Beijing – ‘Cross-Strait Relations and Taiwan’s Upcoming Elections’ with Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of East Asian Politics and Chair of Chinese Studies and Assistant Dean for Educational Policy at Davidson College

Shelley Rigger is the Brown Professor of East Asian Politics, Chair of Chinese Studies and Assistant Dean for Educational Policy at Davidson College. She has a PhD in Government from Harvard University and a BA in Public and International Affairs

Shanghai – ‘The Future of Sino-Japanese Relations: Eternal Neighbors’ with Dr. Kazuyuki Katayama, Consul General of Japan to Shanghai

Dr. Kazuyuki Katayama is the Consul-General of Japan in Shanghai (August 2015-). He obtained Bachelor of Law from Kyoto University, Master of Arts from Harvard University and PhD from University of Malaya. He also studied in the Chinese University of

Beijing – ‘All the News in China: How Reporting Has Changed in China Over the Last Three Decades’ with Ted Plafker, Beijing Correspondent for The Economist, and Jaime FlorCruz, Former CNN Beijing Bureau Chief

Since 1989, Ted Plafker has been a Beijing-based foreign correspondent, covering all aspects of the ever-changing China story for a variety of publications, including the South China Morning Post, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, International Herald Tribune,

Brussels – ‘Debt in China: A Damocles Sword Over the Future of the Global Economy?’ with Laurent Estachy, Professor in International Finance and Geo-economics at KEDGE Business School, Marseille and Shanghai Campuses

Dr Laurent Estachy is professor in international finance and geo-economics at KEDGE Business School (Marseille and Shanghai campuses, MBA and Executive MBA programs mainly). His research focuses on the far-reaching interactions between geopolitics and global capital markets. Prior to this,

Singapore – ‘China: The Highlights of 2015’ with Susan Jakes, Founding Editor of ChinaFile and Senior Fellow of the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations

Susan Jakes is an award-winning journalist who has covered contemporary China for the past decade. Jakes joined the Asia Society in 2010 as an Arthur Ross Fellow and in founding editor of ChinaFile, an English-language online magazine which publishes both