International business expert at Economist summit

A Massey University international business specialist has been invited as a “leading thinker” to share her expertise on China with business leaders, top thinkers and politicians at a prestigious summit next month.

Professor Usha Haley, of the School of Management, has been invited to present her views on China at The Economist’s High Growth Markets Summit in London from September 29-30.

She will speak at a session entitled China inwards and outwards: working with government policy alongside Harvard University’s Professor Tarun Khanna. Executive insights for this session will be provided by Samuel Allen, chief executive of the world’s largest farm equipment manufacturer Deere & Co, and Bill Scotting, who is executive vice president and head of strategy for global steel company ArcelorMittal

As an expert on Chinese business strategy and business-government relations, Professor Haley will explore subsidies to Chinese industry and implications for business strategy and trade policy.

“It promises to be an exciting session,” she says. “I will be bringing up some of my research on the underpinnings of the ‘China Price’ and work I have done with corporations and governments. ”

Professor Haley, who is based on the Albany campus, is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington DC and has written seven books, including the best-selling Chinese Tao of Business. She is currently working on a book about state capitalism and subsidies to Chinese industry, to be published by Oxford University Press.

The two-day summit is the flagship event for The Economist magazine. It attracts more than 350 business and government leaders alongside the publication’s top editors and garners worldwide attention.

Other leading thinkers this year include US economist and Nobel Laureate Michael Spence, China’s vice-minister of foreign affairs Fu Ying, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Colombia’s finance and public credit minister Juan Carlos Echeverry.

Read more about the conference here: http://www.economistconferences.co.uk/event/high-growth-markets-summit/4596