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Our FCC Speakers Series is a unique opportunity for our members and their guests to listen, engage and discuss the latest local and international events and trends at the Club. The talks, organized by the Club’s Professional Committee, are hosted in the FCC’s main dining room, usually over lunch and occasionally over breakfast or dinner. The speaker typically gives initial remarks for 20 minutes and then takes questions for 20 minutes. The events are on the record, and videos of them go up on the Club’s website.

Aside from organizing guest speakers, the Professional Committee plans and produces evening documentary screenings, educational workshops, debates, speed-networking opportunities and events that benefit FCC members and provide opportunities for correspondents and journalists to grow professionally. See below for a full list of all club activities.
15 Jun 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, June 15, 2015 12:30PM FOR 12:45PM – LUNCH 1:15PM – ADDRESS 1ST FLOOR Speaker: Binod Chaudhary, Founder of Chaudhary Group Philanthropist and Industrialist in Nepal On April 25th, 2015, a 7.8 Magnitude earthquake ripped through Nepal, destroying a half million homes, killing over 8,500 p...
12 Jun 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Friday, June 12, 2015 12:30PM FOR 12:45PM – LUNCH 1:15PM – ADDRESS 1ST FLOOR Speaker: William Horsley, Former BBC correspondent and international director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media, University of Sheffield Introductory remarks by Caroline Wilson, British Consul – General, HK Journa...
1 Jun 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, June 1, 2015 7:00pm – dinner 1st Floor Speaker: Mike Chinoy, Senior Fellow The U.S.-China Institute, University of Southern California China in the 1990s was a paradox. In the wake of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square, political repression intensified. At the same time, however, fol...
27 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch 1:15pm – address 1st Floor Speaker: Pavin Chachavalpongpun Associate Professor, Kyoto University The military staged a coup on 22 May 2014, overthrowing the elected government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. For decades, the traditional e...
21 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Thursday, May 21, 2015 12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch 1:15pm – address 1st Floor Speaker: Professor Charlie Jeffery Senior Vice-Principal, Chair of Politics University of Edinburgh The failure of either Labour or the Conservatives to open up a clear lead, the likely severe losses of the Liberal Demo...
20 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Club Dinner: "Sailing Through Troubled Waters," a film about the disputed Spratly Islands Wednesday, May 20, 2015 7:00pm – dinner 1st Floor Speaker: Tomas Etzler Emmy Award Winner and Documentary Filmmaker "Sailing Through Troubled Waters" was a 22-minute film by Tomas Etzler that focuses on a ...
18 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, May 18, 2015 12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch 1:15pm – address 1st Floor Speaker: Professor Michael DeGolyer The 1989 Tiananmen bloody crackdown occurred during the first school year Professor DeGolyer taught in Hong Kong. Occupy Central came during his last year of teaching. When the speaker ...
14 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Thursday, May 14, 2015 12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch 1:15pm – address 1st Floor Fully Booked Speaker: Bill Majcher Investigator After over 25 years at the global forefront of money laundering and financial crimes, Mr. Majcher shared his observations on the prevalence and ease by which illicit capit...
13 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch 1:15pm – address 1st Floor Fully Booked Speaker: Dr. Willy Lam Adjunct Professor, Masters of Global Political Economy Program Faculty of Social Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Veteran Sinologist Willy Lam, who had just published Ch...
11 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, May 11, 2015 12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch 1:15pm – address 1st Floor Speaker: Tobias Brandner Prison Chaplain Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies Chinese University of Hong Kong Prisons were public institutions that are, for various reasons, not accessible to ...
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