China’s Economic Situation: Status and Trends 2010

Tuesday, July 6^th 2010
18:00-20:00 
Hilton Hotel

Beijing

The China-Italy Chamber of Commerce, the China-Australia Chamber of Commerce, the French Chamber of Commerce in China and SwissCham Beijing  invite you to an evening seminar on "China’s Economic Situation: Status and Trends 2010".

Ten years from now, a look back on China's reforms will likely mark 2010 as turning point. In light of the fundamentally changed global environment today, and the growing strains on its own domestic resources, China is steering the ship towards the next "long" decade of consumption while facing a number of overwhelming challenges on execution.

A macro perspective on successful key initiatives will be presented by Christophe Weber from the World Economic Forum.

Ye Weiqiang, deputy editor of Caixin Media, will focus on the risks of China’s economy, the major risks being generated from within, as for instance by possible policies failure.

Robert Wiest from Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd will cover China's economic outlook as well as providing a prospective on the Chinese insurance market with respect to:
· Demonstrated resilience

· 6^th largest insurance markets in the world

· Short term growth drivers

· Reasons for optimism

· An insurance related answer to rising risk exposure

Christophe Weber, World Economic Forum

Christophe Weber is the Director and Chief Representative of the World Economic Forum in China and oversees the Forum activities in China and the outreach and integration of Chinese stakeholders in the Forum's global, regional and industry platforms.
Before moving to Beijing, Christophe was responsible of Europe, Russia and Central Asia at the World Economic Forum and worked as a political advisor and legislative assistant at the Swiss Parliament focusing on public policy efficiency, monetary policy and foreign policy.
Christophe holds a Master Degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Geneva and holds a Bachelor Degree in Economics and Communication Studies from UCLA.

Ye Weiqiang, Caixin Media
Ye Weiqiang is the deputy editor of Caixin Media. He is in charge of the Opinion-Editorial Columns, reporting and analyzing macro economy. Prior to Caixin, he worked as the chief academic editor and the supervising editor of Academic Division of CAIJING Magazine between 2001 and 2009. He founded and led the Academic Division with a wide coverage from economic institution, macro economy & policy, to corporate governance. Some of his most important pieces include The Worries at the Central Bank, After the Peg of RMB and exclusive interviews with domestic and international policy makers.
He organized and presided over the quarterly CAIJING Round Table. He also supervised the official website of CAIJING and Finance Series, a monthly supplement of CAIJING.

Mr. Ye received his MA in economics from Peking University.

Robert Wiest, Swiss Re
Based in Beijing, Robert Wiest is Managing Director for Swiss Re China.
Robert started his career at Swiss Re in 1995 as an engineering underwriter for the Italian market. From 1998 to 2000 he serviced a number of European markets as engineering underwriting manager and headed special lines at Swiss Re Italia where he was a member of the local executive team. One of his major achievements as project manager was to successfully develop and launch SwiftRe.
In 2004 he was in charge of developing Swiss Re's P&C Business Group's Global Facultative System (GFS). In May 2005 he was appointed as Market Executive for Western & Southern Europe, and took on additional responsibility for the Middle East, Turkey and Pakistan from September 2006.
He relocated to Beijing, China to head up this important market in November 2008.
A graduate engineer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), he majored in semiconductor and chip design at the Technical University of Munich, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Robert was born in 1963. He is married and has two children.