(Webinar) UK-China Dialogue with The Rt. Hon Sir Vince Cable
Aug 9, 2022 (17:00 - 18:00) GMT+8
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The Rt Hon Sir Vince Cable
The Rt Hon Sir Vince Cable was Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade (2010-2015). He was Member of Parliament for Twickenham 1997-2015; deputy leader of the Lib Dems 2007-2010 and shadow chancellor 2003-2010.
He was the leader of the Liberal Democrats 2017-2019; he has served as Member of Parliament for Twickenham 1997-2015, 2017-2019.
Vince Cable read Natural Sciences and
Economics at Cambridge University, where he was President of the Union, followed by a PhD at Glasgow University.
From 1966 to 1968 he was Treasury Finance
Officer for the Kenya Government. After
lecturing at Glasgow University in economics he worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a first secretary in the Diplomatic Service (1974-76). He was then appointed Deputy Director of the Overseas Development Institute, which included a period working for the then Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, John Smith, as a special advisor. From 1983 to 1990, Vince worked as special advisor on Economic Affairs for the Commonwealth Secretary General, Sir Sonny Ramphal.
In 1990 he joined Shell International taking up the post of Chief Economist in 1995. He has also been head of the economics programme at Chatham House and is a former fellow of Nuffield College Oxford and the LSE.
Event Details
The British Chamber is honoured to invite the Rt. Hon Sir Dr Vince Cable to our upcoming UK-China Dialogue, to discuss the current and future state of UK-China relations.
As the UK is one step closing to getting a new prime minister, how do the two final candidates Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak differ in terms of their domestic and foreign policies? What are their solutions to tackling the mounting challenging facing the UK at the moment - including inflation, cost of living crisis, war in Ukraine and its economic fallout, and the loose-ends of Brexit? And what are their agenda to advancing relations with China in the next two years?
We will hear directly from Sir Vince Cable about his perspective on the new conservative leadership and its impact on UK's relations with China and the world, his personal experience as the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills during the "Golden Era" of UK-China relations, as well as the areas of mutual opportunities that can advance cooperations between the two countries.
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