Free One-Day Workshop: China Is Coping - Poverty Alleviation, Environmental Clean-Up And Global Environmental Concerns

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 5pm on Tuesday, April 3

The USC U.S. - China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) are offering a complimentary one-day workshop, China is Coping: Poverty Alleviation, Environmental Clean-up and Global Environmental Concerns, for all K-12 educators. The session will meet at USC on Saturday, April 7, from 9am to 1:30pm. Complimentary on-campus parking, breakfast, lunch, and refreshments will be provided.  

The workshop features three distinguished individuals who have helped design, document, or initiate programs to address some of China’s challenges. Bill Bilakes has worked in China and Mongolia for the United Nations to support their efforts to foster sustainable development. Lucy Hornby has reported from China for two decades, covering the many industries, the environmental crisis, and the recent tensions over migrant communities. Zhuo Qiang (now known as Simba) is an activist and filmmaker who has worked in Africa to help preserve habitat and who has worked to increase Chinese awareness of the global implications of various practices. 

SPEAKERS

Bill Bikales is Senior Development Economist for China and Mongolia at UNDP, based in Beijing, where he works on the UN's support for both countries' efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.  His current focus in China is the new poverty challenges that China faces following four decades of rapid growth and poverty reduction.  He is a Harvard-trained  economist and China specialist, who has had long-term residences in Mongolia, China, Philippines and Ukraine, where he worked as economic and social policy advisor on behalf of a number of international development organizations.