The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is set to kick off tomorrow, November 11, in San Francisco, California. APEC is a forum for world leaders to meet to discuss trade issues and economic growth. Thousands of government officials, CEOs and journalists will be in attendance, including U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, who will meet in person for the first time in over a year.
Faculty experts at the George Washington University are available to offer insight, analysis and commentary on a number of topics related to the debate, issues coming off midterm elections yesterday, and even the influence of Trump’s legal battles. To schedule an interview with an expert, please contact GW Media Relations Specialists Shannon Mitchell at shannon [dot] mitchell
gwu [dot] edu (shannon[dot]mitchell[at]gwu[dot]edu) or Cate Douglass at cdouglassgwu [dot] edu (cdouglass[at]gwu[dot]edu).
Scheherazade Rehman, a professor of international finance and business, and a professor of international affairs, is the director of the European Union Research Center. She has advised a number of institutions including OPIC, USAID, U.S. State Department, The World Bank, IMF, and Central Banks and Finance Ministers of Turkey, Nigeria, Peru, Mongolia, Hungary, Poland, Russia and China. Her areas of expertise include international finance, global and emerging financial markets, central banking, privatization and financial sector development, Middle East economics and Islamic finance, and the European Union.
Danny Leipziger is a professor of practice of international business and managing director of The Growth Dialogue, a network that works to extend sustainable economic growth to as many places on the planet as possible. Leipziger is also a former vice president of the World Bank, where he headed the Bank’s Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network of more than 700 economists and other professionals working on economic policy formulation in the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender and economic empowerment, and public sector management and governance. Leipziger can discuss US-China economic relations and the challenges facing the Chinese economy.
Susan Ariel Aaronson is a research professor of international affairs, director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, and co-PI of the NSF Trustworthy AI Institute for Law and Society, where she directs work on data and AI governance. She is an expert on digital trade.
Yingyan Zhao is an assistant professor of economics and international affairs. She is an expert on international trade, development economics and industrial organization with a market focus on information asymmetry in international trade and its policy implications.
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Donald Clarke is the David Weaver Research Professor of Law and specialist in Chinese Law. His current research focuses on Chinese legal institutions and the legal issues presented by China’s economic reforms. Clarke can discuss potential conversation focuses between the nationals such as human rights, Xinjiang, arbitrary detentions and disappearances, and exit bans for foreigners.
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