections for the firm’s asset management and insurance businesses. Dr. Mo joined AIG December 2013.
Previously, Dr. Mo worked as a director and senior economist in the Economics Research team at Credit Suisse. His responsibilities included generating thematic economic research on issues regarding both the global and US economies, managing the coordination of the firm’s global economics research effort with 40+ economists, and producing the bank’s global economics forecasts. In recent years, Dr. Mo has been focused on structural changes in the U.S. economy after the Great Recession. Dr. Mo was among the few economists who first voiced concerns on rising structural unemployment following the Great Recession as early as September 2009. His work on smaller wealth effect after the Great Recession is also considered as one of the seminal researches on this topic. Dr. Mo’s research work was highly recognized and was regularly quoted by the world’s leading financial media, including Barron’s, Bloomberg, Financial Times, New York Times, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, etc.
Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Dr. Mo worked as a research assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Dr. Mo received both his MPhil and PhD in Economics from the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York and BS in Electronics and Information System from Zhongshan University. He also studied in the Mathematics in Finance Program at New York University and in the Economics Program at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, respectively. Dr. Mo has published his PhD research in the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, and NBER Working Paper Series. In addition, Dr. Mo is a CFA charter holder. He is also a Board Member of The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA).
Kevin CHEN
Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Three Mountain Capital Management
Dr. Chen received his B.A. in Economics from Renmin University in 1998, his Master of Finance from Tilburg University’s Center for Economic Research (Netherlands) in 2001 and his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Lausanne’s Financial Asset Management Engineering Center (Switzerland) in 2004. Dr. Chen is also a professor at New York University.
ZHOU Li (moderator)
Assistant Dean of CKGSB
At CKGSB, Mr. Zhou has built and led a multicultural team that includes former executives of leading business schools in Asia, America and Europe. He has initiated and participated in CKGSB’s collaboration projects with leading global educational institutions such as Harvard Kennedy School.
Prior to CKGSB, Mr. Zhou worked in the corporate world for more than 20 years at various positions, including CEO, in telecom, IT, investment and consulting companies in Canada, Hong Kong and mainland China. Before he joined the corporate world, Mr. Zhou was on the faculty of Renmin University in China where he developed and taught International Business Management courses as early as the mid-1980s and was awarded the “Best Teacher Prize.” Mr. Zhou received his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics at Renmin University in China and his MBA at McGill University in Canada.
ABOUT THE CKGSB KNOWLEDGE SERIES
The Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business strives to drive economic development and social progress through interaction with communities of high-level academics and business elites, thus becoming a catalyst of positive social transformation and an advocate of new business culture.
This discussion is part of the “Knowledge Series” conducted by CKGSB. This series is centered on hot topics in China and Asia. It is hosted by CKGSB and its world-class New York resident professors, together with scholars from first-rate global partner organizations.
Each month it will present different topics in different forms, including lectures, discussions, etc., with the purpose of spreading cutting-edge knowledge and perspectives related to China and promoting deep dialogue in Chinese, Asian, and global academic and business circles.
QUESTIONS OR MORE INFO PLEASE CONTACT:
Julie Zhu
Program Manager
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
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Tel: +1-646-627-7729
Email: juliezhu@ckgsb.edu.cn