You or your representatives are cordially invited to cover a lecture by Professor Thomas Piketty, world-leading economist and author of the best-selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century to be held on the campus of The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) this Friday (5 October).

Professor Piketty will share his insights into the increasing threat of rising inequality and wealth disparity amid globalisation. Delivering a welcome speech will be Professor Stephen Cheung Yan-leung, EdUHK President, and Mr Alexandre Giorgini, Consul General of France in Hong Kong and Macau.

Also joining the talk will be Mr Antony Leung Kam-chung, Convenor of the Big Education Platform; Mr Leong Cheung, Executive Director of Charities and Community at The Hong Kong Jockey Club; and Professor Lui Tai-lok, Vice President (Research and Development).

Professor Piketty’s talk will kick off EdUHK’s Distinguished Lecture Series in French Culture and Education, jointly organised with the French Consulate-General. This high-level talk is sponsored by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust.

An internationally acclaimed economist from France, Professor Thomas Piketty is Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Professor at the Paris School of Economics and the London School of Economics. He has authored numerous articles published in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies and Explorations in Economic History, as well as a dozen books. In 2002, Professor Piketty received the Best Young Economist of France Award and was elected for the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in 2013. In 2017, he advised Benoit Hamon's socialist presidential campaign in France. Further details of the talk are as follows:

Date: 5 October 2018 (Friday)
Time: 3-5pm
Venue: Lady Ivy Wu Lecture Theatre (D1-LP-04)
             The Education University of Hong Kong
             10, Lo Ping Road, Tai Po
Language: English

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