Date: 23 November 2012
Time: 8.30am to 2pm
Venue: Grand Mandarin Ballroom,
(Level 6 - Main Tower) Mandarin Orchard Singapore
Programme
What's on?
| Time | Agenda | Speakers |
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| 08:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00 | Doors Open | |
| 09:15 | Opening Remarks and Launch of ST Asia report site |
Warren Fernandez, Editor, The Straits Times |
| 09:25 | Welcome Note | Ray Ferguson, CEO Singapore, Standard Chartered Bank |
| 09:30 | Keynote Address Q&A |
Prof Tommy Koh, Ambassador At Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 10:30 | Coffee / Tea Break | |
| 11:00 | ST bureau chiefs presents on political outlook globally, in the US and in China | Chua Chin Hon, US Bureau Chief, The Straits Times Peh Shing Huei, China Bureau Chief, The Straits Times Jonathan Eyal, Europe Bureau Chief, The Straits Times |
| Standard Chartered economist presents on global economic outlook | Stephen Green, Head of Greater China Research, Standard Chartered Bank | |
| Standard Chartered investment strategist presents on global investment outlook | Steve Brice, Chief Investment Strategist, Group Wealth Management, Standard Chartered Bank | |
| 11:30 | Panel discussion, Q&A | Moderator: Nicholas Fang, Nominated MP & Director, Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA)
Chua Chin Hon, US Bureau Chief, The Straits Times Peh Shing Huei, China Bureau Chief, The Straits Times Stephen Green, Head of Greater China Research, Standard Chartered Bank Steve Brice, Chief Investment Strategist, Group Wealth Management, Standard Chartered Bank |
| 12:00 | Singapore economy 2013: What to look out for |
Ignatius Low, News Editor and Supervising Editor (Money), The Straits Times |
| Singapore investment scene | Steve Brice, Chief Investment Strategist, Group Wealth Management, Standard Chartered Bank | |
| Panel discussion, Q&A | Moderator: Nicholas Fang, Nominated MP & Director, Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) Ignatius Low, News Editor and Supervising Editor (Money), The Straits Times Steve Brice, Chief Investment Strategist, Group Wealth Management, Standard Chartered Bank |
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| 12:45 | Closing Remarks | Ravi Velloor, Foreign Editor, The Straits Times |
| 13:00 | End | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Buffet Lunch | |
Speakers
Meet them
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Mr Ignatius Low
News Editor & Supervising Editor (Money),
The Straits TimesIgnatius Low, joined Singapore Press Holdings in 1999 as a Correspondent with The Straits Times Money Desk and was Money Editor of the newspaper for five years, from 2006 to 2010. He took over as Sunday Times Editor in September 2010 and is currently The Straits Times News Editor as well as Supervising Editor (Money). He also writes a fortnightly column in the Lifestyle section of The Sunday Times. Ignatius read Politics, Philosophy & Economics at Oxford University and prior to joining SPH, he was in the Administrative Service of the Singapore government. In his four years there, he was heavily involved in the 1998 financial sector reforms in his two postings at Ministry of Finance and Monetary Authority of Singapore.
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Mr Chua Chin Hon
US Bureau Chief, The Straits Times
Chin Hon has been reporting for The Straits Times from Washington since January 2009. He was previously the paper’s China bureau chief and correspondent in Beijing from 2002 to 2008. While in the Singapore newsroom from 1998 to 2002, he worked at both the local and foreign desks, and also did a short stint as a photographer with the picture desk. He covered the Asian tsunami, Sichuan earthquake, the Beijing Olympics, as well as the 2012 US presidential election. He is the author of Beijing 08.08.08, a photo-documentary on the 2008 Olympics, and continues to document the US and China on his website fragilesuperpowers.com. Chin Hon graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from Nanyang Technological University in 1998.
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Mr Peh Shing Huei
China Bureau Chief,
The Straits TimesShing Huei joined The Straits Times as a sports writer in 2000 and won the Young Journalist of the Year award in 2004. He also covered politics in Singapore and co-authored Struck By Lightning, a collection of essays on local politics in 2006. He was posted to Beijing in 2008 when he took up the post of China bureau chief and covered major events like the Sichuan earthquake and the Urumqi riots. He is currently working on a book on China's ascent and its challenges after the 2008 Games. He is also the co-founder of Macular Degeneration Society in Singapore, a non-profit organisation which aims to build awareness and offer support to patients of the low-vision disease. He read political science at the National University of Singapore and Columbia University.
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Mr Jonathan Eyal
Europe Bureau Chief,
The Straits TimesJonathan Eyal was born in Romania, but has lived most of his life in Britain. Educated at Oxford and London universities, his initial training was in international law and relations, in which he obtained both his first degree and his Master's with a Distinction. His doctorate, completed at Oxford in 1987, analysed relations between ethnic minorities in Eastern Europe. After teaching at Oxford for three years, Dr Eyal was appointed a researcher at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies in London. Since 1990, Dr Eyal has been Director of Studies at the Institute. Dr Eyal has authored books on military relations in the Balkans and Eastern Europe, and became a regular commentator for The Guardian newspaper in London. He started writing for the Straits Times in 2001, and is currently the paper’s Europe Correspondent. He is fluent in French, Romanian, Italian, Hungarian and German.
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Mr Stephen Green
Head of Greater Research China,
Standard Chartered Bank (China)Stephen Green is Head of Greater China research at Standard Chartered Bank. His team is based in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei. Stephen travels widely around China and is still learning Chinese, a never-ending struggle. The China team won Emerging Markets’ magazine award for best research in Asia in 2010. Stephen was also named by The Economic Observer as one China’s ‘New Generation’ in 2009, and as one of Shanghai Financial Centre’s ‘Excellent Academics’ in 2011. Stephen has a Ph.D. from the Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science and a first class Honours degree from Cambridge University. He has been a visiting researcher at Fudan University in Shanghai and at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
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Mr Steve Brice
Chief Investment Strategist,
Group Wealth Management,
Standard Chartered BankSteve Brice is an expert on the world economy and global markets and is the Bank’s Chief Investment Strategist. Steve has over fifteen years financial markets experience in senior positions. His previous roles include Head of Global Markets (Southern Africa), Head of Research (Middle East and South Asia) and Chief Economist (SE Asia) all with Standard Chartered Bank. He remains a Board Director for SCB, Zimbabwe. He started his career at I.D.E.A. Ltd, a financial consultancy in London, where he was Regional Head of FX (Europe) before joining SCB. He has a Masters from the University of Liverpool.
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