Korea and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Details: Thursday, June 18 , 2015 | 12:00 PM

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Event Link: Dr. David Dollar is a senior fellow with the <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/about/programs/foreign-policy">Foreign Policy</a> and Global Economy and Development programs in the <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/about/centers/china">John L. Thornton China Center</a>. He is a leading expert on China's economy and U.S.-China economic relations. From 2009 to 2013 he was the US Treasury's economic and financial emissary to China. In that capacity, he facilitated the economic and financial policy dialogue between the United States and China. That included the formal meetings, notably the annual Strategic and Economic Dialogue, as well as constant exchanges between the treasury department and Chinese economic policymakers at all levels. Based at the US embassy in Beijing, Dollar served as treasury’s eyes and ears on the ground and reported back to Washington on economic and policy developments in China. Dr. Dollar worked at the World Bank for 20 years, and from 2004 to 2009 was country director for China and Mongolia. His other World Bank assignments primarily focused on Asian economies, including South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Bangladesh, and India. From 1995 to 2004, he worked in the World Bank’s research department. Prior to his World Bank career, he was an assistant professor of economics at Univeristy of California Los Angeles, spending a semester in Beijing teaching at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has a doctorate in economics from New York University and a bachelors in Chinese history and language from Dartmouth College. Dr. Dollar has written extensively about economic reform in China, globalization and economic growth.   Dr. Stephen Noerper (moderator) is senior vice president of the Society and former associate professor at New York University, where he taught East Asia Today. Noerper was a senior fellow with the EastWest Institute, senior analyst on Northeast Asia at the US State Department, and foundation resident representative and professor in Mongolia. He taught on regional development and security infrastructure as a visiting professor at American University and Waseda University and associate professor at Hawaii’s Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies.
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The new China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), aimed at financing infrastructure development projects in Asia, is increasingly gaining membership, including that of the Republic of Korea. David Dollar, Senior Fellow at the Thornton China Center of Brookings, discusses China’s leadership, South Korea’s participation despite U.S. concerns, and the AIIB’s positioning vis-à-vis the IMF and the World Bank. Dr. Dollar appears in conversation with Korea Society SVP Dr. Stephen Noerper.

Korea and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

with

David Dollar, Senior Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution

In Conversation with Dr. Stephen Noerper, Senior Vice President of The Korea Society

Thursday, June 18, 2015 | 12 PM

11:30 AM | Registration & Light Fare

12:00 PM | Discussion

$10 Members | $20 Guests

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