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Masakazu Toyoda currently serves as Chairman and CEO of
the Japan Economic Foundation (JEF), as well as Special
Advisor to the Institute of Energy Economics of Japan; an
Adjunct Professor at Japan’s National Graduate Institute for
Policy Studies (GRIPS); and Director of the PacificInternational Center for High Technology Research. He is theformer Chairman and CEO of the Institute of Energy
Economics (2010-2021); served also for nearly a decade on
both the Board of Governors of the Oxford Institute of Energy
Studies (2012-2021); and the International Advisory Board
Masakazu TOYODA Council of the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and ResearchCenter (KAPSARC) in Saudi Arabia (2011-2019). During his
Chairman & CEO,distinguished government career, he served in numerous key
Japan Economic Foundation
positions within the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industryof Japan culminating in his service as Vice Minister for(JEF)
International Affairs (2007-2008). He also subsequently
served as Secretary General of the Secretariat for Space Policy
in Japan’s Cabinet Secretariat. Mr. Toyoda holds a Master of
Public Affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs at Princeton University(1979), and an undergraduate Bachelor of Law degree fromthe University of Tokyo (1973).

Naoyuki YOSHINO
Professor Emeritus,
Faculty of Economics,
Keio University

Director of Financial
Research Center (FSA
Institute, Government ofJapan)

Naoyuki Yoshino: Professor Emeritus of Keio University inTokyo Japan, Visiting Professor at GRIPS and Director of
Financial Research Center (FSA Institute, Government ofJapan). Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University (where his thesis
supervisor was Sir Alan Walters (UK Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher’s Economic Adviser)). Assistant Professor of State
University of New York, Visiting scholar at MIT (USA), Visiting
Scholar at the Central Bank of Japan, Visiting Professor at theUniv. of New South Wales (Australia), Fondation Nationale desSciences Politiques (France). He received Honorary
Doctorates from Univ. of Gothenburg (Sweden) and Martin
Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). He wasconferred Fukuzawa award from Keio University for his
contribution to research. He was chairing Financial System
Council under Prime Minister and Foreign exchange council
under Finance Minister of Japan. He is currently chairing
Financial education council under the Central Bank of Japanand Financial Services Agency, Government of Japan. He was
the Dean/CEO of Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) in
Tokyo (2014-2020).

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Naoyuki Haraoka was born in Tokyo in 1955. After
graduating the University of Tokyo in 1978 (Bachelor of
Economics), he joined MITI (Ministry of International Tradeand Industry) of Japanese government. Having been posted in
the industrial policy section and the international trade policy
section for a few years, he was enrolled in a 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
Naoyuki HARAOKA then he had been posted as Deputy Director and Director of anumber of MITI divisions including Research Division of
Executive Managing
International Trade Policy Bureau. He was also posted in Paris
Director,
twice, firstly, Principal Economist of Trade Bureau of OECD
Japan Economic Foundation (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development)from 1988 to 92 and secondly Counselor to Japanese
Delegation of OECD from 1996 to 99. After coming back to(JEF)
MITI from his second stay in Paris, at the occasion of thegovernment 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 and joined JEF as Executive Managing
Director.

Prof. ZHANG
Yunling

Director,
Chinese Academy of Social
Science

Zhang Yunling, Director of Chinese Academy of Social Science(CASS); Chair Professor, President of Institute forInternational Studies, Shandong University. He was Director ofInternational Studies, Director of Institute of Asia-PacificStudies, CASS, Member of East Asia Vision Group, Chairman of
Joint Expert Group for Feasibility Study on EAFTA; Executive
Chairman of China-Republic of Korea Joint Expert Committee;
Member of China-Japan 21st Century Friendship Commission(2003-2008). Member of National Committee of Chinese
Political
Consultant
Conference(2002-2018.3).Latest
Publication: China and Asia Regionalism (English), China andWorld: New change, understanding and Identification(Chinese), Seeking a benign relationship between China andthe world (Chinese)，Between the Ideal and Reality-Thinkingof East Asian cooperation (Chinese ， English, Korean) ，Centrally grand change: world and China.

