Event - AMP China Series: The economics of China - Melbourne

The slowdown in China's economic growth is making headlines around the world, raising a number of important questions. Given that the Chinese Party-state’s political legitimacy is to some extent based on improving economic well-being, to what extent will the slowdown in GDP affect political and social stability in China? What ramifications will it have for the Australian and global economies? At a more fundamental level, how do we reconcile the apparently deepening contradictions between Mao-era ideology and market-oriented reform? 
 
Join John Garnaut, Angus Bell and Merriden Varrall in an in-depth discussion of these issues, drawing on their many years of experience working on China. 

John Garnaut is Fairfax Media’s Asia Pacific editor. Most recently he was China correspondent. John graduated in law and arts from Monash University and worked for three years as a commercial lawyer at Melbourne firm Hall & Wilcox before joining the Sydney Morning Herald as a cadet in 2002. He became the Economics Correspondent in the Canberra press gallery and in 2007 was posted to Beijing. more >

Angus Bell is a portfolio manager for GSAM’s Global Fixed Income team. He is a member of the Country Strategy team taking relative interest rate views across developed markets, along with focusing on the group’s Australian based Fixed Income and Multi-Sector strategies. He is responsible for analysing macro-economic activity in Australia, New Zealand and China, as well as tactical asset allocation strategy. Angus is also a member of the Australian Multi Asset Strategy group. Angus joined the firm in 2005. Before his current role, Angus worked in the Multi-Sector investment team focusing on asset allocation research and strategy. Angus holds a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance from the Financial Services institute of Australasia and a Bachelor of Science. more >
 
Merriden Varrall is East Asia Program Director at the Lowy Institute, and has lived in China for almost eight years, working at the United Nations and researching her doctoral dissertation examining Chinese foreign policy, before returning to Australia in late 2014. more >