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Monday 12 February 2018, 5pm-6.30pm
Eurasia - the next hundred years
Speaker: Lord Stephen K. Green
Room G3, Main college building, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG
Abstract
The shifting economic centre of gravity, increased physical and virtual connectivity across the Eurasian landmass, rising cultural assertiveness: does all this mean increased geopolitical risk? And what are the implications for our ability to solve the major challenges which will confront our grandchildren?
Biography
Stephen Green was educated at Lancing College, Sussex, and at Oxford University where he graduated in 1969 with a BA (First Class Honours) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He also obtained a Masters Degree in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975. He was created a Life Peer in 2010 and was appointed Minister of State for Trade and Investment in January 2011. He retired from this position in December 2013.
Lord Green began his career in 1970 with the British Government’s Ministry of Overseas Development. In 1977, he joined McKinsey & Co Inc, management consultants, with whom he undertook assignments in Europe, North America and the Middle East.
He joined The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in 1982. In 1998, he was appointed to the Board of HSBC Holdings plc as an Executive Director. He became Group Chief Executive in 2003 and Group Chairman 2006. He retired from HSBC in December 2010. Lord Green was Chairman of the British Bankers’ Association from 2006 to 2010. He also served as a Trustee of the British Museum. He served as a non-executive director of BASF until 2010.
Further details:
https://www.soas.ac.uk/china-institute/events/12feb2018-eurasia---the-next-hundred-years.html
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