Minutes for PRSCO Council Meeting, San Antonio
PRSCO Council Meeting in San Antonio, Texas
Date and Time: 12:30 PM–14:30 PM, Thursday, November 8, 2018
Meeting Place: FRIO, Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Antonioa) Apologies Received, Roll-call, and Confirmation of Section Representatives (RachelFranklin)
Present:
Rachel Franklin (PRSCO Vice President), Patricio Aroca (SOCHER, past PRSCO President), Budy
Resosudarmo (RSAI President, IRSA), Mark Partridge (RSAI Vice President), Tomaz Dentinho(RSAI Executive Director), Andrea Caragliu (RSAI), Hidehiko Kanegae (JSRSAI), Kingsley Haynes(WRSA), Brian H.S. Kim (KRSA), Roberta Capello (Editor PiRS), Jaewon Lim (WRSA),
Matthew Roskruge (ANZRSAI), Luis Armando Galvis (ACER), Katsuhiro Sakurai (JSRSAI),
Toru Naito (JSRSAI), Hiroyuki Shibusawa (PRSCO Executive Secretary, JSRSAI)
Apologies received:
Fu-Chuan Lai (PRSCO President, CRSA-T), Roger Stough (WRSA), Lily Kiminami (JSRSAI),
Chitta Ranjan Pathak (Indian RSA), Armida Alisjahbana (IRSA), Lay J. Gibson (WRSA),David Plane (WRSA), Sutee Anantsuksomsri (Thailand), Nij Tontisirin (Thailand),
Binh Tran-Nam (Vietnam), Mathews Nkhoma (Vietnam),Jose Rodríguez (Peru), Haydee Jacklyn Malubay, Sarwar Jahan (BRSA),
Gabriel Rodriguez (Peru), Dusan Paredes (SOCHER), Fabian Vilema (RECIR),Paul Dalziel (ANZRSAI), Takeshi Mizunoya (JSRSAI), John Madden (ANZRSAI),
Suminori Tokunaga (JSRSAI), Yoshiro Higano (JSRSAI),
S. Eréndira Serrano-Oswald (AMECIDER), Jorge Serrano (AMECIDER), Sang-Dae Lee (KRSA)b) Minutes of PRSCO Council Meeting in Goa on May 18, 2017 (Rachel Franklin)
Rachel’s motion that the minutes of the previous meeting in Goa be approved was accepted.
c) Report on Latest RSAI/PRSCO Issues (Budy Resosudarmo)
Budy reported that the CRSA-T withdrew from the RSAI and suggested that the next (16th)
PRSCO Summer Institute should be held in Bangkok, Thailand, in 2019, if the Thailand section iswilling to host it. The proposal was accepted.
d) Report on 15th PRSCO Summer Institute in 2018 (José Rodríguez)
José was unable to attend the meeting and, thus, sent his report to Hiroyuki. Hiroyuki confirmed
the conference was successfully held on July 4–6, 2018, at Pontificia Universidad Católica delPerú.
e) Report on 26th Pacific Conference of RSAI in 2020 (Rachel Franklin)
Rachel Franklin and Jaewon Lim reminded participants that the conference will be held on March
18–22, 2020, at Hilton Hawaiian Village, Waikiki.
f) Report on 17th PRSCO Summer Institute in 2020 (Mathews Nkhoma)
Unfortunately, Mathews was unable to attend this meeting. Hiroyuki confirmed that the venue willbe RMIT University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 2020.
1g) Report on 27th Pacific Conference of RSAI in 2021 (Hidehiko Kanegae)
Hidehiko presented a brief proposal for the meeting. JRSAI is willing to host the meeting in Kyoto,
Japan. The main venue will be Ryukoku University and Ritsumeikan University.
h) Report on 17th PRSCO Summer Institute in 2022 (Budy Resosudarmo)
Budy reported academic and research activities in the Philippines and has requested colleagues in
the Philippines to provide updates on this event.
i) Discussion on Venues of PRSCO Conference and Summer Institute in 2024-–2026
Rachel suggested that the Australian and New Zealand Section is a potential host for the PacificConference. Participants also suggested that Sri Lanka, Laos, etc., are potential hosts for thePRSCO Summer Institute.
j) PRSCO Awards (John Madden)
John could not attend the meeting and sent a report from the selection committee. It was confirmedby Hiroyuki.
k) Nomination of PRSCO President in 2019–2021 (Rachel Franklin)
Rachel is approved to be the next PRSCO President for 2019–2021.
l) Changes in PRSCO Representatives for RSAI Council in 2018–2020 (Budy Resosudarmo)
Budy reported that Fu-Chuan Lai and Armida Alisjahbana withdrew from the RSAI council.
Rachel’s suggestion that the replacements should be Rachel Franklin (2019–2021) and Brian Kim(2019–2020) was approved.
m) Nomination of PRSCO Executive Secretary in 2020–2021
Hiroyuki’s proposal for replacing the Executive Secretary was approved.
n) Report on Activities of Pacific Rim Regional Science Communities
Participants reported their future events in Asia-Pacific.
o) Editor’s report: Papers in Regional Science (Roberta Capello)p) Editor’s report: Regional Science Policy & Practice (Tomáz Ponce Dentinho)q) Editor’s report: Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science (Yoshiro Higano)r) General business
The next PRSCO Council meeting will be held in Bangkok.
Minutes taken by Hiroyuki Shibusawa

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