Minutes for the PRSCO Council Meeting, Bangkok
PRSCO Council Meeting in Bangkok
Date and Time: 12:15 PM–1:00 PM on Thursday, July 25, 2019
Meeting Place: Executive Alumni Lounge, Sasa International House, Chulalongkorn Universitya) Apologies received, roll-call, and confirmation of Section representatives (BudyResosudarmo)
Present:
Budy Resosudarmo (past RSAI president, IRSA), Mark Partridge (RSAI president), Tomaz
Dentinho (past RSAI Executive Director), Sutee Anantsuksomsri (TH-RSAI), Nij Tontisirin(TH-RSAI), Kingsley Haynes (WRSA), Sumona Banerjee (Indian RSA), Devanto Pratomo (IRSA)
Hidehiko Kanegae (JSRSAI), Katsuhiro Sakurai (JSRSAI), Haydee Jacklyn Malubay (ThePhilippines), Joseph Win Hlaing OO (Myanmar), Kashini Gimhani (Sri Lanka), R. K. M. Ratnayake(Sri Lanka), Muazzam Sabir (Pakistan), Hiroyuki Shibusawa (PRSCO Executive Secretary,
JSRSAI)
Apologies received:
Rachel Franklin (PRSCO president), Jaewon Lim (WRSA), Lay J. Gibson (WRSA), David Plane(WRSA), Brian H. S. Kim (KRSA), Chitta Ranjan Pathak (Indian RSA), Suminori Tokunaga(JSRSAI), Lily Kiminami (JSRSAI), Soushi Suzuki (JSRSAI), Mohd Yusof Kasim (MRSA),Hajinoor (MRSA), Patricio Aroca (SOCHER), Dusan Paredes (SOCHER), S. EréndiraSerrano-Oswald (AMECIDER), John Madden (ANZRSAI), Paul Dalziel (ANZRSAI), Paul Snow(CRSA), Thai Nguyen (RMIT, Vietnam), Mathews Nkhoma (RMIT, Vietnam), Nguyễn Lưu BảoĐoan (Vietnam), U.A. Chandrasena (Sri Lanka), Roberta Capello (Editor PiRS), Yoshiro Higano(Editor APJRS)b) Minutes of the PRSCO Council Meeting in San Antonio, Nov 8, 2018 (Budy)
Budy’s motion to approve the minutes of the previous meeting in Goa was accepted.
c) Report on the 16th PRSCO Summer Institute in 2019 (Sutee, Nij)
Sutee gave a report on the PRSCO SI in Bangkok, which had 160 participants and 100 paper
presentations. One-hundred people participated in the workshop.
d) Report on the 26th Pacific Conference of the RSAI in 2020 (Kingsley, Jaewon)
Kingsley reported on the next Pacific Conference on March 18–22, 2020 at the Hilton Hawaiian
Village in Waikiki. He confirmed the deadline of abstract and paper submissions. A full paper isrequired.
e) Report on the 17th PRSCO Summer Institute in 2020 (Thai Nguyen, Mathews Nkhoma)
Unfortunately, Thai and Mathews were not able to attend this meeting. They sent a proposal,and Hiroyuki explained it. The 17th PRSCO SI will be held at RMIT University, Ho Chi Minh
City in Vietnam from July 29–31, 2020.
f) Report on the 27th Pacific Conference of the RSAI in 2021 (Hidehiko Kanegae)
Kanegae presented a rough proposal of the 27th Pacific Conference to be held in 2021 at
Ryukoku University/Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. The final proposal will bepresented at the meeting in Hawaii.
1g) Report on the 17th PRSCO Summer Institute in 2022 (Haydee, Budy)
Haydee discussed the 17th PRSCO SI in the Philippines. Tomaz and Budy suggested contacting
the Marites group.
h) Discussion on venues of PRSCO Conference and Summer Institute in 2024–2026 (Budy)
Budy presented three options for the 18th Summer Institute in Myanmar, Sri Lanka. Prof. Joseph
Win Hlaing Oo from Myanmar offered to host the 18th Summer Institute in 2024, which wasapproved. Nij suggested Thailand has a possibility to host the Pacific Conference in the future.
i) PRSCO Awards (John Madden)
Unfortunately, John Madden was not able to attend the meeting. John sent a report to Hiroyuki.
The Bangkok meeting has no award ceremony. We will prepare for the award ceremony inHawaii.
j) Nomination of the vice-president of the PRSCO, 2020–2021 (Budy)
Budy recommends Hidehiko Kanegae (JSRSAI) as chair of the next Pacific Conference of theRSAI. Hidehiko is nominated as the vice-president of the PRSCO. It was approved.
k) Confirmation of the PRSCO representative for the RSAI council, 2018–2020 (Budy)
Budy confirmed three PRSCO representatives: Rachel Franklin (2019–2020), Brian Kim(2019–2020), and Lily Kiminami (JSRSAI, 2018–2020). We will choose a new representativeat the next meeting in Hawaii. Budy also confirmed that the PRSCO representative must attend
at least one RSAI council meeting in a year.
l) Nomination of the PRSCO Executive Secretary, 2020–2021 (Hiroyuki Shibusawa)
Hiroyuki reported that the JSRSI recommend Prof. Soushi Suzuki as a potential candidate for
the PRSCO Executive Secretary. Hiroyuki gave support for Soushi, noting her/him as a newcouncilor. Hiroyuki stated that he/she will continue to the next term. Budy suggests that there
are generally two options. One option is creating an open call and inviting a new secretary.
Another option is to invite Soushi as a new secretary. Haynes said that second option is better.
Therefore, in the next council meeting, we would like to invite Soushi. Budy agreed to convey
this decision to approach Soushi to Rachel.
m) Report on activities of pacific rim regional science communities
R. K. M. Ratnayake and Kashini Gimhani reported on activities in Sri Lanka. Muazzam Sabiralso reported on situations in Pakistan. Budy suggests that new colleagues maintaincommunications with the RSAI/PRSCO presidents and executive directors to establish a newsection.
n) Report of Editors, Regional Science Policy & Practice (Tomáz Ponce Dentinho)
Tomáz made a repoint on RSPP.
o) Any further business
The next PRSCO Council meeting will be in Waikiki, Hawaii in 2020 (PRSCO/WRSA).
Minutes taken by Hiroyuki Shibusawa

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