5．略 歴

Tan Sri Rastam Mohd Isa was appointed Chairman of theInstitute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia on
9 January 2015. Since 1 January 2014, he has also served as Chief
Executive of ISIS Malaysia. He holds a Bachelor of Social Science(Hons) degree from Universiti Sains Malaysia, a Master of Arts
degree in International Relations and Strategic Studies from the
University of Lancaster and a Certificate of Diplomacy from the
University of Oxford.
Tan Sri Rastam spent more than 36 years in the Malaysian diplomatic service. He
served in various capacities at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Malaysian
diplomatic missions abroad, including as High Commissioner of Malaysia to
Pakistan, Ambassador of Malaysia to Bosnia Herzegovina, Ambassador of Malaysia
to the Republic of Indonesia and Permanent Representative of Malaysia to theUnited Nations in New York. He was Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs from 8 January 2006 until he officially retired from public service on 2
September 2010. Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive of ISIS Malaysia, he
was Advisor at the Chief Minister’s Department in Sarawak. He serves as chairmanof the board of directors of one Malaysian public listed company. He also sits asdirector on the board of two other companies.
Tan Sri Rastam is Chairman of the Malaysian National Committee for the Pacific
Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) and Chairman of the Malaysian National
Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP).
Tan Sri Rastam has received Federal and State awards and decorations namely, thePanglima Setia Mahkota (PSM), SSAP, PJN, SIMP, DIMP, KMN and AMN. He is also arecipient of the DSLJ from His Majesty the Sultan of Brunei Darussalam. He ismarried to Puan Sri Norizan Sulaiman. They have three children.

Kazumasa Kusaka
Chairman and CEO
Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
Mr. Kazumasa Kusaka has been Chairman and CEO of the Japan
Economic Foundation (JEF) since April 1, 2013 and is also a
Professor at University of Tokyo Graduate School of Public Policy.
He previously served for 36 years in Japan’s Ministry of International Trade andIndustry (MITI), rising to become vice-minister for international affairs in the
reorganized Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in 2004. During hislong career in public service, Kusaka was seconded to the International 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 theDoha development agenda of the WTO. He was head of Japan’s Energy Agency andheld director-general positions in technology and environmental policy in addition
to trade and investment-related 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.

Ong Kian Ming is Deputy Minister of International Trade andIndustry (MITI) for Malaysia. He is also the Member ofParliament for Bangi (since May 2018) and Assistant National
Director for Political Education for the Democrat Action party(DAP). He was formerly the Member of Parliament for Serdang(2013-2018). A former Fulbright Scholar, he holds a PhD in
Political Science form Duke University, an MPhil in Economics
from the University of Cambridge and a BSc in Economics from the London Schoolof Economics. Prior to his political life, he was formerly a lecturer at UCSI
University, a researcher at the Scio-Ecoomic Development and Research (SEDAR)
Institute and the Institute of Strategic Analysis and Policy Research (INSAP), and a
consultant with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Kuala Lumpur.

Dr. Josef T. Yap
Senior Technical Advisor, ASEP-CELLs Project
Ateneo School of Government
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 andwent 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 ofEngineering as part of its Centennial celebration. His current research interest
centers on regional economic integration in East Asia and promoting energy
security in the Philippines. Dr. Yap was the regional coordinator of the East AsianDevelopment Network and was actively involved in the establishment of the
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). He is co-author of thebooks The Philippine Economy: East Asia's Stray Cat? Structure, Finance andAdjustment and Lessons from Nationalist Struggle: The Life of Emmanuel Quiason
Yap. At present, Dr. Yap is Senior Technical Advisor to the ASEP-CELLs Project(Access to Sustainable Energy Program, Clean Energy Living Laboratories) which is
being implemented under the auspices of the European Union and the Ateneo
School of Government.Dr. Prof. Ahn, Choong-yong
Distinguished Professor
Graduate School of International Studies
Chung-Ang University

Prof. Shujiro Urata
Professor of Economics
Graduate School Asia-Pacific Studies
Waseda University
Shujiro Urata is 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), SeniorResearch Adviser for the Executive Director of the Economic Research Institute for
ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) in Jakarta, and Visiting Fellow at the AsianDevelopment Bank Institute. 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 andEconomics of Development. He has held a number of research and advisory
positions including senior advisor to the Government of Indonesia, consultant to
the World Bank, OECD, the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Japan.
He published and edited a number of books on international economic issues and is
an author and co-author of numerous articles in professional journals. His recent
book publications in English include Emerging Global Trade Governance, co-editor,
Routledge, 2018, East Asian Integration, co-editor, Routledge, 2019 and others.

