HOW RENMINBI WILL CHANGE THE GLOBAL MONETARY SYSTEM -- A LUNCHEON WITH DR. WILLIAM OVERHOLT
Hosted by Columbia University Alumni Association of Hong Kong and Harvard Club of Hong Kong
Columbia University Alumni Association of Hong Kong and Harvard Club of Hong Kong invite you to join us at a luncheon with Dr. William Overholt. Dr. Overholt, an authority in US-Asia economic relations and development, will share with us his insight on how RMB internationalization will change the global monetary system.
The ups and downs of RMB have certain sent shock waves to financial markets around the world in recent months. As the Chinese economy continues to grow and its financial market continues to reform, the RMB will become more internationalize and will emerge into a key currency of the global monetary system. based system.
It will be our honor to have Dr. William Overholt to share with us his knowledge on this subject matter. Please do come and join us at this event. Due to the size of the venue, seating is limited to 48; so, please sign up early.
DR. WILLIAM OVERHOLT—Senior Research Fellow, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
Dr. William H. Overholt holds a research position at Harvard's Kennedy School and is Principal of AsiaStat LLC, a consulting firm. Previously he held the Asia Policy Distinguished Research Chair at RAND's California headquarters and was Director of RAND's Center for Asia Pacific Policy.
During his time at RAND he held concurrent appointments as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yonsei University in South Korea Visiting Professor at Shanghai Jiaotung University. In 2002 Dr. Overholt was Joint Senior Fellow at Harvard University.
During 21 previous years in investment banking, he served as Head of Strategy and Economics at Nomura's regional headquarters in Hong Kong from 1998 to 2001, and as Managing Director and Head of Research at Bank Boston's regional headquarters in Singapore. At Bankers Trust, he ran a country risk team in New York from 1980 to 1984, then was regional strategist and Asia research head based in Hong Kong from 1985 to 1998.
At Hudson Institute 1971 to 1979, Dr. Overholt directed planning studies for the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of State, National Security Council, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Council on International Economic Policy. As Director of Hudson Research Services, he did strategic planning for corporations.
Dr. Overholt is the author of seven books, including Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics (Cambridge University Press and RAND, 2007) The others are: The Rise of China (W.W. Norton, 1993), which won the Mainichi News/Asian Affairs Research Center Special Book Prize; Political Risk (Euromoney, 1982); and (with William Ascher) Strategic Planning and Forecasting (John Wiley, 1983). He is principal co-author of: Asia's Nuclear Future (Westview Press, 1976) and The Future of Brazil (Westview Press, 1978). With Zbigniew Brzezinski, he founded the semi-annual Global Assessment in 1976 and edited it until 1988. His latest book is Renminbi Rising: A New Global Monetary System Emerges (Wiley Press, 2016).
Dr. Overholt serves on the Board of the Korea Society and the International Center for Conciliation. He was a Governor of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and Executive Committee member of the Business and Professionals Federation of Hong Kong, both for six years. He has served on advisory boards for Harvard University's Asia Center; the US-China Institute of the University of Southern California; the Asia Society of Southern California; the Hang Lung Center for Organizational Research at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; and Chinavest Ltd.
He has been a consultant on strategic planning and foreign affairs to the Conference Board, the U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute, the Foreign Service Institute, Dean Witter Reynolds, A.G. Becker, and numerous corporations. He has served as political advisor to several of Asia's major political figures and has done consulting projects for the Korea Development Institute, Korea's National Defense College, the Philippine Ministry of Agrarian Reform, and Thailand's Ministry of Universities.
Dr. Overholt received his B.A. (magna, 1968) from Harvard and his Master of Philosophy (1970) and Ph.D. (1972) from Yale.