Wong MNC Center News

December 26, 2017

Dr. Louis Brennan, FTCD, has joined the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations as a Senior Research Fellow.  Dr. Brennan is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and Professor with the Trinity Business School (Ireland), and an authority on Chinese Investment in Europe.  For…

November 22, 2017

On November 18 and 19, 2017, the “Political Economy of China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI), Africa, and the Middle East” conference was held in Shanghai, China.  The conference, orchestrated and co-sponsored by the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations (Wong MNC Center) and…

November 6, 2017

China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative, Africa, and the Middle East: Unpacking Political and Economic Dynamics at a time of Global Transitions At a time when the world is in flux and China seems to have assumed the mantle of global economic leadership with its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), it…

October 30, 2017

Peter J. Buckley, Ph.D. has joined the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations as an Advisory Board member.  Dr. Buckley is a world renowned international business scholar with a specialization in Chinese business.  He is Professor, Founder and Director of the Business Confucius Institute,…

October 30, 2017

In mid-October, Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations gave an invited talk at the National University of Singapore Institute of South Asian Studies “Revisiting Globalization: Comparing Country Experiences from South Asia and the World” Workshop.  The…

August 29, 2017

South China Morning Post reporter Frank Tang interviewed Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, for a story relating to the 10th anniversary of the China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s massive sovereign wealth fund.  Dr. Blanchard shared…

July 31, 2017

Mr. Jason Lo, Senior Director of Strategy, Honeywell (China) Co., Ltd., has joined the Advisory Board of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations.  He heads Honeywell’s China strategy, covering the company’s diversified portfolio.  In 2016, he was honored with Honeywell’s Premier Achievement Award, one…

July 25, 2017

Dr. Jorge Heine, Ambassador of Chile to the People’s Republic of China, has joined the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations.  Ambassador Heine previously was CIGI Professor of Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and a Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University.  He…

June 30, 2017

At the end of May, Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations (Wong MNC Center) participated in a panel called “The Art of Attracting Investments and Doing Business in the Baltic Sea Region” at the international 10th…

June 30, 2017

The Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations (Wong MNC Center) sponsored a panel entitled “China’s Evolving Trade and Investment Relations with Latin America” at the Association of Chinese Political Studies 30th annual meeting held in June 2017 in Tianjin, China.  Participants on the well-attended…