Panel II: Digital Security and Geopolitics   

The Panel II Chair and discussant was Dr Boyi Li, LSE Fellow, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Member of Global China Academy Council

A presentation on The future of global technology governance was delivered by Professor Madeline Carr, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering Science; Director of the UK-wide Research Institute in Sociotechnical Cyber Security (RISCS), University College London

Mr Nigel Inkster, Senior Adviser for Cyber Security and China, former Director of Future Conflict and Cyber Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) spoke on Digital security in an age of ideological conflict

Dr Xiaobai Shen, Senior Lecturer, Business School, University of Edinburgh, UK, presented his speech online. The topic was Digital virus, antigen and antibody: building intellectual immunity and people-centred digital infrastructure

The final contribution to this panel was also delivered online. Professor Rong Ke, Deputy Director of Institute of Economics, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, China, spoke about the Digital economy, global co-opetition and new growth drivers

Discussion, Q & A

Lunch

GCA Board of Trustees meeting 

The meeting was chaired by Mrs Ingrid Cranfield, Chair of Global China Academy Board of Trustees; Honorary Secretary of Global China Academy Council; President of Global Century Press, UK

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