'The New Silk Road' Book presentation, by Ben Simpfendorfer

Lunch Seminar, HK Bankers Club, 17th June 12.30-2.00pm. 43F, Gloucester Tower, 11 Pedder Street, The Landmark, Central. Members’ price: $ 420. Non-Members’ price: $ 490. Signed copies of the book can be purchased at a special rate at the event

 

Dear Members and Friends,

We would like to invite you to the lunch seminar, “The New Silk Road” at The Hong Kong Bankers Club on 17th June from 12.30-2.00pm:

Lunch seminar

“The New Silk Road”

by Ben Simpfendorfer

The global economy faces its greatest crisis in over a century. Today’s events will result in changes unimaginable a few years ago. Most importantly, the East is rising to challenge the economic-dominance of the West.

 

 BEN SIMPFENDORFER is currently the Chief China Economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Hong Kong and was previously the Senior China economist at JPMorgan in Hong Kong. He has lived in Beirut, Damascus, Beijing, and Hong Kong where he writes for the foreign business and investment community. He appears regularly on Bloomberg and CNBC and is quoted in such major publications as the Financial Times and The New York Times. Mr. Simpfendorfer speaks Arabic and Chinese and has spent fifteen years reading local newspapers, speaking with the everyday person on the streets of Beirut to Beijing, and assessing economic data from the two regions. He has immersed himself in the two cultures and has personally observed many of the watershed events that have unfolded in the Arab world and China during that time.

 

Mr. Simpfendorfer is one of the world’s leading experts on relations between China and the Middle East. He speaks Mandarin Chinese and Syrian Arabic. Every year he travels thousands of kilometers to meet with a wide range of individuals, from senior officials in Beijing to local traders in Cairo. He reads media ranging from Chinese-language blogs to Arabic-language newspapers in order to examine the changes taking place in the Silk Road economies. His book, The New Silk Road, offers an unparalleled view of a rising Arab world and its strengthening relations with China.

 

Mr. Simpfendorfer will speak about the rise of the $10,000 billion Silk Road economy. He will address the rapid development of trade and investment links between China and the Middle East. He will examine the importance of oil and Islam to the Silk Road economy, and will address how the region’s investors are increasingly looking east. He will also explore what the Silk Road economy will look like in a decade from now, where the opportunities lie for foreign companies, and what the implications are for the United States.

 

His book The New Silk Road: How a rising Arab world is turning away from the West and Rediscovering China will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in April 2009 and is a ground breaking study of the changes taking place in the global economy. For further information please refer to the attached file or the website http://www.silkroadeconomy.com.

 

Signed copies of the book can be purchased at a special rate at the event.

 

Wednesday, 17^th June 2009, 12.30 – 2.00 pm
The Hong Kong Banker´s Club

43F, Gloucester Tower, 11 Pedder Street, The Landmark, Central

 
Members’ price: $ 420
Non-Members’ price: $ 490

*a vegetarian option is available

If you are interested, please return the attached booking form by June 10th.
Please contact info@spanish-chamber.com.hk for further information.