Saturday, February 10, 2007, 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm
The Macroeconomic Sustainability panel will examine the explosive growth rates among Asian countries over recent years and ask whether such rates can continue into the future. It will also ask what would be the likely end result of Asian growth: stable prosperity or sudden crash?
Richard Vietor is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration where he teaches courses on the regulation of business and the international political economy. He received a B.A. in economics from Union College (1967), an M.A. in history from Hofstra University (1971), and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pittsburgh (1975). He was appointed Professor in 1984. For his courses in business-government relations and environmental management, Professor Vietor has published more than three dozen case studies on international energy issues, on the regulation of natural gas, nuclear power, air pollution and hazardous wastes, and on strategy and deregulation in airlines, railroads, telecommunications, and financial services. His full biography is available here (external website).
Jonathan Anderson is Managing Director and Chief Economist, Asia, at UBS. He is also Head of Asia-Pacific Economics. Before joining UBS in 2003, he worked at Goldman Sachs; he also spent eight years at the International Monetary Fund, including three years as Resident Representative in China and three years as Resident Representative in Russia. Since joining UBS, Jonathan and his Asian team have been top-ranked in a wide range of broker polls, including Asiamoney, Institutional Investor, The Asset and FinanceAsia. He is the author of The Five Great Myths About China and the World, and speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and Russian. Jonathan received his MA and PhD Candidacy in Economics from Harvard University.
Jahangir Aziz is the head of the China division in the Asia and Pacific Department of the International Monetary Fund. He has served as the IMF's mission chief for Hong Kong SAR, Singapore and Sri Lanka. He has also been in the Fund's Research Department and has written extensively on numerous topics, including the determinants and dynamics of growth. He received his PhD in economics from the University of Minnesota.
Kyung Tae Lee is President of the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy and Chair of the APEC Economic Committee and member of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council. Before assuming his present position, he served as Korean Ambassador to the OECD. He also served as Vice-President and Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy. He has published several written works including "Korea's Foreign Trade Strategy in the New Millennium," Korea's Economic Strategy in the Globalization Era, eds. Oh Yul Kwon and Kyung Tae Lee, Edward Elgar Co., and "China’s Integration with the World Economy: Repercussions of China’s Accession to the WTO," edited by Kyung Tae Lee, Justin Yifu Lin, and Si Joong Kim, KIEP, 2001. His complete CV is available here.