Speakers

Guest of Honor

Mr. Chan Chun Sing

Minister for Trade and Industry

Singapore

Keynote Speaker

Mr. Chan Chun Sing

Minister for Trade and Industry

Singapore

Mr Chan Chun Sing is Minister for Trade and Industry and is responsible for driving Singapore’s economic and industrial development. He was appointed Minister for Trade and Industry and Minister-in-charge of the Public Service on 1 May 2018. Mr Chan has also been Deputy Chairman of the People’s Association since 1 October 2015.

Mr Chan was Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) from 4 May 2015 to 22 May 2018. Mr Chan also served as Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office from 9 April 2015 to 30 April 2018, upon relinquishing his prior appointments as Minister for Social and Family Development and Second Minister for Defence, both appointments which he had held since 1 September 2013.

Other previous appointments Mr Chan has held include Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports (21 May 2011 to 31 October 2012) and Minister of State for Information, Communications and the Arts (21 May 2011 to 31 July 2012).

Mr Chan served in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) from 1987 to 2011. He held various appointments including Chief of Army (2010 to 2011), Chief of Staff, Joint Staff (2009 to 2010) and Commander 9th Division / Chief Infantry Officer (2007 to 2009).

Mr Chan was awarded the SAF (Overseas) and President’s Scholarship to study Economics at Christ’s College, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom in 1988 and graduated with First Class Honours. Mr Chan was awarded the Distinguished Master Strategist Award 1998 by the US Army Command and Staff College. In 2005, he completed the Sloan Fellows Programme at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship.

Panelists

The Hatakeyama Dialogue: Navigating the Trade War – Regional Implications of the Sino-American Tensions

H.E. Ambassador Curtis Chin

Senior Asia Fellow, Former US Ambassador to Asian Development Bank

Milken Institute

Panel 1

H.E. Ambassador Curtis Chin

Senior Asia Fellow, Former US Ambassador to Asian Development Bank

Milken Institute

Curtis S. Chin, a Milken Institute Asia fellow, has served as a trustee of World Education Services of New York and is a former U.S. ambassador to the Asian Development Bank. As a member of the ADB board, he pushed for strengthened governance, risk management and development efforts focused on people, planet, and partnership, particularly on infrastructure projects in Asia’s least-developed nations. Through his advisory firm RiverPeak Group LLC, Chin now advises a range of startup firms and impact investors in Asia, including Equator Pure Nature, a leading ASEAN-based, natural consumer products company and clean-tech pioneer; the Dolma Impact Fund, the first international equity fund focused on Nepal; and TAEL Partners, a private equity partner to ASEAN family controlled businesses. Chin previously was a senior executive with Burson-Marsteller in the US, Switzerland, and Asia, where he oversaw Beijing and Hong Kong operations. He has provided counsel to a wide range of governments and businesses on stakeholder engagement, public affairs, corporate responsibility, crisis management and market entry. A regular media presence, Chin can be seen on BBC, Bloomberg TV, CNBC and Fox Business as well as in the Nikkei Asian Review, Singapore Straits Times, South China Morning Post, Wall Street Journal and other media outlets, including via his YouTube channel, “Asia Minute with Curtis Chin.” Follow him on Twitter at @CurtisSChin

Professor Shen Dingli

Institute of International Studies

Fudan University

Panel 1

Professor Shen Dingli

Institute of International Studies

Fudan University

Shen Dingli is a professor and former executive dean at Fudan University’s Institute of International Studies, and former Director of Center for American Studies. He is also an Honorary Visiting Professor of Washington University in St. Louis. He has taught international security, China-US relations, China’s foreign and defense policy in China, the US and the “Semester at Sea” Program. His research and publication covers China-US security relations, regional security and international strategy, arms control and nonproliferation, foreign and defense policy of China and the US etc. He is Vice President of Chinese Association of South Asian Studies, Shanghai Association of International Strategic Studies, Shanghai Association of American Studies, Shanghai UN Research Association, and Shanghai Public Policy Research Association. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Fudan in 1989 and did post-doc in arms control at Princeton University from 1989-1991. He was an Eisenhower Fellow in 1996, and advised in 2002 the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan for his strategic planning of second term. He is on the Global Council of the Asia Society. He has been appointed by both Shanghai and Hangzhou Municipality as respective Convention Ambassador. He has co-edited 17 books and published over 2,500 papers and articles worldwide.

