International Affairs Forum “ASEAN Economics Integration: Driven by Markets or Mandarins?”
by Professor Hal Hill & Jay Menon
Date: 30 April 2010
Venue: Conference Room, ISIS Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Past Convenor in ANU’s Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Prof Hal Hill also headed the University’s Indonesia Project from 1986 to 1998; for much of this time editing the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. His general research interests are the economies of ASEAN, especially Indonesia and The Philippines; industrialization and foreign investment in East Asia; and Australia’s economic relations with the Asia-Pacific region.
Author or editor of 15 books, Prof Hill sits on the editorial board of 14 academic journals; and has written about 140 academic papers and book chapters, with major titles including ‘The Indonesian Economy since 1966’ (Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition, 2000) and ‘The Philippine Economy’ (co-edited with Arsenio Balisacan, Oxford University Press, 2003). He is an occasional op-ed contributor to Australian and Asian newspapers and magazines, a radio/TV commentator, and has worked as Consultant for the Australian Government, the Indonesian Government, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and several United Nations agencies.
Prof Hill has held visiting appointments at Gadjah Mada University, the University of the Philippines, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, the University of Oxford, the International University of Japan, the Tinbergen Institute, Columbia University and the National University of Malaysia.
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Addressing Climate Change with Development
by Imran Habib Ahmad, Visiting Fellow UKM & Lead Coordinatir UNDESA WESS 2009.
Date: 29April 2010
Presented at Forum: “How Can Climate Change be Addressed in a Development Mode?, 29April 2010. Organized by ISIS Malaysia in collaboration with the Institute of Environment & Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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International Affairs Forum “EXPLORING A DESIRABLE REGIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR EAST ASIA: EAFTA, CEPEA, APEC OR TPP?”
Professor Shujiro Urata
Professor of International Economics, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University and Research Fellow, Japan Center for Economic Research.
Date: 10 March 2010
Venue: Conference Room, ISIS Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Dr. Shujiro Urata is currently Professor of International Economics at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University and Research Fellow at the Japan Center for Economic Research. His research interests include international trade, foreign direct investment, corporate small and medium enterprises, as well as regional integration and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. Dr. Urata has published numerous articles on the economics of development in professional journals, and has published and edited several books in both English and Japanese on international economic issues. His recent work, Multinationals and Economic Growth in East Asia, was co-edited with Chia Siow Yue and Fukunari Kimura (Routledge, 2006).
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International Affairs Forum “LOOOKING FOR NEW MEANING AND NEW ROLES: WHAT IS NEXT IN EU-ASIAN RELATIONS”
MR. JAMES MORAN
Director of Asia, External Relations Directorate General, European Commission
Date: 1 March 2010
Venue: Conference Room, ISIS Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Mr. Moran has been Director for Asia in the European Commission’s External Relations Directorate General since 2006. He has long experience in the fields of EU foreign, trade and development policy and has served as Head of Delegation in various countries. Mr. Moran is also the EU’s chief negotiator of the new Partnership and Cooperation Agreements that are being negotiated with a number of Asian countries including countries within ASEAN
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International Affairs Forum “GLOBAL CRISIS: CAN CHINA’S GROWTH COMPENSATE FOR SLUGGISH RECOVERY IN THE U.S. AND EUROPE”
DR. DAN STEINBOCK
Research Director of International Business, India, China and America Institute (ICA) USA
Date: 25 February 2010
Venue: Conference Room, ISIS Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Dr. Dan Steinbock explores issues of international business and international relations among advanced economies and large emerging economies. As Research Director of International Business at the India, China and America Institute (ICA), he focuses on the impact of the global crisis, as well as the competitiveness of nations, metropolises and multinationals. He divides his time between New York City, Shanghai and occasionally Helsinki, and concurrently serves as Senior Fellow at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies, focusing on G-20 and global political economy. Dr Steinbock has consulted for multinational corporations and SMEs, international organizations (OECD, EU, Nordic Council, Baltic Development Forum), cities (from Shanghai to Greater Helsinki) and governments. He has cooperated with and contributed to leading think-tanks in the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Persian Gulf.
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International Affairs Forum THE HIGH VALUE-HIGH WAGE ECONOMY: ROLE OF LABOUR MARKET POLICIES IN SINGAPORE
DR. SHANDRE THANGAVELU
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National Unversity of Singapore.
Date: 15 January 2010
Venue: Conference Room, ISIS Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Biodata
Associate Professor Dr. Shandre Thangavelu is an active researcher on human capital development, technology transfer, foreign direct investment, trade, government infrastructure investment, productivity and economic growth. He has written extensively in technology transfer and economic growth and has published his research in major international journals. Recently, he was attached as the Head of the Economics Unit, Ministry of Manpower, under the Economist Service to Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of Manpower, Singapore. He has also worked on several international projects commissioned by Asian Productivity Organisation (APO) on the measurement of aggregate productivity for the Singapore economy and the World Bank project on structural changes and skill-mismatch. Recently, he was engaged as a consultant and country expert on the Expert Group EFTA Study Phase II that comprises experts from ASEAN, China, Korea and Japan.
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7th EAST ASIA CONGRESSS POSITIONING EAST ASIA IN THE POST-CRISIS WORLD
Date: 7 December 2009
Time: 9.20 AM
Venue: Nikko Hotel, Kuala Lumpur
Keynote addressed by DULI YANG TERAMAT MULIA RAJA MUDA PERAK DARUL RIDZUAN RAJA NAZRIN SHAH
"It is a pleasure indeed to be invited to deliver the Keynote Address at this Seventh East Asia Congress. My congratulations go to ISIS Malaysia for taking the important initiative to organise this annual conference, and to all of you present here who are the real builders of this community-in-the-making..."
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International Affairs Forum FROM RECESSION TO RECOVERY: HOW SOON AND HOW STRONG?
DR PRAKASH KANNAN Economist, Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
17 June 2009, Conference Room, ISIS Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Biodata Dr Prakash Kannan is an economist with the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund. He received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998, and his doctorate in Economics from Stanford University in 2006. Prior to working at the IMF, he also served as a Senior Executive with the Monetary Assessment and Strategy Department at Bank Negara Malaysia. During his tenure at the IMF, he has worked on exchange rate issues and the IMF flagship publication, the World Economic Outlook. He has also worked on Turkey during the completion of their last Stand-By Arrangement with the IMF. He has several working papers and publications in the field of international macroeconomics and finance.
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DR PRAKASH KANNAN