Podcast appearances and mentions of ian driscoll

Can Jesus Christ rid Ottawa of lesbian-killing vampires? This week we’re talking about the very fun 2001 Grindhouse-y film JESUS CHRIST VAMPIRE HUNTER. Directed by Lee Demarbre and written by Ian Driscoll, JCVH stars Phil Caracas as our vampire-slaying Jesus with Maria Moulton, Murielle Varhelyi, Tim Devries and Ian Driscoll. It’s a campy, stylized and very fun movie! Where have all our lesbians gone?

We talked with AmCham Shanghai Director of Communications Ian Driscoll and China Management Consulting Leader Mark Gilbraith about AmCham Shanghai’s 2020 China Business Report. The report is based on the results of the Chamber’s 2020 China Business Survey, one of the longest-running surveys of US business in China. Mark, Ian and I discuss the results of the survey, including how companies are recovering from the economic blow of COVID-19 and their revenue projections for the rest of the year. We also dig into companies' investment plans in China and how they view the state of US-China tensions. 

We are joined by AmCham Director of Communications Ian Driscoll and outgoing China Voices host Doug Strub, co-authors of the 2019 China Business Report, to discuss this year’s survey results. The 2019 report includes responses from 333 AmCham members on the challenges and opportunities in the China business market. Ian and Doug dig into the numbers and offer their insights on how companies are dealing with an economic slowdown and U.S.- China trade tensions, while still finding room for business growth.

In 2009 China’s State Council announced the goal of establishing Shanghai as a global financial center by 2020. As that deadline approaches, AmCham Shanghai conducted a survey of financial services members and wrote a report titled Shanghai 2020: A Financial Vision Unfulfilled. The report concludes that Shanghai has not implemented the necessary reforms to achieve this goal and recommends policy changes to improve the city’s standing as a global financial center. In this episode we talk to the report’s authors, Ian Driscoll and Daniel Rechtschaffen, to learn more about the report’s findings.

Today we’re joined by Ken Jarrett, president of AmCham Shanghai, and Ian Driscoll, communications director at AmCham Shanghai and co-author of the 2018 China Business Report. AmCham Shanghai’s annual China Business Report is based on a survey of member companies, and provides insight into the business environment in China. We discuss the report’s findings, including members’ views on tariffs, major Chinese initiatives such as Made in China 2025, and the challenges and opportunities of doing business in China today. 

In this episode we’re joined by Tim Stratford, managing partner of law firm Covington & Burling’s Beijing office, and Chris Adams, senior advisor at Covington & Burling. Both have previously held high-level government positions, with Stratford serving as Assistant U.S.-Trade Representative and Adams as Senior Coordinator for China Affairs at the Treasury Department, where he led the highest-level U.S.-China economic policy dialogues. In this episode we discuss recent U.S.-China trade tensions, what can be done to improve trade relations, and what U.S. businesses in China should be doing to minimize any associated negative impact. We’re also joined by co-host Ian Driscoll, communications director at AmCham Shanghai.

In this episode we’re joined by Art Dicker, cross-border China investment and market entry specialist and founder of Pacific Bridge Group, for a discussion of China’s outbound investment. Co-hosted by AmCham Shanghai’s communications director, Ian Driscoll, we discuss trends in Chinese outbound M&A, the reasons behind these trends, new Chinese policies regarding outbound investment, and the impact of the Trump administration on Chinese investment into the U.S.

Dans cet épisode, nous allons explorer notre exclusive collection de romans en fascicules canadiens, l’une des rares collections connues du genre, dont Bibliothèque et Archives Canada a commencé l’acquisition en 1996. Nous traiterons aussi de leur montée en popularité et de leur déclin dans les années 1940, jusqu’au début des années 1950. Nos invités d’aujourd’hui sont Ian Driscoll, auteur et contributeur pour le site Web Des histoires à bon marché! de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, et, par téléphone depuis l’Australie, Carolyn Strange, Ph. D., co-auteure de l’ouvrage True Crime, True North: The Golden Age of Canadian Pulp Magazines, qui retrace l’âge d’or des romans en fascicules au Canada.

In this episode, we explore our unique and one of the very few known collections of Canadian pulp magazines that Library and Archives Canada started to acquire in 1996, and their rise and fall in the 1940s and into the early 1950s. Our guests today are Ian Driscoll, author and contributor of Library and Archives Canada’s website Tales from the Vault!, and joining us by phone from Australia, Dr. Carolyn Strange, co-author of True Crime, True North: The Golden Age of Canadian Pulp Magazines.