PROGRAM & SPEAKERS

PROGRAM & SPEAKERS

SPEAKERS

SPEAKERS

  • Yang Sang-woo

    President, The Hankyoreh Media Group

  • Park Yong-maan

    Chairperson, ASIA Future Forum Steering Committee

  • Moon Jae-in

    President, Republic of Korea

  • Moon Hee-sang

    Chairperson, The National Assembly of Republic of Korea

  • Jeremy Rifkin

    President, The Foundation on Economic Trends (FOET), USA

  • Richard Sennett

    Emeritus Professor, Sociology of London School of Economics, UK

  • Marco Martuzzi

    Head of Office, Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health, World Health Organization(WHO)

  • Wang Hui

    Professor, Tsinghua University, School of Humanities, China

  • Saskia Sassen

    Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, USA

  • Shindo Eiichi

    Emeritus Professor, University of Tsukuba, Japan

  • Nonaka Tomoyo

    Executive Member, The Club of Rome

  • Cho Myung-rae

    Minister, Ministry of Environment

  • Moon Kook-hyun

    CEO, Hansoll Textile

  • Park Myung-lim

    Professor, Regional Studies at Yonsei University

  • Moon Tae-hoon

    Chairman, Presidential Commission on Sustainable Development

  • Yang Sang-woo

    President, The Hankyoreh Media Group

    세션소개

    연사소개

    Opening Ceremony

    Opening Ceremony...

    President, The Hankyoreh Media Group?

  • Park Yong-maan

    Chairperson, ASIA Future Forum Steering Committee

    세션소개

    연사소개

    Opening Ceremony

    Opening Ceremony...

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    Chairperson, ASIA Future Forum Steering Committee?

  • Moon Jae-in

    President, Republic of Korea

    세션소개

    연사소개

    Opening Ceremony

    Opening Ceremony...

    President, Republic of Korea 

  • Moon Hee-sang

    Chairperson, The National Assembly of Republic of Korea

    세션소개

    연사소개

    Opening Ceremony

    Opening Ceremony...

    Chairperson, National Assembly of Republic of Korea?

  • Jeremy Rifkin

    President, The Foundation on Economic Trends (FOET), USA

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    Two Crises, A Choice for the Future

    Two Crises, A Choice for the F...

    Professor at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

     

    - President of the Foundation on Economic Trends (FOET), USA

    - Advisor on environmental policies of Korea?US?China to the EU Environmental Committee

     

    - Author of bestsellers in humanities and sociology including The Zero Marginal Cost Society,
       European Dream, The Age of Access and The End of Work

  • Richard Sennett

    Emeritus Professor, Sociology of London School of Economics, UK

    세션소개

    연사소개

    Climate Change as It Poses Political and Social Problems for Cities

    Climate Change as It Poses Pol...

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    The Anthropocene: The Green Transformation of Korean Society (with Korea Environment Institute)

    Session 1 provides a forum for...

    -Born in 1943 (77 years old), American national, British permanent resident

    -Ph.D. from Harvard University (1969), Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago (1964), Graduation from Julliard School (1961)
    -Received Hegel Prize (2006) and Spinoza Prize (2010)
    -Served as President of the American Council on Work and a consultant to various bodies within the United Nations
    -Recently wrote the mission statement for Habitat III
    -Served as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Theatrum Mundi in 2014, a research foundation that studies urban culture
    -Publications: 16 books on humanities and 3 novels including Together (2013), The Craftsman (2010), New Capitalism (2009), and Respect in a World of Inequality (2004)
    -Having studied under Hannah Arendt, a political philosopher, he is recognized as one of the most respected authorities in research related to urbanization, social solidarity and labor in modern society.
    -Despite his age, he is still actively publishing on not just sociology but also architecture, design, music, history, politics, and economic theories.
    -Renowned for his works The Hidden Injuries of Class, Respect in a World of Inequality, New Capitalism, which are recognized as some of classics in labor sociology, as well as books on urban sociology such as Flesh and Stone and The Fall of Public Man
    -The Craftsman, which was published in Korea in 2010, became well-known to the public following its introduction by media and experts, leading also to popularity of Together published in 2013 

  • Marco Martuzzi

    Head of Office, Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health, World Health Organization(WHO)

    세션소개

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    Climate Change and Environment: Addressing the Implications for Human Health and Well-Being

    Climate Change and Environment...

