PECC GENERAL MEETING
October 20-22, 2010
Hotel Okura, Tokyo, Japan

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

Meeting Program

Wednesday, October 20th Room
18:30 - 20:30 PECC XIX WELCOME RECEPTION Continental 1F


Thursday, October 21st Room
09:30 - 17:45 PECC XIX PLENARY SESSION  

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, The Japan Institute of International Affairs)
Heian 1F

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, The Asian Development Bank Institute,(ADBI))
Speaker 3:
Dato' Dr. Mahani Zainal Abidin (Chair, MANCPEC / Chief Executive,Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia)
Q&A
Heian 1F
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break Heian 1F
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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.)
Commentators:
Prof. Noriyuki Takayama (Hitotsubashi University)
Dr. Etsuji Okamoto (National Institute of Public Health)
Prof. Naoki Mitani (Kobe University)
Q&A
Heian 1F

13:00 - 14:15
LUNCHEON
Keynote Speech:
Mr. Yoichi Otabe (Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan)
Akebono 1F

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.)
Atlantic
1F
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:
Dr. 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
Continental 1F
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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:
Dr. Mikio Ishiwatari (Senior Advisor, The Japan International Cooperation Agency, (JICA))
Oak 2F
Concurrent Session 4:
Pacific Economic Outlook(PEO): Macrofinancial Linkages and Financial Deepening (PECC Project)
Chair and Speaker 1:
Prof. Akira Kohsaka (International Coordinator, Pacific Economic Outlook (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, Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI))
Commentator 2:
Ms. Kumiko Okazaki (Senior Economist, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan)
Commentator 3:
Prof. Huang Weiping (Renmin University)
Heian 1F
16:00 - 16:15 Coffee Break Heian 1F

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, the Republic of Korea)
Speaker 5:
Prof. Zhao Xiusheng (Professor / Research fellow, Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET), Tsinghua University)
Q&A
  
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18:30 - 20:30
DINNER
Remarks:
   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 US Embassy in Tokyo)
Akebono 1F

Friday, October 22nd Room
09:15 - 14:15 PECC XIX PLENARY SESSION  

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)
Heian 1F

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
Heian 1F
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break Heian 1F

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)
Akebono 1F
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