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The Upcoming  China Caucus Team Time

  
 
 
Health Insurance and Health Care Reform in China
Dr. Yuanli LIU
Thursday, Nov. 18th, 4-5PM, 124 Mt. Auburn St. Suite 160
 
Speaker Biography
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Dr. Yuanli Liu is assistant professor of international health at the Harvard School of Public Health.  He has been teaching health financing and health system analysis at Harvard since 1994. In the latest annual report of the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Liu is named one of the six ?Future Leaders in Public Health?. He has conducted extensive studies on health system reforms in developing countries, particularly in China. Dr. Liu served as a coordinator of the Global Health Equity Initiative. He currently serves on the United Nations Millennium Development Taskforce on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Basic Medicines. He is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Global Equity Gauge Alliance. He is a member the World Health Organization Health Matrix Network Task Force. He served as a consultant to various international agencies including the World Bank, UNICEF, WHO, UNDP, and Asian Development Bank. Dr. Liu is also Vice-President  of the China Foundation, Inc., a US-based non-profit organization.  

 

 

Time: Thursday, 5:00-6:30
Place: L382
Speaker: Mr. He Boquan, President and Chairman of the Board of Robust Group
Topic:
1) start up experience with Robust (Le Bai Shi)
2) Chinese private sector current review
3) employment of overseas Chinese students from a big private firm's point of view
4) Q/A, discussion.

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Bio of Mr. He


HE Boquan was born in Zhongshan of Guangdong Province, China on 7 November 1960. He graduated from the China Central Radio and TV University with a major of Management. In 1989, he started the Robust Healthy Food Incorporation, LTD., which produces yogurt, mineral water, purified water, juice, tea, etc., with 950,000RMB (about $114,457). In 2000, the sales revenue of Robust reached two billion RMB and Robust became the largest yogurt producer and second largest bottled water producer in China, before it joint ventured with Danone of France. Mr. He is now the deputy Chairman of the Board of Robust Group, which became a joint venture of China and France since 2000.

 

 

 

 

  
  Date: Friday, March 26
Time: 4-6PM
Location: T275
Topic: CCTV and Media Reform in China
Speaker: LIN, Jie

Lin Jie is a CCTV-1 producer and a current Nieman Fellow at Harvard.  She
got her Bachelor's degree in Law from Peking Univ. and Master's in Mass
Communication from Lousiana State Univ.  Before she returned to China
working for CCTV, she was the news anchor of Northern America Cable TV based
in New York.
  
 

 

  
 

Date: Friday, Mar. 19th, 2004
Time: 4PM - 6PM
Location: Taubman 275
Topic: Taiwan Election 2004: Background and Issues
Speaker: Jeffrey Williams
Language: English


Mr. Jeffrey Williams's Brief Bibliography

    Jeffrey R Williams, Senior Fellow, Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.  Mr. Williams studied Chinese in Taiwan in the early 70's and taught as a foreign expert at Peking University in 1979-80.  He is a graduate of Harvard College in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Harvard Business School.  A career banker, Mr. Williams has over 20 years experience working in Greater China for Standard Chartered, American Express, and Citibank.  He opened Citibank's first branch in China, in Shenzhen in 1988.  He is a past president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei, and currently president of the Harvard Club of the ROC. 

        Mr. Williams' current work centers on Corporate Governance and Banking Reform in China.
 

  
     
 

Past  China Caucus Team Time

  
 

Data: Friday, March 12th, 2004
Time: 4PM-5PM
Location: KSG L382
Speaker: Ms. Yan Huang from Beijing Municipal Planning Commission
Topic: Beijing's Urban Planning
Language: Chinese
    
                                                   Ms. Yan Huang's Brief Bibliography

        Yan Huang, Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Planning Commission. Ms. Yan is the Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Planning Commission. A trained architect, she coordinates all planning related agencies of the city of Beijing and oversees the development of both short-range and long-range plans. She also supervises research efforts within her office. She served as the Director of the Planning & Construction Department for the successful Beijing 2008 Olympic Bid Committee.

        At present, she is Deputy Director of the Olympic Venue Development Coordination Commission, which coordinates Olympic venue planning and design for Game and post-Game use. Beijing is experiencing a peak in urban development, and is facing many problems with which other cities have dealt. As a Fellow, Ms. Yan will spend her time examining western methods of urban growth control, historic preservation, transportation planning, environmental protection and city management.

  
     



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