Global Prosperity Summit 2024

SPEAKERS

Panel 1: Globalisation and De-globalisation

Ms. Henny Sender

Former Managing Director at BlackRock and Founder of Apsara Advisory

Moderator

Mr. Iñaki Amate

Chairman of The European Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong

Professor Steve Hanke

(via Zoom)

Professor of Applied Economics and founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at The Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Eric Li

Chairman & Managing Partner of Chengwei Capital

Director of the Center of Southeast Asian Studies and Chief of the Department of Asia-Pacific Social and Cultural Studies at the National Institute of International Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

Panel 2 : Risks of Pan-securitisation and the Impact on Development

The Hon Mrs. Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, GBM, GBS, JP

Convenor of the Non-official Members of the Executive Council, Hong Kong, and Chairperson of Savantas Policy Institute

Moderator

Professor Huang Ping

Executive Vice President of the Chinese Institute of Hong Kong, the Director of the Centre for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

Ambassador Kurt Tong

Managing Partner, The Asia Group, USA

Panel 3 : Science and Technological
Co-operation and the Future of Mankind

Professor Nancy Y. IP, SBS, BBS, MH, JP

President, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Moderator

Professor Roger D. Kornberg

Mrs. George A Winzer Professor in Medicine, Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford University’s School of Medicine, Nobel Laureate (2006)

Dr. Michael Spence

President & Provost of University College London

Professor Wang Xiaodong

Director and Investigator, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing

Professor Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

Turing Award Winner, Dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences and Dean of College of Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University, Dean of Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute

Keynote Speech by Professor Roger Kornberg

Professor Roger D. Kornberg

Mrs. George A Winzer Professor in Medicine, Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford University’s School of Medicine

Professor Roger Kornberg is the 2006 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies on the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription.

Panel 4 : Great Power Competition and Peaceful Co-existence

Professor Cheng Li

Professor and Founding Director of the Centre on Contemporary China and the World at the University of Hong Kong

Moderator

Mr. Hashim Djojohadikusumo

Chairman and CEO of ARSARI Group of Companies

Ambassador Jean De Ruyt

Co-Chair, Europe - Asia Center

Ms. Susan A. Thornton

(via Zoom)

Senior Fellow and Visiting Lecturer, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School

Professor Yang Jiemian

Chairman of the Academic Advisory Council of Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS)

Panel 5 : Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Mr. T.K. Chiang

Chief Executive Officer, CLP Holdings Limited

Moderator

H.E. Madame Irina Bokova

Former Director General of UNESCO, Patron of the International Science Council (“ISC”) and Co-chair of the ISC’s Global Commission on Science Missions for Sustainability

Mr. Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, GBS, JP

Chief Executive Officer, The Hong Kong Jockey Club

Professor Ye Qi

Chair Professor of the Society Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), and Professor of the School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University