EU and Guangdong: Opportunities for Closer Cooperation – Celebration of 40th Anniversary of EU-China Relations Go back »
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Time2015-05-20 | 17:00 - 19:30
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Venue:Salle Delacroix, 4th floor, Sofitel Guangzhou 广州圣丰索菲特大酒店，德拉克洛瓦厅，4楼
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Fee:Members: 300 |
Non Members: 300
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As part of the celebration of 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the EU and China, the Delegation of the European Union to China and the EU Chamber of Commerce in China with the support of Consulates General of EU Member States in Guangzhou, invite you to have a special event for European and Chinese business community members to celebrate the Europe Day.
The guests of honour for this event will be H.E. Dr. Hans Dietmar SCHWEISGUT, Ambassador of the European Union to China, Ambassadors to China of 15 EU Member States as well as Consuls General in Guangzhou. The event will also be attended by the local authorities.
The past 40 years of EU-China trade relations have been a successful story in many ways, generating significant mutual benefits and making the EU and China deeply interdependent. As the EU and China have changed, so have the challenges of our relations. We need to come up with new focal points, address emerging areas of cooperation, and engage China globally. China is increasingly shaping the agenda. Few challenges in the world can be solved without China. We should remain confident that the same is equally true for Europe – also for the next 40 years. A new holistic approach from both China and the EU (both its institutions and Member States) will be needed to tackle the complex issues testing our future relationship.
Tentative Agenda:
5:00-5:30pm. Registration & Networking
5:30-5:50pm. Keynote Speech
5:50-6:20pm. Panel Discussion, Q&A
6:20-7:30pm. Cocktail Reception & Networking
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Speakers
Dr. Hans Dietmar Schweisgut
Hans Dietmar Schweisgut joined the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs after obtaining his doctorate in law at the University of Innsbruck and post-graduate studies in the US and the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna. After serving at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations, he went on to hold key posts in the Austrian Federal Chancellery and later as Director General at the Austrian Ministry of Finance. He was Ambassador of Austria to Japan and served as Austria's Ambassador to the People's Republic of China. Following this he held the post of Permanent Representative of Austria to the European Union in Brussels. He was the EU Ambassador to Japan before being appointed to his current position as EU Ambassador to the People's Republic of China and Mongolia in September 2014.
Mr. Jörg Wuttke
Jörg Wuttke is Vice President and Chief Representative of BASF China, based in Beijing. Since joining BASF in 1997, Mr. Wuttke has been responsible for helping guide the company’s investment strategies for China, negotiation of large projects and government relations.
Previous to joining BASF, Mr. Wuttke worked with ABB for 11 years; in fact his first professional encounter with China was in 1988 as the Finance and Administration Manager of ABB Beijing. In 1990, he returned to Germany as Sales Manager of ABB Power Plants Division, responsible for gas turbine sales to Africa and Russia. In 1993, he became Chief Representative ABB China in Shanghai and in 1994 moved to the President's Office of ABB China in Beijing, where he was responsible for the development and financing of large projects.
From 2001 to 2004 Mr. Wuttke was the Chairman of the German Chamber of Commerce in China. From 2007 to 2010, 2014 to 2017, and since May 2019 again he is the President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China
From 2011 to 2019, Mr. Wuttke was Chairman of the BIAC China Task Force of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC), a Paris based body of major business associations that lobbies the OECD.
From 2013 to 2016, and again since 2019 Mr. Wuttke is Vice Chairman of the CPCIF International Cooperation Committee, a group representing Multinational Companies in China’s Chemical Association.
Since its establishment in 2013, Mr. Wuttke is member of the Advisory Board of Germany’s foremost Think Tank on China, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), in Berlin.
In January 2019 Mr. Wuttke joined the International Board of the Stars Foundation, in Switzerland. stars - for Leaders of the Next Generation.
Mr. Fei Luo
Mr. Fei Luo is the founder and CEO of Biostime Group, which is devoted to providing Chinese mothers and babies premium nutrition and care products, and got listed on the Main Board of Hong-Kong Stock Exchange on Dec. 17, 2010. Biostime is a premium pediatric nutrition and baby care products provider in China. At present, the company has over 3000 employees, owns wide distribution network and high penetration with presence of 104 sales offices throughout China. Biostime has been working together with foreign global strategic partners for the joint research and development of innovative and high-quality nutrition products dedicated to pregnant mothers, infants and children, marketed under the Biostime brand in China. In the year of 2014, the Group gained market share in both the offline and online infant formula markets in China, while the Group maintained its position as the third largest player in China's offline infant formula market, accordingly to Nielsen.
Mr. Alberto Vettoretti
Alberto was born in Italy, obtained a BA and MSc degree in the UK and has been living in Asia for over 20 years. He is the Managing Partner of Dezan Shira & Associates, one of the largest, independent, pan-Asia Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) firms with over 300 professionals and 19 offices in China, India, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore and Indonesia. The firm has also associated firms in Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand under the Dezan Shira & Associates Asian Alliance brand.
Alberto is specialized in corporate structuring and management issues affecting foreign-invested enterprises in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Vietnam and sits on the board of various multinational corporations doing business in these countries.
He has consistently contributed to the firm’s subsidiary publishing company Asia Briefing Media, which produces a variety of titles related to doing business in Asia including; China Briefing, Vietnam Briefing, India Briefing and ASEAN Briefing. Alberto’s comments also regularly appear in international publications such as The Financial Times, The South China Morning Post, Il Sole 24 Ore, China Daily and a host of other local and internationally recognized publications.
Alberto is a member of YPO, a former Vice Chairman of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, the former Chairman of its South China Chapter and an International Advisor to the Guangzhou Government.
