COMMUNITY EVENTS
Free or low cost Community Events and college courses are intended to provide background on the yearly topic and to touch on areas related to the February Conference that may not be covered in its three-day format. The views of our presenters are their own and may not represent those of the Camden Conference.
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Stephen Harder talk at the Camden Public Library “China’s View of the World – and of America.”
October 23, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
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The Camden Conference presents Stephen Harder at the Camden Public Library on Tuesday, October 23 at 6:30 pm.
His talk “China’s View of the World – and of America” discusses important aspects of Chinese history, culture, economics and politics that shape a Chinese view of the world – and the Chinese view of America.
Stephen Harder is an international lawyer and Global Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University in Shanghai.
For 20 years, from 1996 through 2016, he was based in Hong Kong and Shanghai and led the China practice of an international law firm. He has acted as counsel to American, European and Japanese companies investing in China and also as counsel to China’s state owned investment funds and development banks in projects in Russia, South America and Africa.
For several years immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he was based in Brussels, Warsaw and Moscow, where he advised the Russian and Polish governments on their privatization programs and sovereign debt negotiations.
He holds graduate degrees in law and business from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree in Chinese Studies from Princeton University. He is fluent in written and spoken Mandarin Chinese.
He is a native of Boston, and a resident of Rockport, Maine.
