Mr. Ma Chi Un is a standing committee member of the Shanghai CPPCC, a director at Macau’s Luso International Bank, a director of Lightpoint logistics group in Shanghai, and a director of Concord Industrial and Commercial Development Enterprise in Macau. In this podcast, we talked about how to proactively market and deploy the digital Rmb to individuals and SMEs, its role in financial inclusion, and also the potential usage of digital Rmb in facilitating cross-border trade ..read more

Professor Richard Wang is currently the Associate Director of Fudan University’s Fintech Research Center and a Visiting Scholar at the Fanhai International School of Finance. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Practice and Director of LIVE Learning Center at the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and taught management at Chihlee University of Technology, Taiwan. Professor Wang is also a founding partner of NewRiver Capital Partners and has over 20 years of experience working in the financial and investment industry. In this episode, Profe ..read more

Dr. Andrew Field is a scholar of Chinese history and culture is currently the Associate Professor of Chinese History at Duke Kunshan University. He has taught Chinese history for the University of Puget Sound, University of New South Wales, and New York University, and has also directed study abroad programs for Dartmouth College, CIEE, and Boston University. Additionally, Dr. Field is the author of multiple books, the host of multiple walks, and has even produced his own documentary. In today’s episode, Professor Fields talks about the history of Shanghai, China and America’s rising tensions ..read more

Tara Nair and Elijah Tay are youth human rights advocates working on abolishing capital punishment in Singapore. Their latest work, an open letter to President Halimah has garnered signatories from over 20 countries. In this episode, they talk about the death penalty, justice systems, as well as youth activism. Tara is an Institution for International Law and Justice Joyce Lowinson Scholar at New York University and Elijah has been a civil society advocate for diverse communities. Elijah is the founder of initiatives like My Queer Story, a program aimed at raising awareness about LGBTQ+ discri ..read more

Mr. Tewon Turner serves as a military police officer and an interpreter with the United States Army. He speaks 12 languages of varying levels and is a devout polyglot. In this episode, Mr. Turner explores the idea of language justice and how languages has played crucial roles in war situations from his actual experience. Mr. Turner is an advocate of minority languages and encourages the mandatory teachings of multiple languages in schools for children to expand their world perspectives and sense of empathy ..read more

Professor Georgiy Kasianov is an active scholar, having authored, co-authored, and co-edited more than twenty books on the history of Ukraine in the 19th–21st centuries. Some of his recent work examines the current Russian - Ukraine situation by looking at how historical memory has been distorted for political reasons. Professor Kaisianov Head of the Laboratory of International Memory Studies at Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. In this episode, Professor Kasianov discusses the roots of these different historical views and how he feels the war between Ukraine and Russia will ..read more

Professor Michael J. Wishnie is William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law and Counselor to the Dean at Yale Law School. Professor Wishnie’s teaching, scholarship, and law practice have focused on immigration, labor and employment, habeas corpus, civil rights, government transparency, veterans law, and voting rights. For years, Professor Wishnie and his students have represented low-wage workers, immigrants, veterans, and voters in federal, state, and administrative litigation. In this episode, Professor Wishnie zeroes in on the recent discussions around gun violence sparked by the Uvalde sh ..read more

Stanton Abramson is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor. Gizella Abramson, his paternal grandmother, survived multiple ghettos, a stint in the underground resistance, and the Maidaanik concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland between 1941-45. He was very close to her before she passed away in 2011. From 1970 to 2010, she frequently spoke to school students in North Carolina public schools about the Holocaust and her message of hope and survival. She spoke to thousands of students during her 40 years of active service. Her story has a lot of similarities to those that may be fleeing or helpi ..read more

Principal Leung Kee Cheong is a renowned Principal based in Hong Kong and has been influential as an educator for the Hong Kong Youth in the last four decades. He was featured and was recognized by Hong Kong media for his work as Principal of Fresh Fish Traders' School, a primary school well known for its success in turning around the lives of poor children. He is also an expert in The Art of War by Sun Tzu and in this episode, he shares his insights on the how the philosophies taught by The Art of War can be applied to a teenager’s daily life ..read more

Ms. Susan Hammond, the daughter of a U.S. Vietnam veteran, became interested in post-war Southeast Asia after traveling to Vietnam and Cambodia in 1991. In 1996, after earning her MA in International Education from NYU. Ms. Hammond became involved in fostering mutual understanding between the people of the U.S., Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia and addressing the long-term impacts of war while working as the Deputy Director of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development from 1996 to 2007. In 2007, Ms. Hammond returned to her home state of Vermont and founded War Legacies Project. In 2019, she recei ..read more