Global consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine and the role of China

Foreign and American correspondents – join us for the next educational program developed by the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the USA. In this program, a trio of renowned experts on trade will ask:

How will the Russian invasion of Ukraine impact trade, economics, and geostrategic balances, particularly with China's role increasingly under scrutiny? Our panel discussants will address the full range of implications of the Russian war against Ukraine, and asks: might China affect US-EU policy toward Russia?

WHEN: Monday, May 9th at 10 AM EST | VIRTUALLY

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We will host three distinguished guest lecturers:   

Thomas E. Graham is a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a co-founder of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies program at Yale University and sits on its faculty steering committee. He is also a research fellow at the MacMillan Center at Yale. He has been a lecturer in global affairs and political science since 2011, teaching courses on U.S.-Russian relations and Russian foreign policy, as well as cybersecurity and counterterrorism. Graham was special assistant to the president and senior director for Russia on the National Security Council staff from 2004 to 2007, during which he managed a White House-Kremlin strategic dialogue. He was director for Russian affairs on the staff from 2002 to 2004.  

Ivana Karásková is a founder and project leader of MapInfluenCE, an international project mapping China’s influence in Central Europe, and of China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE), a platform gathering China researchers to analyze and critically dissect Beijing’s 17+1 format and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Ivana is also a Research Fellow at the Association for International Affairs (AMO), a Prague-based foreign policy Think-tank. She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Charles University in Prague and lectures in China’s foreign policy at the university. Ivana was a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University and is a member of the China expert pool at Hybrid CoE, Helsinki.

Stewart Paterson spent 25 years in capital markets as an equity researcher, strategist and fund manager. He has worked in London, Mumbai, Hong Kong and Singapore in senior roles with Credit Suisse, Credit Suisse First Boston, CLSA and more recently, as a Partner and Portfolio Manager of Tiburon Partners LLP. Having started his career with Hill Samuel in London in 1991, he has covered the full spectrum of global markets equity strategy, developed market equities and emerging market equities, and has seen firsthand the economic impact of China’s integration into the global financial system. In 2007, he co-founded Riley Paterson Investment Management in Singapore, where he ran a macro-driven hedge fund that exploited the anomalies in capital markets being created by globalization and the existing monetary order. Stewart has a deep interest in assisting readers to understand the impact of macroeconomics on trade, geopolitics and prosperity. Using his 30 years of professional experience in global capital markets from a front row seat during the Asia economic miracle, the emergence of China, the Asian Financial Crisis, the Tech Bubble, and the Global Financial Crisis, he aims to provide practical insights into the historical and potential impacts of past and current macroeconomic events and policies. He holds an M.A. (Hons.) degree in Economics from the University of Aberdeen.  

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