Moderator:
LIN Jianhai, IFF Executive Vice President, Former Secretary of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Panel Speakers:
Steven Alan Barnett, IMF Senior Resident Representative in China
WANG Tao, Managing Director, Chief China Economist, Head of Asia Economic Research, UBS Investment Bank
Dan Wang, Chief Economist Hang Seng Bank (China)
Moderator:
Gerry Rice, Former Director of the Communications Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank
Speaker:
Ayhan Kose, Deputy Chief Economist and Director of Prospects Group, World Bank Group
(September 9, 2022 Beijing) - Innovation and globalization will continue to drive Asian growth in the coming years despite challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and current recession, panelists said on Thursday at the 24th Academic Seminar of the International Finance Forum (IFF).
The 23rd IFF Academic Conference themed on “the Improvement and Optimization of the Standards System of the Green Finance” was held in Beijing on July 15, 2022. Deputy Director of the International Department of the National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors Ren Qing delivered the keynote speech on Issues of Sustainable Finance in Cross-border financing and Finance opening-up”. Experts from PWC, Bank of China and China Central Depository & Clearing Co. Ltd also delivered speeches and participated in the related discussions.
Wang Jinnan, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and head of the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning, delivered a keynote speech at the 22nd IFF Academic Conference held on June 19, 2022, in Beijing. Wang said carbon neutrality is an extensive and profound economic and social systemic change, a redistribution and rearrangement of competitiveness and productivity in the world. He analyzed the challenges that need to be addressed in the process from the perspective of path selection and policies for achieving the dual carbon goal.
