Some Recent Foreign Guests at CCG (March 13 - April 12)
Wolfgang Ischinger, Matthias Machning, Michael McFaul, Kurt Tong, Pavlo Ryabikin, Burak Akçapar, İsmail Hakkı Musa, Graham Allison, Fergus Cummings, Katja Ahlfors, and UK government officials.
Below are some of the recent foreign guests at the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) in Beijing. The list of attendees for each event below may not be complete.
April 12, 2024
Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; Founder and Honorary Chairman, Agora Strategy Group; former Chairman, Munich Security Conference (2008-2022); former German Ambassador to the United States
Randolf Carr, Senior Policy Advisor, Munich Security Conference
Benjamin Thake, Senior Consultant, Agora Strategy Group
Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger was received by Mingde SHI, former Chinese ambassador to Germany, and Mabel Lu Miao, co-founder and secretary-general of CCG
Also in attendance
Victor Gao, Vice President, CCG
WANG Yiwei, Nonresident Senior Fellow, CCG; Jean-Monnet Chair Professor and Director of the Center for European Studies, Renmin University of China
JIN Ling, Director of the Department for European Studies, China Institutes of International Studies (CIIS)
Stefan Bernhart, Director of Corporate and Joint Venture Affairs, Volkswagen China; Vice Chairman of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China
Johann Fuhrmann, Head of the China Office, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
Canan Gündüz, First Secretary, German Embassy in Beijing
GUO Jing, Department of European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Jens Hildebrandt, Delegate & Chief Representative at Delegation of German Industry & Commerce Beijing (AHK); Executive Director German Chamber North China
Matthias Kraemer, Head of the External Economic Policy Department at BDI
LI Shengxin, Department of German Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
LI Ye, CCG Senior Council Member; Vice President, Head of Corporate Affairs and Government Relations, Merck China
Mike Liu, Vice President and Senior Fellow, CCG
SHEN Tong, Head of Public Affairs and Government Relations, BDI Beijing
SUN Mingxi, Director (Counselor), Department of European Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
David Zeng, Director of Corporate Affairs, Merck China
Dr. Ann Tang, Deputy Secretary-General, CCG
ZHANG Wei, Deputy Secretary-General, CCG
Zichen WANG, Research Fellow and Int’l Comms Director, CCG
Roger Mengqi WU, Research Fellow, CCG
April 8, 2024
A delegation from the Economic Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) headed by Matthias Machning, Vice-President of the Economic Forum; former State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (2014-2018)
April 4, 2024
Michael McFaul, Director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini, professor of International Studies, Department of Political Science; Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
McFaul was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House (2009-2012), and then as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014).
March 23, 2024
Ambassador Kurt Tong, Managing Partner and member of the Executive Committee at The Asia Group; former Consul General and Chief of U.S. Mission in Hong Kong and Macau; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs at the State Department (2014-2016)
Han Shen Lin, Capstone Director, MSQF; Assistant Professor of Practice in Finance, NYU Shanghai
George Chen, Managing Director for Hong Kong and Taiwan at The Asia Group
March 22, 2024
Pavlo Ryabikin, Ukrainian Ambassador to China; Zhanna Leshchynsk, Counsellor; Kyrylo Zaitsev, Second Secretary
March 22, 2024
Burak Akçapar, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Türkiye
Dr. İsmail Hakkı Musa, Turkish Ambassador to China
Oya Yazar, Deputy Director General of the Asia Coordination Directorate General
Ferhat Alkan, Chief Advisor of the Deputy Minister
Sinan Ertay, Head of Department of the Deputy Directorate General of East Asia
Cemile Elvan Hacıefendioğlu, Chief of Staff of the Deputy Minister
Gözde Öztürk Bican, Counsellor of the Embassy
Hayrullah Çınar, Third Secretary of the Embassy
March 22, 2024
Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government; Founding Dean, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government; former Assistant Secretary of Defense, U.S. Defense Department
Henry Huiyao Wang and Graham Allison in Conversation on Escaping Thucydides’ Trap
Hi, this is Yuxuan Jia in Beijing. On Friday, March 22, 2024, the Center for China & Globalization (CCG) held a book launch event to release the English edition of the book "Escaping Thucydides’ Trap: Dialogue with Graham Allison on China-US Relations
Graham Allison's speech at CCG
Hi, this is Yuxuan from Beijing. Today, the statement "The 'Thucydides's Trap' is not inevitable" emerged during a dialogue between President Xi Jinping and "representatives from the American business community and strategic academic circles." Just five days earlier, Prof. Graham Allison, Founding Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School and former U.S. Assis…
CCG's speeches at the book launch of "Escaping Thucydides’ Trap"
On March 22, 2024, the Center for China & Globalization (CCG) held a book launch event to release the English edition of the book "Escaping Thucydides’ Trap: Dialogue with Graham Allison on China-US Relations", published by Palgrave Macmillan, as well as its
March 21, 2024
Dr. Fergus Cumming, Deputy Chief Economist at FCDO, UK
Robert Gillespie, First Secretary, Head of Economics and Analysis, British Embassy in Beijing
March 20, 2024
Katja Ahlfors, Director, Centre for Peace Mediation, MFA Finland;
Dr. Olli Ruohomäki, Senior Advisor, Centre for Peace Mediation; MFA Finland;
Minister Soile Kauranen, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Finland
Anna Savolainen, Political Counsellor, Embassy of Finland
March 13, 2024
Two diplomats from the British Embassy in China and 21 British government officials from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Cabinet Office, Department of Work and Pension, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Home Office, Ministry of Defence, Department for Science, Innovation, and Techology, Department for Business and Trade visited CCG.
Andrew Haughie, South East Asia Team Leader, FCDO
Charlotte Baker, Multilateral engagement advisor, FCDO,
Henna Chauhan, Senior Desk Officer, Indo-Pacific regional Issues, FCDO
Mel Summers, Deputy Team Leader, Parliamentary issues relating to China, FCDO
James Schmidt, Secondary Secretary, British High Commission Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, , FCDO,
Alex Billing, Inward investment policy officer, FCDO
Luke Bola, China Department - External issues officer, FCDO
Michael Kitching, China Economist, FCDO
Isabel Stokes, Crisis Management and Preparedness Officer, FCDO
Megan Tyson, International Justice Policy Officer, FCDO
Sara Ali, Sanctions policy officer, FCDO
Jordan May, China Department Assistant, FCDO
Josh Dobson, China Department Assistant, FCDO
Francesca Beckett, Support Officer, China Department, FCDO
Colin Colas, Senior advisor on strategic issues, Cabinet Office
Joseph Livesey, Treasury Department
Charlie Freeland, Energy Policy Officer, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ)
Bethan Howells, Defence Policy Advisor, Home Office
Katie Jackson, Bilateral defence issues officer, Ministry of Defence
Ethan Silver, Head of Scientific Engagement Strategy, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Juhi Javed, Bilateral trade & investment advisor, Department for Business and Trade
Chris Butland, Head of North China Outreach, British Embassy in Beijing
Rob Gillespie, First Secretary, Head of Economics and Analysis, British Embassy in Beijing
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