Decision Makers: Recent Episodes
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Decision Makers is a global platform for decision makers to share their insights on events shaping today's world. Columnists include heads of state, government officials, and world-renowned policy makers. （All audios are generated by artificial intellegence.）
Analisa Low is the Ambassador of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to the People's Republic of China.
Lu Kang is the ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Indonesia.
Navracsics Tibor is Hungary's Minister of Public Administration and Regional Development.
Sonali Jain-Chandra is the Chief of the International Monetary Fund China Division and Steven Barnett is the Senior Resident Representative in China of the International Monetary Fund.
Paul Chan is the Financial Secretary of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government.
Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr., a Brazilian economist, is the former Vice President of the New Development Bank (NDB) and former Executive Director for Brazil and other countries in the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The article reflects the author's opinions and not necessarily the views of CGTN.
Sika Kabore is former First Lady of Burkina Faso and Head of the KIMI Foundation; and Isatou Touray is former Vice President of the Republic of the Gambia.
Gordon Brown, a former prime minister of the United Kingdom, is UN Special Envoy for Global Education.
In this article, Marco V. Balarezo, Peruvian ambassador to China, shared his thoughts on this topic. The article reflects the author's opinion and not necessarily the views of CGTN.
In this article, Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria, the Executive Director of APEC Secretariat, shared her thoughts on this topic. The article reflects the author's opinion and not necessarily the views of CGTN.
Andrey Kortunov, director general of the Russian International Affairs Council, shares his visions on the Global Security Initiative proposed by Chinese leadership.
Beth Dunford is the vice president for agriculture, human and social development at the African Development Bank Group.
Nii Quaye-Kumah is the Country Director and Representative of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to the People's Republic of China.
Djoomart Otorbaev is the former prime minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, a distinguished professor of the Belt and Road School of Beijing Normal University, and the author of the book "Central Asia's Economic Rebirth in the Shadow of the New Great Game" (Routledge, February 2023).
Justine Coulson, the representative of the United Nations Population Fund in China, recently sat down for an exclusive interview with Decision Makers and penned an article on how to turn the challenge of demographic transition into a valuable opportunity.
Timofei Bordachev is the programme director of the Valdai Discussion Club and academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
Tuvshin Badral is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to the People's Republic of China.
Akram Zeynalli is the ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the People's Republic of China.
Nadia Leong is the director of the Office of the Macao Special Administrative Region in Beijing.
Christopher Hui is the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Djauhari Oratmangun is Indonesian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China and Mongolia.
Carrie Lam is the fifth-term (2017-2022) chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of the People's Republic of China.
Steven Alan Barnett is the International Monetary Fund's senior resident representative in China.
Lu Kang is the ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Indonesia.
Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr., a Brazilian economist, is the former Vice President of the New Development Bank (NDB) and former Executive Director for Brazil and other countries in the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Rex Chang is the Director of Office of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in Beijing (Beijing Office).
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal is the global leader of Climate and Energy at World Wide Fund for Nature, and Stewart Maginnis is the deputy director general at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Ali Obaid Al Dhaheri is the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.
Elizabeth Maruma Mrema is the Executive Secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
Djauhari Oratmangun is Indonesian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China and Mongolia.
Djoomart Otorbaev is the former prime minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, a distinguished professor of the Belt and Road School of Beijing Normal University, and the author of the forthcoming book "Central Asia's Economic Rebirth in the Shadow of the New Great Game" (Routledge, 2023).
Wang Feiteng is a doctoral supervisor at the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, deputy director of State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, and director of Tianshan Glaciological Station. He currently serves as a member of the expert panel of World Meteorological Organization's Global Cryosphere Watch and a member of the expert team of Third Pole Regional Climate Center.
Erik Solheim is the former executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
Danilo Turk is former president of the Republic of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012. He is currently a non-resident senior fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China.
Heng Swee Keat is Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies of Singapore.
Djoomart Otorbaev is the former prime minister of the Kyrgyz Republic, a distinguished professor of the Belt and Road School of Beijing Normal University, and a member of the Nizami Ganjavi International Center.
Alessandro Golombiewski Teixeira is a former Brazilian minister of tourism and former special economic advisor to the president of Brazil.
Qu Sixi is the representative and country director of the United Nations World Food Programme in China.
Steve Barnett is the International Monetary Fund's Senior Resident Representative for China.
Tian Ya is the Regional South-South and Triangular Cooperation Manager for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)'s Asia and the Pacific Division. Matteo Marchisio is the country representative of IFAD in China.
Carrie Lam is the fifth-term (2017-2022) chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
Chen Jian'an is vice chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade.
Adjagba Sebabe Tchabode is the Charge d'Affaires ad interim for the Togo Embassy in China.
Abdelkarim Sma is the lead regional economist for the Near East, North Africa and Europe division at the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Matteo Marchisio is the country representative of the International Fund for Agricultural Development in China.
Deepali Khanna is the Vice-President of the Asia Region Office at The Rockefeller Foundation. Siddharth Chatterjee is the United Nations Resident Coordinator in China.
Hu Changchun is the Head of Mission of the People's Republic of China to the African Union and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Ali Obaid Al Dhaheri is the United Arab Emirates ambassador to the People's Republic of China.
H.E. Robert Matheus Michael Tene is the Deputy Secretary-General (DSG) of ASEAN for Political-Security Community.
Hippolyte Fofack is chief economist and director of research at the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank).
John Leung is the Director of the Office of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China in Beijing.
Paul Chan is financial secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government of People's Republic of China.
Teresa Cheng, Senior Counsel, is the Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government.
Yaroslav Lissovolik is the Program Director with the Valdai discussion club and a member of the Russian International Affairs Council.
By Shantanu Mukherjee, Director of the Economic Analysis and Policy Division, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
By Justice Nonvignon, Acting Head of the Health Economics Programme at the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), and Nicaise Ndembi, Senior Science Advisor to the Africa CDC Director.
H.E. Archil Kalandia is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the People's Republic of China.
By Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, and Marco Lambertini, the Director General of WWF International.
By Martin Raiser, World Bank's Country Director for China, Mongolia and Korea, and Sebastian Eckardt, World Bank's Practice Manager for Macro Economics, Trade and Investment in the East Asia and Pacific Region.
Dario Mihelin is ambassador of the Republic of Croatia to the People's Republic of China.