Dr. Man-jung Mignonne Chan
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer
Forum on Humanities
Dr. Man-jung Mignonne CHAN has extensive experience inacademia, government, business consultancy, and media. She iscurrently Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer in the Forum on
Humanities (人文薈), and sits in many Boards, including Commissioner of the KMTParty 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 of Strategic Environmental Resources, and the Sino-U.S.
Economic & Cultural Association. In addition, she is also commissioned as Senior
Advisor to the Legislative Yuan.
Dr. Chan currently also serves as Advisor to Chinese Taipei APEC Study Center, andAdvisor to the Chinese Cyan Geese Peace Education Foundation. She is alsocoaching negotiation regularly at public and private institutions.
Dr. Chan used to serve as KMT Member of the Parliament at-Large and sat as Chairof 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 ofInternational Secretariat of Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC)
1999~2001; Director (Research) at the International Secretariat of Asia-PacificCooperation Council (APEC) 1996~1999, and Chief of 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

Prof. Gary Hawke
Emeritus Professor
Victoria University of Wellington
Gary Hawke was Head of the School of Government and Professorof 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 the Institute of Public Administration of
New Zealand. He is a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. He consults forgovernment on education policy. As Director of the Institute of Policy Studies from1987 to 1998, the projects for which he was responsible included relations among
Australia, New Zealand and the United States and New Zealand’s position in the
Asia-Pacific region. He is a member of the board of the New Zealand Committee of
the Pacific Economic Co-operation Council, NZPECC, a member of the Academic
Advisory Council of the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia andrepresents 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.

Dr. Wisarn Pupphavesa
Senior Advisor
Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI)
Dr. Wisarn Pupphavesa is currently Senior Advisor and Research
Director on International Trade and Development Policy atThailand Development Research Institute (since 2005). He wasformer Dean of the School of Development Economics (1996-2002), Director ofCenter for International Economics and Development Studies (2002-2005) andAssistant Professor (1983-2005) at the National Institute of Development
Administration. Earlier, he was Economist at Asian Development Bank (1980-1983)
and Consultant, ASEAN-MTN Project at UN-ESCAP (1978-1980).
Dr. Wisarn Pupphavesa has been appointed to various important posts andfunctions such as Member of the Subcommittee on Research (2006-2016),
Chairman of the Subcommittee on Development of Transparency Index for
Government Agencies (2010-2013) and Member of the Subcommittee on
Development and Supervision of Integrity and Transparency Assessment ofGovernment Agencies (2018-pressent), all under the National Anti-Corruption
Commission, Director of Export-Import Bank of Thailand (2007-2008) and Memberof the Subcommittee on Dumping and Subsidy Investigation (2001- 2008). He wasalso an Honorary Advisor to Minister of Commerce (2006-2007), Member of theCouncil of Economic Advisors to the Prime Minister (2001-2005), Member of theInternational Economic Policy Committee (1997-2003), Member (Thailand’s
Representative) of the High Level Task Force on ASEAN-CER FTA (1999-2000) and

Dr. Vo Tri Thanh
Chairman
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 andmacroeconomic policies. His other areas of interests include institutional reforms,
financial system and economic development.

Tham Siew Yean is Senior Fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute,Singapore. She was formerly Director and Professor ofInternational Trade at Institute of Malaysian and International
Studies (IKMAS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Her researchinterests cover trade in goods and services as well as foreign
direct investment (FDI), including BRI projects from China in
Malaysia. She has served as a consultant with national agencies
such as Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) Malaysia, andinternational agencies including World Bank, World Bank Institute, AsianDevelopment Bank and Asian Development Bank Institute. She has publishedextensively on trade-related issues in books and journals such as Journal ofContemporary Asia, Emerging Markets, Finance and Trade, Asian Economic Paneland Prague Economic Papers, besides co-editing several books by international
publishing houses.

Dr. Zhong Feiteng
Head and Professor
National Institute of International Strategy
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
Professor Zhong Feiteng received his Ph.D. (2009) ininternational relations from the Waseda University as well as the
Peking University. He used to work at the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences since 2009. He is now senior research fellow, professor,
and head of Department of Great Power Relations Studies, National Institute ofInternational Strategy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is the author ofDevelopmental Security: China Rise and Regional Order Reconstruction (China Social
Sciences Press, 2017) and Managing Investment Liberalization: the Political
Economy of Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in the United States,
1985-1993(Social Sciences Academic Press, 2011). Dr. Zhong has advanced
academic research centered on international political economy, China’s
international economic policy, enery security and maritime security issues, andChina’s foreign policy. He published more than 40 articles in Chinese leading
journals. Dr. Zhong also touches on policy-oriented research work and involves
various research programms initiated by the Chinese central government. Duringpast five years, he visited more than ten countries and regions to participate
international conferences. He occasionaly contributes commentary pieces to China
Daily, China Social Sciences Today and East Asia Forum. He could be reached atzhongft@cass.org.cn.

