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MEDIA ADVISORY
Bay Area's Largest CEO Group To Feature Speakers Ted Fang of AsianWeek and Robert Liu of New Resource Bank
Plus Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Willie Brown
April 15, 2008
(U.S. ASIAN WIRE)-- WHO: Approximately 1,000 business leaders and elected officials
WHAT: The 2008 Bay Area Council Outlook Conference
Panel on the evolving relationship of the United States and China
China has become central to our region’s social, economic and political fabric. We have gathered some of the top experts to discuss the U.S. – China relationship over the next century and the impacts it will have on the Bay Area.
The panel consists of the following experts on China:
- Ted Fang, Publisher & Editor, AsianWeek
- William Overholt, Asia Policy Research Chair, Rand Corporation
- Tom Gold, Director, Berkeley China Initiative, University of California at Berkeley
- Richard Kramlich, General Partner/Co-Founder, New Enterprise Associates
- Moderator: Bruce Pickering, Executive Director, Asia Society of Northern California
WHEN: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
China Panel - 11:15 a.m.
WHERE: U.S.S. Hornet (a docked aircraft carrier)
707 W Hornet, Alameda, CA
ENTRY: OPEN TO THE MEDIA with proper credentials (business card and photo I.D.)
Please pre-register with Melanie Paulos (see below)
ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS:
Global Warming Panelists:
- Peter Liu, Founder & Vice Chairman, New Resource Bank
- Richard Swanson, Co-Founder, President & Chief Technical Officer, SunPower
- Jeff Till, Director, William McDonough + Partners
- Moderator: Elliott Hoffman, Co-Founder and CEO, New Voice of Business
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California
Willie L. Brown, Jr., Former Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco, Former Speaker of the California Assembly, author Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times
General John Abizaid (Ret.), Commander, U.S. Central Command, 2003-2007
Janet Yellen, President & CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Aneta Marcheva Key, Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company
Contact:
Melanie Paulos
Bay Area Council
415.946.8725
mpaulos@bayareacouncil.org
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