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Ms. Anita PRAKASH
Senior Policy Advisor forInternational Economic
Cooperation
Economic ResearchInstitute for ASEAN andEast Asia (ERIA)

Anita Prakash is Senior Policy Advisor for International
Economic Cooperation in the Office of President of Economic
Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), Jakarta,
Indonesia.
Her Key role at ERIA is policy research and policy
development for leaders and senior officials of ASEAN, East
Asia and Oceania, Europe and Africa. Her policy researchcovers international trade relations with special focus on
trade and investment, GVCs and supply chain connectivity inSoutheast Asia, East Asia, and between Asia-Europe and AsiaAfrica. Her current research focus is on emerging economicarchitecture and supply chains in the Indo-Pacific.
She provides policy and research support for bilateral andmultilateral processes between ASEAN and its Dialogue
Partners, the Trade Ministers meetings in ASEAN, the East
Asia Summit, the Asia-Europe Meeting, and the G20.
Prior to her work at ERIA, she served as Director in the
Government of India in the Department of Commerce and NITI
Aayog. She was a Visiting Research Associate at the Graduate
Institute, Geneva from 2016 to 2019.
Her latest work in 2021 are the studies on ‘GVCs andInvestments: Changing Dynamics in Asia’ and ‘UK-ASEAN
Trade: Strengthening the Supply Chain Linkages.’ She iscurrently writing on ‘Regional Integration and New Supply
Chain Linkages in Indo-Pacific.
She is an alumni of Delhi University (M.Phil) and Australian
National University (MBA).

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Prof. Sachin
CHATURVEDI

Director General,
Research and Information
System for Developing
countries (RIS)Dr. Yose Rizal
DAMURI
Executive Director,
Centre for Strategic andInternational Studies(CSIS)

Prof. Sachin Chaturvedi is currently Director General at the
Research and Information System for Developing Countries(RIS), a New Delhi-based Think-Tank. He works on issues
related to development economics, involving development
finance, SDGs and South-South Cooperation, apart from trade,investment and innovation linkages with special focus on
WTO. Currently he is Vice Chairman of Madhya Pradesh State
Policy and Planning Commission and Vice Chairman, Atal
Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy
Analysis; and Member, Board of Governors, Reserve Bank ofIndia. He was Global Justice Fellow at the MacMillan Center forInternational Affairs at Yale University; Developing Country
Fellow at the University of Amsterdam (1996); Visiting Fellow
at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla (2003); andVisiting Scholar at the German Development Institute (2007).
He has served as a Visiting Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru
University (JNU) and has been closely associated with the UN
Food and Agricultural Organization, World Bank, UN-ESCAP,UNESCO, OECD and many other agencies.
His book “The Logic of Sharing – Indian Approach to SouthSouth Cooperation” has been acclaimed internationally as oneof the best volumes on international development
cooperation. Apart from this he has authored/edited 21 otherbooks, apart from contributing several chapters in the edited
volumes and publishing several research articles inprestigious journals.
Yose Rizal Damuri is the Executive Director, Centre forStrategic and International Studies. His research activities
focus on international trade, regional integration andglobalization of value chain. He also maintains a keen interestin examining the political economy aspects of international
economic governance and the multilateral trading system.
Yose has authored numerous academic articles on thesesubjects and is currently directing his attention toward theimplications of major power rivalries on the global andregional economic landscape. He received his PhD in
International Economics from the Graduate Institute ofInternational Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
He is active in many networks of research institutes in East
Asia, such as in Asia Pacific Research Network on Trade(ARTNet) and ERIA Research Institute Network (ERIA-RIN)
and Think 20, the think tank network of G20 countries.
Currently he serves as the Co-Chair of Indonesia National
Committee of Pacific Economic Cooperation (INCPEC). Yose isalso active in various policy forums in Indonesia, including as
the Founder of Indonesia Service Dialogue, a forum dedicatedfor the development of services sector in Indonesia.
• Executive Director, Centre for Strategic andInternational Studies• Executive Co-chair of T20 Indonesia 2022 and Advisor

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Prof. Shujiro
URATA

Professor Emeritus,
Waseda University

Dr. Alan Bollard
Professor,
Pacific Region Business,
Victoria University of
Wellington

to G20 Indonesia Committee
Co-chair of Indonesia National Committee of Pacific
Economic Council (INCPEC)Founder of Indonesia Services Dialogue (ISD)
Founder of Indonesia Bureau of Economic Research(IBER)

