Baltic and Emerging Market / China Day 2025

Time schedule:

12.00 - 12.10 Welcome by Professor Andreas Stephan, Acting Dean, School of Business and Economics at LNU (invited)

12.15 - 12.55, Helena Löfgren, Ph.D., Acting Head of Section at the Swedish National China Centre, on Chinese environmental achievements and challenges

13.00 – 13.40, Lena Sellgren, Chief economist at Business Sweden, on world trade, Swedish exports to emerging markets and their future potential as growth markets

13.45 – 14.00, Professor Hubert Fromlet, with further comments on emerging markets

14.05 - 14.20, intermission

14.20 – 15.05, Leif Östling, former CEO at Scania (one of Sweden’s most globalized companies) on conditions and corporate reality in emerging market countries

15.10 – 15.50, Professor Gerhard Stahl on (New) strategic challenges for China (online), Peking University HSBC Business School in Shenzhen            

15.55 – 16.25, Jörgen Kennemar, Senior economist and PMI manager at Swedbank, on changing corporate behavior and challenges in difficult exogenous times, e.g. for purchasing and supply chains

16.30 - 16.45, remaining questions to the participants

Welcome!