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Public Symposium
"ASEM's Role in Enhancing Asia-Europe Cooperation: Ten Years of Achievements and Future Challenges"
In preparation for the upcoming tenth anniversary of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF; Singapore-based) and the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) will be jointly organising a public symposium to examine the kinds of roles Asia and Europe should be playing in the rapidly changing global environment in collaboration with the EU Institute of Japan (EUIJ).
ASEM was established in 1996 to strengthen traditionally weak Asian-European relations in contrast to strong Asian-North American and European-North American relations. While dialogue and cooperation between the two regions at the official and bureaucratic levels has advanced in the political, economic/financial, and social/educational/cultural domains since the first ASEM summit meeting, significant changes over the past ten years in the global arena have altered the nature of expectations for Asian-European cooperation. In addition, the rise of China and regional community building efforts on the Asian side and EU expansion on the European side represent considerable change at the regional level as well.
It is within this context that this symposium will provide an opportunity for examination of the evolving global stage and recent developments in both regions, and will engage the public in debate on the possibilities for cooperation between Asia and Europe and the role of ASEM itself. The symposium will feature various experts from both regions, listed below.
General Information
Date:
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:00pm-5:30pm
(opens at 1:30pm)
Venue:
Orion Room, Josui Kaikan (2nd floor; map attached)
Chiyoda-ku, Hitotsubashi 2-1-1
Tel: 03-3261-1101
Organisers:
Asia-Europe Foundation, Japan Center for International Exchange, EU Institute in Japan
Supported by:
Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Granted by:
The Tokyo Club
Registration Fee:
None
Languages:
Japanese and English (simultaneous interpretation provided)
Tentative Program
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Panelist Biographies
Il SAKONG
SaKong Il is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Global Economics, a private nonprofit research institute based in Seoul. He was Minister of Finance (1987-88), Senior Secretary to the President for Economic Affairs (1983-7), Ambassador for International Economy and Trade (2000-02), Senior Member of the National Economic Council for the President (2003-04) and Special Consultant to the International Monetary Fund (1989-98). Before joining the Korean government, Dr. SaKong spent nearly a decade at the Korea Development Institute (KDI). He has written and edited many books and articles on the Korean economy, economic development, and international finance and trade policy. He graduated from Seoul National University and received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California in Los Angeles.
Jean-Jacques SUBRENAT
Ambassador Subrenat was head of France's diplomatic missions in different locales in Europe between 1995 and 2005, first as Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Western European Union in Brussels, then as Ambassador to Estonia, and as Ambassador to Finland. In addition, he has served at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in France in the Policy Planning Division, Directorate for Administration and Personnel, Deputy Director for Southeast Asia, Alternate Director for Development Cooperation, and Alternate Director for the Americas. He has served as Secretary at the French embassy in Singapore and Minister-Counsellor at the French embassy in Tokyo. Ambassador Subrenat is the author of numerous articles and is the editor of "Estonia, Identity and Independence." He was a research fellow on China at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and has conducted research at the University of Kyoto. He completed studied at the University of Bordeaux and received a doctorate in history from the Sorbonne.
Geoffrey Barrett
Geoffrey Barrett is an ASEM Counsellor of European Commission.
Jusuf WANANDI
Jusuf Wanandi is co-founder and Member of the Board of Trustees of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta. He is Chairman of the Indonesian National Committee for the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council and Co-Chair of the Council of Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific (CSCAP), Indonesia. Mr. Wanandi is also President Director of the publishing company of the Jakarta Post, Board Chairman of the Graduate School of Management Prasetiya Mulya, and Chairman of the Foundation of Panca Bhakti University in Pontianak. He has served as Secretary of the Indonesian Supreme Advisory council, Secretary General of the National Education Council, and four-term representative in the People's Consultative Assembly. He has written extensively in national and international magazines and newspapers, and has edited a number of books on political and security developments in the Asia Pacific region.
Karl KAISER
Karl Kaiser is the Ralph I. Straus Visiting Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has taught at the Universities of Bonn, Johns Hopkins (Bologna), Saarbruecken, Cologne, and Harvard. He was Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations for 30 years, an advisor to Chancellors Brandt and Schmidt, and a member of the German Council of Environmental Advisors. Prof. Kaiser serves on the Board of Foreign Policy, Internationale Politik, the Asian-Pacific Review, the Advisory Board of the American-Jewish Committee, Berlin, and is the Chairman of the Board of the Federal Academy of Security Policy, Berlin. He is a recipient of the Atlantic Award of NATO. Professor Kaiser is the author or editor of several hundred articles and about fifty books in the fields of world affairs, German, French, British and US foreign policy, transatlantic and east-west relations, nuclear proliferation, strategic theory, international environmental policy. He holds a Ph.D. from Cologne University and an Honorary Doctorate of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Koji WATANABE
Koji Watanabe is Senior Fellow at Japan Center for International Exchange, and former Executive Advisor to the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren). He was Japanese Ambassador to Russia from 1993-96 and Ambassador to Italy from 1992-93. He was also Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sherpa for the G-7 Houston and London summits of 1991 and 1990, and Japanese cochairman of the U.S.-Japan Structural Impediments Initiative Talks. Ambassador Watanabe joined the Foreign Ministry upon graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1956 and served as Director-General of the Information Analysis, Research and Planning Bureau and of the Economic Affairs Bureau. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University (1957-58) and at the Center for International Affairs of Harvard University in (1973-74). His other overseas posts include Counsellor at the Japanese Embassy in Saigon (1974-76), Minister at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing (1981-84), and Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1988-89). Ambassador Watanabe is President of The Japan Forum, a former member of the Board of Governors of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and a member of the National Public Safety Commission.
Background on Sponsor Organizations
Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)
ASEF is a not-for-profit foundation, seeking to promote better mutual understanding between the peoples of Asia and Europe through greater intellectual, cultural, and people-to-people exchanges. Established in February 1997 by the members of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), ASEF is based in Singapore and reports to a board of 39 governors representing the 38 ASEM countries and the European Commission. ASEF is the only permanent institution of the ASEM process.
European Union Institute in Japan (EUIJ)
EUIJ is a four-university consortium composed of Hitotsubashi University, International Christian University, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and Tsuda College that conducts research concerning the European Union. The consortium has created possibilities for EU-related study and research in Japan and disseminates information about the EU through the creation of EU studies curricula and seminars, workshops, and symposiums. EUIJ is funded by the European Commission, and the Secretariat is located at Hitotsubashi University.
Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE)
JCIE is a non-profit organization founded in 1970 and incorporated as a foundation under the authorization of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 1973. JCIE seeks to facilitate intellectual exchange on a global scale, conduct policy research and promote policy dialogue, strengthen non-profit organizations and expand international networks. JCIE conducts its activities through multisectoral consultation and cooperation with governments, members of national parliaments, and private sector and non-governmental organizations.
CONTACT:
Japan Center for International Exchange (Mr. Malcolm Dort / Ms. Tomoko Suzuki)
E-mail: asem10@jcie.or.jp
Tel: 03-3446-8469 / 03-3446-7781, Fax: 03-3443-7580
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