This event is hosted by the Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies and Optical Valley Institute for Free Trade.

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As part of our recognition of fifty years of diplomatic relations between Canada and China, the Optical Valley Institute for Free Trade and SFU’s Jack Austin Center for Asia Pacific Business Studies are organizing the second Canada-China Economic Forum to discuss Canada’s relations with China.

The forum will feature Professor Wendy Dobson, the author of the book “Living with China: A Middle Power Finds Its Way”, and two discussants, Senator Yuen Pau Woo and Professor Richard Harris.

It will be moderated by Professors Daniel Shapiro and Jing Li, the Co-Directors of the Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies of SFU’s Beedie School of Business.

Event time by your location:

• 07:30 - 09:00 PDT (Vancouver, Los Angeles)
• 10:30 -12:00 EDT (Toronto, New York)
• 14:30 - 16:00 UCT
• 15:30 - 17:00 BST (London)
• 16:30 - 18:00 CEST (Berlin, Paris)
• 22:30 - 0:00 CST (Beijing, Shanghai)

Featured Speakers:

Wendy Dobson is a Professor Emerita at Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and a former Canadian Associate Deputy Minister of Finance.

She offers courses in international business and Canadian public policy. She chairs the Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) research network and has published in English and Mandarin on Asia’s rise; the future of the Indian and Chinese economies in the world economy; the Chinese financial system; and Chinese innovation. Her research covers emerging economies, North American economic integration, international financial system, regional and international governance, and Canadian public policy issues.

Honourable Yuen Pau Woo, appointed to the Senate of Canada in 2016, sits as an independent representing British Columbia. Senator Woo has worked on public policy issues related to Canada’s relations with Asian countries for more than 30 years.

From 2005-2014, he was President and CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, where he continues to serve as Distinguished East Asia Fellow.

He is also Senior Fellow at Simon Fraser University’s Graduate School of Business, and at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia.

In 2012, he was honoured with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Award for his contributions to Canada-Asia relations.

Richard Harris is a Professor Emerita at the Department of Economics at Simon Fraser University. He is a former president of the Canadian Economics Association and a Fellow of the Royal Economic Society of Canada. His major area of specialization is international economics. From 1985 to 1988, he was a special advisor to the Canadian government on the negotiations leading to the Canada-U.S. free trade agreement. He has served as a consultant to Canadian governments, international organizations, including the World Bank and OECD, and corporations in the area of international economics.

Moderators:

Daniel Shapiro is Professor of Global Business Strategy at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University; co-editor, Multinational Business Review; and co-director Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies.

He has worked for forty years as an educator, researcher, and academic administrator, most recently he was Dean of the Beedie School of Business.

As an academic, he has published five books and monographs and some 100 scholarly articles on international business and strategy, corporate ownership and governance, foreign investment and MNEs, industrial structure, and various aspects of public policy.

Jing Li is Professor of International Business, Canada Research Chair in Global Investment Strategy, and the Co-director of the Jack Austin Center for Asia Pacific Business Studies at Simon Fraser University.

She is a member of College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists at the Royal Society of Canada. Jing studies international investment strategies of firms, with a special focus on those from emerging markets.