Mr. Kazumasa Kusaka

Chairman & CEO

Japan Economic Foundation

Panel 1

Mr. Kazumasa Kusaka

Chairman & CEO

Japan Economic Foundation

Kazumasa Kusaka has been Chairman and CEO of the Japan Economic Foundation (JEF) since April 1, 2013, and is also a Professor at University of Tokyo Graduate School of Public Policy. He previously served for 36 years in Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), rising to become vice-minister for international affairs in the reorganized Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in 2004. During his long career in public service, Kusaka was seconded to the International Energy Agency (IEA)/OECD and was Japan’s senior official for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). He played a central role in Asia’s economic integration, promoting FTAs in the region as well as serving as a senior official negotiating the Doha development agenda of the WTO. He was head of Japan’s Energy Agency and held director-general positions in technology and environmental policy in addition to trade and investment-related areas within METI. He was also instrumental in finalizing the Kyoto Protocol, and developing Japan’s energy and environment policies. Among many other posts Kusaka has held are Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on Global Warming, senior vice president of Mitsubishi Electric, executive adviser to Dentsu Inc., and president of the Japan Cooperation Center for the Middle East.

Panel 2: Between the BRI and Indo-Pacific – How is ASEAN Responding?

Panel Keynote

Dr. Ong Kian Ming

Deputy Minister
Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Malaysia

Panel 2

Dr. Ong Kian Ming

Deputy Minister
Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Malaysia

Ong Kian Ming obtained his PhD in political science from Duke University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He is currently the Member of Parliament for Bangi, representing the Democratic Action Party (DAP) which is part of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) federal government coalition. He is a 2nd term Member of Parliament.

He was the Head of the Penang Institute office in Kuala Lumpur from 2014 to 2018.

He was appointed as Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry (MITI) in July 2018.

Prior to being elected into public office, he was a lecturer and policy analyst at UCSI University, a private university in Kuala Lumpur. He was also the director of the Malaysian Electoral Roll Analysis Project (MERAP). Prior to his PhD, he worked as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in the KL office and as a policy analyst with two think thanks, the Institute of Strategic Analysis and Policy Research (INSAP) and the Socio-Economic Development and Research (SEDAR) Institute.

He holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE) and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge. He completed his O levels and A levels in Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College in Singapore under the ASEAN scholarship. He studied in La Salle PJ (Primary and Secondary) until Form 3.

Panelists

Dr. Lili Yan Ing

Lead Advisor on International Trade to the Minister of Trade
Ministry of Trade, Indonesia

Panel 2

Dr. Lili Yan Ing

Lead Advisor on International Trade to the Minister of Trade
Ministry of Trade, Indonesia

Lili Yan Ing is the Lead Advisor to the Minister of Trade of Indonesia. She is also the founder of “The Indonesian Economy” (www.indonesianeconomy.com). Dr. Ing served as a Senior Advisor on Trade and Invesment at the President’s Office of Indonesia from 2015 – 2016. She was a Senior Economist at Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, leading projects on trade and investment, from 2012 to 2015 and from 2016 to 2017, and Economist at the World Bank from 2009 to 2012.

She has edited a number of books, among others, The Indonesia Economy: Trade and Industrial Policy (eds. Lili Yan Ing, Gordon Hanson and Sri Mulyani), Production Networks in Southeast Asia (eds Lili Yan Ing and Fukunari Kimura), and Non-Tariff Measures in ASEAN (eds. Lili Yan Ing, Santiago deCordoba and Oliver Cadot) and written a number of articles including 50 Years of Indonesia’s Trade Policy. Her forthcoming book is World Trade Evolution: Growth, Productivity and Employment (eds. Lili Yan Ing and Miaojie Yu). Dr. Ing obtained her PhD on International Trade from the Australian National University in 2009 where she was awarded the ‘Promising Young Economist‘ by the Pacific Trade and Development Forum, and she was the Best and the Fastest Honour Graduate of Gadjah Mada University in 1999.

