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EDITORIAL COMMITTEE 2025

STATE OF THE REGION REPORT 2025-2026:

• 2025: Trade Policies in a Disrupted World and the Risk of Disruption, Shiro Armstrong, The Australian National University, and Sharon Zhengyang Sun, University of Calgary

PREVIOUS REPORTS:

• 2024: The Ageing Populations, Productivity & Economic Growth in the Asia-Pacific, Sang-Hyop Lee, Professor, Department of Economics and Director of Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Senior Fellow, East-West Center. 
• 2023: Creating a Resilient and Sustainable Future for All - SOTR Supplement 2023
• 2023: An Inclusive Growth Agenda
• 2022: Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific
• 2021: Climate Change: From Ambition to Action , Dr Tilak Doshi
• 2020: Covid-19, Christopher Findlay, Honorary Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.
• 2019: APEC Beyond 2020, Steven Wong, Deputy Chief Executive, ISIS
• 2018: The Future of Jobs and Skills, Kostas Mavromaras, Director of Employment and Skills Centre, University of Adelaide.
• 2017: An Asia-Pacific Agenda for the Digital Economy, Mari Pangestu and Peter Lovelock
• 2016: Benefits of Services Trade Liberalization in the Asia-Pacific, Sherry Stephenson, ICTSD
• 2015: Structural Reform and Inclusive Growth, Edith Scott and Michael Enright
• 2014: RCEP and the TPP as pathways to FTAAP, Peter A. Petri and Ali Abdul Raheem.
• 2013: Ecotech in the Asia-Pacific, Federico M. Macaranas, Asian Institute of Management
• 2012: Asian and Trans-Pacific Initiatives in Regional Integration, Peter A. Petri, Brandeis University, East-West Center, and Peterson Institute for International Economics, and Tri Thanh Vo, Central Institute of Economic Management