Asia Outlook 2024: The Year Ahead
VIEW EVENT DETAILSJoin us for the return of an Asia Society tradition: a conversation with experts about the year ahead. For this year’s iteration, Bloomberg’s Bobby Ghosh will lead a conversation with Bates Gill, Executive Director, Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis who will cover China and U.S.-China relations, Standard & Poor’s Global Chief Economist Paul Gruenwald dissecting economic and business trends, and the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict’s Senior Advisor Sidney Jones who will cover Southeast Asia.
What are the most important developments to expect in Asia in 2024? From highly consequential elections in the U.S., Taiwan, and Indonesia to the continuing impact and uncertainty of the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel-Hamas, from rising interest rates to breathtaking disruptions by Artificial Intelligence, Asia security and dynamism will be tested next year. Join us to discuss trends, events and leaders in Asia to watch in 2024.
Speakers
Dr. Bates Gill is Executive Director of Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis. Prior to joining the Asia Society, he held a number of research and academic leadership positions and most recently, he was professor and chair of the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University in Sydney and was also the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence with the Asia Society Australia. In other roles, he served as director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, as Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and as founding director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. Among his other professional affiliations, he is a Senior Associate Fellow with the Royal United Services Institute in London and serves on the Board of Governors of the Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, and on the Board of Advisors of the National Bureau of Asian Research. The author or editor of nine books, his most recent book, Daring to Struggle: China’s Global Ambitions Under Xi Jinping was published in 2022. He received the Royal Order of the Commander of the Polar Star, the highest award bestowed up foreigners by the Swedish monarch, for his contributions to Swedish interests.
Dr. Paul Gruenwald is the Chief Economist at S&P Global Ratings, leading the economic forecasting and research effort and serving as the primary spokesperson on macro-economic matters for the company. Before joining S&P Global, Paul spent five years at ANZ Bank as the Asia-Pacific Chief Economist, where he was responsible for helping set and direct the economic research agenda as well as building the bank’s profile in the region. Prior to that, he worked at the International Monetary Fund for nearly 16 years where he led the team producing their Asia-Pacific regional outlook, represented the Fund in Hong Kong SAR and Korea, was the Deputy Chief of the China division, and worked on an array sovereign debt restructuring issues. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University in New York and a bachelor’s degree in Economics/Mathematics from the University of Texas.
Sidney Jones is Senior Adviser to the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) in Jakarta and an adjunct associate professor at New York University. She served as IPAC director from 2013 to 2021, when she returned to New York. From 2002 to 2013, she worked for the International Crisis Group in Jakarta, first as Southeast Asia project director, then as senior adviser to the Asia program. She had earlier worked for the Ford Foundation in Jakarta and New York (1977-84); Amnesty International in London as the Indonesia-Philippines-Pacific researcher (1985-88); and Human Rights Watch in New York as the Asia director (1989-2002). In 2000, she served as Chief of the human rights office of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). She holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting fellow at Australian National University (1995); Berkeley (2012) and Central European University (2017). She received an honorary doctorate in 2006 from the New School in New York.
Bobby Ghosh (moderator) is an Indian-born American journalist. He is a member of the editorial board at Bloomberg, based in New York, where he writes editorials and columns on the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and the wider Islamic world. Previously, he served as editor-in-chief of the Hindustan Times until November 2017. Prior to that, he was managing editor of the business news website Quartz and TIME magazine's World Editor. He is an American national and he was the first immigrant to be named TIME World Editor in more than 80 years. He was also TIME's Baghdad bureau chief, and one of the longest-serving correspondents in Iraq. He has written stories from other conflict areas, including Palestine and Kashmir. He has also worked for Time Asia and Time Europe and has covered subjects as varied as technology and football, business and social trends. He started his career as a journalist with the Deccan Chronicle, a popular English daily, at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
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