On March 30, 2012, Tsinghua University Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE) hosted a seminar with Mr. John Chambers, Managing Director and Chairman of Global Sovereign Ratings, Standard Poor’s (SP). The seminar, which was led by CCWE Director David Daokui Li, also featured several members of SP, including Greater China President Chew Ping, as well as several finance professionals and academics from China. The discussion focused primarily on SP’s process and methodology for the rating of

On November 8, 2011, Tsinghua University Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE) hosted a delegation of media members from the United States. As part of a trip arranged by the China U.S. Exchange Foundation, three American journalists met with CCWE Director David Daokui Li and several Tsinghua SEM undergraduate and Ph.D. students for a candid and free-wheeling conversation. The reporters included Jonathan Alter, Columnist, Bloomberg; David Sweeney, Managing Editor, News, National Public Rad

On October 27, 2011, Tsinghua University Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE) held a closed-door seminar with several representatives from the credit rating agency Standard Poors. Jean-Michel Six, Standard Poors Chief European Economist, and Ping Chew, Managing Director, Greater China President, led the discussion on the Standard Poors side. In addition to CCWE Director David Daokui Li, Chinese participants included academics from various universities throughout China and officials fr

On Oct. 19, 2011, Tsinghua University Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE) and Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, with the support of China Export-Import Bank; the Center for Economic and Financial Research, Russia; the National Council of Applied Economic Research, India; and British Petroleum co-hosted a senior-level internal forum on emerging economies, euro crisis，global financial stability, international monetary system reform, the G20 and the global financial architecture. The fo

The Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE) of Tsinghua University hosted a lunchtime seminar and roundtable discussion about the U.S. Federal Reserve on April 6, 2011. Gregory D. Hess, Dean of Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Claremont McKenna College, made a presentation and then exchanged views and ideas with participants from the Peoples Bank of China (PBC), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing Normal University and Tsinghua University. The main topics di

On March 21st, CCWE hosted an internal roundtable discussion with John Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director of theIMF, and two other IMF officials. CCWE Director David Daokui Li moderated the session. The Chinese participants included professors from Tsinghua University, Peking University and Renmin Univeristy. A wide variety of issues were discussed, includingthe global economic situation, theG-20 and the restructuring of the international monetary system.

Oct. 29, 2010, Beijing. The Sixth Annual Conference on BRICs Development was held with the theme of the BRIC and G20 in the Post-Crisis Era. Key participants were from Brazil, Russia, India, China, the EU, and the US. The senior official Hon. Amb. SHIN Bongkil from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Korea was also present, giving a keynote speech on G20 in the Emerging Economic and Political Landscape. The conference was hosted and organized by Tsinghua University Center for China in t