Investment Roundtable: China

15 Jun 2022 | The Outlook Ahead - Webinar

Investment Roundtable: China – The Way Forward

INVESTMENT ROUNDTABLE: CHINA - THE WAY FORWARD
15 June 2022 | 4:00 p.m. (SGT)

China's economy experienced a very impressive V-shaped recovery from the pandemic from 2020 - 2021, outpacing all of its peers. But this year, growth is slowing sharply as supply chain disruptions, property market weakness and the authorities’ zero-Covid stance, weighs heavily on economic activity.

China’s financial markets have also been concerned by changing regulations at home, Federal Reserve rate hikes abroad, and the risks that Chinese firms may become affected by the war in Ukraine.

But has China really become ‘un-investable’ as some observers suggest?

In our upcoming Investment Roundtable, we are honoured to have Professor Justin Yifu Lin, one of China’s premier economists and a former chief economist of the World Bank, give his view on China’s current outlook and long-term opportunities in the world’s second largest economy.

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Speakers

Professor Justin Yifu Lin

Founder & Honorary Dean, National School of Development at Peking University

Former Senior Vice President & Chief Economist, World Bank

Justin Yifu LIN is Dean of Institute of New Structural Economics, Dean of Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development and Professor and Honorary Dean of National School of Development at Peking University.

He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, 2008-2012. Prior to this, Mr. Lin served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University.

He is Councilor of the State Council and a member of the Standing Committee, Chinese People's Political Consultation Conference.

He has authored more than 20 books including Beating the Odd: Jump-starting Developing Countries; Going Beyond Aid: Development Cooperation for Structural Transformation, the Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off, New Structural Economics: A Framework for Rethinking Development and Policy, Against the Consensus: Reflections on the Great Recession, and Demystifying the Chinese Economy.

He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for Developing World.

Mansoor Mohi-uddin

Chief Economist

Bank of Singapore

Mohi-uddin is a macroeconomist and financial market strategist with two decades experience covering institutional investors around the world. Mansoor speaks to policymakers and central bankers and maintains links with think-tanks in Washington and Beijing. He appears on CNBC and Bloomberg Television, his work features in The Economist and he has written for the Financial Times.

Mansoor was most recently at the Royal Bank of Scotland’s investment arm, NatWest Markets, where he was the Asia region's Macro Strategist and previously the bank’s Global Head of FX Strategy. Prior to joining RBS, Mansoor spent 17 years at UBS in London, Zurich and Singapore where he was also Global Head of FX Strategy from 2002 to 2014. Mansoor holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.

He was tutored by Professor Charles Goodhart, a former Chief Adviser at the Bank of England.