The China Conference
at Yale Old Campus, Lindsey-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street,
New Haven

International Center for Finance
Yale School of Management

AGENDA
(Draft 2/21/06)

Friday, April 21, 2006

11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. - Registration and Reception.

1:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Opening Remarks.

Joel Podolny, Dean, Yale School of Management.

1:15 – 2:45 p.m.
Keynote Speech:  China’s US-China Relations: Where Have We Been and Where Should We Be Headed?
Speaker:  Jeffrey Garten, Juan Trippe Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance, and Business, and
former Dean, Yale School of Management. Former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade in the Clinton Administration.  

1:55 – 2:35 p.m.
Speaker: Steven Chapman, Group Vice President - Emerging Markets and Businesses, Cummins, Inc. As part of the Cummins case presentation, Mr. Chapman will also show a short video program highlighting the Cummins experience in China.

2:35 – 2:45 p.m. - Coffee Break

2:45 – 4:00 p.m.
Session A: China’s Banking Industry: History, Current State and Future Prospects.
Chair: Gustav Ranis, Professor of International Economics, Department of Economics, Yale University.
Speaker: Dr. Fred Hu, Managing Director and Co-head of China Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C.
Discussant: Dr. Wenzhong FAN, Asia Economist, Lehman Brothers.
Session B: The Manufacturing Sector: History, Current State and Future Prospects.
Chair: Heather Tookes, Assistant Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management.
Speaker: Eric Harwit, Associate Professor of East Asia Studies, University of Hawaii.
Discussant: Peter Schott, Associate Professor of economics, Yale School of Management.

4:00 – 4:15 p.m. - Coffee Break.

4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
Session A: The Bond Market: History, Current state and Future Prospects.
Chair: Hongjun Yan, Assistant Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management.
Speaker: TBD.
Discussant: William Goetzmann, professor of finance at Yale SOM.
Session B:  The Auto Industry: History, Current State and Future Prospects.
Chair:  Yifan Zhang, Post-Doctoral Associate, Council for East-Asia Studies, Yale University.
Speaker:  Gregory Noble, Professor of Comparative Public Administration, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo.
Discussant: Steven Chapman, Group Vice President- Emerging Markets and Businesses, Cummins, Inc. – China.

6:30 – 9:00 p. m.
Dinner at Peabody Museum and Keynote Speech. 
Speaker:  Mr. Antoine van Agtmael, Founder and President of Emerging Markets Investors Group, a leading emerging
emerging market advisor, based  in Arlington, VA.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

8:30 – 9:45 a.m.
Session A:  China’s Stock Market: History, Current State and Future Prospects.
Chair: Henry Cao, Professor of Finance, Chiang-Kong School of Business, Beijing.
Speaker: Zhiwu Chen, Professor of Finance at Yale SOM.
Discussant: Wei Xiong, Associate Professor of Finance, Princeton University.
Session B: The IT and Internet Industry.
Chair: Zachary Bagdon, Executive Director, International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management.
Speaker: Weiying Zhang, Professor of Economics and Senior Associate Dean, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University.
Discussant:  Neil Shen, Chairman and founder of Ctrip.com.

9:45 – 11:00 a.m.
Session A:  Legal Service Industry: History, Current State and Future Prospects.
Chair:  Neysun Mahboubi, Fellow at China Law Center, Yale Law School.
Speaker:  Nicholas Howson, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School. Formerly managing partner
of the China practice of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
Discussant: Walter Hutchens, Assistant Professor of Law, Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.
Session B:  China’s Media Industry: History, Current State and Future Prospects.
Chair: Deborah Davis, Professor of Sociology, Yale University.
Speaker:  Michael Keane, Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre, Queensland University of  Technology, Australia.
Discussant: Ashley Esarey, Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Middlebury College, VT.

11:00 – 11:15 a. m.  - Coffee break.

11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Session A:  The Real Estate Industry.
Chair: Hanming Fang, Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Yale University.
Speaker: Yasheng Huang, Associate Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT.
Discussant: Wei Li, Associate Professor, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.
Session B:  China’s Healthcare Sector.
Chair: Shyam Sunder, Professor of Management and Accounting, Yale School of  Management.
Speaker:  Hong Wang, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Public Health.
Discussant: Hongping Tian, Program Officer for Health Programs, Yale-China Association.

12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Lunch and Keynote Speech:  Future Reform Challenges Faced by China.
Mr. David Eldon, Chairman of Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce and former Chairman of HSBC Asia.

2:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Session A: The Telecom Industry.
Chair: Paul Bracken, Professor of Management and Public Policy, Yale School of Management.
Speaker:  Qiren Zhou, Professor of Economics, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University.
Discussant: James Wen, Associate Professor of economics, Trinity College.
Session B: The Entertainment Industry.
Chair: Helen Siu, Professor of Anthropology, Yale University.
Speaker: Ying Zhu, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Department of Media Culture, City University of New York-Staten Island.
Discussant: Seio Nakajima, University of California – Berkeley.

3:15 – 3:30 p.m. - Coffee Break.

3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Panel Session A:  Private Equity and the Future of Financial Reforms in China.

Moderator:  Roger Ibbotson,Professor in the Practice of Management, Yale School of Management.

Panelist: Bill Tsai, Managing Partner, Longridge Capital Advisors, Ltd., Rye, NY.
Panelist:  Brad Huang, founder and president of Lotus Capital Management, Pasadena, CA.
Panelist: Dr. John Rutledge, chairman of Rutledge Capital in Greenwich, CT, and president of the Mundell International University of Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

Panel Session B: Chinese Corporations Investing Overseas: Challenges and Solutions.

Moderator: Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs & Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, Yale School of Management.

Panelist: Jeffrey Williams, Former President, Shenzhen Development Bank, China.
Panelist :  Dr. Wei Wang, Chairman and Founder of China M&A Management Holdings Ltd. and President of China M&A Association.
Panelist: Liang Meng, Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific).
Panelist: Dr. Richard Foster, Founder and Managing Partner, Foster Health Partners, and member on the board of the Council for Foreign Affairs and the board of Foreign Affairs magazine.

Panelist: Michael P. Socarras, Esq., Shareholder, International Litigation, Greenberg Traurig. LLP, Washington, D.C.

Conference adjourns at 5:00 p.m.

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