Recent visits to CCG
CCG talks with representatives from think tanks, leaders in business, and diplomatic envoys in China
April 29, roundtable with the delegation from the Global Foundation to Australia. The event was attended by:
Louise Watson, Chairman of the Global Foundation
Steve Howard, Secretary General of the Global Foundation
Jean-Francois Di Meglio, President of the Asia Centre in Paris
Oliver Morriss, Senior Analyst at the Aviva Investors Sustainable Finance Centre for Excellence
Anthony Coles, Executive Director at the Australia China Business Council (ACBC)
Grace Fan, International Partner at King & Wood Mallesons
Graham Fletcher, Australian Ambassador to China
Zhang Junsai, former Chinese Ambassador to Australia
David Olsson, President of the Australia China Business Council
Qian Jingmin, Vice President of the Australia-China Business Council
Zhao Zihong, Chairman of the Fuhua Group (International) Development, Co., Ltd.
Bian Lei, Manager at CITIC Resources Australia
Wang Dong, Founding Partner at the Qianzhong Law Firm
Ma Chen, Director of Penfolds P&C, Asia
Stuart Dingle, Second Secretary, Australian Embassy to China
Roger Luo, Coordinator of Australian Affairs, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT)
May 10, joint roundtable with the New Zealand China Council. Grahame Morton, New Zealand Ambassador to China, Alistair Crozier, Executive Director of the New Zealand China Friendship Society, and Zhan Yongxin, Chair of the China National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (CNCPEC), spoke at CCG.
The roundtable was attended by:
Fran O'Sullivan, Head of Business at the New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME)
An Baisheng, Deputy Director at Institute of World Economy, China Acadamy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Commerce, China
Li Siqi, Associate Professor at China Institute for WTO Studies, University of International Business and Economics
Neil Quigley, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waikato and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Justin Watson, Chief Executive of the Christchurch Airport
Sima Karapeeva, Trade and Economic Manager at the Meat Industry Association (MIA)
Cleo Guilmour, General Manager and Co Founder of LILO Desserts
Luke Qin, Leader of Kiwibank’s International Trade Finance
Andrew White, Regional Director for Greater China, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE)
Stuart Zohrab, Second Secretary, Trade and Economic Team, New Zealand Embassy in China
Lina Tao, Policy Advisor and Interpreter, Trade and Economic Team, New Zealand Embassy in China
May 18, delegation from the government of the Netherlands. They were:
Michiel Sweers, Deputy Director-General for Enterprise & Innovation and Director of the Innovation & Knowledge Department at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Machteld Haaksman, Management Team Member of the Research and Science Policy Department at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
Floris Lantzendörffer, Senior Policy Advisor of the Innovation & Knowledge Department at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Nora van Bracht, Senior Policy Advisor of the Research and Science Policy Department at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
Rick Huisman, Senior Policy Officer of the Department for European and International Affairs at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy
Marijn Goes, Team Lead of the Domain Science International Collaboration of the Dutch Research Council
Accompanied by officials from Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Beijing:
Freek Jan Frerichs, Counselor for Science, Technology and Innovation
Yi-han Wen, Policy Advisor, Economic Department
Gabi Verberg, Senior Education Policy Officer
Ma Qing, Officer for Science, Technology & Innovation
May 25, Sherard Cowper-Coles, Chair of the China-Britain Business Council, Katie Lee, Senior Advisor to the Chair, and Tom Simpson, Managing Director in China
May 26, Hans d'Orville, former Assistant Director-General for Strategic Planning at UNESCO and Mehri Madarshahi, Member of the Center for Creativity and Sustainable Development (ICCSD) Advisory Committee
June 13, book launch with Alistair Michie, Secretary-General of British East Asia Council (BEAC). The event was co-hosted by:
David Blair, former Professor of Economics of the Eisenhower School at the National Defense University
Wang Yiwei, Professor at the School of International Relations at Renmin University of China
Xu Hongcai, Deputy Director of the Economic Committee of the Chinese Academy of Governance
Su Hao, former director of the Center for Strategic and Peace Studies, China Foreign Affairs University
June 29, Josephine Teo, Minister for Communications and Information, Minister-in-charge of the Cyber Security Agency and Smart Nation Initiative, and Second Minister for Home Affairs of the Republic of Singapore
June 29, Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, Editor of Foreign Affairs, visited CCG.
July 5, Peter O’Neill, former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, spoke at CCG and engaged in dialogue with CCG Nonresident Senior Fellow, Vice Chair of UN ESCAP Sustainable Business David Morris.
July 7, ambassador roundtable on common prosperity and the Nordic Model, with Signe Brudeset, ambassador of Norway to China
Helena Sångeland, ambassador of Sweden to China
Thomas Østrup Møller, ambassador of Denmark to China
Thorir Ibsen, ambassador of Iceland to China
Leena-Kaisa Mikkola, ambassador of Finland to China
Ma Keqing, Executive Vice President of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council
July 12, the delegation from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan visited CCG.
July 14, seven U.S. experts spoke at CCG. They were:
Jessica Chen Weiss, Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies, Department of Government, Cornell University;
Scott Kennedy, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)';
Maya Mei, Research Associate, Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the CSIS;
Matt Barocas, Program Coordinator, Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the CSIS;
Meg Rithmire, F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University;
Matt Sheehan, Fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace;
Susan Whiting, Professor of Political Science of the University of Washington
July 18, Kishore Mahbubani, Singapore veteran diplomat spoke at CCG and released the Chinese edition of The Asian 21st Century.
