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Welcome Remarks
Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi is Director
GeneralattheInformation

SystemResearchforandDeveloping

Countries (RIS), a New Delhi-based
autonomous Think-Tank. He was also a
Global Justice Fellow at the MacMillan
Center for International Affairs at Yale
University. He works on issues related
to development cooperation policies and South-South cooperation. He has also
worked on trade and innovation linkages with special focus on WTO. Dr.
Chaturvedi has served as a Visiting Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru
University (JNU) and has also worked as consultant to the UN Food andAgriculture Organisation, World Bank, UN-ESCAP, UNESCO, OECD, theCommonwealth Secretariat, IUCN, and to the Government of India’s
Department of Biotechnology and the Ministry of Environment and Forests,
among other organizations.
He has been a Developing Country Fellow at the University of Amsterdam(1996), Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla (2003),
and Visiting Scholar at the German Development Institute (2007). His
experience includes working at the University of Amsterdam on a project on
International Development Cooperation and Biotechnology for Developing
Countries supported by the Dutch Ministry of External Affairs. Dr.
Chaturvedi has also been a member of the IGSAC Committee of Experts forevolving a framework for cooperation on conservation of biodiversity in the
SAARC region, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of Biotechnology
Development Monitor (the Netherlands); Editor of Asian Biotechnology

Development Review (New Delhi).
He has authored two books and edited four books apart from publishingseveral research articles in various prestigious journals.

Kazumasa Kusaka has been Chairman and CEO of
the Japan Economic Foundation (JEF) since April
1, 2013, and is also a Professor at University ofTokyo Graduate School of Public Policy. He
previously served for 36 years in Japan’s Ministryof International Trade and Industry (MITI), rising
to become vice-minister for international affairs in
the reorganized Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in 2004.
During his long career in public service, Kusaka was seconded to theInternational Energy Agency (IEA)/OECD and was Japan’s senior official for
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). He played a central role in
Asia’s economic integration, promoting FTAs in the region as well as serving
as a senior official negotiating the Doha development agenda of the WTO.
He was head of Japan’s Energy Agency and held director-general positionsin technology and environmental policy in addition to trade and investmentrelated areas within METI. He was also instrumental in finalizing the
Kyoto Protocol, and developing Japan’s energy and environment policies.
Among many other posts Kusaka has held are Special Adviser to the Prime
Minister on Global Warming, senior vice president of Mitsubishi Electric,
executive adviser to Dentsu Inc., and president of the Japan Cooperation
Center for the Middle East.

Session 1 Moderator & Speakers:
Moderator:
Amb. Amar Sinha retired from the Indian Foreign
Service (IFS) as Secretary Economic Relations in the
Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, in June 2017
after a diplomatic career spanning 35 years. He hasserved in different capacities in Indian Mission
around the world including in Algiers (1983-87),
Buenos Aires (1987-90), Washington DC (1998-2001)
Jakarta (2001-04), and Brussels (2004-07).
At Headquarters he has served as PS to Minister of State in the Ministries ofExternal Affairs, Chemicals and Fertilizers and Department of Electronics(1991-96), as Director (BSM) in Ministry of External Affairs from June 1996
to July 1997 and again as OSD to Minister of State for External Affairs from
July 1997 to April 1998.
In 2007 he was appointed India's Ambassador to Tajikistan (2007-2010) andon his return to New Delhi served as Joint Secretary Trade Policy in the
Ministry of Commerce and Industry (2010-13) where he handled the WTO
and other trade negotiations. He also oversaw India's participation in various
multilateral fora such as UNCTAD, APTA, BIMSTEC, G20, IBSA, BRICS, etc.
In 2013 he was appointed India's Ambassador to Afghanistan (20132016)

