Understanding the economic transformation in Asia through the eyes of Alicia García Herrero.
Alicia Garcia-Herrero is a prolific analyst at the economic reality of the world. Her vision and contributions published by Bruegel are a must for consultation. Alicia is co-founder of Bright Hong Kong.
Bruegel is an independent and non-doctrinal think tank devoted to policy research on international economic issues, based in Brussels. It started operations in 2005 and has rapidly acquired reference status in European economic policy debates.
Bruegel was ranked first in 2012 and second in 2013 among all international economic policy think tanks worldwide by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Among all think tanks worldwide, it was ranked eighth in 2012, sixth in 2013, and fifth in 2014. Separately, Prospect Magazine named it European and global think tank of the year in 2011.
One of the leading authorities on the study of revolutions and long-term social change. His work has made foundational contributions to the fields of cliodynamics, economic history and political demography.
Jack A. Goldstone (PhD. Harvard) is Hazel Professor of Public Policy and a Fellow of the Mercatus Center of George Mason University. He is also Director of the International Research Laboratory on Political Demography at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration in Moscow.
Prof. Goldstone is the author of Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (winner of the 1993 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award of the American Sociological Association), editor of Political Demography, and has authored or edited ten additional books and over 140 book chapters and journal articles on various aspects of population, political conflict and social change. Some of them are referred at the Wilson Center. Prof. Goldstone is Bright Hong Kong member.
Unraveling the complex and fluctuating relationship between politics, society, and economy in the Global Era.
Jean-Pierre Lehman (29 August 1945 – 21 December 2017), turned his interest in the intense and accelerated process of transformations that make Asia a continent of promises and challenges. He emphasized on the political role of all the actors in the global arena. The reading of his work is basic to follow the intense pace of changes in the contemporary world.
During his life dedicated to teaching, Jean-Pierre was an example of enormous human quality. Based in Laussane, Switzerland, Jean-Pierre was a distinguished member overseas of Bright Hong Kong. His extraordinary intellectual legacy and generosity are treasured for all those who had the privilege of knowing him. Thanks to the new technologies, many of his articles published in Forbes, South China Morning Post, The Straits Times, The Japan Times, The Globalist, Middle East Business Magazine & News, Financial Times, The Jakarta Post and The Financial Express, still available.