China’s economy is clearly overheated and Beijing is working hard to slow it down. This happens when the major industrial economies are facing severe headwinds in their recovery, making a soft landing in China all the more important to global economic health. What’s the chance for Beijing to steer clear the numerous economic landmines and avoid a crash-landing of its super-speed economy?
Our Speakers:
Jim Walker is the founder and managing director of Asianomics Limited, an economic research and consultancy company servicing principally the fund management industry.
Prior to establishing Asianomics in December 2007 he was the chief economist at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets. He joined CLSA in late 1991. Over the years Dr Jim achieved numerous ‘best economist’ rankings in the Asiamoney, Institutional Investor and Greenwich surveys of fund managers. In the last few years he is best known for forecasting the US 2007 downturn and financial sector meltdown in his series of ‘Apocalypse’ reports.
Before coming to Asia, he worked in his native Scotland as a research fellow at the Fraser of Allander Institute for Research on the Scottish Economy, and then at The Royal Bank of Scotland’s Edinburgh headquarters. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree and a doctorate in economics from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
Nicholas Kwan is Head of Research, East, at Standard Chartered Bank. He is responsible for a team of 14 economists and research professionals covering East Asia’s macro economic development.
Nick was formerly with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), where he specialised in macro-economic and policy research, with special responsibility for policy issues related to international and regional organisations like the Bank for International Settlement (BIS), and Executives’ Meeting of East Asia-Pacific Central Banks (EMEAP).
Prior to the seven years in HKMA, Nick was the Asia/Pacific Regional Chief Economist of Merrill Lynch, instrumental to the issuance of China’s first global bond, the first H and B shares, and the initial ranking of Merrill’s economics team in the Institutional Investor Asian poll.
Nick is an economics graduate of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, with an MBA from Warwick University in the UK and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He is the British Chamber's honorary economist.
