32nd PECC General Meeting

• Dr. Richard Cantor, Co-Chair, PECC; Vice-Chairman, Moody's Ratings

• Mr. Han-koo Yeo, Trade Minister of Korea

Moderator:

• Dr. Chul Chung, Co-Chair, KOPEC; President, Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI)

Keynote Speech

• Prof. James Robinson, Professor; Harris School of Public Policy and Department of Political Science, University of Chicago; 2024 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics

Q&A

Moderator:

• Amb. Antonio I. Basilio, Chair, PPECC; (Former Special Trade Representative of the Philippines to the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations (GATT/WTO))

Keynote Speech:

• Mr Robin Harding, Asia Editor, The Financial Times
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Panel Discussion and Q&A:

• Dr. Craig Emerson, Executive Chair, The Australian APEC Study Centre; (Former Australian Minister for Trade)
• Amb. Jonathan T. Fried, Chair, CANCPEC; (Former Canada's Personal Representative to the Prime Minister for the G20 Summit (Sherpa))
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• Dr. Fukunari Kimura, President, IDE-JETRO; Professor Emeritius and Senior Professor
• Dr. Nguyen Hung Son, Chair, VNCPEC; Vice President,  Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam (DAV)

Moderator: 

• Mr. Arjuna Nadaraja, Chair, AUSPECC; (Former Chair, APEC Group on Services)

Keynote Speech:

• Prof. Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosopher & Software & Societal Systems, Carnegie Mellon University; (Former Group Research Lead, The Alan Turing Institute)
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Panel Discussion and Q&A:

• Dr. Chihoon Lee, Executive Vice President & Chief A.I. Officer, CJ Corporation; (Former Engineering Leadership in A.I./Machine Learning, Meta (Facebook))
• Dr. Kai-Cheng Hsu, President and Chief Medical Officer, Acer Medical
• Mr. Edward Brzytwa, Vice President of International Trade, Consumer Technology Association (Former Trade Negotiator, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative)
• Prof. Yi Zeng, Professor, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Founding Dean, Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance (Beijing-AISI); Member, United Nationas High-Level Advisory Body on AI 

Statement for Session 2 

• French Pacific Territories National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (FPTPEC)
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Moderator:

• Dr. Chien-Yi Chang, Chair, CTPECC; President, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER)

Keynote Speech

• Prof. Cai Fang, Academician, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS); (Former Member of the Standing Committee, National People's (NPC) of China)
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Panel Discussion and Q&A

• Prof. Stuart A. Gietal-Basten, Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Prof. Jungmin Lee, Professor, Department of Economics, Seoul National University; Visiting Research Fellow, Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI)
• Mr. Tomoyuki Yoshida, Chief Executive Director, The Japan Institute of International Affairs; (Former Deputy Assistant Minister, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan)

Moderator:

• Dr. Narongchai Akrasanee, Chair, TNCPEC; (Former Minister of Commerce and Energy, Thailand)
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Panel Discussion and Q&A:

• Dr. Kaewkamol (Karen) Pitakdumrongkit; Interim Secretary General, PECC Representative of the Republic of Korea to the UN in Geneva)
• Amb. Seok-young Choi, Senior Advisor, Lee & Ko; (Former Ambassador nad Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the UN in Geneva)
• Dr. Mia Mikic, Research Associate, Waikato University; (Former Director, Trade, Investment and Innovation Division, UN ESCAP)
• Amb. Renato Reyes Tagle, Chair, PERUPEC; APEC SOM Peru; (Former Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Peru to Chile)

• Amb. Zhan Yongxin, Co-Chair, PECC