Amb. Murray McLean AO
ChairmanDunmore McLean Pty Ltd.
Murray McLean is Chair, Australia Japan Foundation (since2012); Chair, Foundation of Australian and Japanese Studies(NPO); a Fellow of the Australian Institute for International
Affairs (since 2018); and Chairman 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 asAmbassador 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 (2001-2003), High Commissioner to Singapore(1997-2001); Assistant Secretary, East Asia Branch, (1992-1996), and Consul
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). He speaks
fluent Chinese. 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 Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun.

Datuk Seri Jayasiri Jayasena
Former Secretary General
Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), Malaysia
Datuk Seri J.Jayasiri is the former Secretary General, Ministry ofInternational Trade and Industry, Malaysia. He joined the civil
service in December 1981 as Assistant Secretary ofInternational 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. He assumed the post of Deputy Secretary-General, MITI, in
charge of strategy and monitoring in January 2015 before serving as the
Secretary-General from July 2016 until his retirement from civil service in May
2018. On 15 August 2019 he was appointed as a member of the Public Services
Commission.
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. He is also astrong advocate of Good Regulatory Practice.

Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:

22 August 1957
Selangor, Malaysia

Qualifications:i) Dip. In Public Administration, National Institute of Public Administrationii) B.A (Hons), Universiti Malaya

Anita Prakash
Director, Policy Relations
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
Anita Prakash is Director, Policy Relations, at the Economic
Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) in Jakarta,

Indonesia. Her key role at ERIA is policy research and policy development forleaders and senior officials of ASEAN, East Asia and Oceania, Europe and Africa. Her
policy research expertise is economic and strategic connectivity in the Indo-Pacificregion, covering Asia, Europe and Africa. She covers policy issues on economic
integration in East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia, converging the connectivity
programmes in Indo-Pacific, multilateralism and global governance, sustainable
development, trade and economic cooperation, global value chains andindustrialization in developing Asia and Africa.
She provides policy and research support for bilateral and multilateral cooperation
programmes between ASEAN and its Dialogue Partners, the East Asia Summit (EAS)
countries, and their counterparts in Europe and Africa. She also supports theworkings of the Ministerial meetings in ASEAN, East Asia Summit, Asia-Europe
Meeting, and to the T 20 and Sherpa process in G20.
She has worked extensively on the ASEAN-India free trade agreements and theRegional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). She developed the vision
document for ‘Asia Africa Growth Corridor’ which was presented in the Africa
Development Bank Annual Meeting in India, in May 2017. In 2018, she wrote the“Brussels Report on Asia Europe Connectivity” for the 12th ASEM Summit. She also
developed the report on “ASEAN-Russia economic cooperation framework” for the
ASEAN-Russia meeting in 2018.
She has previously served in various capacities in the Government of India in the
Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Commerce and NITI Aayog.
In addition to her work at ERIA, she is also a Visiting Research Associate at theGraduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

Juita Mohamad is Fellow in the Economics, Trade and Regional
Integration (ETRI) division of the Institute of Strategic andInternational Studies (ISIS) Malaysia. Previously, she has worked at
the Asia Desk of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation andDevelopment (OECD) in Paris, the Asian Development Bank Instituteand Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. She holds a PhD in
International Studies from Waseda University. Her research focused on the impactof trade liberalisation on wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers in
Malaysia. She obtained her Master’s degree in Economics from Shiga University,
Japan, and her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Universiti
Kebangsaan Malaysia. Dr Juita’s research interests include trade, regional
integration, protectionism, wage inequality and the informal sector.

Naoyuki Haraoka
Executive Managing Director
Japan Economic Foundation (JEF)
Mr. Naoyuki Haraoka has been Executive Managing Director of the Japan Economic
Foundation (JEF) since 2007. After graduating the University ofTokyo in 1978 (Bachelor of Economics), he joined MITI (Ministry ofInternational Trade and Industry) of Japanese government.
Having been posted in the industrial policy section and theinternational 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 MITIin 1984 as an economist. Since then he had been posted as Deputy Director andDirector of a number of MITI divisions including Research Division of International
Trade Policy Bureau. He was also posted in Paris twice, firstly, Principal Economistof Trade Bureau of OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation andDevelopment) from 1988 to 92 and secondly Counselor to Japanese Delegation ofOECD from 1996 to 99. After coming back to MITI from his second stay in Paris, atthe 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 andIndustry 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.

