Speakers at Institution to focus on China and India
7/8/2007 - CHAUTAUQUA — The third week of lectures at Chautauqua Institution will explore the theme, ''The Meteoric Rise of China and India.''
Chautauqua Institution hosts the weekday Morning Lecture Series at 10:45 a.m. in the Amphitheater. Tickets can be purchased at the Chautauqua Box Office in the Turner Community Center on Route 394. They may also be ordered by phone at 357-6250 or on the Internet at tickets.ciweb.org.
The morning lecture series will include guest speakers that will address the question, ''Is the world really flat and if so how do we navigate it?''
In the last 20 years, more than 500,000,000 people have risen out of poverty in China and India combined. China, with the world's fastest growing gross domestic product and energy demand, and India, with the largest educated middle class and democracy, are global economic forces. Speakers throughout the week will discuss the economic development of India and China, its global repercussions and future impacts on politics, economic competition, and resources used to analyze the navigation of these forces in globalization.
On Monday, Ronnie Chan, Hang Lung Properties chairman, a family-owned, professionally-managed company with more than 57 years of experience in property development in Hong Kong and now, increasingly, in mainland China, will speak. Chan joined the group in 1972 and became chairman in 1991. He is also a vice president of the Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong, a vice chairman of the Asia Society and chairman of its Hong Kong Center, and an advisor to the China Development Research Foundation of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.
Richard Celeste, Tuesday's speaker, has built a 40-year career of service in federal and state government and now in the private sector. Now the president of Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Celeste is the former two-term governor of Ohio following terms as state representative and lieutenant governor. Celeste also served as the U.S. Ambassador to India from 1997 to 2001 and is the former director of the U.S. Peace Corps.
Elizabeth Economy, the speaker on Wednesday, is the C.V. Starr senior fellow and director of Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her areas of expertise include Chinese domestic and foreign policy, Sino-U.S. relations and global environmental issues.
She has published widely on both Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Her most recent book, ''The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future'' was published in 2004. She also co-edited ''China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects,'' and ''The Internationalization of Environmental Protection.'' She has testified before Congress on numerous occasions, and regularly speaks at international conferences such as the World Economic Forum in Davos and the Fortune Global Forum.
On Thursday, Shashi Tharoor, chairman of Dubai-based Afras Ventures and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, will speak. He was the official candidate of India for the succession to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006, and came a close second out of seven contenders in the race. He serves as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information. His career began in 1978, when he joined the staff of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, and includes key responsibilities in peace-keeping after the Cold War and as a senior adviser to the Secretary-General.
Dr. Tharoor is also the award-winning author of nine books, as well as hundreds of articles, op-eds and book reviews in a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the International Herald Tribune, Time, Newsweek and The Times of India.He has served for two years as a contributing editor and occasional columnist for Newsweek International. Since April 2001 he has authored a fortnightly column in The Hindu and since January 2007 in The Times of India.
Jeffrey Bader, director of the John L. Thornton China Center and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, will close the week's speakers on Friday. Bader joined Brookings in April 2005 after a 27-year career in the U.S. State Department, National Security Council and office of the United States Trade Representative, and three years in the private sector.
He joined the State Department in 1975. His assignments as a Foreign Service Officer included Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, Zaire (Congo); Taipei, where he studied Chinese; Beijing; the U.S. Mission to the United Nations; Deputy Chief of Mission in Lusaka, Zambia; Deputy Consul General in Hong Kong; and several tours in Washington in the State Department's Bureau of East Asian & Pacific Affairs. He served as Deputy Director of the Office of Chinese & Mongolian Affairs from 1987 to 1990 and Director of the same office in 1995-1996.
In 1996 Bader was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian & Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, and Laos. In August 1997 he was named Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council, with responsibility for U.S. relations with the PRC and Taiwan, in which capacity he served until 1999.
Chautauqua Institution hosts the weekday Morning Lecture Series at 10:45 a.m. in the Amphitheater. Tickets can be purchased at the Chautauqua Box Office in the Turner Community Center on Route 394. They may also be ordered by phone at 357-6250 or on the Internet at tickets.ciweb.org.
The morning lecture series will include guest speakers that will address the question, ''Is the world really flat and if so how do we navigate it?''
In the last 20 years, more than 500,000,000 people have risen out of poverty in China and India combined. China, with the world's fastest growing gross domestic product and energy demand, and India, with the largest educated middle class and democracy, are global economic forces. Speakers throughout the week will discuss the economic development of India and China, its global repercussions and future impacts on politics, economic competition, and resources used to analyze the navigation of these forces in globalization.
On Monday, Ronnie Chan, Hang Lung Properties chairman, a family-owned, professionally-managed company with more than 57 years of experience in property development in Hong Kong and now, increasingly, in mainland China, will speak. Chan joined the group in 1972 and became chairman in 1991. He is also a vice president of the Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong, a vice chairman of the Asia Society and chairman of its Hong Kong Center, and an advisor to the China Development Research Foundation of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.
Richard Celeste, Tuesday's speaker, has built a 40-year career of service in federal and state government and now in the private sector. Now the president of Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Celeste is the former two-term governor of Ohio following terms as state representative and lieutenant governor. Celeste also served as the U.S. Ambassador to India from 1997 to 2001 and is the former director of the U.S. Peace Corps.
Elizabeth Economy, the speaker on Wednesday, is the C.V. Starr senior fellow and director of Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Her areas of expertise include Chinese domestic and foreign policy, Sino-U.S. relations and global environmental issues.
She has published widely on both Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Her most recent book, ''The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future'' was published in 2004. She also co-edited ''China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects,'' and ''The Internationalization of Environmental Protection.'' She has testified before Congress on numerous occasions, and regularly speaks at international conferences such as the World Economic Forum in Davos and the Fortune Global Forum.
On Thursday, Shashi Tharoor, chairman of Dubai-based Afras Ventures and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, will speak. He was the official candidate of India for the succession to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006, and came a close second out of seven contenders in the race. He serves as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information. His career began in 1978, when he joined the staff of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, and includes key responsibilities in peace-keeping after the Cold War and as a senior adviser to the Secretary-General.
Dr. Tharoor is also the award-winning author of nine books, as well as hundreds of articles, op-eds and book reviews in a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the International Herald Tribune, Time, Newsweek and The Times of India.He has served for two years as a contributing editor and occasional columnist for Newsweek International. Since April 2001 he has authored a fortnightly column in The Hindu and since January 2007 in The Times of India.
Jeffrey Bader, director of the John L. Thornton China Center and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, will close the week's speakers on Friday. Bader joined Brookings in April 2005 after a 27-year career in the U.S. State Department, National Security Council and office of the United States Trade Representative, and three years in the private sector.
He joined the State Department in 1975. His assignments as a Foreign Service Officer included Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, Zaire (Congo); Taipei, where he studied Chinese; Beijing; the U.S. Mission to the United Nations; Deputy Chief of Mission in Lusaka, Zambia; Deputy Consul General in Hong Kong; and several tours in Washington in the State Department's Bureau of East Asian & Pacific Affairs. He served as Deputy Director of the Office of Chinese & Mongolian Affairs from 1987 to 1990 and Director of the same office in 1995-1996.
In 1996 Bader was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian & Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, and Laos. In August 1997 he was named Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council, with responsibility for U.S. relations with the PRC and Taiwan, in which capacity he served until 1999.
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