My guest this episode is Oliver Tonby, Chairman of McKinsey & Company in Asia Pacific. As the firm’s top representative in the region, Oliver has developed a unique perspective on Asia, informed by access to the region’s presiding corporate and government leaders. In a newly released report entitled “Asia’s Future is Now,” he and his colleagues point to an unprecedented rise in Asia’s commercial, trade and infrastructure development. Nothing, so it appears, can keep Asia down.
For decades, the region - largely powered by China - served as a low-cost manufacturing base, feeding the world’s insatiable appetite for consumer, luxury and electronic goods. From advanced clean-tech solutions to the latest in digital media applications, the region teams with innovation at all levels. Throngs of engineers and entrepreneurs are emerging from Indian, Southeast Asia and Chinese universities with a license to design and build. Western markets and corporations are witnessing the technicolor change and in Board rooms from New York to London the question is being asked: What will it take to compete, now and in the future?
Silicon Dragon: China, Tech Race, Jack Ma, Leadership
William Overholt: Asia's Miracle Economies and the Question of China's Liberalization
James Barrat: The Intelligence Explosion - AI and the Coming Cross-over Point
Wendy Cutler: US China Trade War
Singapore Hospital Hack
Bill Cornwell: Solving Family-Business Factor in Asia
Timothy Reuter: The Drones are Coming
The Trump-Kim Summit
Adam Schwarz: Trump, Trade, and Asia
Brewer Stone: China Tech
Hans Vriens: ASEAN Political, Economic and Governmental Insights
Tim Gocher: Nepal, Impact Investing, Frontier Markets
Julian de Salaberry: HealthTech in Asia
Olivier Legrand: The Other Social Network
David Hoffman: Xi Jinping, China, Trade War?
Peter Wall: The Crypto-Mining Gold Rush
Steve Okun: Trump, Tariffs, and Trade in Asia
David Emmett: Conservation International and Solving the Environmental Crisis in Asia
Jim McGregor on Xi Jinping: Imperial Flashback or Authoritarian Checkmate?
Peter Kennedy: The Commodification of Water
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