Shujiro Urata is Professor Emeritus, Waseda University. He
was Professor of International Economics, Graduate School
Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University.
He is currently
Faculty Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Tradeand Industry (RIETI), Specially Appointed Fellow at theJapanese Centre for Economic Research (JCER), SeniorResearch Advisor, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN andEast Asia (ERIA), Visiting Fellow, Asian Development Bank
Institute (ADBI) and Distinguished Senior Fellow at theInstitute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO). Professor
Urata received his BA in Economics from Keio University, MA
and Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. He is aformer Research Associate at the Brookings Institution, an
Economist at the World Bank. He specializes in International
Economics and Economics of Development. He has held anumber of research and advisory positions including senioradvisor to the Government of Indonesia, consultant to theWorld Bank, OECD, the Asian Development Bank and theGovernment of Japan. He has published a number of books
and articles on international economic issues. His recent
books include Achieving Inclusive Growth in the Asia Pacific,
co-editor, Australian National University Press, 2020,
Enhancing SME Participation in Global Value Chains, editor,
Asian Development Bank Institute, 2021, The Effect ofGlobalisation on Firm and Labour Performance, co-editor,
Routledge, 2021, and Globalization and Its Economic
Consequences: Looking at APEC Economies, co-editor. Routledge,
2021
Alan Bollard (CNZM; PhD Auck; FRSNZ) is a Professor ofPacific Region Business at Victoria University of Wellington,
and inaugural Chair for Pacific Region Business.
Alan is also the Chair of the Infrastructure Commission, Chairof the university-consortium Centres for Asia-PacificExcellence, and Chair of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery. He
is NZ Governor of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN
and East Asia. He is a Director of China Construction Bank
(NZ). He is also Chair of the NZ Pacific Economic Cooperation
Council.
Previously, Alan was the Director of the New Zealand Instituteof Economic Research 1987-1994; Chairman of the New
Zealand Commerce Commission from 1994 to 1998; and was
the Secretary to the Treasury between 1998 and 2020.

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Between 2002 and 2012 Alan was the Governor of the Reserve
Bank of New Zealand, responsible for monetary policy andbank regulation, helping steer New Zealand through the global
financial crisis. Bollard became the Executive Director of the
APEC Secretariat based in Singapore, the world’s largest
regional body that promotes trade, investment andsustainable growth in the Asia-Pacific, serving from 2012 to2018. He was on the Organising Committee for NZ APEC 2021.
He wrote a best-selling account of the GFC called Crisis: One
Central Bank Governor and the Global Financial Collapse. He
has published several novels: The Rough Mechanical and The
Code-cracker and the Tai Chi Dancer. He has also written abiography of famous economist Bill Phillips, and a popular
economics book Economists at War. A sequel, Economists in theCold War, is due out shortly.
In 2012 he was honoured as a Companion of the New ZealandOrder of Merit. He is a Fellow of the NZ Royal Society. He also
has honorary doctorate degrees from the University of
Auckland and Massey University.

Dr. Josef T. YAP
Senior Research Fellow,
Ateneo School ofGovernment

Josef T. Yap was President of the Philippine Institute forDevelopment Studies, where he worked for 26 years until his
retirement on June 30, 2013. While at PIDS, he specialized inmacroeconomic policy and applied econometrics. Dr. Yap
finished his undergraduate and doctoral 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 centerson regional economic integration in East Asia and promoting
energy security in the Philippines. 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). From 2019
– 2022 Dr. Yap was Senior Technical Advisor to the ASEPCELLs Project (Access to Sustainable Energy Program, Clean
Energy Living Laboratories) which was implemented under
the auspices of the European Union and the Ateneo School ofGovernment (ASoG). He is currently a Senior Research Fellow
in ASoG. Dr. Yap is co-author of the books The Philippine
Economy: East Asia's Stray Cat? Structure, Finance andAdjustment and Lessons from Nationalist Struggle: The Lifeof Emmanuel Quiason Yap.

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Datuk Seri Jayasiri
JAYASENA
former Secretary General,
Ministry of International
Trade and Industry

Trade and Industry, Malaysia. He joined the civil service inDecember 1981 as Assistant Secretary of International Affairs,
Ministry of Primary Industries dealing with internationalcommodity issues. He later assumed 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. Heassumed the post of Deputy Secretary-General, MITI, in chargeof strategy and monitoring in January 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 ASEAN-China FTA, Malaysia-Japan FTA,
the TPPA and CPTPP negotiations.
He was also deeply involved in many industry related issues
and led the High-Level Task Force on the way forward for
Malaysia to embrace Industry 4.0.

