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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Kerry Brown is a Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and a member of the YCW Board of Advisors. His spoke for YCW HK on ‘China in the Era of Strongman Politics? Just How Powerful
Jacob Young is an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs. On Nov. 6 he spoke at YCW Hong Kong about BRICS Bank and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A New Multilateral System Centered Around China? China is leading the charge among emerging markets to create new
Mark O’Neill was born in London, educated at Oxford University and has been living and working in Asia since 1978. He has written about Chinese workers in World War One. From the Tsar’s Railway to the Bolshevik Revolution explores how Chinese laborers
David Pedrol, Chief Executive Officer, Macro Asia & Cellarmaster Wines joined Macro Asia in December 2013 having developed his career in the global wine industry for the last fourteen years. He majored in Wine Tasting and Commerce of Wine at
Barbara Demick is Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times and has been interviewing North Koreans about their lives since 2001, when she moved to Seoul to report for the Los Angeles Times. Her reporting on North Korea won the Overseas Press Club award for