After completion of his assignment in Kabul successfully he assumed

the charge of the post of Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry ofExternal Affairs, New Delhi, on January 15, 2016. His portfolio included
relations with all countries in Africa, Gulf and West Asia Region,
Development Partnership, Trade and Investment Promotion and all
multilateral economic work such as BRICS etc. He also served an ex-officio
Director on the Board of EXIM Bank of India. On his retirement from
diplomatic service on 30 June 2017 he has been appointed as a Director on

the Board of Hindustan Petroleum Corporations Ltd, and also serves on the
Board of Barefoot College of India, a not for profit organization.
He joined the RIS as a Distinguished Fellow in November 2017, and has lent
support to several think tanks focused on Afghanistan and other strategic
issues. He also advises Chambers of Commerce on trade and investment
issues. He is an Economics Graduate from Patna University. He speaks Hindi,
English, French and Spanish fluently and is familiar with Dari (Persian). Hisinterests include reading, travel and sports.
Speakers:
J. Jayasiri is the former Secretary General of the
Ministry of International Trade and Industry,
Malaysia. He joined the civil service in December
1981 as Assistant Secretary of International
Affairs, Ministry of Primary Industries dealing
with international commodity issues. He laterassumed the post of First Secretary/Counsellor in
the Permanent Mission of Malaysia in Geneva from 1988 to 1997
representing Malaysia in the Uruguay Round of negotiations to establish the
WTO. He returned to MITI in 1997 and served in various positions. He was
Malaysia’s Senior Official to APEC from 2002 – 2006. He assumed the post of
Deputy Secretary-General, MITI, in charge of strategy and monitoring inJanuary 2015 before serving as the Secretary-General from July 2016 until
his mandatory retirement from civil service in May 2018.
Throughout his career, he represented Malaysia in numerous international
meetings and trade negotiations. He led Malaysia’s team in the ASEANChina FTA, Malaysia-Japan FTA, the TPPA and CPTPP negotiations.

He was also deeply involved in many industry related issues and led theHigh-Level Task Force on the way forward for Malaysia to embrace
Industry 4.0.

Dr. Mignonne Man-jung CHAN has extensive
experience in academia, government, business, andmedia. She is Founder & CEO of Out-of-the-Box
Consultancy, and sits in many Boards, including
Commissioner of the KMT

Party

Review &Disciplinary Commission, Board Member of the
National Policy Research Foundation, Independent
Non-Executive Director of Standard Chartered Bank (Taiwan), Executive
Board Member of Association of Emerging Market Studies, Association ofStrategic Environmental Resources, and the Sino-U.S. Economic & Cultural
Association. In addition, she is also commissioned as Senior Advisor to theLegislative Yuan.
Dr. Chan currently also serves as Advisor to Chinese Taipei APEC Study
Center, and Advisor to the Chinese Cyan Geese Peace Education Foundation.
She is also coaching negotiation regularly at public and private institutions.
Dr. Chan used to serve as KMT Member of the Parliament at-Large and sat
as Chair of the Judicial Committee in 2016. She was Senior Adviser to
President Ma Ying-Jeou at the National Security Council of ROC 2008~2010,
Director General of International Secretariat of Pacific Economic Cooperation
Council (PECC) 1999~2001; Director (Research) at the International
Secretariat of Asia-Pacific Cooperation Council (APEC) 1996~1999, and Chiefof Staff at the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC). In addition, she used
to serve as Research Associate at the Harvard University Negotiation
Roundtable—a consortium organized by Schools of Law, Business, andGovernment. She also served as Research Associate at the Christian Science
Monitor TV.
Education
Ph.D., Political Economy, Boston University, USA
Research Fields
National

Security,

International

Organizations,GlobalGovernance,

International Political Economy, Business & Government Relations, Regional
Economic Integration, Global Business Environment, Cross-Taiwan-Strait
Relations,

Negotiation

Theories&

Practices,andInternational

Parliamentary Procedure.

