CCG Book Launch: Global Development and Cooperation with China
On April 15, 2025, the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) and Springer Nature jointly launched a new book, Global Development and Cooperation with China: New Ideas, Policies and Initiatives for a Changing World. During the launch and roundtable seminar, experts, senior researchers and contributors to this edited volume from UN and its affiliated institutions, International Committee of the Red Cross, Independence Movement and the Alliance of Global Talent Organizations discussed the changing geopolitics and rising trends, exploring the solutions to the pressing challenges and the role that international non-governmental entities can play, as well as their cooperation with China.
Agenda:
16:00 – 16:10
Opening Address
WilliamAchauer
Springer Nature Group,
Editorial Director for Business, Economics, Political Science and Law
(online)
Leana Li
Springer Nature Group, Editorial Director for Books, China
16:10-16:30 Book Launch
Henry Huiyao Wang
President of Center for China and Globalization; volume co-editor of Global Development and Cooperation with China
16:30-17:15 Seminar
Mabel Lu Miao
(Moderator)
Co-founder and Secretary-General of CCG; volume co-editor
of Global Development and Cooperation with China
Guest speakers:
Hyun Hee Ban – Senior Adviser, Public Partnerships Section, UNICEF China
Siddharth Chatterjee
– United Nations Resident Coordinator in China
Michele Geraci Head of the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Department of Independence Movement
Hao Jiang, Expert on Environment and Climate, Investment and Technology Promotion Office (ITPO) Beijing, UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Pierre Krähenbühl
–
Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Amakobe Sande
–
UNICEF Representative to China
Denis Simon – Chairman of the Alliance of Global Talent Organizations (AGTO)
Balthasar Staehelin, Personal Envoy of the President, Head of Regional Delegation for East China, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Beate Trankmann
– UNDP Resident Representative in China
17:15-17:30 Media Q&A
Appendix: Book Contributors
(first author,in alphabetic order)
Roger T. Ames
– Vice President of the International Confucian Association (ICA)
Chunli Bai
– President of Alliance of International Science Organizations (ANSO)
Josep Borrell
– former Vice-President of the European Commission
Siddharth Chatterjee
– United Nations Resident Coordinator in China
Sihan Bo Chen
–
Head of Greater China, GSMA
Michele Geraci – Head of the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Department of Independence Movement
Shabhaz Khan
–
Director and Representative to UNESCO Regional Office for East Asia
- Ayhan Kose
– Deputy Chief Economist of the World Bank Group
Pierre Krähenbühl
–
Director-General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Pascal Lamy
– former Director-General of World Trade Organization (WTO)
Jin Liqun
–
President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
Ali Mchumo
–
Chair of the Board of Trustees and former Director General of the International Bamboo and Rattan Organisation (INBAR)
Mabel Lu Miao
– Secretary-General of Center for China and Globalization (CCG)
Hans
d’Orville
– former Deputy Director-General and Assistant Director-General for Strategic Planning, UNESCO
Hannah Ryder
– former Deputy Country Director for China,
the United Nations Development Program
Amakobe Sande
–
UNICEF Representative to China
Beate Trankmann
– UNDP Resident Representative in China
Justin Vaïsse
– Founder and Director General of the Paris Peace Forum
Yabin Wu
– Head of UNIDO ITPO Beijing
Yi Xiaozhun
– former Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO)
Qiangwu Zhou
– Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, New Development Bank
