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Faculty of Business - Belt and Road Centre, PolyU
Inauguration Ceremony cum Belt and Road Symposium
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| Keynote Speaker: Dr Wenquan Yin |
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Dr Yin Wenquan - director of Institute of Economic System and Management National Development and Reform Commission, the secretary of the institute party committee, doctor of economics, research. He served as deputy director and the member of the party (Leading roles of departments or equivalents) in the Liaoning Provincial Development and Reform Commission from March 2005 to January 2013. Later he was transferred to Institute of Economic System and Management National Development and Reform Commission, served as the director and the secretary of party committee.
Yin Wenquan received the Sun Yefang Award in Economics, and got special government allowance granted by the state council. He presided over 9 provincial and ministerial level research topics. His representative work — the Several Issues that Enterprise Groups Should Pay Attention to in the Current Developing Process — was published on the front page of People's Daily and other major media. |
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Professor Grzegorz W. Kolodko – intellectual and politician, a key architect of Polish reforms. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, 1994-97 and 2002-03. Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities. Founder and Director of Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research, TIGER (www.tiger.edu.pl) at Kozminski University. Author of research papers and numerous books published in 26 languages. The world's most quoted Polish economist. Marathon runner and globetrotter who’s explored over 160 countries.
Odbayar Erdenetsogt earned an MA in international relations from the University of Dresden, Germany. From 2006-2009, he held positions in the European Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia, and from 2009-2012, he was third and first secretary, Mongolian Embassy, Berlin. From 2012 to 2016, he was interim director, international think tank for landlocked developing countries (LLDCs). Since 2016, he has been ambassador at-large, in charge of the international think tank for LLDCs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mongolia.
Professor Fatima Kukeyeva is a Professor of International Relations and Foreign Policy Department at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University specializing in foreign and security policy, transatlantic relations, American studies, and issues of globalization and democracy. She is the author of three monographs and numerous articles on security issues in Central Asia, the U.S. foreign policy, international organizations, democracy issues in IR, and international engagement more broadly. Professor Kukeyeva is a Director of the Resource Center for American and Democratic Studies. She is the organizer and Director of the annual Summer School on the different issues of Central Asian countries. She was co-director of the "Al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia", established by al-Farabi University and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2011-2014). She is an alumni of Fulbright and other US research programs and recipient of the presidential "Best Lecturer of the Year" fellowship (2007, 2015), and "Outstanding Scholar" fellowship (2008).
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Professor Biliang Hu is Professor of Economics, Director of the Belt and Road Research Institute (BRRI) as well as the Dean of Emerging Markets Institute of Beijing Normal University. He served as the chief China economist of SG Securities Asia and was an Economist at the World Bank in the 1990s. He used to teach Development Economics in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences as an economics professor of the Academy. His main academic interests are the Belt and Road economy, emerging market economy, China economy, urbanization and rural development. His works won twice (in 1994 and 2006 respectively) Sun Yefang Economic Prize which is the highest economics research award in China, and he also won Zhang Peigang Development Economics Award in 2009. He received his Doctorate of Economics from the School of Economics and Management, Witten/Herdecke University in Germany, Master of Science degree jointly by Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok Thailand and University of Dortmund in Germany, and he also conducted a two and half year post-doc research program in the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University.
Professor Xinpeng Xu
Professor of School of Accounting and Finance
Director, Faculty of Business-Belt and Road Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Professor Yanhua Mao currently serves as Vice President of Institute of Free Trade Zones of Sun Yat-sen University, Professor of Institute of Guangdong Hong Kong and Macau Development Studies, Director of the Maritime Silk Road and Guangdong Hong Kong and Macau International Collaborative Research Center. He also serves as member of the academic committee of Guangdong Maritime Silk Road Institute and academic committee of the Collaborative Innovation Center of China Pilot Free Trade Zone(CICFTZ). His primary research interests include international trade, reginal economics, and the economics of Hong Kong, Macau and the Pearl River Delta. He enjoys a high reputation in the research areas of Chinese Open Economy and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau regional economic cooperation. He has won the An Zijie Award for International Trade Research and the Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Science of Guangdong Province.
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