Murray McLean is Chair, Australia JapanFoundation (since 2012); Chair, Foundation ofAustralian and Japanese Studies (NPO); andChairman of his family company, Dunmore McLean
Pty Ltd. He was a Vice Chancellor’s Professorial
Fellow at Monash University (2012 to 2015) and a
non-resident Fellow at the Lowy Institute 2014-2016.
Formerly a senior officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs
and Trade (DFAT), he retired in 2012 after a 42 year career culminating in
his role as Ambassador to Japan (2004-2011) initiating negotiations on theJapan/Australia EPA and on growing security cooperation as well as leading
Australia’s response to the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters of
2011.
Prior to that role, he served as Deputy Secretary of DFAT (2004); First
Assistant Secretary, North Asia Division (2001-2003), High Commissioner toSingapore (1997-2001); Assistant Secretary, East Asia Branch, (1992-1996),

and Consul General, Shanghai (1987-1992). His other DFAT postings wereat the Australian Embassy in Washington D.C. (1983-1986); the Australian
Embassy in Beijing (twice) (1973-1976 and 1979-1983) and in Hong Kong
(1971-1973). He speaks fluent Chinese. In DFAT, he was consistently
involved in the formulation of Australian policy towards Asia and also
served as a special ministerial envoy on North Korean nuclear mattersvisiting North Korea on several occasions.
He was appointed as an officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in theAustralia Day Honours list 2013 and in November 2014, the JapaneseEmperor presented him with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the RisingSun.

Mr. Nuttawut Laksanapanyakul is a consultant at
Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI),a leading public policy think tank in Thailand. His
expertise lies in the area of international trade,
regional connectivity, and industrial policies. He
has regularly written reports and disseminated key
messages to policy makers and the general publicthrough meetings, seminars, and media on the topics of current interest, forexamples, preference utilization by Thai exporters and importers under the
existing free trade agreements and how to boost it up, ASEAN integrated
and seamless connectivity and trade facilitation, upgrading Thai industries
and their participation in the ASEAN production network in an era ofincreasing protectionism, showcases of innovation in Thailand, and rolesand capabilities of selected research, development, and innovation funding
agencies and business promotion agencies in boosting up technology
investment in Thailand. Graduated from the faculty of engineering, he has apassion for the advancement of technology and its impacts on individuals,

organizations, localities, nations, and even the globe. During the recent
years, he has got a chance to work for Oxfam, a worldwide non‐governmentorganization, where he has been motivated to gear himself up for theinterconnectedness relationships among technology, inequality, and social
movement for the vulnerable.

Simon SC Tay is a public intellectual as well as anadvisor to major corporations and policy-makers.
He is Chairman of the Singapore Institute ofInternational Affairs, the country’s oldest thinktank. The SIIA’s work focuses on the politics,
economic policies and sustainablity issues thatmatter to corporations and policy makers. The SIIA is ranked

by aninternational survey as a leading think tank in ASEAN and Asia, and has
advised the Indonesian and Myanmar governments on foreign investment.
He is concurrently a tenured Associate Professor, teaching international law
at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. He has also taught
at Harvard Law School, the Fletcher School and Yale University. His book,
Asia Alone: the Dangerous Post Crisis Divide from America (Wiley 2010) was
well reviewed in the Economist and Financial Times. His comments andinterviews feature in the international and regonal media, including the BBC,
CNN, Bloomberg, NHK Japan and CCTV.
Prof Tay is also Senior Consultant at WongPartnership, a leading Asian law
firm of some 300 lawyers and with offices in ASEAN, China and the Middle
East. He serves on boards for global companies including MUFG Bank ofJapan and was previously Corporate Advisor to Temasek Holdings (2006-09).
He has spoken at leading business conferences including the World Economic
Forum, APEC CEO Summits and SIBOS, and briefed major corporate boardsand financial institutions.
From 1992 to 2008, he served in a number of public appointments for
Singapore including as Chairman of the National Environment Agency (200208); an independent Member of Parliament (1997-2001); and to coordinate thecountry’s equivalent of the Peace Corps (1990-93). In 2006, Prof Tay received
a National Day Award. He continues to serve Singapore in a number of roles
including as an Expert and Eminent Person in the ASEAN Regional Forum,and on Climate Change.

