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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.
19 Jun 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Pavin CHACHAVALPONGPUN Associate Professor, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University Topic: Thaksin’s Homecoming: Yes? No? So What? This talk will focus on the possibility of former Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin SHINAWATRA returning to Thailand and its impact on Thai politi...
7 Jun 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Carol T. CHRIST
6 Jun 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Nan SUSSMAN Professor of Cultural Psychology City University of New York Topic: Blended or Bi-Cultural: What Happens to Boomerangs and Sea Turtles? Nearly 500,000 Hong Kongers have returned since the handover and a similar number of Mainlanders have returned home following study or work ...
31 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Ruchir SHARMA Managing Director, Head of Global Emerging Markets Equity team Morgan Stanley Investment Management Topic: Breakout Nations: in pursuit of the next economic miracles Mr. SHARMA will talk about the main themes in his new bestseller, “Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next ...
29 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Eswar PRASAD The Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University Topic: Will the Renminbi Rule the World? Professor PRASAD, previously Chief of the International Monetary Fund’s China Division, will evaluate the steps China has taken to promote the international use of the ...
23 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Sophie RICHARDSON China Director, Human Rights Watch Topic: “Beat Him, Take Everything Away” At this lunch, Sophie RICHARDSON, will launch Human Rights Watch’s first China report for 2012, “Beat Him, Take Everything Away”: Abuses by China’s Chengguan Para-Police. Since its founding in 19...
22 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Ashley ALDER Chief Executive Officer of the Securities and Futures Commission Topic: Some Aspects of Securities Regulation in Hong Kong Ashley ALDER will cover briefly three aspects of the SFC's work : First, its approach to enforcement against market misconduct, including the significan...
21 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Professor CHEN Guangzhong Tenured Professor of China University of Political Science and Law Topic: How China Revised its Criminal Procedure Code Rule of law has seldom been more frequently in the news from China than right now. As it happens, the National People’s Congress approved on M...
17 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Hans VRIENS Managing Partner, Vriens & Partners Topic: Myanmar’s political and economic awakening What are the political and economic changes underway and the current realities on the ground in Myanmar? Following Myanmar’s recent by-elections, Aung San Suu Kyi will lead the largest oppos...
16 May 2012 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Ezra F. VOGEL The Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University Topic: If Deng were alive, what would he think about China today? What are the changes in leadership style from Deng through Jiang to Hu and Xi? How would Deng look at corruption and...
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