David Dollar is Economic and Financial Emissary to China for the US Treasury. Dr. Dollar previously served as the Country Director for China and Mongolia at the World Bank, and has been based in Beijing since 2004. He has a
YCW was founded in Beijing in 2009. As it is located in China's capital, the chapter has garnered strong interest from the diplomatic, business, academic and journalistic circles. YCW Beijing has hosted distinguished speakers including:
- Zhu Feng, professor of Peking University's School of International Studies and Executive Director of the Collaborative Innovation Center for South China Sea Studies at Nanjing University.
- Ian Bremmer, President of Eurasia Group
- David Dollar, the former Economic and Financial Emissary to China for the US Treasury
- Barry Naughton, Sokwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs of University of California, San Diego.
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Beijing – How the economic developments of the past thirty years will inform the next thirty years of China’s growth story’ with Professor Yasheng Huang of MIT
Yasheng Huang is a professor of political economy at MIT. Professor Huang is a highly respected academic on China’s post-1978 development, and the acclaimed author of ‘Capitalism With Chinese Characteristics’.
Beijing – Dan Rosen, Peterson Institute and Rhodium Group
Daniel Rosen is a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, where he was in residence from 1993 to 1998. He is also principal of Rhodium Group (RHG), a New York–based research firm, and has been an adjunct
Beijing – ‘China’s Rise on the World Stage’ with Professor Pan Wei, Peking University
Pan Wei is Professor of International Relations at Peking University School of International Studies. Professor Pan is a highly respected academic from Beijing’s new school of thinkers looking at China’s emerging role in the world
Beijing – ‘The State of EU-China Relations’ with Peter Wilson, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Peter Wilson is Director for Far Eastern Affairs at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for handling relations with China, Hong Kong and Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, and North and South Korea. He was previously Political Counsellor at the