GlobalChina Center 45th Anniversary featuring the 2024 Bob and Kim Griffin Building U.S.-China Bridges Lecture
Memorial Hall, McNamara Alumni Center
Join us as we celebrate the 45th anniversary of the China Center with the 2024 Bob and Kim Griffin Building U.S.-China Bridges Lecture.
Registration closes November 13.
Griffin Lecture by Yasheng Huang
The China Model at a Crossroads: Implications for U.S.-China Relations in a Shifting Global Environment
The Chinese economy has entered its most uncertain times in recent history. Geopolitical tensions, high debt, and overcapacity in the real estate sector and in production are imposing substantial constraints on the economy. Within China, the political and policy developments have further complicated the capacity of the government to respond to these challenges. Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, will provide an overview of some of the broad economic and geopolitical issues and trends.
Registration
Registration includes dinner and the keynote lecture.
- Individual: $70
- UMN student: $45
- Table of 10: $1,200 ($500 tax deductible)
University departments paying with EFS: Please register here.
Yasheng Huang
Professor Yasheng Huang is Epoch Foundation professor of global economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. From 2013 to 2017, he served as an associate dean in charge of MIT Sloan’s global partnership programs and its action learning initiatives. His previous appointments include faculty positions at the University of Michigan and at Harvard Business School.
Professor Huang is the author of 11 books in both English and Chinese and of many academic papers and news commentaries. His 2023 book, The Rise and the Fall of the EAST: Examination, Autocracy, Stability and Technology in Chinese History and Today (Yale University Press), was selected as a best book of 2023 by Foreign Affairs magazine. He is currently collaborating with Chinese academics on a book project, The Needham Question, based on a comprehensive database on Chinese historical inventions and politics.
He is a co-principal investigator in a large-scale multidisciplinary research project on food safety in China. Professor Huang founded and runs China Lab and India Lab, which have provided low-cost consulting services to hundreds of small and medium enterprises in China and India. From 2015 to 2018, he ran a program in Yunnan province to train women entrepreneurs (funded by Goldman Sachs Foundation).
He has held or received prestigious fellowships such as National Fellowship at Stanford University and Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Fellowship. National Asia Research Program named him one of the most outstanding scholars in the United States conducting research on issues of policy importance to the United States. He has served as a consultant at World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and OECD, and serves on advisory and corporate boards of non-profit and for-profit organizations. He is a founding member and is serving as the president of Asian American Scholar Forum, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to open science, protection of rights, and well-being of Asian American scholars.