UP A LEVEL IN ASIA:
Improving the Business and Investment Enviroment in The Asia Pacific Region

The Japanese Economic Miracle.  The Four Tigers.  The Rise of China.  Collectively, these phrases and many others denote what everyone knows.  In the past half-century the economic dynamism of the Asia Pacific Region has reordered the global economy and dramatically improved the lives of millions.  Most expect that dynamism will continue.  At the same time, a new commercial architecture for the region is emerging, and the increasingly urgent question is, what will that architecture look like in the years ahead?  Which agreements or patterns of agreements will be most important?  How compatible will national regimes be with regional and global agreements?  And what should today’s global companies advocate and/or prepare for?  Those are some of the issues we will look at on March 22.

Keynote Address

Christopher Padilla
former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade
and now
Vice President, IBM

Panel Speakers will include (former) Ambassador Alan P. Larson, now with Covington and Burling; Tomoharu WASHIO from the Japan Economic Foundation in Tokyo, Shotaro HAMAMOTO of Kyoto University,  Murray Hiebert of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Monica Whaley from the National Center for APEC.

Price: $120 general admission.  There is no charge for GBD Members or Press.  The special U.S. Government rate for the luncheon is $30.00.