Asia Society Hong Kong Movers & Shakers Podcast

Asia Society Hong Kong Movers & Shakers Podcast
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Welcome to the Asia Society Hong Kong - Movers and Shakers Podcast. Through this short, interactive fireside chat, We get to meet with leaders and game-changers in different industries for insights into their personal journey to success. What they learned, how they failed and other interesting wisdom they may want to share.

Episodes

  1. 30. Jim Rogers - Investor, Author & Adventurer

    03/09/2021

    30. Jim Rogers - Investor, Author & Adventurer

    In today's episode of the ASHK movers and Shakers Podcast we interview the legendary Jim Rogers, a native of Demopolis, Alabama, is an author, financial commentator and successful international investor. He has been frequently featured in Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Barron's, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and most publications dealing with the economy or finance. He has also appeared as a regular commentator and columnist in various media and has been a visiting professor at Columbia University. After attending Yale and Oxford University, Jim Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained 4200%, while the S&P rose less than 50%. Rogers then decided to retire - at age 37. Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Jim Rogers kept busy serving as a professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and, in 1989 and 1990, as the moderator of WCBS's 'The Dreyfus Roundtable' and FNN's 'The Profit Motive with Jim Rogers'. In 1990-1992, Jim Rogers fulfilled his lifelong dream: motorcycling 100,000 miles across six continents, a feat that landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. As a private investor, he constantly analyzed the countries through which he traveled for investment ideas. He chronicled his one-of-a-kind journey in Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers. Jim also embarked on a Millennium Adventure. He traveled for 1101 days on his round-the-world, Guinness World Record journey. Passing through 116 countries, he covered more than 245,000 kilometers, which he recounted in his book Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip. His latest book "A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing" was published in 2009.

    27 min
  2. 27. Helena Storm - Consul General of Sweden in Hong Kong & Macau

    09/01/2020

    27. Helena Storm - Consul General of Sweden in Hong Kong & Macau

    Helena Storm, Consul-General at the Consulate General of Sweden in Hong Kong and Macau. Has studied a Master of Laws at Uppsala University; studied political science at Sciences Po in Paris; worked with human rights, war crimes and trafficking issues for Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs; First Secretary at the Embassy of Sweden in Ankara, Turkey; Chief of Staff at Sweden’s Ministry for Trade; After five years in Hong Kong Helena will be moving to Colombia’s capital Bogotá where she will take up the position of Sweden’s ambassador to Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.

    27 min
  3. 26. Sandeep Sekhri - Founder Dining Concepts

    07/10/2020

    26. Sandeep Sekhri - Founder Dining Concepts

    Sandeep Sekhri, Founder of Dining Concepts, has shaped Hong Kong’s dining scene for nearly two decades since he launched the restaurant group back in 2002. Sandeep established himself as a leader within the Hong Kong hospitality industry since arriving in Hong Kong in 1990. Following many years experience in India's leading hotels, Sandeep embarked on a career of 12 years of executive experience with a prominent hospitality group within Hong Kong. He then made the move to establish his own company in 2002 and has overseen the growth and diversification of the organization since its inception. Under Sandeep's development and guidance, Dining Concepts is now recognized as Hong Kong's pre-eminent hospitality group.

    43 min
  4. 25. Ryan Pyle (Part 2) - Adventurer and Television Host

    06/15/2020

    25. Ryan Pyle (Part 2) - Adventurer and Television Host

    Today's podcast is a two-part series with Adventurer and TV host Ryan Pyle. Originally recorded before COVID-19 Ryan gives us an update of his current living situation as he is stuck in transit between Istanbul Turkey and his home in Dubai. Born in Toronto, Canada, Ryan Pyle spent his early years close to home. After obtaining a degree in International Politics from the University of Toronto in 2001, Ryan realized a life long dream and traveled to China on an exploratory mission. In 2002 Ryan moved to China permanently and in 2004 Ryan became a regular contributor to the New York Times. In 2009 Ryan was listed by PDN Magazine as one of the 30 emerging photographers in the world. In 2010 Ryan began working full time on television and documentary film production and has produced and presented several large multi-episode television series for major broadcasters in the USA, Canada, UK, Asia, CHINA and continental Europe. SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS: Instagram: @ryanpyle (Fans: 92,000+) Facebook: @ryanpyle (Fans: 450,000+) Twitter: @ryanpyle (Fans: 15,000+) YouTube: @ryanjpyle (Fans: 30,000+) Weibo: @ryanpyle (Fans: 1,000,000+)

    21 min
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Welcome to the Asia Society Hong Kong - Movers and Shakers Podcast. Through this short, interactive fireside chat, We get to meet with leaders and game-changers in different industries for insights into their personal journey to success. What they learned, how they failed and other interesting wisdom they may want to share.

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