| For more information
on these events, please contact Nkechi Carroll. |
| June 18 -19, 2008 |
The Changing Landscape: Asia’s Role in Global Finance - a conference taking an in-depth look at the economic and financial outlook for Asia, focusing on issues and opportunities in the financial arena given recent market turmoil, new risks and risk management, and growth and profitability throughout the region. Speakers include The Honorable Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister for Finance, Singapore (invited), Chairman Liu Mingkang, China Banking Regulatory Commission (invited), Jacob Frenkel, Vice Chairman, AIG (invited), and Robert Hormats, Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs (International) and Managing Director of Goldman, Sachs & Co. |
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| Previous Events |
| February 20, 2008 |
Asia Financial Forum featuring David Loevinger, Minister-Counselor for Financial Affairs, U.S. Department of the Treasury (U.S. Embassy Beijing), discussing recent developments in and the future of China's economy and financial sector. |
| November 15, 2007 |
Asia Financial Forum featuring Mr. Nobuhiko Masato, GCA America Corporation President. Presentation entitled "The Changing Japanese M&A Market." Co-hosted with the Japan Society of Northern California. |
| October 31, 2007 |
Asia Financial Forum featuring Robert Ward, Director, Global Forecasting, Economist Intelligence Unit. Presentation entitled "Asia's Economic Bellwethers: Myth and Reality in China, Korea, and Japan."
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| October 24, 2007 |
Asia Financial Forum (SEATTLE) featuring Arlene Mayeda, Galina Hale, and Walter Yao, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Panel. Presentation entitled "Northeast Asia in Review: Emerging Issues in China, Korea and Japan." |
| September 6 and 7, 2007 |
Asian Banking: Challenges and Opportunities, the final conference in our Asian Financial Crisis series. Featured speakers included Dominic Barton, Chairman of McKinsey & Co. Asia, Andrew Crockett, President of JPMorgan Chase International, and Tarisa Watanagase, Governor, Bank of Thailand. |
| July 19, 2007 |
Asia Financial Forum featuring
Clifford Tan, Former Head, Asia FX/Interest Rate
Strategy,
Citigroup, Current Visiting Scholar, Stanford
Center for International Development. Presentation
entitled "The Real Obstacles to Further
Philippine Growth."
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| June 20 and 21, 2007 |
Trends in Asian Financial
Sectors, the first conference
in our Asian
Financial Crisis series.
Speakers included Tim Geithner, President of
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Masahiro
Kawai, Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute,
and YK Choi, Deputy Chief Executive, Hong Kong
Monetary Authority. |
| February 27, 2007 |
Asia Financial Forum featuring Charles T. Kimball, Chief Research Consultant, Bosera Funds Management Company, LTD, Shenzen, China. Co-hosted with the Japan Society of Northern California. |
| February 6, 2007 |
Asia Financial Crisis series
was inaugurated by Janet Yellen, President
and CEO
of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco,
who spoke at an event co-sponsored with the Asia
Society
Southern California and the Pacific Council on
International Policy. Her topic was "Perspectives
on the Asian Financial Crisis Ten Years Later:
Assessing the Past and Looking to the Future."
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| September 25, 2006 |
Asia Financial Forum
featuring Thierry Porte, President and CEO, Shinsei
Bank. Co-hosted with the Japan Society of Northern
California. |
| July 24, 2006 |
Asia Financial Forum
featuring David Atkinson, Managing Director, Goldman
Sachs (Japan) Ltd. Co-hosted with the Japan Society
of Northern California. |
| June 28, 2006 |
Corporate Governance in the New Japan – Revisited.
Conference co-hosted in conjunction with the Japan Society of Northern California, the Japan External Trade Organization,
the Pacific Pension Institute, and San Francisco State University. |
| June 26, 2006 |
Asia Financial Forum
featuring Diana Farrell, Director, McKinsey Global
Institute. |
| June 22, 2006 |
Asia Financial Forum (LA) featuring Professor Takeo Hoshi, University of California San Diego.
Co-hosted with the Japan America Society. |
| May 31, 2006 |
Asia Financial Forum featuring Dr. Rakesh Mohan, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India. |
| March 24, 2006 |
Asia Financial Forum featuring Matthew Goodman, Vice President, Stonebridge International LLC. |
| March 22, 2006 |
Asia Financial Forum (LA) featuring Keitaro Matsuda, Senior Economist, Union Bank of California.
Co-hosted with the Japan America Society. |
| March 20, 2006 |
"Call The Fed" Audio Conference: Cross-border Investment in Asian Banks, presented by Dan Fineman, Sr. Financial Analyst.
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*Asia Financial Forum
is an informal speaker series featuring specialists
outside of the Federal Reserve who focus on Asia. |
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