Dr. Prof. Ahn, Choong-yong
Distinguished Professor
Graduate School of International Studies
Chung-Ang University
Dr. Ahn is currently Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Schoolof International Studies, Chung-Ang University, Seoul. He is also Co-Chair ofKorea-India Strategic Dialogue and Honorary Governor of Kangwon Province.
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 the Board, Korea ElectricPower Corporation. Before taking the KCCP post, he served as presidentiallyappointed Foreign Investment Ombudsman (2006-2014) who is the troubleshooter
responsible for resolving grievances raised by foreign investors at the Korea Tradeand 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(2002-2005); 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. He was also a visiting professor to Economic ResearchInstitute , 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 the Federation of Korean
Industries. Since receiving his Ph.D. from Ohio State University and his MA from
University of Hawaii in association with the East West Center, Dr. Ahn has publishedmany articles in international journals including Review of Economics andStatistics, European Economic Review, Japanese Economic Review, Journal of Asian
Economics, Global Asia, and Monograph papers in North-Holland, Cambridge
University Press, Springer, Edward Elgar, Palgrave Macmillan, Iwanami Shoten of
Japan, Peking University Press, etc.

Dr. Yose Rizal Damuri
Head of Department of Economics
Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Yose Rizal Damuri is the Head of the Department of Economics,
Centre for Strategic and International Studies. His research activities
focus on international trade, regional integration and globalization of value chain.
Yose has been teaching 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 InstituteNetwork (ERIA-RIN). Currently he serves as the Co-Chair 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, aforum dedicated for the development 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 of International
Studies, Geneva, Switzerland⚫ Head of the Department of Economics, Centre for Strategic and International
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)

Assoc. Prof Simon SC Tay
ChairmanSingapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA)
Simon SC Tay is a public intellectual as well as an advisor to major
corporations and policy-makers.
He is Chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, the country’s
oldest think tank. The SIIA’s work focuses on the politics, economic policies andsustainablity issues that matter to corporatoons and policy makers. The SIIA isranked by an international survey as a leading think tank in ASEAN and Asia, andhas 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 and interviews feature in the international andregonal media, including the BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, NHK Japan and CCTV.

Prof Tay is also Senior Consultant at WongPartnership, a leading Asian law firm ofsome 300 lawyers and with offices in ASEAN, China and the Middle East. He hasserved on boards for global companies including MUFG Bank of Japan and waspreviously Corporate Advisor to Temasek Holdings (2006-09). He has spoken atleading 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 (2002-08); an
independent Member of Parliament (1997-2001); and to coordinate the country’s
equivalent of the Peace Corps (1990-93). He was chair or co-chair for a number ofpublic commissions such as Singapore 21, the Singapore Green Plan and theSingapore Concept Plan 2010. In 2006, Prof Tay received a National Day Award. He
served Singapore as an Expert and Eminent Person in the ASEAN Regional Forumfrom 2002 to March 2019.
He is a prize winning author of fiction and poetry. His 2010 novel City of Small
Blessings was awarded the Singapore Literature Prize. He graduated in law fromthe National University of Singapore (1986), where he was president of the student
union for three terms. He also holds a Masters in Law from Harvard Law School(1993-94), which he attended on a Fulbright Scholarship and where he won the
Laylin prize for the best thesis in international law.
He was born in 1961 and is the only son of the late Tay Seow Huah, who was asenior civil servant in the government reporting to the Prime Minister and Defence
Minister, and the late Madam Cheong Keong Hin, a teacher. Prof Tay has one son.

Dr.Priyadarshi Dash is Assistant Professor at Research andInformation System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi,
India. His research interests broadly cover topics in foreignexchange reserves, macroeconomics, international trade andfinance, and blue economy. He has contributed to RIS work
programme on issues of regional economic cooperation in Indian
Ocean Rim Association (IORA), BIMSTEC, Asia-Africa Growth
Corridor and G20. Dr. Dash has published a book titled “Universal Banking in India:
Evolution, Trends and Performance” and several papers in peer-reviewed journals
and edited volumes. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of theCambridge Scholars Publishing, member of the Editorial Board of the
Journal-Advances in Economics and Business, and Managing Editor of G20 Digest

published by RIS. He has been part of a number of Indian academic delegations to
China and Central Asia, and presented papers in several international conferences.
He has worked with Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET),
Seoul as a ‘Visiting Fellow’ in 2012 under a fellowship by the Asia Foundation. He
has received the “Award for Excellence in Thesis Work” by IIT Bombay in 2011. Dr.
Dash holds PhD in Economics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay,
India. He has participated in summer schools on international economics issues
and global economic governance at University of Geneva, University of Padova andUniversity of Milan.

Farlina Said is an Analyst in the Foreign Policy and Security
Studies programme of ISIS Malaysia since 2015. She graduatedfrom S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS),
Nanyang Technological University with a MSc (Strategic
Studies). As a part of the think tank she was involved in crafting
various dialogues and forums on cybersecurity, radicalisationand Malaysia-Korea relations. Her written work and comments have appeared in
the local and international media such as New Straits Times and South China
Morning Post. She was a part of SEARCCT’s Experts on Violent Extremism andCommunity Engagement (EVOKE) Council (2018-2019).