The Future of Asia Pacific economic cooperation

Dr Kim Kihwan 
Kim Kihwan is Chairman of Seoul Financial Forum and the Korean National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation Council and was elected to serve as International Chair of PECC in September 2003. He was formerly Ambassador-at-Large for economic affairs and has also held served as Chief Trade Policy Coordinator cum Negotiator, Vice Minister of Trade and Industry and Chief Delegate to South-North Inter-Korea Economic Talks. During the 1980s Dr Kim was President of Korea Development Institute (KDI), Korea’s premier economic policy think tank. With his Ph.D in economics from University of California, Berkley, Dr Kim also taught economics for thirteen years at a number of American Universities. He is a recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Grinnell College and is also currently an International Advisor to Goldman Sachs.

Ambassador Choi Seok Young
Choi Seok Young is currently Executive Director of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat. After studying at the Seoul National University, the University of Heidelberg in Germany and the Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy Ambassador Choi joined the Korean Foreign Ministry. Over the last 6 years he has been posted in Korean Embassies in Kenya, Germany and in Permanent Missions to the United Nations in New York and Geneva. Ambassador Choi has chaired various UN related meetings and in 2001 served as adviser to the President of the General Assembly in economic and social fields. Prior to joining the APEC Secretariat, Ambassador Choi was Deputy Director General of the Multilateral Trade Bureau with the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Dr Mari Pangestu
Mari Pangestu is currently Indonesian Minister of Trade. Prior to this she was Director on the Board of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta. She was formerly Coordinator of the PECC Trade Policy Forum. Dr. Pangestu has been a consultant for various international organizations such as the World Bank, ADB, and UNCTAD. Her fields of specialization are international trade and finance, and she has done research on these issues pertaining Indonesia as well as on regional and global issues. She has been an adjunct professor at the Australia-Japan Research Center (AJRC), ANU. She earned her Bachelor and Masters Degree in Economics from the Australian National University (ANU) and her Ph.D. degree in 1986 from the Department of Economics at the University of California, Davis, USA. 

Dr Yuen Pau Woo
Yuen Pau Woo is the Vice President, Research and Chief Economist of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. He is representing Canada on the Standing Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, Director of the APEC Study Centre in Canada and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Colombia. He is on the Board of the Standards Council of Canada, the advisory committees of various centers of studies at the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University and the University of British Colombia. He has also been Coordinator of PECC’s Pacific Economic Outlook forecasting panel and is currently Senior Advisor to the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Center and on the editorial board of Pacific Affairs. Dr Woo studied at Lester B. Pearson College, Wheaton College, the University of Cambridge and the University of London.

Dr Charles Morrison
Charles Morrison is the President of the East West Center in Honolulu. Prior to this Dr Morrison served as U.S Senate aide and as Research Advisor to two bi-national Japan-U.S Commissions. He is a founding member of the U.S National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation and U.S Asia Pacific Council and a member of the U.S Committee for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific. Dr Morrison received his Ph. D from the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, specializing in Asian international relations. He was formerly chair of the U.S. National Consortium of APEC Study Centers and is currently co-editor of the annual Asia-Pacific Security Outlook Series.

Dr Bijit Bora
Bijit Bora is currently a Counselor in the Economic Research and Statistics Division of the World Trade Organisation. Prior to his appointment in 2001 to the WTO he was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics at Flinders University of South Australia. Between 1998-2001 while at UNCTAD, on secondment from Flinders University, he was first an Economics Affairs Officer in the Division on Investment working on the World Investment Report and Officer-in-Charge of the Research Section in the Division on Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities. His other professional experience includes academic appointments at the Australian National University, Carleton University, U. of Adelaide, U. of Berne and U. of Prince Edward Island.. He has been associated with PECC in a number of different capacities including attending the PECC Trade Policy Forum regularly since 1991. He has also been a member of the Australian National PECC Committee.

