The Global Economic Outlook: Investment, Trade & Co-operation - BizTech Huìhuà Chat

Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3b1JxcN This webinar will feature a discussion with Professor Fan Gang, President of China Development Institute, and Independent Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of China’s Central Bank, interviewed by Professor Michael Mainelli, Executive Chairman, Z/Yen Group. With the aftermath of Covid-19, disruption to supply chains, inflationary pressures, and conflict placing the world's economic system under pressure, it is a good time to share thinking about the current challenges and potential futures, including: Trends in investment in trade as the world continues to cope with the impact of Covid-19. Future resilience in supply chains and credit systems. The prospects for achieving more stability in energy and food prices given the continuing effects of the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The impact of Central Bank Digital Currencies on domestic economies and on trade. The significance of carbon trading in the transition to a sustainable economy. The potential for co-operation to help the world economy progress. Speaker: Professor Fan Gang is President of China Development Institute (CDI) in Shenzhen, China, Director of National Economic Research Institute (NERI) and Chairman of China Reform Foundation in Beijing, China. He is Professor of Economics at Peking University (PHBS) and at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He is a guest professor at a number of universities and graduate schools. He served as an independent member of the Monetary Policy Committee of China’s Central Bank from 2006 to 2010, and again from 2015 to 2018, and is an advisor to various departments of the Chinese central government and provincial governments. He served as an economic consultant to various international organizations and played leading roles in research projects commissioned by the World Bank, ADB, UNDP, OECD, etc. His publications include over 100 academic papers published in Chinese and English academic journals and 12 books on macroeconomics and economics of transition. He received Doctor Honoris Causa degrees from the University of Auvergne (France) and the Royal Roads University (Canada), in 2004 and 2011 respectively, and was listed as one of the “World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals” jointly by Foreign Policy and Prospect in 2005 and 2008 consecutively, and one of “100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy in 2010. He received his PhD in economics from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1988.