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【5.31 Intl Dev Forum】Roger Leeds:Strengthening Performance of Chinese Middle Market Companies: The Role of Private Equity

2017-05-29

【No. 15 NSE & International Development Forum】


Strengthening Performance of Chinese Middle Market Companies: The Role of Private Equity

 

Time14:00-15:30, May 31(Wed.), 2017

Venue:Conference Room #3, Overseas Exchange Center of Peking University北京大学英杰交流中心第三会议室

Language: English

Organized by:Center for New Structural Economics at Peking University (CNSE)
                        Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development at Peking University (ISSCD)



Moderator:Jiajun XU(Assistant Professor, Executive Deputy Director, CNSE, Peking University)

Speaker:Roger S. LeedsProfessor of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Director of the School’s Center for International Business and Public Policy


【Abstract】

Even though the Chinese private sector’s contribution to overall economic growth and development has steadily increased during the past three decades, small and mid-size companies frequently under-perform compared to their counterparts in Western economies. Two important explanations for this persistently sub-par performance by Chinese firms are (i) limited or no access to medium and long-term capital in the state-dominated financial sector, and (ii) a shortage of value creating business expertise. Drawing on research conducted for his recently published book,Private Equity Investing in Emerging Markets: Opportunities for Value Creation*, Professor Leeds lecture will demonstrate the distinctive capacity of private equity investors to selectively provide both scarce financial resources and value creating expertise that Chinese middle market companies require to grow and compete. Professor Leeds’ lecture will also highlight a characteristic of China’s private equity industry that distinguishes it from virtually all other countries: the government’s active role in promoting private equity as a positive force for China’s overall growth and development.



* The new book is translated into Chinese and will soon be published by Renmin University Press.


* For more on the original book, please refer to

http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137435347



 

 


【Speaker】


Dr. Roger S. Leeds

Dr. Leeds is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Director of the School’s Center for International Business and Public Policy. He also has taught at Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University’s Graduate Business School. He was the founding Chairman of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), a global industry association that conducts research and outreach on private equity investing in developing countries. Professor Leeds also is co-founder of the Leadership Academy for Development, an organization that designs and runs intensive training programs for government officials and business leaders in developing countries focused on public policy initiatives to strengthen private sector performance. Earlier in his career Dr. Leeds spent two years at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, teaching and heading a research project on privatization in developing countries. 

Prior to joining the SAIS faculty, Dr. Leeds worked as an international finance practitioner for 25 years, including positions as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers, a senior staff member of the International Finance Corporation (World Bank), a partner at KPMG in charge of the firm’s global privatization practice and co-head of the emerging markets practice at a based private equity firm. His publications includePrivate Equity Investing in Emerging Markets, Opportunities for Value Creation(which in 2017 will be translated into Chinese),Financing Small Enterprises in Developing Countries, and more than 30 articles and book chapters. Dr. Leeds has been a guest commentator on various radio and television programs, including CNN, Bloomberg News, CBS News, CNBC, and National Public Radio, and is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations in New York. He received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, and his M.A. and PhD from Johns Hopkins University (SAIS).

 

For more information on the speaker, please refer to

https://www.sais-jhu.edu/roger-leeds

Sign up for attendance via:

https://www.sojump.hk/jq/14336695.aspx

 


 

 

The New Structural Economics & International Development Forum

The New Structural Economics & International Development Forum was initiated in March 2016 and is organized by the Center for New Structural Economics (CNSE) at Peking University. The Center aspires to advance the frontier research on structural change and help developing countries to promote economic structural transformation. The Forum aims to bridge the gap between research and practice by hosting high-profile, open and equal conversations among scholars, professionals, policy makers and entrepreneurs in the field of international development.