Dr. Ing’s 12th AAF Presentation

Dr. Panitan Wattanayagorn

Former Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister for Security, Thailand

Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

Panel 2

Dr. Panitan Wattanayagorn

Former Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister for Security, Thailand

Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

Dr. Panitan Wattanayagorn teaches international security and politics at the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. He began teaching at the faculty as a civil servant in 1993 and is now an associate professor. He was a C.V. Starr Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. in 2006 and was the Director of Defence Studies Program at the Institute of Security and International Studies in Bangkok from 1994 to 1996.

Dr. Panitan is working on research projects focusing on Thailand’s role in ASEAN with Professor Amitav Archaya and on Counter Violent Extremism in Southern Thailand with Dr. Sascha Helbardt. The first project is supported by the ASEAN Studies Center at Chulalongkorn University and is to be published in 2020. The second project is under funding review by Thailand Science Research and Innovation office. Dr. Panitan’s academic works include studies on security sector reform, reform of the Thai military, terrorism and criminal law in Thailand, terrorism and threats to human security in Thailand, Thai Elite’s shifting conceptions of security, Thailand’s arms procurement decision making, the development of Thailand’s defence white paper, an arms race in the Asia-Pacific region, and arms modernization and military dependency.

Dr. Panitan has an extensive experience in public office. Between September 2014 and July 2019, he served as a principle adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister for security. From 2014 to 2018, he was the Director at the College of Politics and Governance, King Prajadhipok’s Institute. In 2018, he was appointed by the Prime Minister as an advisor to the National Security Council. Between January 2009 and August 2011, the Cabinet transferred Dr. Panitan from university and appointed him as the Deputy Secretary-General to the Prime Minister for Political Affairs. During the same period, Dr. Panitan was also serving as the Government Spokesperson. From1997 to 2001, he was attached to the Prime Minister’s Office as the Head of Special Working-Group on Defence for Prime Minister/Minister of Defence.

Dr. Panitan was also a member of several national committees and boards, including a drafting committee on Thailand’s National Strategy, a drafting committee on Internal Security Act, a national committee on reconciliation, a national preparation committee on cyber security, a committee on ASEAN meetings, a reform committee on the Ministry of Defence, Prime Minister’s Eminent Persons Advisory Board, and Prime Minister’s advisory committee on national security strategy.

Dr. Panitan holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and two master’s degrees in public administration and international relations. He received a Ph.D. in political science specializing in comparative defence policy from Northern Illinois University in 1993. Dr. Panitan is married and has two sons.

Mr. Jasper Wong

Head of Construction and Infrastructure, Sector Solutions Group

United Overseas Bank (UOB)

Panel 2

Mr. Jasper Wong

Head of Construction and Infrastructure, Sector Solutions Group

United Overseas Bank (UOB)

Mr. Jasper Wong is currently the Head of Centre of Excellence for Construction and Infrastructure, Sector Solutions Group (SSG), a business division within UOB’s Group Wholesale Banking focusing on strategic sector coverage leveraging on industry insights, data analytics and value-chain analyses as well as developing sector-specific solutions.

With over 20 years of extensive project and structured finance experience in the region focusing on power, oil & gas, petrochemical, infrastructure and telecoms financing, Mr Wong joined UOB in 2013 to head the Infrastructure & Project Finance for Asia, under the Corporate Banking Overseas division before taking up the role in SSG.

Prior to UOB, Mr Wong worked in the transportation industry as the Director for Structured Finance Asia in Bombardier Transportation focusing on the company’s external financing activities, including PPP bids, export and project financing, supplier credit evaluation, short term trade and supply chain facilities in the Asia Pacific region.