Prof Gary Hawke
Gary Hawke is the Head of the School of the School of Government and Professor of Economic History at the University of Wellington. Prior to this Professor Hawke had been Dean of Arts and the Director of the Institute of Policy Studies. He is currently chair of the board of the New Zealand Committee of the Pacific Economic Co-operation Council (PECC) Professor Hawke has been a visiting fellow at Stanford University in the United States, All Souls' College, Oxford in the United Kingdom, at the Australian National University in Australia, and with a number of institutions in Japan. He was Tawney Lecturer for the Economic History Society in the UK in 1978, and in 1998 in New Zealand, he was awarded the NZIER-Qantas Prize in Economics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand 

Dr. Makio Miyagawa
Makio Miyagawa, the acting director of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), received his doctor’s degree in Philosophy from Oxford University in 1989. He held successively positions in Ministry of Foreign Affairs such as a Political Secretary at the Japanese Embassy in the United Kingdom, the Legal Officer in the Policy Coordination Division, the Deputy Director of the 2nd North American Division, and Deputy Director at Russian Division. He was also assigned to the Counsellor for the Embassy of Japan in Kuala Lumpur and Counsellor for the Japanese Mission in Geneva. In 1999 he returned to Japan to serve as the Director of the Developing Economies Division at the Foreign Ministry, and then assigned to the Director of the Regional Policy Division, Asia and Oceania Affairs Bureau from 2002 to 2004. He has been lecturing international relations and international law as a visiting professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy studies and at the University of Tokyo. He has published numerous books and articles on regional security and economic affairs both in Japanese and English.

Prof Federico Macaranas
Federico Macaranas is the Dean of the Center for Development Management (CDM). He concurrently serves as the Executive Director of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Policy Center, the Institute's think-tank on public policy, where he holds the Fidel V. Ramos Chair in Public Policy Studies. He joined the Institute in March 2000 and teaches economics and environmental analysis in the Center for Development Management (CDM). He was formerly the president of Clemente Holdings (Asia) Ltd. (1997-2000). As Undersecretary for Economic Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs (1993-97), he served as chairman of the 1996 Senior Officials Meetings of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). He was Assistant Professor and eventually became Chairman of the Economics and Finance Department (1978-86) of Manhattan College. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics (Cum Laude) from the University of the Philippines(1967), he holds a Master of Science in Economics (1970), and a PhD Doctor of Philosophy in Economics (1975) from Purdue University under scholarship and fellowship grants from the Fulbright-Hays, Ford, Rockefeller, Krannert, and Asia Foundations. 

Dr Hadi Soesastro
Hadi Soesastro is Executive Director of Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta. He has been with CSIS since 1971 and has served in various positions including Head of Department of Economic Affairs as well as Director of Studies. He obtained his Ph.D from the RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, California in 1978. Dr. Soesastro was a Visiting Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York and Okita Fellow at the Economic Department, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), Australian National University (ANU), Canberra. He has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia since 1986; and an Adjunct Professor, RSPAS, ANU since February 1998. He is also active in Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) since 1980 and was elected chair of the International Steering Committee of Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) in 2005.

Dr. Soogil Young
Soogil Young is the President for The NSI Forum, at the National Strategy Institute, a private think-tank, in Seoul, Korea. Concurrently, he is the Vice-Chairman of the Korea National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (KOPEC) and the Coordinator of the PECC Finance Forum. As a Korean economist, he has worked since 1978 as a researcher for governmental research institutes in Korea, including as a Senior Fellow at the Korea Development Institute, President of the Korea Transport Institute, and President of the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP). He also served as Korea's Ambassador to the OECD during 1998-2000, where he has served concurrently as the Chairman of the Advisory Council for the OECD Development Centre. Dr. Young has written extensively on Korea's trade and development issues. His latest publications in English include Asia and Europe: Global Governance as a Challenge to Co-operation (2004, Council for Asia-Europe Cooperation) which he co-edited with William Wallace and 'Korea's Experiences as a Newly Industrializing Country and as a Newly Industrialized Country' to be published as part of the OECD report on The Impact and Coherence of OECD Country Policies on Asian Developing Economies (forthcoming, OECD) edited by Kiichiro Fukasaku.

Mr. Roberto Romulo
Roberto Romulo is the chair of the APEC Business Advisory Council Mid-Term Review Task Force. He is also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation for Information Technology and Education and Development. He is also the Chairman of Equitable CardNetwork, Inc.; Chairman, Carlos P. Romulo Foundation for Peace & Development; Chairman, Philippine Foundation for Global Concerns, Inc.; Chairman, Asia-Europe Foundation of the Philippines, Inc.; Chairman, Philippine British-Business Council; and Chairman, PET Plans Inc. Mr. Romulo is a Member of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC). He was Chairman (1997-99) of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC). Mr. Romulo served as Foreign Secretary of the Philippines in 1992-95 after serving as Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Communities in 1989-92. Previous to his stint in government Mr. Romulo was with IBM Corporation for 25 years, serving as General Manager in Thailand, Burma, Bangladesh, and as President and General Manager of IBM Philippines.