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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.
22 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Anthony BOLTON Author / Columnist / President of Investments, Fidelity Investment Managers Topic: “China and Global Markets” Almost a year ago, Anthony BOLTON announced his intention to postpone retirement and relocate to Hong Kong to manage a China fund for UK investors. At the time, he...
16 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: John SAYER Director General, Oxfam Hong Kong Topic: China's unsung heroes Oxfam Hong Kong routinely works with farmers, villagers and migrant workers on rural development and job-training programmes. In a recent book, China Voices, the NGO profiled various groups and individuals whose da...
11 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Frank DIKOTTER Chair Professor of Humanities, University of Hong Kong Topic: MAO’s Great Famine - the history of China’s most devastating catastrophe "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell." Frank DIKOTTER shares his riveting chronicle of the Great Leap Forward, using previous...
10 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Guest: Lord Peter MANDELSON Host: Steve VINES Political Commentator and Broadcaster Topic: Inside New Labour Together, Tony BLAIR, Gordon BROWN and Peter MANDELSON were the founding architects of Britain's New Labour party. Now, Peter MANDELSON, one of the most controversial politicians of modern...
8 Nov 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jenny BOWEN Founder & CEO, Half the Sky Topic: China’s orphans today How many children are still in China’s orphanages? What’s changed in recent years? How is the trafficking situation? The Chinese government estimates it has 583,000 orphans with about 57,000 living in 290 children’s wel...
27 Oct 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Jeremy O’GRADY Editor-in-Chief, The Week (London) Topic: Making of news and views in the 21st Century Much of Jeremy O'GRADY's career has been spent at he sharp end of shaping public opinion in the UK. He served on the British Board of Film Classification for a decade, before morphing in...
15 Oct 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: David SCHLESINGER Editor-in-Chief, Reuters News, Thomson Reuters Topic: News in the digital world: whither journalism and journalists? “Securities research” is invariably defined by its content and that content is increasingly under the scrutiny of regulators, regardless of whether you w...
12 Oct 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
“Securities research” is invariably defined by its content and that content is increasingly under the scrutiny of regulators, regardless of whether you work for a broker, a bank, or even a website. Mr. Bolland will provide insight into who might get caught up in this new world, and what they must...
5 Oct 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Charles LI Chief Executive, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited Topic: Hong Kong's role in the internationalization of the renminbi Controlled internationalization of the renminbi is a landmark experiment. It has become one of the hottest topics in Hong Kong’s finance industry as it...
28 Sep 2010 01:00 PM — 02:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. CHEN Xiwo Writer, litigant and scholar of comparative literature at Fuzhou Normal University Topic: From the front lines in the battle against censorship In June 2007, the Fuzhou office of China Customs intercepted the galley proof of author CHEN Xiwo’s book that had been mailed to h...
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