Fwd: RSVP: April 7th - Mckinsey Urban China Initiative - Urban China: Development, Design and Direction

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McKinsey Urban China Initiative (UCI) cordially invites you to –

UCI Urban Leaders Roundtable 
Urban China: Development, Design and Direction 

April 7, 2014, Harvard Faculty Club
Address: 20 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Click here to RSVP. Click here to see detailed agenda and speakers' bio.

Questions? Please email Jingyi Zhang at jzh...@gsd.harvard.edu

About the Urban China Initiative (UCI)

UCI is a joint project of Tsinghua University, Columbia University and McKinsey & Co. It aims to advance the research and practice of urban development in China by supporting and convening its leading thinkers and practitioners. The Urban Leaders Roundtable Series is UCI’s quarterly flagship event. Invitation-only, it brings together each time 20 to 30 leaders in China, including ministers, government directors, corporate senior executives, top academic theorists and NGO leaders. 

Event Description

The theme of the April 7 roundtable at Harvard is Urban China: Development, Design and Direction. We believe the topics will define China’s urban future - what kind of development policy should China adopt? How can China better design its cities? And how much influence can we exert at local levels?

0830  -  0900	Registration and Morning Coffee
0900  -  0940	Keynote Speeches Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Center on US-China Relations, Asia Society  Jonathan Woetzel, Director, McKinsey & Co.; Co-Chair, Urban China Initiative
0940  -  1040	China Urban Case Study Moderator Ann Forsyth, Professor of Urban Planning, Harvard University Presentation LUO Zhaoming, CEO of China Investment Development Corp Discussants John Macomber, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard Business School CHEN Changsheng, Research Fellow and Professor at the Development Research Center (DRC) of the State Council, China
1100  -  1230	Panel One: Urban Development Moderator Jonathan Woetzel, Director, McKinsey & Co.; Co-Chair, Urban China Initiative Presentation GONG Sen, Deputy Director, Development Research Centre (DRC) of the State Council , China Panelists Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University  Abhas K. Jha, Sector Manager, Transport, Urban and DRM, East Asia and the Pacific, The World Bank WANG Bing, Associate Professor in Practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment, Harvard University
1400  -  1515	Panel Two: Urban Design Moderator  ZHAO Jinhua, Edward H. and Joyce Linde Career Development Assistant Professor of urban planning at DUSP, MIT Presentation   Elliott Sclar, Professor of Urban Planning, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University; Director, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University Discussants   LUO Zhaoming, CEO of China Investment Development Corp  James Lee, Architect, LEED specialist, and founder of iContinuum Group
1530  -  1630	Panel Three: Urban Direction Moderator  Eadie Chen, Director of Strategic Engagement, UCI Presentation  ZHANG Weiwen, Professor, School of Public Administration, Zhejiang University; Adjunct Research Scholar,  the Earth Institute, Columbia University Discussant  Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation,  Harvard University ZHANG Haibo, Associate Professor, School of Government; Researcher, Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Science, Nanjing University CHEN Jiaxi, Associate Professor; Director, Center for Chinese Local Government Innovations, Shenzhen University