Dr. George Koo

Dr. George Koo

For the last 30 years, George has been a cross border business advisor to high tech companies based in the U.S., China, Japan or Taiwan. He recently retired from Deloitte and joined the board of directors of Las Vegas Sands(NYSE:LVS). He continues to serve as an advisor to Dongfeng Fuji Thomson, a Sino-Japanese-American JV, which he help formed more than 20 years ago.

He is a former Chairman of Asian American Multi-technology Association and has been chairman of several past conferences on Asian financing and alliances sponsored by the AAMA and held in Silicon Valley. He is a former board member of AAMA and current board member of 1990 Institute and California-Asia Business Council. He also serves on the board of New America Media, a non-profit media organization, http://news.newamericamedia.org/.

He is a member of Committee of 100, and he served as the vice chairman from 2002-06. He is also a member of Pacific Council for International Policy and a member of the newly formed China Committee of PCIP. He is an adviser of
China’s Overseas Friendship Association and Chinese Enterprise Association USA.

Dr. Koo is a frequent speaker in various public forums on cross border business issues such as the basics to forming successful business alliances between Chinese and American companies. He writes for Pacific News Service (New America Media) on issues relating to Chinese Americans and to U.S.-China relations. The accumulation of his writings can be found on www.georgekoo.com.

Abstract of the talk on May 26m 2009

Prof. Dasher and Dr. Koo will have a conversation on whether Asia can lead the way out of the global recession. Their conversation will likely examine the differences and similarities of the Asian economies comparing to the U.S., why Asia is more likely to emerge from the recession sooner than the U.S. and whether Asia’s recovery can pull the U.S. out of its funk.