Before moving to Bombardier Singapore, Mr Wong was the Executive Director in the Project & Export Finance team in RBS Hong Kong, leading in major project financing lending and advisory work for the bank in Asia. He also worked for WestLB AG, Hong Kong with his last position as Head of Credit Risks Management Asia, responsible for project credit risks control, overseeing the structuring and execution support for project finance portfolio in Asia.

Before joining the banking industry, Mr Wong was a Management Consultant with Arthur Andersen, assisting in advisory mandates to clients in the manufacturing and steel sector.

Mr Wong graduated with a Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Accountancy from the University of Mississippi, US.

Panel 3: Moving Beyond the Trade War – Digitisation and Transformation in ASEAN

Ms. Pimchanok Vonkorpon

Director-General, Trade Policy and Strategy Office
Ministry of Commerce, Thailand

Panel 2

Ms. Pimchanok Vonkorpon

Director-General, Trade Policy and Strategy Office
Ministry of Commerce, Thailand

Pimchanok Vonkorpon is Director-General of Trade Policy and Strategy Office (TPSO) at the Ministry of Commerce, Thailand. TPSO is a Department-level office at the Ministry of Commerce that was established in 2015 and has 2 main responsibilities – devising the country’s trade policy strategy – domestic and international trade – and producing key trade and economic indices and indicators including CPI, PPI, CCI and services index, and their analysis. The department also hosts “Trade Intelligence System (TIS)”, a “Big Data” unit for the Ministry.

Prior to this, Pimchanok was Minister (Commercial) and Head of Office of Commercial Affairs at the Royal Thai Embassy to Belgium and Luxembourg and Mission of Thailand to the European Union. Her early career was predominantly focused on trade negotiations particularly on services, investment, sustainable development (environment and labour) and her negotiations experiences spanned from multilateral- (WTO) and regional- (ASEAN and APEC) to bilateral-level (FTA).

While posted as Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Thailand to the World Trade Organisation between 1999-2003 in Geneva, Pimchanok chaired the Committee on Specific Commitments under the Council for Trade in Services at the WTO (2001/02). After her return to the capital, she served as Lead Negotiator for Thailand on services in numerous FTA negotiations including those with the US, Japan, China, EFTA, Australia-New Zealand and with the EU (on sustainable development).

At the helm of TPSO since its establishment, Pimchanok has geared the new department to be one of the leading “Think Tank” government agencies specializing in trade issues. Her vision is to see TPSO’s future works focusing on three main agenda – trade competitiveness and strategy, local economy development and adaptation to the new economy. She believes that these three components are vital for Thailand’s future path towards sustainable and balanced economic growth.

Pimchanok received her B.C.A (Bachelor of Commerce and Administration) from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand under scholarship from the New Zealand government and obtained her M.A. on Public Policy from Graduate Institute of Policy Studies in Japan under the Monbusho Scholarship from the Japanese Government. She attended training courses on Trade Policy at the WTO and Good Governance in Managing Public Policy at L’Ecole Nationale d’Administration (l’ENA) in France under scholarship from the WTO and the ADB, respectively. In 2011, she attended an executive education course at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government on Global Change for the 21st Century. Most recently, she graduated from the Capital Market Academy (CMA) in Thailand (26th class) and the Thailand’s Institute of Justice (Rule of Law and Development).

Pimchanok enjoys discussing history and her current interest is on inequality.

Mr. Kiren Kumar

Assistant Managing Director

EDB, and Digital Industry Singapore

Panel 2

Mr. Kiren Kumar

Assistant Managing Director

EDB, and Digital Industry Singapore

Mr Kiren Kumar is the Assistant Managing Director of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). He oversees the Infocomms & Media industry cluster, Marketing & Communications division, Customer Experience Management & Singapore Welcome Centre for Corporates.

Since joining the EDB in 2001, Kiren has worked on various portfolios including economic policies formulation and industry development in sectors including: Info-Comms & Media, Electronics and Precision Engineering. During his secondment to the International Enterprise Singapore (IES) from 2004-2005, he assisted Singapore based companies to expand into the Asian, European and American markets.

