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Time: 5:30 - 7p.m.
Venue: Loke Yew Hall, Main Building, HKU
The event offers a rare opportunity to join in a conversation with noted international financier and philanthropist George Soros. Mr. Soros will not give a lecture. Instead, he will answer questions from a panel of experts and the audience. The Conversation will continue the discussions arising from Mr. Soros' recent lectures at Central European University, Budapest.
Members of the panel include Professor Richard Wong, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Chair of Economics at HKU, HKU economics Professor Chenggang Xu, who has served as consultant for the World Bank and the IMF; Ms. Robyn Meredith, senior editor (Asia) of Forbes magazine, and Mr. Jeffrey Timmermans, business journalism lecturer at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, HKU. The panel discussion and the Q and A session will be moderated by Prof Wong.
The final Budapest lecture, "The Way Forward," was telecast live at HKU on October 30, 2009. Videos, and the English and Chinese translations of the lectures series, titled " Open Society, the Financial crisis, and the Way Forward, " are available at : www.soros.org/soroslectures
Press Registration:
Pre-registration is required to ensure entry. Press members are advised to arrive and to complete audio/video setups before 5 p.m. For press registration and contact:
Ms. Trinni Choy at email: pychoy@hku.hk or Tel: +852 2859 2606 / Mobile +852 9464 3431
Note to press camera crew and photographers:
Organizers recommend the use of 200mm (or higher) tele-lens and 400mm for close-up shots.
A multi-channel sound-box will be available, pre-registration is required.
Live Webcast:
The Conversation will be webcast live on the JMSC webpage at http://jmsc.hku.hk
It will also be carried live on Cable TV.
Media Enquiries:
For enquiries to HKU, please contact: Ms Trinni Choy (Assistant Director (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2606 email: pychoy@hku.hk
For enquires to OSI, call or email to Ms. Laura Silber of the Open Society Institute
Email: LSilber@sorosny.org / Tel: + 1 212 548 0640
For further event details, visit JMSC webpage at http://jmsc.hku.hk
The event is jointly presented by HKU's Journalism and Media Studies Centreand the School of Economics and Finance.
A Conversation with George Soros at The University of Hong Kong
01 Feb 2010
Date: February 3, 2010 (Wednesday)
Time: 5:30 - 7p.m.
Venue: Loke Yew Hall, Main Building, HKU
The event offers a rare opportunity to join in a conversation with noted international financier and philanthropist George Soros. Mr. Soros will not give a lecture. Instead, he will answer questions from a panel of experts and the audience. The Conversation will continue the discussions arising from Mr. Soros' recent lectures at Central European University, Budapest.
Members of the panel include Professor Richard Wong, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Chair of Economics at HKU, HKU economics Professor Chenggang Xu, who has served as consultant for the World Bank and the IMF; Ms. Robyn Meredith, senior editor (Asia) of Forbes magazine, and Mr. Jeffrey Timmermans, business journalism lecturer at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, HKU. The panel discussion and the Q and A session will be moderated by Prof Wong.
The final Budapest lecture, "The Way Forward," was telecast live at HKU on October 30, 2009. Videos, and the English and Chinese translations of the lectures series, titled " Open Society, the Financial crisis, and the Way Forward, " are available at : www.soros.org/soroslectures
Press Registration:
Pre-registration is required to ensure entry. Press members are advised to arrive and to complete audio/video setups before 5 p.m. For press registration and contact:
Ms. Trinni Choy at email: pychoy@hku.hk or Tel: +852 2859 2606 / Mobile +852 9464 3431
Note to press camera crew and photographers:
Organizers recommend the use of 200mm (or higher) tele-lens and 400mm for close-up shots.
A multi-channel sound-box will be available, pre-registration is required.
Live Webcast:
The Conversation will be webcast live on the JMSC webpage at http://jmsc.hku.hk
It will also be carried live on Cable TV.
Media Enquiries:
For enquiries to HKU, please contact: Ms Trinni Choy (Assistant Director (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2606 email: pychoy@hku.hk
For enquires to OSI, call or email to Ms. Laura Silber of the Open Society Institute
Email: LSilber@sorosny.org / Tel: + 1 212 548 0640
For further event details, visit JMSC webpage at http://jmsc.hku.hk
The event is jointly presented by HKU's Journalism and Media Studies Centreand the School of Economics and Finance.
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