Distinguished Lecturers

SCID Distinguished Lecturers included:

• Duck-Koo Chung, Director, Research Center for International Finance, Seoul National University, Reflections on the Korean Financial Crisis: Historical Perspective and Implications for the Future of Asia.

• Dr. Rafiq Dossani, Senior Research Scholar, A/PARC, presented: Creating a Network: Why Indian and Chinese Engineers Succeed in Silicon Valley.
  
  
• Johannes Linn, World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia, Progress in Transition: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union after a Decade of Reform and Stabilizing Central Asia.
  
  
• Jin Liqun, Vice Minister of Finance , People's Republic of China, China: Deepening Reform and Opening up in the Context of Globalization.
  
  
• Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Former President of Mexico, The Policy and Politics of Modernization.

• Gurcharan Das, Professional manager, author and newspaper columnist, former CEO Procter & Gamble, Perspectives on the Indian Economy.
  
  
• Ashok V. Desai, Consultant Editor, Business Standard, Indian Economic Reform in the 1990’s.
  
  
• Jarsolaw Pietras, University of Warsaw and Under-Secretary of State in the Polish Government, Former Director of Economic Department, Poland, The European Union Enlargement. The Polish Perspective.

• Kirit Parikh, Emeritus Professor, former Director & Vice-Chancellor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (I.G.I.D.R.), The ENRON Story – What can be done?

• Dr. Rolf Luders, Professor of Economics of Cuadernos de Economia at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Economic Policy Reforms in Chile.

• Dr. Il Sakong, President and CEO of the Institute for Global Economics, Causes and Responses to Korea’s Financial Crisis.

• Dr. Francisco Gil Diaz, currently Mexican Finance Minister, Banking Regulation and Monetary Policy in Mexico.

In 1999, three visitors with distinguished records in policy-making, as well as in academic life spoke on the topics indicated. They were:

• Dr. Gustavo Franco, Professor, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and Former Governor, Central Bank of Brazil, Economic Policy Reform in Brazil.

• Dr. Shangquan Gao, Professor, Beijing University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University and former Vice-Minister, State Commission for Restructuring the Economic Systems and Head, Economic Systems Reform Office of the State Council, Reforming China's State-owned Enterprises.

• Dr. K. C. Pant, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of India, India's Economic Reform & Prospects