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PECC GENERAL MEETING
October 21-22, 2010
Hotel Okura, Tokyo, Japan


PECC at 30: New Vision for APEC and
Toward Further Regional Economic Cooperation


Summary

Meeting Program

Thursday, October 21st


09:30 - 09:45   

Opening Remarks   

Dr. Charles Morrison
 (Co-Chair, PECC / Chair, USAPC)

Mr. Jusuf Wanandi
 (Co-Chair, PECC / Chair, INCPEC)

Amb. Yoshiji Nogami
 (Chair, JANCPEC /
 President, Japan Institute of International Affairs)


09:45 - 11:15   

First Session: Economic Recovery and Growth in Asia and the Pacific

Chair:

Amb. Donald Campbell
 (Chair, CANCPEC)

Speaker 1:

Prof. Peter Petri
 (Brandeis University)

Speaker 2:

Dr. Masahiro Kawai
 (Dean, ADBI)

Speaker 3:

Dato' Dr. Mahani Zainal Abidin
 (Chair, MANCPEC / Chief Executive, Institute of Strategic and International Studies Malaysia)

Q&A


11:30 - 13:00   

Second Session: Towards Resilient Societies

Chair:

Amb. Yoshiji Nogami
 (Chair, JANCPEC)

Keynote Speech:

Ms. Corazon de la Paz-Bernardo
 (President, International Social Security Association)

Speaker 1:

Prof. Charles Yuji Horioka
 (Osaka University)

Speaker 2:

Prof. Mukul Asher
 (National University of Singapore)

Speaker 3:

Dr. Yang Yiyong
 (Director General and Professor, Institute of Social Development Research, National Development & Reform Commission, P.R.C.)

Commentator:

Prof. Noriyuki Takayama
 (Hitotsubashi University)

Dr. Etsuji Okamoto
 (National Institute of Public Health)

Prof. Naoki Mitani
 (Kobe University)

Q&A


13:00 - 14:15

LUNCHEON

Keynote Speech:

Mr. Yoichi Otabe
 (Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs)


14:30 - 16:00

Third Session (CONCURRENT SESSIONS): Human Security

Concurrent Session 1: Demography / Aging Societies

Chair:

Amb. Antonio I. Basilio
 (Chair, PPECC)

Speaker 1:

Prof. Graeme Hugo
 (The University of Adelaide)

Speaker 2:

Prof. Takao Komine
(Hosei University)

Speaker 3:

Dr. Yang Yiyong
 (Director General and Professor, Institute of Social Development Research, National Development & Reform Commission, P.R.C.)


Concurrent Session 2: Environmental Sustainability in Urban Centers (PECC Project)

Chair:

Hon. Michel Rocard
 (Chair, FPTPEC)

Speaker 1:

Prof. Joachim Bitterlich
 (Executive Vice President International Affairs, Veolia): Living in large cities today, how to design a better city for tomorrow

Speaker 2:

Prof. Tan Khee Giap
 (Chair, SINCPEC): Asian cities of tomorrow; proposals for Asia, the Singapore case

Speaker 3:

Prof. Coral Ingley
 (Chair, NZPECC): Towards a better governance for large cities in the Pacific Rim


Concurrent Session 3: Disaster Relief

Chair:

Dr. David Hong
 (Vice-Chair, CTPECC)

Speaker 1:

Dr. Liang-Chun Chen
 (Director, National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction)

Speaker 2:

Dr. Don Gunasekera
 (Senior Economist, The CSIRO Centre for Complex Systems Science)

Speaker 3:

Mr. Mikio Ishiwatari
 (Senior Advisor, JICA)


Concurrent Session 4: Pacific Economic Outlook(PEO): Macrofinancial Linkages and Financial Deepening (PECC Project)

Chair and
Speaker 1:

Prof. Akira Kohsaka
 (International Coordinator, PEO Project and Professor, Osaka University)

Speaker 2:

Prof. Ronald I. McKinnon
 (Stanford University): "China's Exchange Rate, Trade Balance, and the Wage Explosion"

Commentator 1:

Dr. Pakorn Vichyanond
 (Research Director for Financial and Capital Markets, the Macroeconomic Policy Program, TDRI)

Commentator 2:

Ms. Kumiko Okazaki
 (Senior Economist, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan)

Commentator 3:

Prof. Huang Weiping
 (Renmin University)


16:15 - 17:45

Fourth Session: Climate Change

Chair:

Mr. Jusuf Wanandi
 (Co-Chair, PECC / Chair, INCPEC)

Speaker 1:

Dr. Shuzo Nishioka
 (Senior Visiting Researcher, National Institute for Environmental Studies)

Speaker 2:

Dr. Eric Zusman
 (Policy Researcher, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies)

Speaker 3:

Dr. Hardiv Harris Situmeang
  (Advisor to the National Development Planning Agency and Indonesian National Council on Climate Change)

Speaker 4:

Dr. Soogil Young
 (Chair, KOPEC / Chairman, Presidential Committee on Green Growth, Korea)

Speaker 5:

Prof. Zhao Xiusheng
 (Professor / Research fellow, Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET), Tsinghua University)

Q&A


18:30 - 20:30

DINNER

Remarks:

The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan,
Mr. Seiji Maehara

Speech:

"Speaker from US - looking ahead to 2011"
Mr. Marc M. Wall
  (Minister-Counselor of the U.S. Embassy)


Friday, October 22nd


09:15 - 09:45   

Keynote Speech:

Hon. Cheng Siwei
 (Honorable Chair, CNCPEC and Former Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress)


09:45 - 11:15

Fifth Session: The Post-2010 APEC Trade Agenda

Chair:

Dr. Charles Morrison
 (Co-Chair, PECC / Chair, USAPC)

Speaker 1:

Prof. Shujiro Urata
 (Waseda University)

Speaker 2:

Dr. Narongchai Akrasanee
 (Chair, TNCPEC)

Speaker 3:

Prof. Robert Scollay
 (University of Auckland)

Q&A


11:30 - 13:00

Sixth Session: Roundtable Discussion  The Future of Global and Regional Cooperation: Looking toward the G-20 and APEC

Moderator:

Amb. Yoshiji Nogami
 (Chair, JANCPEC)

Speaker 1:

Dr. Charles Morrison
 (Co-Chair, PECC / Chair, USAPC)

Speaker 2:

Mr. Jusuf Wanandi
 (Co-Chair, PECC / Chair, INCPEC)

Speaker 3:

Prof. Yung-Chul Park
 (Distinguished Professor, Department of International Studies at Korea University)

Speaker 4:

Dr. Manfred Wilhelmy
 (Chair, CHILPEC)


13:00 - 14:15

LUNCHEON

Keynote Speech:

Prof. Motoshige Itoh
 (University of Tokyo)

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