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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.
7 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Thursday, May 7, 2015 12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch 1:15pm – address 1st Floor Speaker: Chandran Nair Founder and CEO of the Global Institute For Tomorrow The Other Hundred Entrepreneurs, a not-for-profit book by the Global Institute for Tomorrow, was about the people who have never written a forma...
6 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch 1:15pm – address 1st Floor Speaker: Matt Friedman CEO, The Mekong Club Every five seconds, a person enters slavery somewhere in the world. It was estimated that there are over 35 million people trapped in slavery. Roughly two-thirds, or 23.5 mill...
5 May 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch 1:15pm – address 1st Floor Speaker: Larry Lipsher California and Hong Kong CPA Mr. Lipsher provided an update on the latest changes to tax laws including: * New enforcement procedures in China for all expatriate tax filings – not just those for Ame...
28 Apr 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2015 12:30PM for 12:45PM – LUNCH 1:15PM – ADDRESS 1ST FLOOR Speaker: Mark Clifford Executive Director of the Asia Business Council Asia was enduring an environmental nightmare. In China alone, air pollution kills 1.2 million people a year. But change was on the way as a wealthi...
27 Apr 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Monday, April 27, 2015 12:30pm for 12:45pm – lunch 1:15pm – address 1st Floor Speaker: Tenzin Lekphell CEO of the Institute for Management Studies, Bhutan We all seeked happiness. Few ideals were as difficult to grasp than happiness itself. Everyone had experienced it and yet many were still quit...
13 Apr 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2015 12:30PM for 12:45PM – LUNCH 1:15PM – ADDRESS 1ST FLOOR Speaker: Dr. Martin Brudermüller Vice Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, BASF SE In 1885, when BASF sent a director to China for the first time, it was considered a distant and exotic country. Yet how differe...
9 Apr 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015 7:00pm – DINNER 1ST FLOOR Speaker: Nick Danziger Award Winning Photographer From world leaders to citizens of the DPRK (North Korea), Mr. Danziger had made a life of travelling to corners of the world where we rarely got more than a glimpse of everyday life. The speaker to...
2 Apr 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2015 12:30PM for 12:45PM – LUNCH 1:15PM – ADDRESS 1ST FLOOR Speaker: Charles M. Sennott Co-Founder,GlobalPost Founder, The GroundTruth Project At a time of rising peril and struggling financial models for in-depth journalism, how will the next generation tell the stories that m...
1 Apr 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2015 12:30PM for 12:45PM – LUNCH 1:15PM – ADDRESS 1ST FLOOR Speaker: Dr. David Gething Veterinary Surgeon & Winner, World Marathon Challenge Dr. Gething shared how he transformed from an out-of shape soon-to-be father to a competitive runner, his inspiration for getting into s...
30 Mar 2015 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2015 12:30PM for 12:45PM – LUNCH 1:15PM – ADDRESS 1ST FLOOR Speaker: Gary Pruitt President and CEO, Associated Press Mr. Pruitt discussed the growing threat to journalists worldwide and the challenges it imposed on news organizations whose mission is to inform the public. He tal...
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