或近或远，或直接或间接，近年来人民币国际化就发生在我们身边。截止今年二季度，马来西亚、英国甚至欧盟等部分国家都将人民币作为储备货币，这无疑是人民币国际化的一大跨越。尽管目前人民币境外的流通并不等于人民币已经国际化了，但人民币境外流通的扩大必然导致人民币的国际化，使其成为世界货币。不过，人民币要真正实现国际化需要具备哪些条件，在国际化进程中又会存在哪些风险，对中国又有何利弊?12月7日，上海教学中心特邀大学商学院院长Professor John Thornton，就相关问题进行深度解析，诚邀新老学员参与!

时间：2014年12月7日下午13：30-16：30

地点：上海市杨浦区国定路400号复旦大学新闻学院培训中心5楼

讲座主题：The Renminbi as International Money

主讲嘉宾：Professor John Thornton(大学商学院院长)

嘉宾简介：

国际货币基金组织(IMF)助理主任

历任IMF驻中东，中亚及哥斯达黎加常驻代表

商学院金融学教授

教育背景

John Thornton is Head of Bangor Business School and Professor of Global Finance. Prior to joining the Business

School in 2008 he was with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC, where he was, respectively,

an Assistant Director in the Western Hemisphere Department, the Fiscal Affairs Department, and in the Middle East

and Central Asia Department. He also held posts as the IMF resident representative in Nepal and in Costa Rica.

Professor Thornton has also been a staff member of the Economics Department of the Organization of Economic

Development and Cooperation in Paris, and was Vice President of Economics at Merrill Lynch International in London.

He previously spent a year as Lecturer in Banking and Finance at Bangor University and was a Lecturer in Macroeconomics

at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

研究领域

Macroeconomic policy in emerging market economies; finance and economic development; financial market regulation;

macroeconomic management and fiscal decentralization; economics of terrorism.