10: How Free Should Trade Be? The Development of European Standards for Trade and Foreign Direct Investments
Supported by European Commission Representation in Austria
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Elisabeth-Herz-Kremenak-Saal
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in englischer SpracheSince the Global Financial Crisis, foreign direct investments (FDIs) in Europe, especially from China and Russia, have been growing exponentially. What dangers does this bring for Europe’s freedom and security? How can we protect these factors without losing the positive effects of the free market?
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Markus HERRMANN CHEN
Director, Sinolytics, Zürich
| Markus Herrmann Chen, Director at Sinolytics, advises corporate and public sector clients on strategic policy aspects of operational and business challenges in the Chinese market. He combines deep business understanding with policy expertise and six years working experience in China. Prior to Sinolytics, Markus worked as Government Affairs Director with Bayer MaterialScience in China and as Management Consultant with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in its Shanghai, Hong Kong and Zurich offices. Further, Markus leads the Asia program at the Swiss foreign policy think tank ‘Swiss Forum on Foreign Policy’ focusing on China’s foreign policy and Europe-China economic relations. Markus holds a MLaw in international public and trade law from the universities of Bern and Geneva as well as a CAS in Public Policy from ETHZ. |
Ivana KARASKOVA
China Research Fellow and Project Coordinator, Association for International Affairs (AMO), Prague
| Ivana Karásková is a China Research Fellow at the Association for International Affairs (AMO), Prague-based foreign policy think tank. She founded ChinfluenCE, an international project mapping China’s influence in Central Europe, revealing e.g. links between Czech politicians and pro-China lobby. ChinfluenCE results were presented at European Parliament, to Members of US Congress, and quoted by international press. She also designed and coordinates China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE) platform. Ivana holds university degrees in Journalism and International Relations; she finishes her Ph.D. at Charles University where she lectures on China’s geopolitics, EU-China relations and security in Northeast Asia. Ivana completed research and study stays in China, Taiwan and US (Fulbright scholar at Columbia University). She is an alumna of the US State Department’s International Visitors Program on Investment Screening Mechanism and a member of China expert pool at the European Center of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats. |
Denis REDONNET
Director, DG Trade - Directorate-General for Trade, European Commission, Brussels
| Denis Redonnet is the Director for "WTO, Legal Affairs and Trade in Goods" in the Directorate General for Trade in the European Commission. | |
| Previously he headed the WTO division and then the Strategy division. | |
| Before that, he served as Deputy chief of staff to EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson and advisor to EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy. | |
| He is a career European Commission official, having held positions in the monetary, international economic affairs and internal market directorate generals of the EU Executive. He is an economist by training, and started his career as a corporate banker for a French bank in the city of London. |
Silke WETTACH
EU Correspondent, WirtschaftsWoche, Brussels
| Silke Wettach has been reporting from Brussels since 2002 as EU-correspondent for WirtschaftsWoche, Germany´s leading business weekly. An economist by training, Silke covers a wide range of topics including trade, brexit and the euro. Born to an Austrian mother and a German father, she grew up in Greece and Ireland. She holds a BA from Trinity College Dublin and an MA from Université Catholique de Louvain. In 2002 she received a prize for young journalists from the Ludwig Erhard Foundation. Previously a scholarship from IJP had enabled her to work in Mexico. |