Session 2 Moderator & Speakers:
Moderator:
Naoyuki Haraoka has been Executive Managing
Director of Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
since 2007. After graduating the University ofTokyo in 1978 (Bachelor of Economics), he joined
MITI (Ministry of International Trade andIndustry) of Japanese government.
Having been posted in the industrial policy section
and the international trade policy section for a few years, he was enrolled ina two year MPA (Master of Public Administration) programme at Woodraw
Wilson School of Princeton University in the US on a Japanese government
sponsorship. After having acquired MPA at Princeton, he rejoined MITI in
1984 as an economist. Since then he had been posted as Deputy Director
and Director of a number of MITI divisions including Research Division ofInternational Trade Policy Bureau. He was also posted in Paris twice,firstly, Principal Economist of Trade Bureau of OECD (Organization of
Economic Cooperation and Development) from 1988 to 92 and secondly
Counselor to Japanese Delegation of OECD from 1996 to 99. After comingback to MITI from his second stay in Paris, at the occasion of thegovernment structural reform in 2001 when MITI was remodeled as METI
(Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry) he joined the efforts to found
METI research institute, Research Institute of Economy Trade and Industry
as its Director of Administration. He became Chief Executive Director of
JETRO San Francisco in 2003 and stayed in San Francisco until 2006. He
was Director-General of METI Training Institute from 2006 until July, 2007
when he left METI permanently.

Speakers:
Dr. Ahn is currently Distinguished Professor,
Graduate School of International Studies, ChungAng University. Previously, he was the Chairman,
Korea Commission for Corporate Partnership(KCCP: 2014-2018) and responsible for inducing
voluntary collaborations between Korea’s big
businesses and SMEs, and also Chairman of theBoard, Korea Electric Power Corporation. Before taking his current post, heserved as Foreign Investment Ombudsman (2006-2014) who is thetroubleshooter responsible for resolving grievances raised by foreign
investors at the Korea Trade and Investment Promotion Agency in Korea.
He is former Chairman of the Presidential Regulatory Reform Committee(2010-2012). While on sabbatical from Chung-Ang University, he also served
several posts such as the President of the Korea Institute for International
Economic Policy (2002-2005); Chair of the APEC Economic Committee(20022005); Chair of Board, Choheung Bank; consultant to the World Bank;UNIDO Chief Technical Advisor to the Economic Planning Unit of Malaysia
to design Malaysia's industrial master plan; and served as President ofseveral academic societies in Korea including the Korea International
Economics Association, Korean Association of Trade and Industry Studies,and the Korea Econometric Society.

Dr. Ahn’s honors include the Economist of the Year Award from the Maeil
Business Daily Newspaper in Korea, the Okita Policy Research Award by
the National Institute for Research Advancement in Japan for his
publication on “Modern East Asian Economy,” and Free Economy
Publication Award by the Federation of Korean Industries. Since receiving
his Ph.D. from Ohio State University, Dr. Ahn has published many articles
in international journals including Review of Economics and Statistics,
European Economic Review, Japanese Economic Review, Journal of Asian
Economics and Monograph papers in North-Holland, Cambridge University
Press, Springer and Edward Elgar, etc.

