YCW's Hong Kong chapter was established in 2012 with its inaugural speaker, Dr. Willy Wo-Lap Lam, Adjunct Professor of History and Political Economy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Located in an international financial hub, YCW has garnered a strong pool of members from the financial and services sector, academic and journalist communities. YCW Hong Kong has also hosted prominent experts in law, finance and journalism including:
- Michael C. Davis, professor in the Law Faculty at the University of Hong Kong
- Jason Bedford of UBS on shadow banking in China
- Barbara Demick, the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times who spoke on North Korea.
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Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China (Random House, August 2001) and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World (Random House, January 2006). He is a columnist at The Daily Beast and a contributor at Forbes.com. His writings on