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Mr. Manu
BHASKARAN

CEO,
Centennial
Asia Advisors Pte Ltd

Mr. Bhaskaran is a Partner of the Centennial Group, astrategic advisory firm headquartered in Washington, DC. As
Founding CEO of its Singapore subsidiary Centennial Asia
Advisors, he coordinates the Asian business of the Group
which provides independent economic research on Asianpolitical and macroeconomic trends for investment
institutions, government agencies, multilateral institutions
and companies with interests in Asia, leveraging off 40 yearsof studying Asia.
Mr. Bhaskaran is also Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at theInstitute of Policy Studies in Singapore where his maininterests are in analyzing macroeconomic policy frameworksin Singapore.
Prior to Centennial, Mr. Bhaskaran held senior positions at
Société Générale’s Asian investment banking division where
he supervised Asian economic and investment strategy
analysis and was a member of the Executive Committee, incharge of Asian equity research. In 12 years with the firm, Mr.
Bhaskaran helped to establish its business presence inSoutheast Asia and in South Asia, while also helping todevelop the firm’s highly-rated equity and economic research.
Prior to that, Mr. Bhaskaran worked for the Singapore
government, supervising a team that prepared strategic
political and economic assessments of Asia for seniorSingapore government officials.
Mr. Bhaskaran holds a range of other positions. In terms of
public service, he served as Chairman of a high-levelgovernment committee reviewing the regulation ofmoneylenders in Singapore in 2014–2015. He also served as a
Member of the Competition Appeals Board, Singapore forseveral years until August 2023. In addition, he is a Member ofthe Regional Advisory Board for Asia of the International
Monetary Fund; Council Member, Singapore Institute ofInternational Affairs (SIIA); Vice-President, Economics Societyof Singapore; and an advisor to the Asia Foundation.
Mr. Bhaskaran also serves on the boards of several companies
whose businesses span the ASEAN region including CIMB
Investment Bank (a subsidiary of CIMB Bank, Malaysia’s
second largest bank and which operates across ASEAN), Japfa
Ltd (listed in Singapore) and Luminor Capital.
Mr. Bhaskaran was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge
University where he earned an MA (Cantab) and at the John F.
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where
he obtained a Masters in Public Administration. He is also a
Chartered Financial Analyst.

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Dr. Prof. AHN
Choong Yong
Distinguished Professor,
Graduate School ofInternational Studies,
Chung-Ang University

Dr. Ahn is currently Distinguished Professor at the Graduate
School of International Studies, Chung-Ang University Seoul.
He is former Co-Chair of the Korea-India Strategic Dialogue
organized by the Seoul International Forum. Previously, he
was Chairman, Korea Commission for Corporate Partnership(KCCP: 2014-2018) to induce voluntary collaborations
between Korea’s big businesses and SMEs, and also Chairmanof the Board, Korea Electric Power Corporation. Before taking
the KCCP post, he served as presidentially appointed Foreign
Investment Ombudsman (2006-2014) for foreign direct
investors in Korea. He is also 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(2002-2005); Chair ofBoard, 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; andserved as President of several academic societies in Korea
including the Korea International Economics Association,
Korean Association of Trade and Industry Studies, and the
Korea Econometric Society. He was also a visiting professor to
Economic Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan. 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 theFederation of Korean Industries. Since receiving his Ph.D. from
Ohio State University, Dr. Ahn has published many articles ininternational journals including Review of Economics andStatistics, European Economic Review, Japanese Economic
Review, Journal of Asian Economics, Global Asia, andMonograph papers in North-Holland, Cambridge University
Press, Springer, Edward Elgar, Palgrave Macmillan, Iwanami
Shoten of Japan, Peking University Press, etc. His most recent
book is South Korea and Foreign Direct Investment: Policy
Dynamics and the Aftercare Ombudsman, published by
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Dr. Somkiat Tangkitvanich obtained his PhD in Computer
Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has beenrecognized as a leading Thai expert in the areas of trade andinvestment policies, innovation policy, education policy and
ICT policy. He was a main architect of Thai PBS, the first public
television in Southeast Asia, and many media laws in Thailand.
Under his leadership, TDRI was nominated “Person of theYear” in 2012 by the Bangkok Post.