From 2006 – 2011, Kiren was part of the Global Operations Division as Regional Director (Americas – based in New York) and Centre Director (Nordics & Russia – based in Stockholm). He worked closely with various multinational corporations on their Asian strategies and their investments into Singapore.

Kiren is a Singapore EDB Scholar who graduated with a:
Bachelors of Engineering (Mechanical & Industrial Engineering) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC);
Masters of Management Science from Stanford University;
and Masters of Business Administration (Sloan Fellows Programme in Innovation and Global Leadership) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Ms. Shyn Yee Ho-Strangas

Director, Global Product Management

Brand Expedia

Panel 2

Ms. Shyn Yee Ho-Strangas

Director, Global Product Management

Brand Expedia

Based in Singapore, Shyn Yee holds the role of Director, Global Product Management for ‘Brand Expedia’, an iconic online travel brand in Expedia Group’s portfolio of leading travel brands.

Shyn Yee draws on a deep understanding of travel, the global online travel marketplace, and Expedia Group’s innovation and expertise. She is responsible for developing the go-to-market product strategy for global market expansion, expanding both Expedia Group’s global footprint and online travel audiences for suppliers around the world. Shyn Yee also oversees Brand Expedia’s product strategy in the chat apps space. Shyn Yee directs and utilizes Expedia Group’s core platform, technology and innovation and leverages global travel product to inform and design strategies aligned to business development goals.

In her six years with Expedia Group, Shyn Yee has also led Brand Expedia’s retail strategy in China, and Merchandising efforts across Asia, overseeing all regional merchandising strategies and activities for Expedia Group’s portfolio brands, across 25 points-of-sale in 13 countries (at the time).

Shyn Yee has spent her career developing a broad set of expertise in the travel industry, including general management, strategic development, product management, online distribution and hotel revenue maximization. Her perspective and experience span across Asia Pacific, having held various roles in organizations across the travel industry value chain.

Prior to joining Expedia Group, Shyn was part of the Digital Marketing team at Starwood Asia Pacific Hotels and Resorts supporting more than 250 upscale hotel properties; and prior to that, Assistant Director at Horwath HTL where she led consulting engagements, focusing on strategic expansion and hotel and resort developments in the region.

A strong advocate for women empowerment, education and young talent development, Shyn Yee founded and co-led the Women at Expedia, Leading and Learning (WELL) Singapore Chapter from 2014-2016; and is also actively involved with her alma mater, the Singapore Management University (SMU) as a guest lecturer, student mentor and Founding President of the SMU Travel and Hospitality Alumni Group (SMUTH). She is a Fellow Member with the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) Company of Good programme for the year 2017, and is actively involved in Expedia Group’s corporate giving efforts in Singapore.

Shyn Yee is a proud mother of a prolific pre-schooler and an inquisitive toddler. In her free time, she is an avid reader, budding musician, and attempts to learn more foreign languages: she currently speaks seven languages.

Mr. Vijay Motwani

Chief Operating Officer

SAP South East Asia

Panel 2

Mr. Vijay Motwani

Chief Operating Officer

SAP South East Asia

Vijay P. Motwani is the Chief Operating Officer for SAP South East Asia. He has more than 32 years of experience in the technology industry; 22 of those years have been with SAP across different portfolios in Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ). He is a veteran in strategic sales, innovation and thought leadership, and profit and loss management. In the South East Asia market, he is primarily responsible for leadership development, driving strong pipeline and revenues and ensuring the alignment of team priorities with the growth objectives. He also leads the efforts of colleagues in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar and other emerging markets to help ASEAN run better and improve people’s lives.

Prior to his current role, Vijay has held many executive positions within the company. In these roles, he was instrumental in meeting the business needs of customers through innovative software solutions.

He was most recently the Regional Vice President for Strategic Industries & Innovation, SAP Asia Pacific Japan. During his tenure, he focused on large, multimillion-dollar program implementations across retail, telecommunications, financial services and government sectors. He was a top performer in significantly contributing to the achievement of revenue and profitability targets.