    Head of Office, Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health, World Health Organization(WHO)

  • Wang Hui

    Professor, Tsinghua University, School of Humanities, China

    세션소개

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    New Order and Peace in East Asia

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    Professor, School of Humanities, Tsinghua University

     

    -China’s prominent New Left scholar

    -As director of the Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor Wang   

      dedicates his time to promoting regional research by leading China’s discourse on political reform.

     

    * Author of , ,   

      <Rekindling Frozen Fire: The Paradox of Modernity>,
    * China’s foremost progressive intellectual that provides the theoretical underpinnings of Xi Jinping’s national agenda

  • Saskia Sassen

    Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, USA

    세션소개

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    Community Economy for Sustainable Urban Development (with Social Solidarity Economy Government Council)

    -...

    - Urban sociologist

    - Served as Co-chair of the Committee on Global Thought

    - Renowned for research and publications that shed light on economic and social inequality in cities

    - Publications: The Global City: Enabling Economic Intermediation and Bearing Its Costs (2016), Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (2016), A Sociology of Globalization (2006), Globalization and Its Discontents (1998), The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (1991)

     

    - Wife of Sennet Saskia Sassen is an urban sociologist serving as Chair Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University

    - Renowned for research and publications that shed light on economic and social inequality in cities
    - Saskia Sassen’s website: //www.saskiasassen.com/index.php 

  • Shindo Eiichi

    Emeritus Professor, University of Tsukuba, Japan

    세션소개

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    New Order and Peace in East Asia

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    Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba, Japan

    -President of the International Academic Society for Asian Community (ISAC)

    -Director General of the Belt and Road Initiative Japan Research Center

    -Former Chairman of Information Technology Promotion Agency

     
    * Books: ,

  • Nonaka Tomoyo

    Executive Member, The Club of Rome

    세션소개

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    Imagining Blooming of Life within a Balance between Economy, Society, and Environment

    Imagining Blooming of Life wit...

    How Does Sustainable Management Improve a Company’s Mid-Term and Long-Term Competitive Advantage?

    How Does Sustainable Managemen...

    Executive Member of the Club of Rome

    Chair of NPO Gaia Initiative, Japan
    Member of Club of Rome
    Former news anchor of NHK

    * served as the CEO of Sanyo Electric (2005~2007), an electronics company of Japan, during which four new products were launched for the first time in the world
    * selected as one of the Global Power 50 on Fortune in 2006

  • Cho Myung-rae

    Minister, Ministry of Environment

    세션소개

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    Social Consensus for Sustainability

    Social Consensus for Sustainab...

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    -Minister of Environment

    -11th President, Korean Environment Institute

    -Chairman, Sustainable Development Committee of Seoul -Metropolitan Government

    -Co-chair, The City Human Consensus

    -Expert Adviser, National Commission on Sustainable Development
    -M.A. in Environmental Planning, Seoul National University / Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Studies, University of Sussex 

  • Moon Kook-hyun

    CEO, Hansoll Textile

    세션소개

    연사소개

    CEO, Hansoll Textile 

  • Park Myung-lim

    Professor, Regional Studies at Yonsei University

    세션소개

    연사소개

    New Order and Peace in East Asia

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    Professor, Regional Studies at Yonsei University?

  • Moon Tae-hoon

    Chairman, Presidential Commission on Sustainable Development

    세션소개

    연사소개

    New Order and Peace in East Asia

    -...

    The Anthropocene: The Green Transformation of Korean Society (with Korea Environment Institute)

    Session 1 provides a forum for...

    Chairman, Presidential Commission on Sustainable Development