RUNDOWN:
18:00     Registration
18:15     Opening Remarks
18:20     Fireside Chat
18:50     Audience Q&A
19:10     Closing Remarks
19:15     Networking Drinks
19:45     End

ASHK Members and Northwestern, Kellogg, and Kellogg-HKUST Alumni: HKD 150
Non-Members: HKD 200

Asia Society Hong Kong Center is proud to host a dialogue between Professor Francesca Cornelli, Dean of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Donald P. Jacobs Chair in Finance, and professor of finance, and S. Alice Mong, President of Asia Society Hong Kong Center. This dialogue will focus on bridging diverging views in an increasingly fractious world. Dean Cornelli and Ms. Mong will discuss the common missions shared by Kellogg’s new Center for Enlightened Disagreement, which emphasizes conflict management, empathy, and the diversity and inclusion of views across Kellogg’s programs, and the Asia Society, which has long endeavored to promote mutual understanding and strengthen partnerships across the Pacific.

How can institutions create spaces that bridge cultural and ideological divides, driving positive change and innovation?  How can we embrace disagreement as a virtue? What work is needed to foster greater inclusion and diversity in institutions, while allowing for respectful and empathetic debate and discussion of different viewpoints? Join ASHK to consider these challenging questions, and more.

Francesca Cornelli is the dean of Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. She is also a professor of finance and holds the Donald P. Jacobs Chair in Finance.

Previously, she was professor of finance and deputy dean at London Business School. She directed and advanced the highly regarded Private Equity Institute of London Business School, building a bridge between academia and practice by partnering with private equity leaders in London, alumni and top academics in the field.

Cornelli is widely respected as an accomplished scholar and a leader in business education. Her research interests include corporate governance, private equity, privatization, bankruptcy, IPOs and innovation policy. She has published several papers in the major finance and economics journals, and she gives regular talks at major conferences and universities. She has been an editor of the Review of Financial Studies, one of the top three finance journals, and previously served on the board of editors of the Review of Economic Studies and as an associate editor at the Journal of Finance. She is a research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and previously served as a director of the American Finance Association.

Cornelli has vast international experience and has taught at some of the top schools in the world, including the Wharton School, the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, The London School of Economics, the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and the New Economic School in Moscow. In January 2016 she helped create and became a board member of AFFECT, a committee of the American Finance Association designed to promote the advancement of women academics in the field of finance. She serves on several boards, including Edizione, GSM Grosvenor Inc., Civic Consulting Alliance, and Lyric Opera of Chicago.

S. Alice Mong is President of Asia Society Hong Kong Center (ASHK), an independent non-governmental educational organization established in 1990. Ms. Mong previously served as the Executive Director of ASHK from August 2012 until 2024, and as a consultant to ASHK in preparation for the February 2012 opening of its permanent home at the Former Explosives Magazine in Admiralty.  Prior to ASHK, Ms. Mong worked in New York for almost a decade in the non-profit sector in senior management positions. She was the Director of the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) from 2009 to 2011, overseeing the expansion project of the 30-year-old organization. She stepped down as Museum Director in July 2011 after successfully transforming the museum from a New York Chinatown institution into a leading national museum dedicated to preserving and presenting the history, heritage, culture and diverse experiences of people of Chinese descent in the United States. Ms. Mong also served as the Executive Director for the Committee of 100 in the United States, a Chinese-American non-profit membership organization founded by architect I.M. Pei and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. She began her career at the Ohio Department of Development in Ohio, and later became Managing Director of the Ohio Office of East and Southeast Asia in Hong Kong. Ms. Mong worked for Hang Lung Property Group from 1995 to 2002. She serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of The Ohio State University Alumni Association.

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