Anita Prakash is Director General (Policy Design
Department) at the Economic Research Institutefor ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) in Jakarta,
Indonesia. Her key role at ERIA is policy writing
and communication for Leaders and senior officials
in the governments of Southeast Asia, East Asiaand Oceania, and Europe, trade negotiations,political economy, inclusive growth, regional economic architecture,connectivity, and economic and technical cooperation.
She works closely with ASEAN Member states, the East Asia Summit (EAS)
countries in the Asia Pacific Region, and also their counterparts in Europe,and now increasingly in Africa, in their bilateral and multilateral relations.
Her policy writings cover economic development and cooperation issues inSouth East, East Asia and India, and between Asia, Europe and Africa. She
has worked extensively on the trade agreements in Asia Pacific and EU,
economic and technical cooperation for the least developed countries in
ASEAN, and economic and political architecture in East Asia. Her current
work covers Asia’s connectivity with Europe and Africa, and the newinitiatives from emerging economies for multilateral governance. She editedthe ‘Asia Europe Connectivity Vision 2025’ for the ASEM Summit inMongolia in June, 2016. She is developing the study for ‘Asia Africa Growth
Corridor’, and presented its concept report to the Africa Development Bank
Annual Meeting in India, in May 2017. She is also developing the ‘Brussels
Report for Strengthening Asia Europe Connectivity’ for the ASEM Summitin October 2018, in Brussels.
In International Affairs, her focus is on developing new value chains for
multilateral governance, which are inclusive and sustainable and deliver
regional and local results.
She is presently a Visiting Research Associate at the Graduate Institute ofInternational and Development Studies, Geneva.

Gary Hawke was Head of the School ofGovernment and Professor of Economic History at
Victoria University of Wellington. He held visiting
appointments at Stanford University, All Souls’
College, Oxford, the Australian National
University and a number of institutions in Japan.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand,Distinguished Fellow of the NZ Association of Economists and Fellow of theInstitute of Public Administration of New Zealand. He is a Companion of the
New Zealand Order of Merit. He consults for government on education
policy. As Director of the Institute of Policy Studies from 1987 to 1998, theprojects for which he was responsible included relations among Australia,
New Zealand and the United States and New Zealand’s position in the AsiaPacific region. He is a member of the board of the New Zealand Committeeof the Pacific Economic Co-operation Council, NZPECC, a member of the
Academic Advisory Council of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN

and East Asia and represents NZ Institute for Economic Research on its
Research Institutes Network. He is now Emeritus Professor, Victoria
University of Wellington, and Senior Fellow, NZ Institute of Economic
Research.

Prabir De is a Professor at the Research andInformation System for Developing Countries(RIS). He is also the Coordinator of ASEAN-India
Centre (AIC) at RIS. De works in the field ofinternational economics and has research interests
in international trade and development. He was avisiting Fellow of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo; andvisiting Senior Fellow of United Nations Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), Bangkok. He has been conducting
policy research for the Government of India and several internationalorganisations. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Jadavpur University,
Calcutta. He has contributed several research papers in international
journals and written books on trade and development. He is the Editor of
The South Asia Economic Journal, published by Sage.
Specialisation/Research Area: International Economics, Regional
Integration and Cooperation, Trade and Transport Facilitation and Services
Trade.
Shujiro Urata is Dean and Professor of Economics
at Graduate School Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda
University. He is also Specially Appointed Fellow
at the Japanese Centre for Economic Research(JCER), Faculty Fellow at the Research Institute of
Economy, Trade & Industry (RIETI), and SeniorResearch Adviser for the Executive Director of theEconomic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) in Jakarta.
Professor Urata received his B.A. in Economics from Keio University in
1973 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University in 1976
and 1978. He is a former Research Associate at the Brookings Institution,an Economist at the World Bank. He specializes in International Economics
and Economics of Development. He has held a number of research andadvisory positions including senior advisor to the Government of Indonesia,
consultant to the World Bank, OECD, the Asian Development Bank and theGovernment of Japan. He published and edited a number of books oninternational economic issues and is an author and co-author of numerous
articles in professional journals. His book publications in English include
Multinationals and Economic Growth in East Asia, co-editor, Routledge,
2006, Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific, co-editor, World Scientific,
2010, Economic Consequences of Globalization: Evidence from East Asia, coeditor, Routledge, 2012, and others.

