Joe Horn-Phathanothai will present a unique perspective on China, based on his many years of working and engaging in and with the country. His talk will look at the current economic, political and social model of China, and what the future holds for China in the shifting geo-political order of the 21st century.
Joe heads Strategy613, a boutique advisory firm providing strategic and M&A advice to blue-chip corporates on their cross-border investments, with a particular focus on China and Thailand. Over the past two decades, the firm has served, among others, Makro, Philips, the NYSE Euronext Group, Kasikornbank, Bank of China and COFCO, as well as ICBC’s landmark acquisition of ACL Bank in Thailand. His links with China's leadership span three generations. Over sixty years ago, his mother, Sirin Phathanothai, was sent to Beijing as a child to be brought up by Premier Zhou Enlai. She witnessed the Great Leap Forward, and survived the Cultural Revolution, and later was instrumental in re-initiating high-level relations between China and Thailand during the era of ping-pong diplomacy.
In 2007, Joe and his brother Leo founded Chang Ai Children’s Project, a foundation aimed at helping children in the HIV/AIDS and drugs-affected region of Dehong in Yunnan. In 2014, Joe co-founded the Oxford Thai Foundation which gives financial support to top Thai students to study at the University of Oxford.
Joe has a Bachelor’s in Mathematics from Oxford and a Master’s in Pure Mathematics from Cambridge. Previously, he worked at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and Merrill Lynch. He was awarded an MBE of the Order of the British Empire in 2018.
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