Date: Dec.18, 2019

Time: 15:30-17:00

Speaker: David Gosset

Venue: Room 502, East1-B Building, Zijingang Campus

【Speaker Intro】

David Gosset is a global affairs and international relations expert who is director of the Academia Sinica Europaea at CEIBS and the founder of the Euro-China Forum.

Fluent in French, English and Chinese, Gosset lectured at Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC, for the top French institution ENA (Ecole Nationale d’Administration), the Davos World Economic Forum Global leadership Program but also for large multinational corporations at the top of the Fortune 500.

Gosset founded the Academia Sinica Europaea, an intellectual interface between Europe and China, and he has also established the Euro-China Forum which creates the conditions for a comprehensive dialogue between the two edges of Eurasia. The former French President Jacques Chirac considers that the Euro-China Forum is “since 2002 a unique platform for exchanges between the European and Chinese civilizations”.

As a sinologist, Professor Gosset wrote extensively on China’s transformation and its global impact. His comments have been published in the International New York Times – former International Herald Tribune – the Huffington Post, Forbes but also in major Asian and Chinese media. Gosset commented for the China Central TV (CCTV), Bloomberg TV, CNN, Russia TV and others. His analyses have been published by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

【Abstract】

David Gosset will present his views on the mega trends creating a world of unprecedented complexity.He will analyze the interactions between demographic change (world population, life expectancy, urbanization), technological change (cyber, AI, quantum and gene-editing), the phenomenon of power diffusion (access to information and the role of the social media) and the geopolitical change (introduction to a multi-conceptual world).Gosset will end his presentation by looking at the highly constructive role of the Chinese Renaissance (a process that he will define) in a world of unprecedented complexity.