Prof. Zhang Jianping is the Director General,
Center for Regional Economic Cooperation andthe Director General, Institute for Western
Asia and Africa，Chinese Academy ofInternational Trade and Economic
Cooperation, MOFCOM. He is also the Vice
President of China’s Research Association ofSocial and Economic System, and the PhD
adviser of the University of International Business and Economics, themember of China National committee of PECC, China Council for the
Promotion of International Trade, Chinese People's Institute of Foreign
Affairs and Chinese Association for international Understanding, thecommentator of CCTV, Phoenix TV, CRI and CNR. He specializes inInternational Economics. He has chaired more than 60 study projects andoffered international consultancy many times for UN, WB, ADB, APEC,DAVOS and so on including consultancy for the Vice Premier of Russia on
2012 APEC Agenda. Invited by the State Council information office of the
PRC he had introduced the Belt and Road Initiative to the media circle andin 2015 and BRICS in 2017. He presented in ICTSD, CSIS, Adam Smith,
ADBI and so on many times. More than 100 papers and 4 books have been
published. He has awarded the third-class academic prizes of Ministry Level
five times and the first-class prizes (2008-2010) in Chinese Academy ofMacro Economics Research three times. He obtained the Bachelor Degree
and the Master Degree in Science from Peking University, PhD in
Economics from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was also the post
doctor of National information Center, China.

Session 3 Moderator & Speakers:
Moderator: Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi is Director General at the Research andInformation System for Developing Countries (RIS)

Speakers:
Josef T. Yap was President of the Philippine Institute for Development
Studies, where he worked for 26 years until his
retirement on June 30, 2013. While at PIDS, he
specialized in macroeconomic policy and applied
econometrics. Dr. Yap finished his undergraduate anddoctoral studies at the University of the Philippines
Diliman and went to the University of Pennsylvania
on a post-graduate program. In 2010, Dr. Yap was honored as one of the 100
outstanding alumni of the UP Diliman College of Engineering as part of its
Centennial celebration. His current research interest centers on regional
economic integration in East Asia. Dr. Yap was the regional coordinator of
the East Asian Development Network and was actively involved in theestablishment of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
(ERIA). He is co-author of the books The Philippine Economy: East Asia's

Stray Cat? Structure, Finance and Adjustment and Lessons from
Nationalist Struggle: The Life of Emmanuel Quiason Yap. At present, Dr.
Yap is a Professorial Lecturer at the University of the Philippines School of
Economics.

Dr. Vo Tri Thanh is currently senior expert of theCentral Institute for Economic Management(CIEM). He is also Chairman of Vietnam National
Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation(VNCPEC). He holds a Bachelor of Science from
the Moscow State University, and a Master degree
in Economics and a PhD degree in Economics bothfrom the Australian National University. Dr. Vo Tri Thanh mainly
undertakes research and provides consultation on issues related to tradeliberalization and international economic integration and macroeconomic
policies. His other areas of interests include institutional reforms, financial
system and economic development.

Yose Rizal Damuri is the Head of the Departmentof Economics, Centre for Strategic andInternational Studies. His research activities
focus on international trade, regional integrationand globalization of value chain. Yose has beenteaching International Economics courses in the
Department of Economics University of Indonesia

for many years.
He is active in many networks of research institutes in East Asia region,such as in Asia Pacific Research Network on Trade (ARTNet) and ERIA
Research Institute Network (ERIA-RIN). Currently he serves as the CoChair of Indonesia National Committee of Pacific Economic Cooperation(INCPEC). Yose is active in many policy forum including as the Research
Coordinator of Indonesia Service Dialogue, a forum dedicated for thedevelopment of services sector in Indonesia. He also helps the Indonesian
government as an Advisor to Indonesian Trade Negotiating Team. He
received his PhD in International Economics from the Graduate Institute ofInternational Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
 Ph.D. in International Economics from the Graduate Institute ofInternational Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
 Head of the Department of Economics, Centre for Strategic andInternational Studies
 Lecturer at the Fakultas Ekonomi dan Bisnis, Universitas Indonesia
 Founder of Indonesia Services Dialogue (ISD) Co-chair of Indonesia National Committee of Pacific Economic Council(INCPEC)