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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.
26 Sep 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Frank LAVIN Chairman, Public Affairs, Edelman Asia Pacific Former U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade Topic: U.S. - China Relations in an era of Chinese ascendance There has been a high degree of stability in Sino-American relations since they were reconstituted some ...
22 Sep 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Roy PROSTERMAN Founder and Chair Emeritus of Landesa, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Washington Topic: The transformation of rural China Roy PROSTERMAN will discuss how China has benefited from expansive rural land reform, and how 30 year secure ...
19 Sep 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Panelists: Thomas CRAMPTON Head of social media, Ogilvy & Mather Asia Pacific Phil CHETWYND Asia-Pacific Editor, AFP Andrew LA VALLEE Editor, Wall Street Journal Online Topic: How social networks are changing the news business The Arab Spring, China rail disaster and London riots are just three e...
8 Sep 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Stephen EASTAUGH Artist Topic: An artist in Antarctica As an Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow in 2009, artist Stephen EASTAUGH spent a full winter of ten months in Antarctica. He will talk about and show Winterover, his own 30-minute documentary of his time at an Antarctic scientific bas...
29 Aug 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Mark MOBIUS Executive Chairman of the Templeton Emerging Markets Group Topic: Outlook for emerging markets Dr. Mark MOBIUS will share his outlook for emerging markets going forward. He will discuss the skepticism of investors towards Chinese stocks and also share his views on frontie...
24 Aug 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Chandran NAIR Founder and CEO of the Global Institute For Tomorrow Topic: Consumption, Capitalism and the Future of Asia Mr. Chandran NAIR will argue that the Western model of consumption-led economic growth cannot be replicated in Asia . This statement in itself is not a new one. If the...
25 Jul 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Mike McCONVILLE Dean, Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Topic: Inside the Chinese Judiciary – how it really works Professor Mike McCONVILLE examined the role of judges in Mainland China in everyday criminal cases from initial prosecution to verdict and sentenc...
21 Jul 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Karl Taro GREENFELD Novelist / Journalist Topic: Can journalists make good novelists in the Internet Era? Literature has been filled with great writers who made the transition from journalism to fiction. Yet today there seems to be growing division between journalist and the novelist, as...
11 Jul 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: HU Shuli Editor-in-Chief, Caixin Media Founder & Former Editor-in-Chief, Caijing Magazine Topic: Operating an independent media company in China - How we do it Ms. HU Shuli shared her many challenges in setting up and running a leading media company in China, at an FCC club lunch session...
5 Jul 2011 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dean KARLAN Professor of Economics, Yale University Topic: Are anti-poverty programmes inevitably toxic? Dean KARLAN examined what works and what fails in the fight against poverty around the world, at an FCC club lunch session on 05 July 2011. Mr. KARLAN is the co-author of a new book, ...
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