New Date will be Updated: Hu Shuli and Dr Ederer in Capital Beat Go back »
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Time2013-09-25 | 16:00 - 18:00
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Venue:The Westin Beijing Chaoyang 金茂北京威斯汀大饭店
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Address:7 North Dongsanhuan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 北京市朝阳区东三环北路7号
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Fee:Members: 400 RMB |
Non Members: 600 RMB
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Special Edition of Capital Beat with Hu Shuli and Dr Ederer scheduled on 25th of September 2013 will be postponed until further notice.
The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China is pleased to invite you to the next edition of our quarterly public affairs seminar Capital Beat, with special guest Ms Hu Shuli, Editor-in-Chief of Caixin Media Company and H. E. Dr Markus Ederer, Ambassador-Head of Delegation of the European Union to the People's Republic of China and Mongolia at 16:00 on Date TBC, at the Westin Beijing Chaoyang Hotel.
On this edition of Capital Beat, moderated by European Chamber's president, Mr Davide Cucino, speakers will analyse the latest developments in EU China relations as well as will provide with a first look into the two important political gatherings scheduled in the coming month of November, the third plenary session of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the 16th EU-China Summit.
This edition of Capital Beat is held under the Chatham House Rule (when a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed).
As this is a save the date announcement, the first detailed agenda and further details on the content will be shared with you on September 11th.
Speakers
Ms. Shuli Hu
Ms. Hu Shuli is Editor-in-Chief of Caixin Media, and the Dean of the School of Communication and Design at Sun Yat-sen University.
Internationally recognized for her achievements in journalism, Ms. Hu was awarded the 2012 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism. She was listed among Top 100 Influential People of 2011 by Time magazine. She was twice named one of Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine in 2009 and 2010. The Caixin editorial team under her leadership won the 2011 Shorenstein Journalism Award from Stanford University.
In 2007, she received the Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. In 2006, Ms Hu was called China’s most powerful commentator by the Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal cited her as one of Asia’s Ten Women to Watch. Ms Hu was named International Editor of the Year by the World Press Review in 2003 and one of BusinessWeek magazine’s Fifty Stars of Asia in 2001.
Dr. Markus Ederer
H. E. Dr. Markus Ederer, Ambassador-Head of Delegation of the European Union to the People's Republic of China and Mongolia
Markus Ederer was born in Germany in 1957. He graduated in Law at the University of Passau. Since January 2011, Markus Ederer has been based in Beijing as Ambassador-Head of Delegation of the European Union's Delegation to China and Mongolia. From December 2005 to December 2010, he was the Head of Policy Planning in the German Federal Foreign Office. His career in the German Foreign Office started in 1990 when he was the Personal Secretary to Minister of State Helmut Schäfer.
He then went on to Moscow where he served in the Economic Department of the German Embassy. In 1993 he returned to Germany where he served in the Press Department and later became Deputy Spokesman for the German Foreign Office. In 1999 he moved to Brussels where he took up the post of Head of Cabinet of the Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.
In April 2002 he became the Director of Political/Economic Assessment in the Federal Intelligence Service in Germany. Markus Ederer holds a Doctoral Degree in International Law (University of Passau) and a Master of Laws degree (University of Miami).