Jasper Becker
provides a wealth of insight on the rise of China and the impact this
is having on its neighbours and trading partners. His travels to every
corner of China and a series of well researched books have made the
author a highly sought after speaker.
Entertaining, candid 
and
often irreverent about the realities of China, he is regularly called
on to brief economists economists, invest-ment fund managers,
diplomats, investors and others about the possibilities and limits to
change in. He has been invited to speak in Washington, Los Angeles,
London, Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong at conferences in security
issues, economic macro trends, and increasingly about the future of
China in the 21 st century.
His research into the burgeoning problems of environmental management, resettlement, urbanisation which has appeared in publications like National Geographic puts a broader and qualitative perspective on China's high growth rates. His range of expertises covers not just the rising urban consumer classes, the state-owned industries, foreign investment and fiscal reform but also less publicised changes to the health and legal systems, the reform of the bureaucracy, and the challenges facing the hundreds of millions of rural poor.
Groundbreaking historical research in works like Hungry Ghosts , a set text in many university courses, enable the speaker to put current trends in a wider historical context.
What the Chinese think about their past tell you a lot about how they hope to create their future. Jasper Becker is working on a new book on the rebuilding of Beijing, the largest infrastructure project in the world, a project all about China's fascination with modernity and the reinvention of its identity.
The long term implications of China's population changes and its economy are to be examined in another book, Macro-trends China: 2030 , which will be published in 2005.
Jasper Becker is available for speaking engagements through:
The London Speaker's Bureau, contact Lucinda Swann at lucinda@londonspeakerbureau.co.uk
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