Pacific Economic Cooperation Council

DAY ONE • TUESDAY, MAY 12

Registration and Informal Continental Breakfast

Dr. Charles E. Morrison
Co-Chair, PECC and President, East-West Center

Mr Jusuf Wanandi
Co-Chair, PECC and President, Jakarta Post

Amb. J. Stapleton Roy
Chairman, United States Asia Pacific Council
Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Woodrow Wilson Center

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SESSION 1: The Asia-Pacific Economic Decline: How Deep, How Long?

Chaired by

Dr. Yuen Pau Woo
President, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

Panel

Why Has Asia Been Hit So Hard By The Global Economic And Financial Crisis? (327.87 kB)
Mr. Takatoshi Kato
Deputy Managing Director, IMF

The Global Economic Crisis and Rebalancing Growth in Asia (74.6 kB)
Prof. Park Yung Chul
Professor of Economics, Korea University

Latin America’s Challenges Beyond the Global Crisis (97.13 kB)
Hon. Mauricio Cárdenas
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

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Coffee Break

Keynote Address

Hon. James B. Steinberg
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State

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SESSION 2: Political Implications of the Crisis in Regional Economies

Chair
Dr. Charles E. Morrison
President, East-West Center

Panel

Amb. Yoshiji Nogami
President, Japan Institute for International Affairs
formerly Deputy Foreign Minister of Japan

Mr. Jusuf Wanandi
President, The Jakarta Post
Senior Advisor, CSIS, Indonesia

Political Implications of the Crisis in Regional Economies (74.36 kB)
Shen Shishun
Dean, Department for Asia Pacific Security and Cooperation Studies, China Institute for International Studies

Stapleton Roy
Chairman, United States Asia Pacific Council
Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Woodrow Wilson Center

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Luncheon

East Asia, the Pacific, and the Global Economic Crisis: Weathering the Storm

Jim Adams
World Bank Vice President for the East Asia and Pacific Region

SESSION 3: Declining Global Trade: Protectionist Risk and The Pacific Response

Ravi Menon
Second Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Trade and Industry

Chair
Ambassador Carla Hills
Chairman, Hills & Company

Panel

Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati
University Professor, Columbia University

Amb. Michael Wilson
Canadian Ambassador to the US, formerly Minister of International Trade

Amb. Karan K. Bhatia
Vice President and Senior Counsel, International Law & Policy, General Electric Company

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Chair
Ambassador Soogil Young
President, National Strategy Institute, Korea

Panel

Restoring Global Financial Stability: Role of the Asia-Pacific (80.25 kB)
Masahiro Kawai
Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute

C. Fred Bergsten
Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Xuan Changneng
Director General, Policy Research Department, People’s Bank of China

Park Yung-Chul
Professor of Economics, Korea University

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Plenary Adjournment, Day 1

Hosted by the East-West Center

Program

Special Recognition:

and a panel discussion on

The Future of Asia Pacific Relations
with Joseph Nye and Guests

DAY TWO • WEDNESDAY, MAY 13

Registration and Continental Breakfast

SESSION 5: Economic Recovery And Post - Kyoto Cooperation: Challenges And Opportunities

Chaired by

Joan MacNaughton
Senior Vice President for Power and Environmental Policies, Alstom Power Systems

Panel

Professor Kenneth Lieberthal
Professor, University of Michigan, Co-Author, Overcoming Obstacles to U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change (Brookings, 2009)

Dr. Hu Tao
Coordinator, China Climate Change Partnership Framework, UNDP, Beijing

Toward E & E Cooperation in APEC (391.1 kB)
Mr. Hajime Ito
President, Japan External Trade Organization
New York

Indonesia and an APEC Agenda on Climate Change (372.16 kB)
Hadi Soesastro
Chief Economist, CSIS, Jakarta; Member, Terrestrial Carbon Group

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SESSION 6: The Asia Pacific Path to Recovery: Toward A New Model For Growth?

Chaired by

Paul Blustein
Brookings Journalist in Residence, Former Economics and Tokyo Correspondent, The Washington Post

Panel

Dr. Eswar Prasad
Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy, Cornell University,

Prof Tan Khee Giap
Associate Dean, Graduate Studies Office, and Co-Director, Asia Research Center, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Growth Engines After the Crisis (43.01 kB)
Prof Peter Petri
Brandeis University and East West Center

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SESSION 7: The Asia-Pacific Role in the New Global Economic Order

Chaired by

Dr. Charles E. Morrison
President, East-West Center

Panel

H.E. Cheng Siwei
Formerly Vice Chairman, Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress

Dr. Masahiro Kawai
Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute

Dr. C. Fred Bergsten
Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics

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Luncheon

The Future of World Trade Policy

Hon. Mari Pangestu
Minister of Trade of Indonesia

1. The World Economic Crisis and the Food System
Massachusetts Room

2. Impacts of the Economic Crisis on Migrant Workers:
Implications for the Asia Pacific Economies
Pennsylvania Room

3. Impacts of the Economic Crisis on Water Infrastructure Development and Water Services in the Asia Pacific
New York Room