Brown China Summit 2025: Silk Roads and Cyber Paths
布朗中国峰会2025
Summit of 2025
Saturday March 8th
Saturday March 9th
Location: Stephen Robert ‘62 Hall
Technology
Urbanization
Southeast Asia
Religion
Finance
Art
Technology Urbanization Southeast Asia Religion Finance Art
Day 1 (March 8)
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Opening Keynote Remarks
Xiao Geng, Chairman of the HKIIF
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Technology Panel: Quantum Leap East, China’s AI Vision
Chuncheng Liu, Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research New England
Han Sheng Chia, Policy Fellow at the Center for Global Development
Kendra Schaefer, Partner at Trivium China
Zeyi Yang, Senior Writer at WIRED
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Catered Lunch
Robert Carbonneau, Passionist priest and Archival Specialist at the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College
Humanities Panel: Sacred Spaces; Religion and the Chinese State
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
April Hughes, Associate Professor of Religion, Religions of China at Boston University
Mukaidaisi Muhetaer, Postdoctoral Associate in Central Asian Studies
James Ross, Associate Professor of Journalism and Jewish Studies at Northeastern University
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Networking Session
International Relations Panel: Between Giants: ASEAN as a Fulcrum in US-China Geopolitics
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Aarie Glas, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Northern Illinois University
Zhiqun Zhu, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Bucknell University
John Ciorciari, Dean of the Hamilton Lugar School at Indiana University Bloomington
David Denoon, Emeritus Professor of Politics in US Foreign Policy and Asian Political Economy
Day 2 (March 9)
Keynote Speech
Susan Thornton, Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Finance Panel: The “Trill-Yuan” Question: Can China’s Financial Markets Fuel Its Next Era of Growth?
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Neo Wang, Managing Director at Evercore Group L.L.C. & Head of China Micro Research
Zhiguo He, James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business
Liqian Ren, Director of Modern Alpha at WisdomTree Asset Management
Catered Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Real Estate Panel: Built on Borrowed Time: China’s Real Estate Crisis at an Economic Crossroads
Kaiji Chen, Assistant Professor in Economics at Emory University and research fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Henry Chin, Global Chief Operating Officer, Research and Global Head of Investor Thought Leadership, CBRE
Bing Wang, Associate Professor in Practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment at Harvard GSD
Wen-chi Liao, Associate Professor of Real Estate at NUS Business School, National University of Singapore