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LSE is delighted to host the next talk in the LSE China Alumni Lecture series in Beijing on the evening of 8 June 2010.
Prof. Danny Quah from LSE's Department of Economics will deliver a lecture titled
China in the Global Economy: The New Normal
An outline on Prof. Quah and the lecture are available below.
All LSE alumni are invited, and must register at b.p.smith1@lse.ac.uk| with their name, year and degree of study at LSE and current work position.
LSE is pleased to advise our alumni that the lecture will take place at the British Ambassador's Residence in Beijing, His Excellency, Sebastian Wood. Therefore, LSE alumni must register in advance, and on the evening of 8 June arrive at the British Ambassador's residence with photo ID. Only those who have registered in advance will be granted entrance.
Event:- LSE China Alumni Lecture Series
Date and Time:- 8 June 2010, doors open at 7pm, with lecture commencing at 7.30pm. Registration in advance is required.
Venue:- British Embassy Residence, Beijing, 15 Guanghua Lu, Jianguomenwai, Beijing 100600
Lecture:- China in the Global Economy: The New Normal, by Prof. Danny Quah, LSE Department of Economics
Refreshments:- Drinks and light snacks will be provided.
Lecture Outline and Profile on Prof. Danny Quah
China in the Global Economy: The New Normal
With recovery from the 2008 Global Financial Crisis taking firmer hold worldwide, what will the global economy look like in the new state of normalcy? On the one hand, the dangers posed by global trade and financial imbalances persist; the challenges of low-carbon economic growth become ever greater and more immediate; sovereign debt in parts of the world continue to head towards danger levels; the international financial system remains essentially unchanged from before 2008. On the other hand, this time around, as on previous occasions, it has been China and the rest of East Asia driving world recovery, continuing to lift hundreds of millions of world citizens out of extreme poverty, and chasing technical developments that matter importantly for the great majority of humanity. How will these ongoing events shape economic growth and global markets in the near future? This talk outlines historical evolutions that continue and ongoing changes that will potentially drive the course of the global economy
Danny Quah is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science; he is also Co-Director of LSE Global Governance and Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS. He currently serves on Malaysia's National Economic Advisory Council. In 2006-2009 he was Head of Department of Economics at LSE. Quah holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard, and was Assistant Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the LSE. In 2010 he was Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor in the Economics Department at the National University of Singapore, and Visiting Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University.
Recently Quah spoke on the global economy and global imbalances at the Khazanah Megatrends Forum, the Hay Literary Festival, the British Embassy in Beijing, the National University of Singapore, and in different forums in Bali, Abu Dhabi, Kazakhstan, and Mauritius. Early in 2009 he delivered the Goh Keng Swee Lecture in Singapore on China's economic growth, and the World Economy Asia lecture ("Will Asia save the world?") in Kuala Lumpur. In May 2009, together with Lord Charles Powell and Sir David Tang, he opposed Gurcharan Das, Deepak Lal, and Mark Tully, in debating the motion "The future belongs to India, not China" at the Royal Geographical Society in London.
Quah has consulted for among others the World Bank, the Bank of England, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He is a Member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Economic Imbalances.
Prof Quah's research is now on the global economy, economic growth and development, income inequality, international economic relations, economic geography, and new technologies. He is investigating in particular the possible eastwards drift of global economic activity, and the repercussions of such ongoing shift. He has also previously worked in time series econometrics, inflation, and business cycles. At the LSE he used to lecture in the largest course (Introductory Economics) taught in the School. Quah now teaches macroeconomics and econometrics in LSE's MSc programme, and lectures on The Global Economy for the LSE-PKU Summer School in Beijing and LSE's Executive Summer School in London.
Prof Quah was born in Malaysia and is now a British citizen. He holds a blackbelt in taekwon-do.