Conference
WHEN
April 9-10, 2021
WHERE
Online via Zoom
WHO
NYU Abu Dhabi
Open to the Public
With the successful bilateral diplomatic visits and the advent of the Belt and Road Initiative, the long-standing partnership between China and the Gulf is at a pivotal moment of evolution and growth.
Inaugurated in 2019, China-Gulf Forum was the first student-led, interdisciplinary forum in the region zooming in on this partnership. China-Gulf Forum 2021 continues to bring together leading scholars, industry experts, and government practitioners to an open, diverse, and inclusive conversation, aiming to address the limitless opportunities and lingering challenges and bring us closer to realizing a vision of more dynamic cooperation between China and the Gulf.
This forum will not only serve to raise awareness of the changing landscape around China's role in the region, but also provide a platform to reconnect the historical and cultural roots, evaluate the recent developments in economic relations and technology, and explore the UAE and China’s joint efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The panel conversations will enhance understanding about this bilateral regional relationship, and potentially stimulate more opportunities for cooperation in both the public and private sectors.
Email china-gulf-forum-nyuad@nyu.edu for more details.
Opening Remarks: Mariët Westermann, Vice Chancellor of NYUAD
Keynote Speaker: Diane C. Yu, Executive Director of the Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Scholars Programs and Advisor to leadership at NYU Abu Dhabi
| Economics and Finance: Post-pandemic Global Economic Order Reform |
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| Moderator: Pablo Ignacio Hernández-Lagos, Associate Professor of Economics, NYUAD |
| Bernardo Bortolotti, Visiting Professor of Economics, NYUAD; Director of the Sovereign Investment Lab, Bocconi University |
| Tao Xiao, Partner at NH Management |
| Winston Ma, VC investor and Author of The Hunt for Unicorns; former Managing Director of CIC |
| Xiaolei Yu, Head of China Desk at Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD) |
| Culture and History: The Cultural and Historical Ties between the Islamic World and China |
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| Moderator: Shuang Wen, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, NYUSH |
| Guilhem André, Chief Curator, Louvre Abu Dhabi |
| Shiren Ding, Professor in School of Philosophy and Sociology, Lanzhou University |
| Yuting Wang, Associate Professor of Sociology, American University of Sharjah |
| Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Professor of Chinese History and of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU |
| Health and Society: Public Health and Global Anti-pandemic Cooperation |
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| Moderator: Raghib Ali, Director and Principal Investigator of the Public Health Research Center and Associate Research Professor, NYUAD |
| Jonathan Fulton, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Zayed University |
| Michal Grivna, Director of the Institute of Public Health, UAE University |
| Nawal Al Kaabi, Chairperson of the National Covid-19 Clinical Management Committee; Chief Medical Officer, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City |
| Interview: China’s 5G and Telecommunication Footprint in the Middle East |
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| Moderator: Enshu Cheng, NYUAD Class of 2021, Co-chair of China-Gulf Forum 2021 |
| Speaker: Alex Lee, Managing Director, China Mobile International Middle East |
| Interview: Riding the Grand Wave of China-Gulf Bilateral Opportunities |
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| Moderator: Fisher Wu, NYUAD Class of 2017, Consultant at Roland Berger, Schwarzman Scholar Class of 2022 |
| Speaker: Zhanfu Yu, Global Partner of Roland Berger; Asia head for TTL (Transportation Tourism & Logistics) and A&D (Aerospace & Defense) |
| Interview: Chinese Policies and Aspirations in the Middle East |
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| Moderator: Diana Zhu, Founder of China-Gulf Forum, MIT Political Science PhD Student |
| Speaker: James Dorsey, award-winning journalist; senior fellow, Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute |
The first China Gulf Forum was presented in November 2019 by students from New York University Abu Dhabi, in partnership with NYUAD Institute and the Social Science Division. The one-day forum hosted 150 attendees from both the university and the public, and invited 12 local and international honorable speakers, including His Excellency Bernardino León, Former Head of UN Support Mission in Libya, Dr. Robert R. Bianchi, Political Scientist from University of Chicago, and Mr. Charles Clifton, Director of PwC Middle East, among others. Three panels were organized across politics, business, and culture, and stimulated intense intellectual conversations among the panelists and the audience. The event has been widely featured by the media, including the Emirates News Agency, Al Khaleej, and Al Fajr.
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