A breakfast seminar led by:

Dr Charan Wadhva

Former President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi

and

Zhang Jun Professor of Economics and Director, China Centre for Economic Studies, Fudan University

with Elizabeth Wright (discussant)

Founder, China Policy Institute

23 March 2005

Dr Charan Wadhva has been Research Professor since 1987 and is the Former President and Chief Executive (January 2001 to July 2004) at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), a leading think tank in New Delhi, India. He has served as Professor of Economics and International Marketing at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Ahmedabad from 1970 to 1987. He also held the Reserve Bank of India Chair Professorship at that Institute. Dr. Wadhva was the first Director and Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi. He served as a Member of the National Security Advisory Board, Government of India during 2002-03 and 2003-04. He has also been a member of the Governing Board of the South Asian Centre for Economic Policy Studies (SACEPS) based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Zhang Jun was educated at LSE and the University of Sussex. He specialises in Chinese economic development with special reference to the institutional aspects of China's economic reform. Over the past two years he has been researching the Indian economy, in comparison with China and has made a number of visits to India.

Elizabeth Wright founded the China Policy Institute in 2003. Former Director of the Great Britain- China Centre, Elizabeth also worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office including as Second Secretary in the British Embassy in Beijing (1972-75). From 1984-2003, she worked at the BBC World Service and was Head of Asia and Pacific Region for 9 years. Elizabeth has been a regular commentator on Chinese affairs both on radio and television.

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