Conference 2017
Thursday, September 14
Leading in Asia
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Starlight Ballroom
Moderator: Terry McCarthy, President & CEO, Los Angeles World Affairs Council
Kanak Mani Dixit, Founding Editor, Himal Southasian
Shashi Jayakumar, Head, Centre of Excellence for National Security, Singapore
Patricia Kim, Stanton Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Aynne Kokas, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia
Le Quoc Minh, Editor-in-Chief, VietnamPlus, Hanoi
Mark Lippert, Vice President, International Government Affairs, Boeing International
Andrew Okun, President, American Go Association
Mihir Sharma, Editor, Business Standard; Columnist, Bloomberg View
Tsuneo Watanabe, Senior Research Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Ruan Zongze, Executive Vice President, China Institute of International Studies
North Korea: Test of Leadership
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Starlight Ballroom
Moderator: Mark Lippert, Vice President, International Government Affairs, Boeing International
Shea Cotton, Research Associate, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Matthew Spence, William J. Perry Fellow, Stanford University
Wu Xinbo, Professor and Director, Center for American Studies, Fudan University
Philip Yun, Executive Director and COO, Ploughshares Fund
Networking Reception
Poolsite
Friday, September 15
Breakfast Headlines: Polling Asia
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Starlight Ballroom
Richard Wike, Director of Global Attitudes Research, Pew Research Center
Leading China: Xi Jinping
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Starlight Ballroom
Moderator: John Pomfret, Journalist and Author, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom
Richard McGregor, Visiting Fellow, Sigur Center, George Washington University
Willy Wo-Lap Lam, Adjunct Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lenora Chu: Shanghai’s World-Beating Schools?
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Wilshire 1
Moderator: Priscilla Sands, Head of School, Marlborough School
Lenora Chu, Author, Little Soldiers
Le Quoc Minh: Facebook in Vietnam
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Wilshire 1
Moderator: Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
Le Quoc Minh, Editor-in-Chief, VietnamPlus, Hanoi
Silicon Valley Meets Shenzhen
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Starlight Ballroom
Moderator: Mary Kay Magistad, Creator and Host, “Whose Century Is It?” Podcast
Brian Lee, Marketing Director, DJI Creative Studio
David Li, Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab
Securing Asia
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Wedgewood
Moderator: Matthew Spence, William J. Perry Fellow, Stanford University
Shashi Jayakumar, Head, Centre of Excellence for National Security, Singapore
Eiichi Katahara, Professor, National Institute of Defense Studies, Japan
Mark Lippert, Vice President, International Government Affairs, Boeing International
Break
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China Leading Global Trade?
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Wedgewood
Moderator: Jonathan Karp, Executive Director, Asia Society Southern California
Wendy Cutler, Vice President and Managing Director, Asia Society Policy Institute
David Li, Director, Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab
Ruan Zongze, Executive Vice President, China Institute of International Studies
Sanford Panitch: Entertaining Asia
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Wilshire 1
Sanford Panitch, President, Columbia Pictures
Modi’s Leadership Challenges
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Wilshire 1
Moderator: Tanvi Madan, Director, The India Project, The Brookings Institution
Rafiq Dossani, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy
Shivshankar Menon, Professor, Chairman, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi
The Myths and Misunderstandings of the US-China Trade Relationship
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Starlight Ballroom
Leadership Lunch with Dominic Ng, Chairman and CEO, East West Bank
Moderator: Terry McCarthy, President & CEO, Los Angeles World Affairs Council
From Hollywood to China
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Starlight Ballroom
Moderator: Jonathan Karp, Executive Director, Asia Society Southern California
Aynne Kokas, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia
David Lee, President and CEO, Leeding Media
Ying Zhu, Professor, City University of New York
Asia’s Grandmaster: Lee Kuan Yew
2:00pm - 2:30pm
Wedgewood
Moderator: Terry McCarthy, President & CEO, Los Angeles World Affairs Council
Graham Allison, Professor, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
Shashi Jayakumar, Head, Centre of Excellence for National Security, Singapore
Abe: Trying to Turn Japan
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Wedgewood
Sheila Smith, Japan Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Tsuneo Watanabe, Senior Research Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Asia’s Power Play: China vs. India
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Wedgewood
Moderator: Tanvi Madan, Director, The India Project, The Brookings Institution
Kanak Mani Dixit, Founding Editor, Himal Southasian
Shivshankar Menon, Chairman, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi
Ruan Zongze, Executive Vice President, China Institute for International Studies
Does Asia Have a Future?
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Wilshire 1
Moderator: Clayton Dube, Director, USC US-China Institute
Michael Auslin, William-Griffis Fellow in Contemporary Asia, Hoover Institution
Edward Tse, CEO, Gao Feng Advisory Company
Asia Discovers Philanthropy
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Wilshire 1
Moderator: Derek Shearer, Professor for Diplomacy and World Affairs, Occidental College
Edward Cunningham, Director, China Programs, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
Break
4:00pm - 4:15pm
The Big Two: US/China
4:15pm - 5:15pm
Wedgewood
Moderator: James McGregor, Chairman, APCO Worldwide, Shanghai
Graham Allison, Professor, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government
Patricia Kim, Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
John Pomfret, Journalist and Author, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom
Wu Xinbo, Professor and Director, Center for American Studies, Fudan University
New Corporate Leadership
4:15pm - 5:15pm
Wilshire 1
Moderator: Victor Liu, Senior Research Analyst, Causeway Capital
Mihir Sharma, Editor, Business Standard; Columnist, Bloomberg View
Kartik Srivatsa, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Aspada Investment Advisors
Edward Tse, CEO, Gao Feng Advisory Company
Tianyi Joe Zhu, Co-Founder and Partner, SmartHealth Ventures
Closing Dinner Keynote: Securing the Pacific
6:30pm
Starlight Ballroom
Admiral Scott Swift, Commander, US Pacific Fleet