Seizing the Moment: APEC 2010 & 2011
(APEC - Roundtable)
The Australian National University in conjunction with the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, and the Keizai Doyukai co-hosted a private Roundtable and public forum on October 1 2009, in Tokyo featuring leading thinkers and opinion leaders from throughout the region to discuss “Seizing the Moment: APEC 2010 and 2011.”
With Singapore hosting the APEC Leaders’ Meeting this year and Japan and the United States hosting APEC for the subsequent years of 2010 and 2011, the Roundtable provided the opportunity to assess APEC’s progress on its core agenda and to forge a strategy for the next few years.
Since its founding in 1989, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum has grown to
include 21 countries representing over a third of the world’s population, nearly 60 percent of the
world’s GDP, and nearly half of global trade volume. APEC has continued to pursue a core agenda
of trade and investment liberalization with the aim of promoting economic growth. However, in
recent years members of APEC have recognized the importance of regional cooperation on issues
such as sustainable development, climate change, and inclusive growth.
ANU participants:
Emeritus Professor Peter Drysdale
Professor Yiping Huang
Adjunct Professor Gordon de Brouwer
Shiro Armstrong (Research Fellow Crawford School of Government & Economics)
Luke Hurst (graduate student, IDEC)
ANU alumni participants:
Professor Kazumasa Iwata (Visiting Fellow at the Australia-Japan Research Center at The Australia National University)
Professor Christopher Findlay (Professor of Economics in the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, PhD & MEc at ANU)
Dr Hadi Soesastro (Honorary Doctor of Letters, ANU)
Panel I: Prospects for APEC’s Core Agenda
- Kazumasa Iwata, President, Japanese Cabinet Office’s Economic and Social Research Institute
- Hadi Soesastro, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Kurt Tong, Acting Senior Official for APEC and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
- Ric Wells, Ambassador to APEC, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia
Panel II: Beyond Trade: APEC’s Role in Regional Cooperation on Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Inclusive Growth, and Other Areas
- Takashi Omori, Chair of the Economic Committee at APEC and Policy Advisor to the Japanese Cabinet Office
- Soogil Young, Chair, Korea National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (KOPEC)
- Christopher Findlay, Australia National University of Adelaide
- Huang Yiping, Professor of Economics, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University
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