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"The world's freest economy? - one slogan, two views" by Mr. Tony Latter

02 Oct 2007

 

Mr. Tony Latter, former Deputy Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority  and senior research fellow of HK Institute of Economics & Business Strategy of The University of Hong Kong (HKU), will examine the realities behind the picture of Hong Kong as the world's freest economy and discuss how the economy is actually steered in practice. 

Entitled "The world's freest economy? - one slogan, two views", the lunch talk is jointly presented by HKU's Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy and the Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research.

Members of the media are cordially invited to attend, the details are:
 

Date        : October 3, 2007 (Wednesday)
Time       : 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. (Talk)
Venue     : Harcourt Room, Lower Lobby, Conrad Hotel, 88 Queensway, HK
Medium  : English

About the speaker

Mr. Tony Latter worked for many years at the Bank of England, with spells at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, and the National Bank of Ukraine.  His association with Hong Kong dates back to 1982, when he began a three-year term as Deputy Secretary for Monetary Affairs; he was responsible for initiating the re-adoption of the currency board in 1983 and for ensuring its success in the early stages.  In 1999, he returned to Hong Kong as Deputy Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.  In 2003, he joined the University of Hong Kong as a visiting professor in economics.  Have since relinquished full-time duties there, he remains a senior research fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy.