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With a rapid economic downturn, the Chinese Communist Party looks suddenly vulnerable. With a legitimacy built around maintaining its breakneck pace of growth, the Party now faces potential social unrest and massive public dissatisfaction as jobs are lost and economic growth plunges. What challenges does the current leadership face? And what shoes will the next generation of leaders have to fill? Asialink and PricewaterhouseCoopers are pleased to invite you to a briefing with Professor Cheng Li, Brookings Institution, and Dr Pradeep Taneja, University of Melbourne.

Professor Li is Director of Research at the John L. Thornton China Center, an initiative of the Brookings Institution. He is also a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and focuses on the transformation of political leaders, generational change and technological development in China. Professor Li is visiting Australia for the week of the

13th of July.

Dr Pradeep Taneja s current research interests focus on the relationship between politics and business in China, the political implications of Chinas energy security policy and the rise of China as a regional and global power.

DATE: Thursday, 16 July 2009

TIME: 5.45pm for 6.15pm  7.15pm

VENUE: PricewaterhouseCoopers Sydney, 205 Sussex Street, Sydney

ENQUIRIES: Please contact Ken Lee at k.lee@asialink.unimelb.edu.au or call

03 8344 3583.

REGISTRATION: Please register via the Asialink website at

www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au

Dr Margaret Byrne

We are pleased to offer our followers unique access to a world leader in Cross Cultural Management, Dr Margaret Byrne, Principal UGM Consulting. On Thursday and Friday June 26 and 27 we will be live blogging from her workshop for the Asialink Leaders Program in Sydney.

Margaret has a BA and MA from Oxford, and postgraduate qualifications in adult learning from Bristol. Last year, she completed her PhD, exploring how leadership potential is identified in meetings. Her research explored the different evaluations of women and men’s potential for an executive role. Margaret holds three awards for innovation in learning design. Career highlights include securing $1 million sponsorship for her research, getting three of her films broadcast on SBS and winning a contract with the PRC Government in Beijing. Margaret is known for the way she balances intellectual rigour with a passion for practical outcomes that make a difference to leaders and their organisations. In 2004, Wollongong University appointed her Honorary Advisor on Leadership. Outside of Australia, Margaret has worked and consulted in China, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore, UK, New Zealand, France and Italy, as well as in four Pacific nations. She has a twenty year commitment to issues of diversity, culture and leadership, with her research being highlighted most recently by both BRW and AFR.

You will be able to follow the feed live in several ways:

• Here on the Asia Digital Update Live Blog pages where the live feed will be shown or;
• on Twitter simply follow @asiadigitalau for real time updates;
• or using TweetChat. the hashtag is #asiadigital

We are also working on securing her to answer some of your questions toward the end of each day.

If you would like to register for event reminders and updates please visit the site.