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Join AustCham China, in partnership with China Policy and North Head, for a webinar focusing on the Resetting of China's Growth Model, to be held Friday 3 July. Hear from speakers, John Russell, Managing Director, North Head; Chim Lee, Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Analyst at China Policy; and Xu Liangdi, Social Policy Analyst at China Policy.
The webinar will analyse China's future trajectory, with a focus on the fields of Science and Innovation, Healthcare and Education. Since early May China has embarked on a quantum change of its strategy for macroeconomic growth. For over four decades, GDP growth was the predominant metric. Emphasis has now shifted to stabilizing employment, securing basic livelihoods, poverty alleviation, and risk prevention amid the COVID-19 situation, while coping with elevated external uncertainty.
This webinar will explore what will be the new drivers for economic growth in China and the implications for Australian business for the remainder of 2020 and 2021, leading into the 14th Five Year Plan
Speakers
Chim Lee
Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Analyst
Chim Lee is a science, technology and innovation policy analyst at China Policy. Based on daily policy monitoring, he has written analysis on China’s dual pursuit of indigenous innovation and market opening, as well as frontier sectors like AI and 5G. Chim holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva
Xu Liangdi
Social Policy Analyst at China Policy
Xu Liangdi is a social policy analyst at China Policy. His major focuses include education, healthcare, urban-rural relationships, demography, employment and other topics related to people’s personal well being. He also takes interest in social inequality across all sectors in China, and how it has evolved as macro policy undergoes radical transformations. Liangdi holds an MA in sociology from the University of Chicago and an LL.B. in sociology for Peking University.
John Russell
Managing Director of North Head
John Russell is Managing Director of North Head, a leading strategic communications and public affairs consultancy headquartered in Beijing. He has more than 25 years’ international consultancy and government relations experience in working in Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia, and Australia. He has been in China for over ten years.
Prior to forming North Head in 2010, John was Executive Vice President Asia Pacific at Weber Shandwick, based in Beijing. He was responsible for building public affairs and corporate communications practices in 12 markets throughout the region. In 2008, he was adviser and trainer at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in preparation for Japan’s chairmanship of the G8.
Before coming to China, John was in Brussels, where for almost ten years he was the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union. For six years, he was managing director of Weber Shandwick’s Brussels office, also heading the public affairs practice across Europe. He still maintains strong ties to contacts in Brussels and Washington in both the private and public sectors.
John is a member of the international business advisory committee of the APEC China Business Council and is a strategic counsellor to the Global Times Business Leaders’ Forum.
North Head’s clients include MNCs, Chinese companies, governments, and Chinese government agencies. North Head has won PublicAffairsAsia Gold Standard Awards in 2013 and 2015 for best Specialist Agency across Asia and in 2011 for Crisis Management.
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