Dr. Somkiat
TANGKITVANICH
President, Thailand
Development ResearchInstitute (TDRI)

Amb. Murray
McLEAN

Chairman,Dunmore McLean Pty Ltd

Murray McLean is Chair, Foundation of Australian andJapanese Studies (NPO); a Fellow of the Australian Institutefor International Affairs (since 2018); and Chairman of his
family company, Dunmore McLean Pty Ltd. He was Chair,
Australia Japan Foundation (2012-2020); a Vice Chancellor’s
Professorial Fellow at Monash University (2012-2015) and a
non-resident Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International
Policy (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 the Japan/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 (20012003), High Commissioner to Singapore (1997-2001);
Assistant Secretary, East Asia Branch, (1992-1996), andConsul General, Shanghai (1987-1992). His other DFAT
postings were at 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).
In DFAT, he was consistently involved in the formulation ofAustralian policy towards Asia and also served as a special
ministerial envoy on North Korean nuclear matters visiting
North Korea on several occasions.
He was appointed as an officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
in the Australia Day Honours list 2013 and in November 2014,
the Japanese Emperor presented him with the Grand Cordonof the Order of the Rising Sun.

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Daw Khine Khine
Nwe

Ms. Khine Khine Nwe (Rosaline) is the first elected female
Secretary General (SG) of the Republic of the Union of
Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry(UMFCCI) since its establishment in 1919 and also theSecretary General of Myanmar Garment Manufacturers’
Association (MGMA). She heads Responsible Business andNatural Resources Development Committee in UMFCCI andalso is a Trustee on the Board of ASEAN CSR Network. She is
Advisor to Myanmar Institute of Directors (MIOD), to
Myanmar Women Entrepreneurs Association and Patron of
Myanmar Women Entrepreneurs Network. She is also on the
Board of UNGC Network Myanmar and is active in Industrial
Relations and has been attending International Labor
Conference (Geneva) as Employers’ Delegate since 2011.

Secretary General,
The Republic of the Unionof Myanmar Federation of
Chambers of Commerce and She holds her Master’s Degree from Yangon University,
Industry
Myanmar and taught at Assumption University in Bangkok,
Thailand. She is now Chairman of Myanmar Garment Human
Resource Development Center (MGHRDC) and Honorary
Principal of UMFCCI Training Institute. She is a member ofAccreditation and Certification Committee of National Skill
Standard Authorities (NSSA) and is also the Chairman of
Manufacturing Sectorial Competency Standard Committee of
National Skill Standard Authorities (NSSA). She represented
private business sector and became a member of the National
Accreditation and Quality Assurance Committee (NAQAC)
from 2016 to 2021, Ministry of Education.
She is a successful business woman leading Best Industrial Co.,
Ltd, a garment manufacturing company as a Managing
Director. Her passion is to help develop an inclusive sociofriendly economic environment in Myanmar that will lead tosustainable, equitable growth and prosperity of the Nation.
Dr. Mignonne Man-jung CHAN has extensive experience inthe academia, government, business, and media. Dr. China is
Deputy Director & Research Associate, Taiwan C enter for
Security Studies, National Chengchi University. She is also
Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of the Forum on Humanities, a
top-notch cross-strait bilateral business forum, as well as CSO
of Healthy Asia, a region-wide company that flagships AI
technology,
medi-caremanagement
expertise,andcomprehensive medical humanity. Furthermore, she sits inBoards, including Chinese Taipei PECC (PacificDr. Mignonne Man- many
Economic Cooperation Council) Committee; and of the Sinojung CHAN
U.S. Economic & Cultural Association. In addition, she is also
Deputy Director & Research commissioned as Senior Advisor to the Legislative Yuan.
Fellow, Taiwan Center for
Dr. Chan currently also serves as Advisor to the KMT Party
Security Studies
think tank, National Policy Research Foundation; Chinese
Taipei APEC Study Center at Taiwan Institute of Economic
Research; and Advisor to the Chinese Cyan Geese Peace
Education Foundation. She is also coaching a special inter-

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college negotiation program commissioned by the Ministry of
Education.

Dr. VO Tri Thanh
Chairman of Vietnam
National Committee for
Pacific Economic
Cooperation (VNCPEC)

Dr. Vo Tri Thanh is former Vice-president of the Central
Institute for Economic Management (CIEM). He is currently
Chairman of Vietnam National Committee for Pacific Economic
Cooperation (VNCPEC) and a member of the National
Financial and Monetary Policy Advisory Council. He is also
Director of Institute for Brand and Competitiveness Strategy(BCSI). He holds a Bachelor of Science from the Moscow State
University, and a Master degree in Economics and a PhD
degree in Economics both from the Australian National
University.
Dr. Vo Tri Thanh mainly undertakes research and provides
consultation on issues related to trade liberalization,international economic integration and macroeconomic
policies. His other areas of interests include institutional
reforms, financial system and economic development.