ASEAN Roundtable 2016 : The ASEAN Economic Community – Towards 2025
About the Roundtable
After inaugurating the ASEAN Community on 31 December 2015, the ten Southeast Asian nations are working towards the next phase of deeper regional economic cooperation to create a business friendly environment and to bring development and prosperity to the people. The elimination of tariffs for intra-regional trade is one among the many successes of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). However, work remains to be done for liberalising the services sector, simplifying customs procedures, addressing the non-tariff barriers and bringing more of the region’s small-and-medium scale enterprises (SMEs) into the fold of the AEC. As ASEAN begins its work to implement the new ASEAN 2025 blueprint, its member countries, either collectively or individually, are participating in wider regional and inter-regional initiatives. These are the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), One Belt One Road (OBOR) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). These initiatives, while offering new opportunities, currently face several challenges. In addition, the surprise incident of Brexit is lending an air of uncertainty across regionalism projects. All these have implications for ASEAN.
Key Speakers include:
HE LE Luong Minh
Secretary-General, Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Tan Sri Dr Rebecca Fatima STA MARIA
Former Secretary-General, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Malaysia
Mr Arin JIRA
Chairman, ASEAN Business Advisory Council, Thailand
Professor Shujiro URATA
Waseda University, Japan
Professor Edward K Y CHEN
Chairman of the Board, HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education, Hong Kong
Dr Fraser Keir THOMPSON
Director, AlphaBeta, Singapore
Programme
The ASEAN Roundtable 2016 Programme is attached here for your information.
Registration
To register, please complete this form and email it to ascevents@iseas.edu.sg by 26 August 2016.