• Lively and open debates featuring 30 senior experts on China seated around the table.
• Discussants will include policymakers and representatives from business, civil society, diplomatic missions, and the international press.

Programme:

• - CHINA’S 12TH FIVE-YEAR PLAN: THE VIEW FROM CHINA
• - PROSPECTS FOR EUROPE-CHINA SYNERGIES
• - EU-CHINA ECONOMIC COOPERATION: THE VIEW FROM CHINA
• - THE WAY AHEAD: CAN EUROPE AND CHINA FORGE AN ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP?

List of participants:

Arnaldo Abruzzini
Secretary General
Association of European Chambers of Commerce & Industry (EUROCHAMBRES)

Tadeusz Chomicki
Ambassador
Embassy of Poland to China

Davide Cucino
Chief of China Operations
Finmeccanica Group, China

Annick de Kermadec-Bentzmann
General Manager
BNP Paribas Shanghai, China

Mario Damato
Executive Director
Greenpeace China

Jacques de Boisséson
Chairman and General Representative
Total, China

Manuel Deleers
General Manager
Chambre de Commerce et d’Industrie Française en Chine (CCIFC), China

Francis du Bois de Vroylande
General Manager
Bencham – Benelux Chamber of Commerce in China

Markus Ederer
Head of Delegation
European Commission: Delegation of the European Union to China

David Fouquet
Director and Editor
The Asia-Europe Project

Nathalie Furrer
Director
Friends of Europe Les Amis de l’Europe, Belgium

Alicia Garcia-Herrero
Chief Economist for Emerging Markets
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), China

Pascal Gondrand
Chief Representative for Greater China and Counsellor for International Investment
Invest in France Agency, China

Frank Haugwitz
Independent Consultant
China Renewable Energy Information, China

Isabel Hilton
Editor
chinadialogue

Patrick Horgan
Director Programmes China
British Council, China

Leo Horn-Phathanothai
Director at Large
China Carbon Forum

Shada Islam
Head of the Asia Programme
Friends of Europe Les Amis de l’Europe, Belgium

Reggie Lai
Director
APCO Worldwide China

Liu Youfa
Vice-President
China Institute of International Studies (CIIS)

Nannan Lundin
Director and Head of Public Relations
TEKFORS AB – Distributed Energy and Climate Smart Solutions, Sweden

Richard Mohr
Managing Director
EastInfo China

Gabriel Moyano Vázquez
Secretary General
Spanish Chamber of Commerce in China

John Quelch
Vice President and Dean
China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)

Razeen Sally
Director
European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE)

Christina Söderström-Nilsson
Managing Director
Enterprise Europe Network Stiftelsen Europa Institutet, Sweden

Didier Soubies
Founder and Secretary General
France China Environment & Energy (FC2E), China

Timothy P. Stratford
Partner
Covington & Burling, China

Günter Strauss
Managing Director Asia
Schüco International, China

Alexandra Voss
General Manager
German Chamber of Commerce Beijing, China

Wu Changhua
Director of Greater China
The Climate Group, China

Jörg Wuttke
General Manager and Chief Representative
BASF, China

Zhang Yansheng
Director of the Institute for International Economics Research
National Development and Reform Commission, China (NDRC)

AFD is the Groupe Agence Française de Développement, a bi-lateral development finance institution established in 1941 that works on behalf of the French government.  Its mission is to finance development according to France’s Overseas Development Assistance policies.

In 2009, AFD committed over €6.2 billion to more than 60 developing countries in Africa, Asia, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East, South America, and the French Overseas Territories.

AFD’s activities are aimed at reducing poverty and inequalities, promoting sustainable economic growth, and protecting “Global Public Goods” of benefit to all humanity. Protecting Global Public Goods includes the fight against climate change and pandemics; the preservation of biodiversity; the promotion of social and environmental responsibility; as well as aid to countries weakened by strife, war and natural disasters.

AFD’s actions in favor of economic growth and preservation of the environment fall directly within the framework of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals, which was set out in 2000 and seeks to reduce global poverty by half by the year 2015.

AFD uses a wide range of financial instruments to underwrite its activities: grants, subsidies, guarantees, loans, equity shareholdings, co-financing and local bank intermediation.

AFD works hand-in-hand with many partners: national, regional and local governments; local authorities and municipalities; international agencies; non-governmental organizations; foundations; private companies; entrepreneurs; and local banks, microfinance institutions and capital markets.

In addition to leveraging financial assets, AFD leverages its intellectual assets and those of its partners.  Through its activities, research and debates, AFD strives to increase French influence in the area of development assistance.

AFD’s financing, know-how and more than a thousand employees and agents support social, economic and environmental projects in such diverse sectors as rural development, urban infrastructure, transportation, agriculture, education, banking and microfinance, energy, health care, telecommunications, mining, housing, eco-tourism.

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• fédérer les éco-industriels & experts français, en développant un réseau de compétences et des pôles d’excellences et en assurer leur promotion en Chine et accessoirement en Asie : Corée du Sud, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thaïlande, Singapour, Hong Kong
• promouvoir les partenariats entre les entreprises chinoises et françaises et/ou les collectivités locales,
• promouvoir les échanges économiques, culturels et politiques entre la France et la Chine, être l’interlocuteur représentatif des adhérents sur le territoire français, sur le territoire chinois et du monde chinois et auprès des instances internationales