The Columbia China and the World Forum

The 2021 Columbia China and the World Forum was hosted by the Greater China Student Union at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs on August 7, under the guidance of Columbia SIPA and Columbia Global Centers | Beijing.

This year, the Forum featured 29 distinguished speakers with more than 9000 online participants.

Opening Remarks

Merit Janow, Dean of School of International and Public Affairs; Professor of Professional Practice in International Economic Law and International Affairs, Columbia SIPA; Faculty Advisory Committee member, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing

Opening Ceremony Keynote Speech

-- Embracing Change and Restarting Multidimensional Communication for Common Prosperity

Zhe Sun, Visiting Senior Research Scholar of International and Public Affairs; Advisory Board Member of Columbia Global Centers | Beijing

Lan Xue, Dean of Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University; Advisory Board Member of Columbia Global Centers | Beijing

Lan Yang, Co-founder and Chairperson of the Sun Media Group and the Sun Culture Foundation; Advisory Board Member of Columbia Global Centers | Beijing; Columbia SIPA Alumna

Keynote Speeches on Economics and Finance

-- Investment for Growth: Informationisation and the Risk of High Global Inflation

Feng Li, Founding Partner of FreesFund; Former partner of IDG

Panel on Economics and Finance

-- Post-Epidemic Global Economic Recovery and Financial Stability

Panelists:

• Yusheng Hao, Chief Representative of NASDAQ China; Co-President of Nankai University Alumni Association in Beijing;
• Zhiqi Li, Vice Chairman of the Committee of Economy of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; Vice-Chairman of the Beijing Federation of Industry and Commerce
• Feng Li, Founding partner of FreesFund; Former partner of IDG
• Yuanyuan Pan, Associate Fellow Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
• Hongcai Xu, Deputy Director and Economic Policy Committee of China Association of Policy Science; Senior Research Fellow at Center for Sino-US Relations; Chief Economist of Financial Headlines (Caijing Toutiao)
• Sitao Xu, Chief Economist and Partner of Deloitte China

Panel on Science and Technology

-- Technology Iteration and Cross-Border Science and Technology Exchange in the New Policy Form

Panelists:

• Yuanpu Huang, CEO of EqualOcean and President of the EqualOcean ThinkTank
• Xinze Liu, Senior Partner of Beijing Poly Way Law Firm; Member of Expert Committee of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade
• Bing Wu, Founder and CEO of Shimo Documents; Columbia Engineering Alumnus
• Siqing Xu, Founding Partner and CEO of Alpha Startups
• Changyin Zhou, Founder and CEO of Vistring Inc.; Columbia Engineering Alumnus

Panel on Energy and Environment

-- Focusing on the Development and the Cooperation Opportunities in Carbon Neutrality and New Energy

Panelists:

• Dong Guo, Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs; Associate Director of the Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management at Columbia University's Earth Institute
• Xiheng Jiang, Vice-President of Center for International Knowledge on Development, Development Research Center of the State Council
• Jianjun Tu, Visiting Fellow at SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy; Senior Advisor at Agora Energiewende
• Qing Xu, SDG Financing Specialist at Sustainable Development Team, UNDP in China
• Sheng Yan, Visiting Fellow of the Center for Global Energy Policy at SIPA, Columbia University; Columbia SIPA Alumnus

Keynote Speeches on Culture, Education, and Media

Yanli Li, Executive Principal of Beijing Huijia Private School, Vice-President of CISA

Panel on Culture, Education, and Media

-- Important and Urgent All-Round Education Under the New Social Conditions

Panelists:

• Jihua Hu, Professor and Doctoral Advisor of Business School, China University of Political Science and Law
• Yanli Li, Executive Principal of Beijing Huijia Private School, Vice-President of CISA
• Boyu Ning, Founding Partner of Blue Elephant Capital; Stanford GSB Alumnus
• Yue Zeng, Founder of Chengzhi Education; Columbia TC Alumna
• Yingnan Zhu, Founder and CEO of WonderCV; Columbia College Alumnus