Expert on Asia's future; special depth on China
and the realities of its economic expansion.


Highlights

To understand America's or Europe's future, you have to understand Asia, specifically China. An expert on Asia’s future, Alexandra Harney has been writing and speaking about China and Japan for more than a decade. Her on-the-ground approach takes clients and audiences beyond the region’s frequently unreliable statistics to what is really happening in business, society and the economy.

Asia’s Future Trends  No country is more important to the world’s economic future than China. What are the consequences of China’s rise for the rest of the world? How will it impact jobs, companies and future economies? Using on-the-ground information and top-down economic analysis, Alexandra will weave these questions into a discussion about where the world will be tomorrow. The result is an extremely up-to-the-minute, accurate and prescient view of this crucially important region that businesspeople and government officials have come to depend on.

Alexandra’s unique role as a consultant and an academic, as well as her fluency in Mandarin Chinese and Japanese, gives her access to rich, diverse sources of information that other regional analysts lack.

Author of acclaimed book The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage, head of research at Asian management consultancy Visibility, a visiting scholar at the University of Hong Kong’s Centre of Asian Studies and a contributing editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, Alexandra advises hedge funds, advertising agencies, governments and international organizations on how to position themselves in Asia.

Alexandra is a cum laude graduate of Princeton University and spent seven years as a correspondent and editor at the Financial Times in China, Japan and the UK. She has also written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Forbes, Slate, The Times of London, Foreign Policy, and The China Economic Quarterly. She sits on the advisory board of the University of Central Florida’s Center for Global Perspectives and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

An experienced moderator, Alexandra has moderated events for The Financial Times and the National Committee on US-China Relations, among others.

Topics

The future of Chinese manufacturing
The changing Chinese workforce
The evolution of the global supply chain
Corporate social responsibility

The China Price

The true costs and global implications of China's phenomenal growth.

Who are the people behind the China price? How do they make goods so cheaply? At what cost to them, and to us? And how long can they keep it up?

China has become a victim of its own success as the world's leading manufacturer of labor-intensive consumer goods. The rush of investment in factories has driven down profit margins and driven up prices of everything from raw materials to labor to power.

The forces that will shape China's manufacturing sector in coming decades are already clear: rising wages and material costs, greater demand for unionization, a higher risk of litigation, a dwindling supply of cheap workers, calls for better product quality and safety, and substantial downward pressure on margins.

The true cost of Chinese competitive advantage is the teenage boy who loses an arm to a machine after 18 hours on the assembly line. It's the 400,000 Chinese deaths linked to air pollution every year. . .

We all pay the China price.


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