The Reorient! Podcast

Published August 25, 2021 Jeanne Lim is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of beingAI, a transmedia AI company creating AI beings™ that build long-term engagement and trust with digital-native consumers anywhere, anytime, on any device and media platform. Jeanne is an angel investor and advisor of several startups, and a board member of Kami Intelligence, a conversational AI company. Jeann...

Published 22 August, 2021 David Zweig (Ph. D., University of Michigan, 1983) is Professor Emeritus, Division of Social Science, HKUST and Director, Transnational China Consulting Limited. He is an Adjunct Professor, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, National University of Defence Technology, Changsha, Hunan, and Vice-President of the Center on China’s Globalization (Beijing). He was a...

Published July 25, 2021 Author Dori Jones Yang is a former foreign correspondent in Asia. Dori grew up in  Youngstown, Ohio , the daughter of a bookseller. At  Princeton , she majored in history but spent most of her waking hours at the college newspaper,  The Daily Princetonian . Eager to explore the world, she taught English in Singapore for two years, where she plunged into the s...

Dr. Hong Tang is the Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of OnQuality Pharmaceuticals, a targeted cancer supportive care company developing medications to address specific side effects and improve the quality of life for patients receiving anti-cancer medications, with operations in Seattle and Shanghai. Dr. Tang brings to this position a wealth of medical and pharmaceutical experience. From 2017...

Professor Makarand Paranjape is an Indian novelist, poet and literary critic. He has been the Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, since August 2018.  Professor Paranjape has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students for almost thirty years. His teaching career has spanned the better part of the globe. A large part of this has b...

Nirgunan Tiruchelvam is an equities analyst with three decades of experience covering the Asian region. He currently works for Tellimer (formerly Exotix Partners), dividing his time between Dubai and Singapore. He has also worked for Standard Chartered, ABN Amro, and RBS. Nirgunan is a graduate of Oxford University, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). He has written for the Fin...

A giant of US foreign policy, Eliot A. Cohen is the Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies and Dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS. After receiving his BA and PhD degrees from Harvard, he taught there and at the US Naval War College before coming to Johns Hopkins SAIS in 1990. His books include, most recently, The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force (2017) as we...

Jim Rickards, an American lawyer, is the author of the national bestseller, Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis , and a partner in JAC Capital Advisors, a hedge fund based in New York. He is a counsellor and investment advisor and has held senior positions at Citibank, Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) and Caxton Associates. He was the principal negotiator of the rescue of the LT...

Leonhard A. Weese is a young Austrian economist who came to Hong Kong at the beginning of the last decade to study statistics, fell in love with the city’s freewheeling capitalism and never left. During that time Weese became involved with the city’s nascent Bitcoin scene, where he, along with a few other interested parties, started hosting Bitcoin meetups in order to come together and understand...

Allan Zeman, the father of Hong Kong’s famed Lan Kwai Fong nightlife district , has had the most extraordinary career: born in Germany and raised in Montreal, he made his first million in Hong Kong by the age of 20. Today, he is one of Hong Kong's most prominent businessmen. In 2008, he gave up his Canadian citizenship and became a naturalized citizen of the People’s Republic of China. Access...

Notes from Utopia: the Tropicalist discusses the history of venture capital and finds a surprising link to Furuzonfar Zehni’s ancestors. Hosts Jesse and Madhavi discuss: the increasing ability to have a global career in finance without being a product of Western institutions the historic Sogdian civilization of Central Asia and how it provides a template for Central Asian development today Central...

Furuzonfar Zehni, a young venture capitalist, travels the world to meet with entrepreneurs, whose businesses his firm helps grow into tomorrow’s unicorns.  His Tajik heritage finds new relevance in the new globalized, tech-driven economy. Full interview on Reorientpodcast.com.  Show Notes  4:11 FZ on global seed investing.   5:50 FZ on how his unique upbringing prepared him for this relatively you...

The Crazy Rich Asians author spills the beans on Asia’s new money, that vaunted work ethic and the first thing he's going to do post COVID. Listen to the full interview at Reorientpodcast.com .  Show Notes:   4:03 KK talks about his path to success and how he would advise young Asians wanting to pursue a creative career.  10:11 KK talks about his childhood and how to parent for creativity.  1...

Notes From Utopia: The Tropicalist recounts the history of previous pivotal developments in information and communications technology and how civilizations that failed to grasp the importance of such developments eventually lost out Jesse and Madhavi discuss: 5G: hype vs reality the rollout of 5G in economically developed parts of Asia versus less developed parts of Asia the possibility of 5G bein...

Intel alum and Asian tech VC Michael Bruck on the little known history of tech in Asia and why Asia will dominate the next wave of innovation. Full interview available at Reorientpodcast.com.  Show Notes:  04:00 In layman terms, MB charts the evolution of the semiconductor industry from punch cards to vacuum tubes to transistors to silicon-based integrated circuits.   06:08 MB on the the role play...

Episode 01: Ronnie Chan, the Hong Kong-based billionaire philanthropist and chairman of the Hang Lung Group shares his thoughts on the US-China relationship. Full episode at Reorientpodcast.com . Show Notes: 02:25 How cultural differences between the two civilizations have determined the course of the US-China relationship. 11:32 How the Chinese view the tradeoffs inherent in modernization and whe...

Is the MSM missing out on the biggest story of our time? In this brief introduction, hosts Jesse and Madhavi talk about their motivations for launching the Reorient! podcast and what they hope to achieve.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.