LCMC Director gives paper at important conference in Beijing
Published 10 November 2008
Acting Director of the Lancaster China Management Centre (LCMC) Professor Alasdair MacBean received a special invitation to a conference from the Dean of the School of International Business at Beijing University of Foreign Studies.
BFSU is already a major partner of Lancaster University through the delivery of collaborative undergraduate programmes, and hence the chance to strengthen the relationship through a research connection was welcomed in the LCMC.
Professor MacBean attended and addressed the Plenary Session of the South East Asia Conference on Economics and Management between South Korea and China in late October 2008. The theme was "Management and the Economy" and his presentation was on the "Prospects for Renewable Industries in China".
Opening of the Beijing Conference
27 South Korean academics also attended the Conference and it was particularly gratifying that one of those present was a Lancaster Economics graduate from 1981 who had been taught at that time by Professor MacBean. He - Professor Chan-Hyun Sohn of the Faculty of Economics and International Trade at Kangwon National University - had attended Professor MacBean’s classes and had even been to a party for international students in his house.
The invitation to the Conference had been facilitated by Liu Peng (a Chevening Scholar) from BFSU who recently completed the LUMS MBA and had returned to a senior post in the International Office of the School of International Business. He also arranged for Professor MacBean to discuss further research collaboration with the Dean of the School of International Business.
Professor MacBean said:
“ I was very pleased to have the opportunity to contribute a paper to this conference at time when the issues of industrial sustainability and environmental damage are the key topics.
I welcomed the chance to share ideas with colleagues from China and Korea at this important point in China's economic development in a climate of global recession. ”
