Wenran Jiang, U of Alberta; Gregory Chin, York U, CIGI; Loren Brandt, U of Toronto
March 27, 2012 Toronto Policy Reception and Panel Discussion - Inside China’s Transition: Executive Briefing Seminar by Leading China Experts – exclusively for C.D. Howe Institute members
A panel of some of Canada’s most distinguished experts on China: Wenran Jiang, Special Advisor on China to the U.S. and Canada based Energy Council and Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Alberta; Gregory Chin, Associate Professor of Political Economy, York University, and China Research Chair, CIGI; and Loren Brandt, Professor, Economics, University of Toronto and Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn), presented exclusively to C.D. Howe Institute members on March 27. These current and widely-cited authorities conveyed essential, up-to-date policy intelligence on China's energy investments, state-owned enterprises, currency reform, productivity performance and growth strategy. This Executive Briefing Seminar is a requirement for any executive or organization with a business or policy interest in China. The panel discussion was chaired by Dr. Wendy Dobson, herself an authority on the rise of Asia and its implications for Canada.
Dr. Wenran Jiang is Special Advisor on China to the US and Canada based Energy Council. He is the Founding Director (2005-08) and Inaugural Mactaggart Research Chair (2008-11) of the China Institute, associate professor of political science at the University of Alberta, and a Senior Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.
Gregory Chin has a thorough knowledge of China’s expansion within the global economy and Asian regionalism. He obtained his Ph.D. in political science from York University, and has been a visiting fellow at Peking University and the University of Cambridge. Before joining CIGI, he was First Secretary (Development) in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, where he managed the design and delivery of Canada’s development assistance programs for China and North Korea. At CIDA headquarters, he was a senior program manager on the China and Northeast Asia Program.
Loren Brandt is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto specializing in the Chinese economy. He has been at the University of Toronto since 1987. He is also a research fellow at the IZA (The Institute for the Study of Labor) in Bonn, Germany. He has published widely on the Chinese economy in leading economic journals, and has been involved in extensive household and enterprise survey work in both China and Vietnam. He was co-editor and major contributor to China’s Great Economic Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2008), a landmark study that provides an integrated analysis of China’s unexpected economic boom of the past three decades. (2003). His current research focuses on issues of industrial upgrading in China, inequality dynamics, and economic growth and structural change.
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