Stanford Alumni Beijing Club Inaugural Panel Discussion -  

"Whither China's Economy in 2008? The Stock Market, Olympics and U.S. Recession"  

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When:  Saturday, June 28th, 1:30 - 4:00 pm

Where: Beijing American Club

4th, 28th & 29th Floors, China Resources Building, No. 8 Jianguomen North Avenue

中国北京建国门北大街8号，华润大厦4楼，28楼，29楼

Tel: (8610) 8519 2888

Cost:     RMB 150 per person, if booked before June 26th. Light snack and beverages included.

RMB 200 at the door.

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Please join us for an afternoon of thought-provoking discussion and an opportunity to build greater connections within Beijing's Stanford alumni community.

RSVP to Bill Hart via email at bill.t.hart@gmail.com or by phone on 1581.096.7744.

Stanford Alumni Beijing Club will hold its inaugural panel discussion series event on June 28th.  The event aims to bring together distinguished faculty, Stanford alumni, and other friends-of-Stanford to hear industry leaders speak about current events in China.  Our first discussion, titled, "Whither China's Economy in 2008? The Stock Market, Olympics and U.S. Recession," will discuss the topic of China's growth prospects in 2008, as the Chinese economy faces a number of uncertain variables domestically and globally this year. More specifically, the panel discussion will explore China's economic growth in 2008 and its relation to the nation's stock market slump, the Olympics and a slowing U.S. economy. Some possible questions for discussion are: will Chinese growth continue apace amid a continuing credit crunch and economic slowdown in the U.S.? What will happen to China's economic momentum after the Olympics? Will this year's slump force China's stock market to move away from being a 'casino' for speculative retail investors and become a more mature market focused on fundamentals and improving corporate governance?  

Panelists include:

Carl Walter, Stanford PhD '81, is the Chief Operating Officer of JPMorgan's China. Prior to leading JP Morgan's Beijing office in 2001, he was managing director of China International Capital Corporation, China's first Sino-foreign investment bank. He is co-author of Privatizing China: The Stock Markets and their Role in Corporate Reform (John Wiley & Sons, 2003).

Walter Lin, Stanford MA '89, serves as head of China strategic development at Morley Fund Management, the fund-management unit of Aviva Plc, the U.K.'s biggest insurance company. Prior to joining Morley, Lin was president and CEO of ABN Amro's fund-management joint venture in Beijing. He has also served as chief investment strategist at XiangCai Securities in Shanghai and also held a number of other financial research and analysis positions in both China and the USA.

Michael Pettis is Professor of Finance at Peking University's Guanghua School of Management. Pettis has spent fifteen years as a Wall Street banker and trader, including serving as managing director and head of the Latin American capital markets and liability management groups at Bear Stearns. He has previously taught at Columbia Business School and Tsinghua University. Pettis received an MBA and MIA from Columbia.