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Thursday, Jan 31
5:45 - 800 pm
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UBS Financial Services
1285 Avenue of the Americas
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$35 Members
$45 Non-Members |
The FWA’s Global Agenda Committee was launched this year to bring to members and others in the New York business community opportunities to hear experts on important international financial and economic developments—similar to the international briefings that FWA members have experienced at sites around the world since 1978.
Kicking off our programming on January 31 is a panel of experts on the BRICs. This acronym is shorthand for Brazil, Russia, India and China, whose economic potential has been predicted to become among the four most dominant economies by the year 2050. These countries are forecast to encompass over thirty-nine percent of the world's population and hold a combined GDP of more than 15.435 trillion dollars. On almost every scale, they would be the largest entity on the global stage. Goldman Sachs predicts China and India, respectively, to be the dominant global suppliers of manufactured goods and services while Brazil and Russia would become similarly dominant as suppliers of raw materials.
Moderator
 Christian Deseglise
Global Head of the Emerging Markets for HSBC’s asset management division.
Based in New York, Christian is the Global Head of Emerging Markets Business for HSBC’s asset management division which includes Halbis, HSBC Investments and Sinopia. In this role, he is responsible for the development and sustained growth of HSBC’s emerging-markets business worldwide. Since he joined in 2004, he has helped strengthen the firms’ emerging-markets investment capabilities in London and New York. Christian designed and spearheaded the launch of first BRIC Freestyle fund, a pioneering product investing in the equity markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Christian has spent over 17 years in connection with capital markets, fund management and advisory assignments in Emerging Markets. He received a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University in New York. He is also a Graduate from Paris’ Institute for Political Studies ("Sciences-Po") and holds a Masters degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies from La Sorbonne in Paris. Christian has written numerous articles on Emerging Markets and has held various teaching positions at Sciences-Po and at the Institute for High Studies of Development in Bogotá (Colombia).
Panelists
 Xinyue Jasmine Geffner
China Business Development and Marketing Regional Head, Americas, HSBC
Xinyue Jasmine Geffner is Regional Head for the Americas for HSBC’s China Business Development & Marketing team. She has extensive investment & commercial banking experience covering a variety of sectors and has advised companies in Mainland China and the Americas region on M&A, capital raising, and other financing activities. She has worked with many large and small companies from both China and the Americas region to develop cross-border businesses in and out of China.
Ms. Geffner is frequently invited to speak on a variety of China issues at conferences and events sponsored by the US Department of Commerce, IFSA (International Financial Services Association), BAFT (Bankers’ Association for Finance & Trade) and other organizations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and the US. Her interviews on China-Americas business topics have appeared in leading newspapers and magazines in those countries.
Prior to joining HSBC, Ms. Geffner held positions at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Calyon. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA from Baruch College and received an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business. She also holds a CFA charter. A native of Mainland China, she is fluent in both Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese.
Ms. Geffner joined the FWA in 2007.
 Preston Keat
Director and Europe & Eurasia Practice Head, Europe & Eurasia, Global Macro
Preston Keat is a Director of Research and head of the Europe & Eurasia Practice Group at Eurasia Group. He holds a PhD in Political Science from UCLA, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a BA from the College of William and Mary.
Preston is an emerging Europe and EU analyst, and he also played a key role in the development of the Deutsche Bank Eurasia Group Stability Index methodology, a cutting edge tool for global market risk analysis.
He previously worked for the German Marshall Fund of the US in Washington DC, where he worked on the Fund's programs for political and economic development in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. Preston hJanuary 11, 2008 Fulbright Scholar in Poland.
Preston has conducted extensive field research in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Russia, and Slovakia. His academic research focuses on the process of economic reform and enterprise restructuring, and he has profiled numerous firms in a range of industrial sectors, including automobiles, chemicals, coal, food processing, shipbuilding, steel, and textiles. He has presented papers at numerous venues, including the Annual Meetings of American Political Science Association, the Wharton School, and US government agencies. Preston also teaches courses in political risk assessment and management as a visiting professor at Columbia University (SIPA).
 Punita Kumar-Sinha
Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer, India Fund and The Asia Tigers Fund
Senior Managing Director of The Blackstone Group
Punita Kumar-Sinha is the Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer for both the India Fund and The Asia Tigers Fund, and a Senior Managing Director of The Blackstone Group.
The India Fund has been under Ms. Kumar-Sinha’s supervision since July 31, 1997 and she started managing The Asia Tigers Fund on June 30, 1999. She has over seventeen years’ experience in fund management in international and emerging markets.
Prior to joining Blackstone, Ms. Kumar-Sinha was a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc., and CIBC World Markets, where she was also the Fund Manager for the India Fund and The Asia Tigers Fund. Prior to that she was the Portfolio Manager on the emerging markets team at Batterymarch, which she joined after spending approximately four years at Standish Ayer and Wood. At Standish Ayer she developed country allocation models and strategies as part of the international equity management team as well as researched investments in Southeast Asia and other international markets.
While at graduate school, Ms. Kumar-Sinha interned at J.P. Morgan Investment Management and at the IFC's emerging markets index group. She also spent a year with the Latin American Department of the World Bank.
Ms. Kumar-Sinha has a PhD and a Masters in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. She has an MBA and is also a CFA Charterholder. Ms. Kumar-Sinha is a member of the CFA Institute, the Boston Security Analysts Society and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Daniel Alves
Bco do brasil New York
Deputy General Manager
Profile will be added at a later date.
Special thanks to UBS Financial Services for hosting this program.
This event is organized by the Global Agenda Committee.
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Reservations/Cancellations and Payments are required by Tuesday, January 29th. |
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