Asia & Global Economy & Business
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Robyn Meredith
Author of The Elephant and the Dragon;
the Rise of India and China and What it Means for All of Us.
Senior Editor, Asia - Forbes Magazine
Author | Writer | Speaker | ModeratorBased in Hong Kong, Robyn Meredith is a foreign correspondent for Forbes magazine and renowned author of The Elephant and the Dragon; the Rise of India and China and What it Means for All of Us. As a commentator on the rise of India and China and how businesses are embracing globalisation, she is a popular and sought-after speaker in Asia, Europe and the US, speaking at large business conferences as well as corporate meetings, at universities, on cruise ships and other types of seminars and briefings.
Robyn has been on Forbes magazine's editorial team since 2002 and has had a series of previous assignments in the USA with Forbes, The New York Times, USA Today and American Banker. For Forbes, she has written cover stories on companies including General Motors, Kodak, Microsoft, Philips, Toyota, Tata & Sons, Li & Fung and Infosys and uses her insights to illustrate the powerful messages contained in her book and delivered in her presentations.
Sample speaking topics include;
- Tectonic Economics -- how the rise of India and China is shifting business and politics
- Don't underestimate India
- America's Urgent Competitiveness Challenge
- The Disassembly Line -- how supply chains are connecting Western customers to Asian workers
- Reality Check: India and China, the two opposites, are shaping our world
- Globalisation is Good
- The New Silk Road -- India and China are again linked by trade with the Middle-East
The Elephant and the Dragon was named one of Asia's best books by the Wall Street Journal Asia, best business book of 2007 by 800CEORead.com and was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Bernstein Award for Journalism.
"An exciting and journalistic account of one of the great economic stories of our time - the transformation of China and India." Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize-winning economist
"Robyn Meredith is a sharp observer of the two fastest growing developing countries. Her fine writing gives us a thoughtful and entertaining account of the challenges and achievements of these Asian giants that, hopefully, will be key propellers of global prosperity throughout the 21st Century". Ernesto Zedillo, Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and former President of Mexico