Venue: LSE Campus (Tower 1 U8)

Date: 17^th February, Friday

Free Registration: http://cdf2012preforumlectures.eventbrite.com/

Deadline of Registration: 16^th February, Friday

Please register with us at http://cdf2012preforumlectures.eventbrite.com/ if you are coming for any of the above lecture(s). Our Bridging Minds Symposium events are free and will be on first come, first serve basis. Thank you for your interests in our programmes.

Mr. Gang Qian (钱钢):

Leader of China Media Project team in Hong Kong University, Mr Gang Qian is best known for his tenure as deputy managing editor of Southern Weekend, one of China’s most progressive newspapers. Qian Gang is one of China’s foremost journalists. He was also a co-creator and executive editor of “News Probe,” CCTV’s pioneering weekly investigative news program with nearly 20 million viewers. Qian collected historical documents for Chinese Boy Students, a book and five-hour documentary series on 120 young Chinese students sent to universities in the United States by the Qing government in the late 19th century. He is also the author of “The Great China Earthquake,” an investigative report on the 1976 earthquake at Tangshan in which 250,000 people were killed.

Mr. Jonathan Hursh:

Founder of Compassion for Migrant Children (打工子弟爱心会), Jonathan Hursh is from the United States and has resided in mainland China since 2003. Jonathan launched Compassion for Migrant Children (www.cmc-china.org) which benefits children of migrant workers and their communities in China through social and educational programs. CMC, with over 35 staff and 4000 volunteers, regularly serves over 2000 migrants through their community centers. The Communities of Promise Network was subsequently developed to help others open community centers in migrant slums across Asia. In 2008, Jonathan also launched a sister organization, the Migrant Resource Network (www.mrn-china.org) to assist in building collaborative movement among organizations serving migrants in China. In 2011, CMC partnered with a foundation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs to launch a fund in China to support its work with the migrant communities.

Mr. Kato Yoshikazu (加藤嘉一):

Research fellow for the Research Center for Korean Peninsula studies, Peking University, Kato Yoshikazu was born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan in 1984. After graduate from a high school in Japan, he started to study abroad at the Peking University in 2003. Kato got master degree on International Relations at the Graduate School of Peking University in 2010. Now Kato is a research fellow both at Research Center of Korean Peninsula Studies, Peking University in China and Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Institute, Keio University in Japan. Till now, Kato takes charge of columnist in Financial Times (Chinese version-UK), Asian Weekly (HK), Nikkei Business Online (Japan) and commentator on China Central Television (CCTV) and Phoenix TV in HK. In a year, Kato takes three hundreds of interview, published 10 books, writes two hundreds of column and gives one hundred of lecture on average.

Mr Fei DENG 

Deng Fei is the Editing Committee Member, Director of Journalist Department, Phoenix Weekly magazine. He is the Initiator of the anti-trafficking movement using micro-blog, and initiator and promoter of the movement “Free Lunch to Village Children”. The programme has raised over 25,000,000 yuan in only 6 months. More than 20,000 village children from 106 schools across 11 provinces have benefited from it. Recently, Deng Fei has been dedicated to exploring the new charity model in the Internet era and the development of China's philanthropy.

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