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.

James E. Thompson is the Chairman and Founder of the Crown Worldwide Group. After graduating from San Jose State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aeronautical Engineering, Jim arrived in Asia in 1963. Within two years he established Crown in Yokohama, Japan – with just US$ 1000 . He moved to Hong Kong in 1978. Today, the Crown Worldwide Group employs over 5,000 full-time staff around the world, as well as a large number of contracted personnel.

Today's guest is Christopher K. Ho a speculative artist based in New York, Hong Kong, and Telluride, Colorado. He received his BFA and BS from Cornell University and his MPhil from Columbia University. He is known for materially exquisite objects that draw equally from learned material about, and lived encounters with, power and otherness in an unevenly de-colonialised, increasingly networked world. He has exhibited at Storm King Art Center, the Queens Museum, Cranbrook Art Museum, Para Site, MASSMoCA, and Socrates Sculpture Park, among other venues. He was included in the Incheon Biennial and the Busan Bienniale, and is currently working on solo projects for the Bronx Museum and for the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Artforum, Art in America, ArtReview, Modern Painters, LEAP and the New York Times have featured his solo exhibitions.

Christopher is here to talk more about his work, Always Leave The Table a Little Hungry which is one of the featured works for ASHK's Next Act Contemporary Art from Hong Kong.

Next Act: Contemporary Art from Hong Kong features research-based works by 10 local artists that respond to the shared history and collective memories of Hong Kong. Throughout the creative process, each artist focused on different research methodologies as a starting point for their inspiration and thinking process. This process culminates in a collection of exciting works that are visually impactful, interactive, and performative. We encourage visitors to open their senses and imagination when viewing the works by delving into the past to form new perspectives, savor the present, and contemplate what the future holds.

Next Act highlights a critical dimension of these creative practices by pivoting away from the conventional perception that art is a sensual form of truth. Instead, the final works make the creation of art a journey of critical thinking. The exhibition also opens up new areas of possible arts and culture programs that are immersive and educational. Whatever the future holds, we remain passionate about moving forward to provide an inclusive platform that encourages collaboration across different disciplines.

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.

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.

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+)

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+)

#extremetreks #toughrides

Asia Society Hong Kong re-connects with Global Strategist and author Dr. Parag Khanna for a video chat to talk about the potential society-shifting impact of COVID-19 on an international, and APAC level. Parag talks about the economy, and how the future of technology and travel will be forever changed with this current pandemic.

Connect with Dr. Khanna here:

https://www.paragkhanna.com

https://twitter.com/paragkhanna

Today's podcast is with Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, journalist and author of “Sarong Party Girls” (William Morrow, 2016) as well as “A Tiger In The Kitchen: A Memoir of Food & Family“ (Hyperion, 2011). She is the editor of the fiction anthology “Singapore Noir“ (Akashic Books, 2014).

She was a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, In Style magazine and the Baltimore Sun. Her stories have also appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Washington Post, Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, National Geographic, Foreign Policy, Marie Claire, Newsweek, Bloomberg Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, The (Portland) Oregonian, The (Topeka) Capital-Journal and The (Singapore) Straits Times among other places.

She has been an artist in residence at Yaddo, where she wrote “A Tiger in the Kitchen,” Hawthornden Castle, Le Moulin à Nef, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, Ragdale Foundation, Ledig House and the Studios of Key West. In 2012, she was the recipient of a major arts creation grant from the National Arts Council of Singapore in support of her novel.

Born and raised in Singapore, she crossed the ocean at age 18 to go to Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Unsure of whether she would remain in the U.S. after college, she interned in places as disparate as possible. She hung out with Harley Davidson enthusiasts in Topeka, Kan., interviewed gypsies about their burial rituals in Portland, Ore., covered July 4 in Washington, D.C., and chronicled the life and times of the Boomerang Pleasure Club, a group of Italian-American men that were getting together to cook, play cards and gab about women for decades in their storefront “clubhouse” in Chicago.

An active member of the Asian American Journalists Association, she served on its national board for seven years, ending in 2010.

She started her full-time journalism career helping out on the cops beat in Baltimore — training that would prove to be essential in her future fashion reporting. Both, it turns out, are like war zones. The difference is, people dress differently.

Today's podcast is with Professor Katherine A Mason, the Vartan Gregorian Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Professor Mason is a medical anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in China and the U.S. Her research addresses issues in medical anthropology, population health, bioethics, China studies, reproductive health, mental health, and global health. Her first book, Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health after an Epidemic, based on fieldwork she conducted in southeastern China on the professionalization and ethics of public health in China following the 2003 SARS epidemic, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016 and won the Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize in 2019. Mason is currently working on a multi-sited ethnographic field project that examines family experiences and models of care for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in the U.S. and China. As part of this project, she became a certified postpartum doula (DONA International, 2018) and earned a certificate in maternal mental health (PSI and 2020 Mom). She is also a core consultant on the AmeRicans’ Conceptions of Health Equity Study (ARCHES), funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Mason is affiliated with Brown's Population Studies and Training Center, and the Program in Science and Technology Studies, and is a Faculty Fellow at the Swearer Center (2018-20). Her research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, U.S. Fulbright program, and Association for Asian Studies. She has previously held positions as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar (2013-2015) and a Lecturer in the Health and Societies program at the University of Pennsylvania (2011-2013). She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard University in 2011.

**For commentary from Mason on the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, see:

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/covid-19-air-pollution/

http://somatosphere.net/2020/sars-covid19-coronavirus-epidemics-reflections.html/

https://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2020/03/zika-and-the-common-good.html#more