Dinner Reception on January 6 at Harvard Club in Honor of Justin Lin and Other Top Economists from China

  
Dear Friends,

The Peking University Alumni Association of Greater New York sincerely invites you and your friends to join us for a dinner reception for a delegate of China's leading economists, who are coming for "China's economy in 2010" forum in New York Stock Exchange on January 7th, 2010. The delegate include (partial list):

Dr. Justin Yifu Lin （林毅夫）, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank
Dr. Xiao Qin (秦晓), Chairman, China Merchants Group
Dr. Jianye Wang （王建业）, Chief Economist, China Import and Export Bank
Prof. Feng Lu （卢锋）, China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Peking University, China
Prof. Yang Yao （姚阳）, CCER, Peking University, China
Prof. Ho-mou Wu （巫和懋）, CCER, Peking University, China
Prof. Yiping Huang （黄益平）, CCER, Peking University, China
Prof. Geng Xiao （肖耿）, Director, Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy, Tsinghua University, China

The reception is open to all friends who are interested, not only limited to Beida alumni.

Time: 6:30pm – 9:30pm, January 6th, 2010
Venue: Harvard Club, 35 West 44th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenue), New York, NY 10036

Schedule:

6:30pm – 7:30pm Sign-in and network with open bar
7:30pm – 8:12pm Appetizer and informal discussions from several economists
        Dr. Justin Lin: China and world economy in 2010
        Dr. Xiao Qin: China’s financial market development in 2010
        Prof. Ho-mou Wu: Cross straight economic collaboration
        Prof. Geng Xiao: China government’s role in the financial market
8:15pm – 9:00pm Dinner
9:00pm – 9:30pm Q&A

Cost per person: $160.

Advanced Registration: Since seats are very limited, please register in your earliest convenience to secure a seat. Onsite registration is not permitted and online reservation will be closed at 5:00PM, January 5. Please sign up and make payment here. http://www.pkuaagny.org/?q=Jan2010Reception (Bottom of the page).

For any questions and suggestions, please contact us at pku.nyalumni@gmail.com, or call Daniel Lou at 212-300-6564 or Hong Zhou 551-200-2019.

Thank you very much!

Daniel Lou
President, Peking University Alumni Association of Greater New York

We sincerely thank BOC International USA and Bank of Communications New York Branch, and Sinopec USA for their generous sponsorships

Mr. Lin received his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1986 and is the author of 16 books, including The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform, which has been published in seven languages, and the State-owned Enterprise Reform, which is available in Chinese, Japanese, and English. He has published more than 100 articles in refereed international journals and collected volumes on history, development, and transition.

Justin Yifu Lin was Vice Chairman, Committee for Economic Affairs of Chinese People’s Political Consultation Conference and Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He served on several national and international committees, leading groups, and councils on development policy, technology, and environment including: the United Nations Millennium Task Force on Hunger; the Eminent Persons Group of the Asian Development Bank; the National Committee on United States-China Relations; the Hong Kong-U.S. Business Council; the Working Group on the future of the OECD; and the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee.

He was awarded the 1993 and 2001 Sun Yefang Prize (the highest honour for economist in China), the 1993 Policy Article Prize of Centre for International Food and Agricultural Policy at University of Minnesota, the 1997 Sir John Crawford Award of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, the 1999 Best Article Prize of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the Citation Classic Award in 2000 (by the publisher of Social Science Citation Index), Docteur Honoris Causa of Universite D’Auvergne in France in 2004, fellow of Academy of Sciences for Developing World in 2005 and various other prizes.

Dr. Qin received his PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge, and is Chairman of China Merchants Group and China Merchants Bank. He is an independent non-executive director of China Telecom; an independent non-executive director of HKR International Limited. He is a member of the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Honorary Chairman of Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association, guest professor at the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University and the Graduate School of the People’s Bank of China. Before joining China Merchants Group, he served as President and Vice Chairman of China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC), and Chairman of CITIC Industrial Bank. He was a deputy to the Ninth National People’s Congress, an advisor on the Foreign Currency Policy of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, and a member of Toyota International Advisory Board, he also served as Chairman of APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) for the Year 2001. He is the author of several papers and books in economics, management and social transformation.

Dr. Jian-Ye Wang is Chief Economist of the Export-Import Bank of China. His current research interests include reform of the international monetary system, China’s overseas investment, Renminbi internationalization, and other areas that are related to China’s foreign economic relations.

Dr. Wang worked for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1989-2008. While in the IMF, he led IMF policy surveillance and lending missions to countries in Asia, South America, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa. He represented the IMF in the Republic of Georgia (1994-96), various international forums including the Steering Committee of Debt Relief International, UNTADC Debt Management Advisory Committee, the Paris Club, OECD, WTO, Bern Union, and Asian Export-Import Banks. He was an adjunct professor at Tbilisi Business Academy (1994-96) and gave lectures at Peking University (2003, 2005) and Japan Center for International Finance (2002-03)

Dr. Wang was educated at Peking University, pursued graduate study at Columbia University as a Fulbright Scholar and received his Ph.D. in economics there in 1989.

Professor of School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, Senior Fellow of the John L. Thornton China Center and Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution, and Director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy.

He worked at the World Bank, Harvard University, University of Hong Kong, and the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong. At SFC, Geng was Adviser to the Chairman and Head of Research. He was also Vice President of the Chinese Economists Society in US during 2008-2009. He is also an Honorary Professor at University of Hong Kong, a member of the Supervisory Board of the Shenzhen Development Bank in China, and a member of the International Commission on Education of Sustainable Development Practice and of the International Advisory Board for Global Master’s in Development Practice, setup by MacArthur Foundation and Columbia University’s Earth Institute.

Geng obtained his M.A. & Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA. Professor Xiao has done extensive empirical and policy research on the Chinese economy, macro and finance, and institutional economics, providing provocative, timely and useful analysis and recommendations for policy-makers in Beijing, Hong Kong and Washington.