| Speaker(s) |
 | Scott Kennedy, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics, CSIS
Scott Kennedy is senior adviser and trustee chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). A leading authority on Chinese economic policy and U.S.-China commercial relations, Kennedy has been traveling to China for 37 years. His ongoing areas of focus include China’s innovation drive, Chinese industrial policy, U.S.-China relations, and global economic governance. His articles have appeared in a wide array of policy, popular, and academic venues, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and China Quarterly.
His major publications include Managing U.S.-China Tensions over the Global Economic Order: Tentative Proposals (CSIS, November 2024); U.S.-China Scholarly Recoupling: Advancing Mutual Understanding in an Era of Intense Rivalry (CSIS, March 2024); (with Wang Jisi) Breaking the Ice: The Role of Scholarly Exchange in Stabilizing U.S.-China Relations (CSIS, 2023); China’s Uneven High-Tech Drive: Implications for the United States (CSIS, 2020); Global Governance and China: The Dragon’s Learning Curve (Routledge, 2018); The Fat Tech Dragon: Benchmarking China’s Innovation Drive (CSIS, 2017); and The Business of Lobbying in China (Harvard University Press, 2005). Kennedy hosts the China Field Notes podcast, which features voices from on the ground in China.
From 2000 to 2014, Kennedy was a professor at Indiana University (IU), where he established the Research Center for Chinese Politics and Business and was the founding academic director of IU’s China Office. Kennedy received a PhD in political science from George Washington University, an MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a BA from the University of Virginia. |  | Moderator: Dr. Mark Michelson, Chairman, Asia CEO Forum, IMA Asia; Chairman, Americas Committee, HKGCC
Dr. Mark Michelson is Chairman of the Asia CEO Forum for IMA Asia, which helps leaders of multinational companies in Asia Pacific to monitor and assess political, economic and commercial developments across the region — and to integrate key insights into their operational and strategic business plans. He also is Senior Counselor and member of the International Advisory Council at APCO Worldwide, which provides public affairs and strategic communications services in Asia-Pacific and globally, and established APCO’s first Asia office in 1997.
Dr. Michelson serves as an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and as a Professor of Practice with the Hong Kong Management Association. He is a member of the American Chamber of Commerce Board of Trustees and the APCO Worldwide International Advisory Council.
From 2004 through 2008, Dr. Michelson was Associate Director-General for Investment Promotion at Invest Hong Kong, the department of the Hong Kong Government that assists overseas and Mainland Chinese companies to set up and expand their businesses in Hong Kong.
Dr. Michelson has spent some 45 years in the Asia/ Pacific region, mainly living in Hong Kong but also in Japan. He served as Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Country Club, chaired two committees (Economic Policy, Coalition of Services Industries) and is currently chairing a third (Americas) at the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and has been a member of three Hong Kong Government advisory committees.
Dr Michelson earned his BA from Carleton College and a doctorate from the University of Illinois. He also attended Harvard University, the University of Tokyo and the New York University Graduate School of Business – and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to do research in Japan. |
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