UVA Club of Shanghai: Reception to Welcome UVA Faculty

The UVA Club of Shanghai invites all alumni, students, friends, and families to join us in welcoming a distinguished group of UVA faculty to our city. We will host a casual reception at the Langham Hotel in the historic Xintiandi district on Wednesday, January 8 from 6 to 8 p.m., featuring light hors d’oeurves and an open bar. Attendance is free.

This is an excellent opportunity to connect with this influential group who are in Shanghai to participate in panel discussions with Chinese scholars about the 2024 U.S. presidential election and prospects of U.S.-China relations in the coming years.

Expected to attend are:

• Harry Harding (PAR '20), Faculty Senior Fellow, and founding Dean of the Batten School of Public Policy
• Shirley Lin (PAR '20), Miller Center Research Professor and Chair of the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI)
• Scott Miller (Grad School of Arts & Sciences '15, '18), Director of the Project on Democracy and Capitalism and Darden lecturer
• Mimi Riley, Miller Center Compton Professor and Director of the Ripples of Hope Project and professor in the Law School, School of Medicine, and Batten School
• Mara Rudman, Miller Center Schlesinger Distinguished Professor, who served in the Obama and Clinton administrations, including as deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs
  
  It’s also a wonderful chance to mix and mingle with your local UVA community and get updates from Grounds. Pre-registration is appreciated. We hope to see you there!
  

For more information, please contact David Yang (Col '22, McIntire '24), Regional Engagement Officer, UVA Clubs and Global Network, at zy4gs@virginia.edu.

About our visitors from Grounds:

Harry Harding is a specialist on Asia and U.S.-Asian relations. He is a faculty
senior fellow at the UVA Miller Center, as well as a university professor
emeritus and professor emeritus of public policy at UVA, where he served as
the founding dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy
between 2009 and 2014.

Syaru Shirley Lin is a research professor at the UVA Miller Center and
nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings
Institution. She is founder and chair of the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience
and Innovation (CAPRI). She previously led investment efforts in Asia for
Goldman Sachs, managing private equity and venture capital investments in
12 countries.

Scott C. Miller is an economic historian at the UVA Darden School of Business
and the UVA Miller Center. He is an assistant professor and director of the
Project on Democracy and Capitalism at the Miller Center and an assistant professor, by courtesy appointment, at Darden. He is also a UVA alum
(Economic History MA ’15, Ph.D. ’18).

Margaret (Mimi) Foster Riley is the Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor at the UVA
Miller Center and professor of law at the UVA Law School, where she directs
the Animal Law Program. She is also professor of public health sciences at
the UVA School of Medicine, and professor of public policy at the UVA Frank
Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.

Mara Rudman is the James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the UVA
Miller Center, where she directs the Ripples of Hope Project. She served in
both the Obama and Clinton administrations as deputy assistant to the
president for national security affairs. She also served as the executive vice
president for policy at the Center for American Progress.