Business leaders, policymakers and specialists come together to identify and debate the issues critical to Asia＊s future growth
HONG KONG, June 24 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- The Economist brought its Asian affairs column, Banyan, to life for the first time today through Banyan: Asia＊s CEO Agenda. Chaired by the Banyan columnist, Dominic Ziegler, this CEO forum will examine the region＊s increasing prominence on the world stage, the impact of shifts in the global economic order and the commonly held view that this will be "Asia＊s century".
A number of industry experts and top thinkers spoke at Banyan: Asia＊s CEO Agenda including: Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Arjuna Mahendran, Managing Director, Head of Investment Strategy, Asia, HSBC Private Bank; Philip Carmichael, President, Asia-Pacific, Haier; Geng Xiao, Director, Brookings-Tsinghua Center; Pradeep Pant, President, Asia-Pacific, Kraft Foods; Christine Loh, Chief Executive Officer, Civic Exchange; Dr Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha), Thiruvananthapuram; Christopher Wood, Managing Director, Equity Strategist, CLSA and Don Cooper-Williams, Executive Director, Asia Pacific, SAS.
Programme highlights included a session looking at whose century it is and whether much of Asia really is ascending at the expense of the United States, Europe and Japan; a panel that focused on sustainability by exploring Asia＊s rapid urbanisation and the role business has to play; and an examination of the roller-coaster Sino-American relationship and what it means for the rest of the world. The full programme and speaker list is available at http://www.economistconferences.com/banyan2010HK .
The roundtable will be co-chaired by Dominic Ziegler, Banyan Columnist, The Economist and Charles Goddard, Editorial Director, Asia-Pacific, Economist Intelligence Unit.
Dominic Ziegler remarked, "This forum offers fresh and challenging perspectives on the ＆Asian miracle＊, on the profound shifts in the global economic order, on the flurry of home-grown business innovation and on unprecedented demographic and consumer shifts. What it means for business is key."
KPMG and SAS are the supporting sponsors of Banyan: Asia＊s CEO Agenda.
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