Lion Rock Event – Dinner with John Greenwood on Jan 18
18/01/2019 – 18/01/2019
1 Jackson Road
Description:
Lion Rock Dinner Event with John Greenwood
Speaker: Dr. John Greenwood, Chief Economist of Invesco
Topic: TBC
Time: Registration begins at 7:00pm
Dinner to be served at 7:30pm
Speech begins at 7:45pm (to be followed by Q&A)
Date: Friday Jan 18, 2019
Location: Harcourt Suite, The Hong Kong Club
1 Jackson Road
Central
*Important* Please note dress code at HK Club: https://www.thehongkongclub.hk/public/dress-code-policies.html
Ticket: Ticket: $850 ($750 for Members, $400 for full-time Students)
Payment Details: Please make a direct deposit to HSBC account: The Lion Rock Institute (HK) Ltd, Acct Num: 400-639415-001. Please email us a copy of the deposit slip for confirmation to laurence.pak@lionrockinstitute.org to complete the registration.
For Payments with Cheque, please make the cheque payable to “The Lion Rock Institute (HK) Ltd”, and kindly mail the cheque to our office at Suite 412, 4/F Asia Standard Tower, 59 Queen’s Road Central
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Payment in advance is necessary in order to complete your registration
To reserve your seat, please kindly click “going” or send us a email at laurence.pak@lionrockinstitute.org.
You can also call us at 3911 1290.
About the speaker:
John Greenwood is based in London and is Chief Economist of Invesco, with responsibility for providing economic analysis and forecasts to Invesco portfolio managers and clients.
Additonally, Dr. Greenwood is a Director for Invesco Hong Kong Limited and Invesco Asset Management Singapore Ltd.
Dr. Greenwood started his career in 1970 as a visiting research fellow at the Bank of Japan. In 1974, he became chief economist with GT Management plc (acquired by Invesco in 1998) and was initially based in Hong Kong, and later San Francisco. As editor of the Asian Monetary Monitor in 1983, he proposed a currency board scheme for stabilizing the Hong Kong dollar.
Dr. Greenwood was a director of the Hong Kong Futures Exchange Clearing Corp. for four years until 1991. In 1992, he became a council member of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, a position he held for a year. During that time, he was also an economic advisor to the Hong Kong government.
Dr. Greenwood has been a member of the Committee on Currency Board Operations of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority since 1998. He is also a member of the Shadow Monetary Policy Committee in England and serves on the board of the Hong Kong Association in London.
He earned an MA from the University of Edinburgh in addition to an honorary PhD he holds from the university. Dr. Greenwood is the author of Hong Kong’s Link to the US Dollar – Origins and Evolution, which was published in 2007. He is also an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.