Speaker: Michael Adams, President of the Environics Group of Research and Communications Consulting Companies; President and CEO, Environics Institute for Survey Research, Canada
主讲人：迈克尔.亚当斯，加拿大环境学研究和通信咨询公司集团总裁；环境学调查研究所总裁兼首席执行官

Moderator: Yin Chengzhi, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University
主持人：殷成志，294俄罗斯专享会副教授

Time: 10:00-11:30, Friday March 8th, 2013
时间：2013年3月8日（星期五）上午10：00-11:30

Venue: Room 302, School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University
地点：294俄罗斯专享会302会议室

Language: English
语言：英语

Bio:
Michael Adams is the president of the Environics group of research and communications consulting companies which he co-founded in 1970. In 2006 he founded the Environics Institute for Survey Research, where he also serves as President and CEO.
Mr. Adams is also the author of six books, including: Sex in the Snow: Canadian Social Values at the End of the Millennium (1997); Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values, (2003); and Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph of Canadian Pluralism (2007). Fire and Ice won the prestigious 2003/04 Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy and was selected in the fall of 2005 by the Literary Review of Canada as one of the 100 most important books ever published in the country.
In his most recent book, Stayin’ Alive: How Canadian Baby Boomers Will Work, Play, and Find Meaning In the Second Half of Their Adult Lives (Penguin, November 2010), Michael reflects on the changes Baby Boomers have brought about in Canadian society—and the changes that are yet to come
Michael Adams is a noted commentator on social values and social change in North American popular public speaker, Michael Adams offers topical, entertaining talks elaborating the data presented in his books. In addition to his groundbreaking work in social values analysis, he has conducted traditional polling in Canada for over three decades. Michael’s speaking repertoire includes a long-range look at the evolution of Canadian public opinion on a range of issues from public policy to national identity and diversity.
Michael holds an Honours B.A. in Political Science from Queen's University (1969) and a M.A. in Sociology from the University of Toronto (1970) and was named as one of the 100 most influential people in Canadian communications according to Marketing Magazine’s Power List 2005. In 2008 Michael Adams was appointed to the Ontario Premier’s Climate Change Advisory Panel and was made a Fellow of the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, the highest honour which can be bestowed upon a member, for his contribution to marketing and survey research in Canada. In the spring of 2009, he received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Ryerson University in Toronto.

主讲人简介：
迈克尔.亚当斯（Michael Adams）是环境学研究和通信咨询公司集团总裁，他于1970年与他人共同创立该集团。2006年，他成立了环境学调查研究所，并担任该研究所总裁兼首席执行官。
亚当斯先生还是六部图书的作者，其中包括：《雪中的性》：千年末加拿大社会价值观（1997年）；《火与冰》：美国、加拿大与趋于一致的价值观神话（2003年）；以及《不可能实现的乌托邦》：令人惊讶的加拿大多元主义胜利（2007年）。《火与冰》赢得了2003/04年度关于加拿大公共政策著名的加拿大唐纳奖最佳图书，该书于2005年秋，被《加拿大文学评论》选为加拿大有史以来出版的100部最重要的图书之一。
迈克尔在他最近出版的一部图书《保持活力》：加拿大婴儿潮一代将在下半生如何工作、娱乐和找到生活的意义（企鹅出版社，2010年11月）中，描述了加拿大婴儿潮一代给加拿大社会带来的变化以及将要带来的变化。
迈克尔？亚当斯是一位在北美深受欢迎的研究社会价值观和社会变革的著名评论员、公众演说家。迈克尔？亚当斯探讨当下关注的有趣的话题，阐述在他的著作中提到的内容。30多年来，除了进行开创性的社会价值观分析工作以外，他还在加拿大进行传统的民意测验。迈克尔的讲话题目，包括从过去到现在关于在公共政策至民族认同和多样性一系列问题上加拿大舆论的演变过程进行长期研究。
1969年，迈克尔获女王大学政治学荣誉学士学位，1970年获多伦多大学社会学硕士学位，并且根据2005年营销杂志权力榜，被评为加拿大通信领域100名最有影响人物之一。2008年，迈克尔？亚当斯被任命为安大略省省长气候变化咨询小组成员，并当选为市场研究与情报协会会员，这是给予为加拿大市场营销和调查研究作出贡献的人物的最高荣誉。2009年春，他荣获多伦多瑞尔森大学荣誉博士学位。