He holds an Executive MBA from Rutgers Business School, post graduate certificate in Software Technology from the National Center of Software Technology and engineering degree from the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute.

Moderators

Associate Professor Simon Tay

Chairman

Singapore Institute of International Affairs

Moderators

Assoc Prof. Simon Tay

Chairman

Singapore Institute of International Affairs

Simon SC Tay is a public intellectual as well as an advisor to major corporations and policy-makers.

He is Chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, the country’s oldest think tank. The SIIA’s work focuses on the politics, economic policies and sustainablity issues that matter to corporatoons and policy makers. The SIIA is ranked by an international survey as a leading think tank in ASEAN and Asia, and has advised the Indonesian and Myanmar governments on foreign investment.

He is concurrently a tenured Associate Professor, teaching international law at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. He has also taught at Harvard Law School, the Fletcher School and Yale University. His book, Asia Alone: the Dangerous Post Crisis Divide from America (Wiley 2010) was well reviewed in the Economist and Financial Times. His comments and interviews feature in the international and regonal media, including the BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, NHK Japan and CCTV.

Prof Tay is also Senior Consultant at WongPartnership, a leading Asian law firm of some 300 lawyers and with offices in ASEAN, China and the Middle East. He has served on boards for global companies including MUFG Bank of Japan and was previously Corporate Advisor to Temasek Holdings (2006-09). He has spoken at leading business conferences including the World Economic Forum, APEC CEO Summits and SIBOS, and briefed major corporate boards and financial institutions.

From 1992 to 2008, he served in a number of public appointments for Singapore including as Chairman of the National Environment Agency (2002-08); an independent Member of Parliament (1997-2001); and to coordinate the country’s equivalent of the Peace Corps (1990-93). He was chair or co-chair for a number of public commissions such as Singapore 21, the Singapore Green Plan and the Singapore Concept Plan 2010. In 2006, Prof Tay received a National Day Award. He served Singapore as an Expert and Eminent Person in the ASEAN Regional Forum from 2002 to March 2019.

He is a prize winning author of fiction and poetry. His 2010 novel City of Small Blessings was awarded the Singapore Literature Prize. He graduated in law from the National University of Singapore (1986), where he was president of the student union for three terms. He also holds a Masters in Law from Harvard Law School (1993-94), which he attended on a Fulbright Scholarship and where he won the Laylin prize for the best thesis in international law.

He was born in 1961 and is the only son of the late Tay Seow Huah, who was a senior civil servant in the government reporting to the Prime Minister and Defence Minister, and the late Madam Cheong Keong Hin, a teacher. Prof Tay has one son.

Mr. Nicholas Fang

Director, Security & Global Affairs

Singapore Institute of International Affairs

Moderators

Mr. Nicholas Fang

Director, Security & Global Affairs

Singapore Institute of International Affairs

Nicholas Fang joined the Singapore Institute of International Affairs in 2010 and is currently the institute’s director for security and global affairs.

Nicholas started his career as a journalist, and spent nine years at The Straits Times, rising to the position of senior correspondent. He then joined Singapore’s national broadcaster Mediacorp where he spent two years as business desk editor at regional news channel Channel NewsAsia, before taking on other senior editorial positions. He was most recently deputy chief editor of Singapore news at Mediacorp.

Nicholas was appointed Nominated Member of the Singapore Parliament in February 2012, where he served a two-and-a-half-year term and focused on issues pertaining to national security and defence, international affairs, media and sports. He has served on the boards of non-government organisations Mercy Relief and the Social Innovation Park, and is also a member of the advisory committee of the Youth Corps Singapore. He was Team Singapore’s Chef de Mission at the 2015 South-east Asian Games hosted in Singapore.

He founded Black Dot Pte Ltd in 2012, a strategic communications consultancy that offers public relations, media, sponsorship and marketing consultancy services.</p<

Ms. Chen Chen Lee

Director, Policy Programmes

Singapore Institute of International Affairs

Moderators

Ms. Chen Chen Lee

Director, Policy Programmes

Singapore Institute of International Affairs

Chen Chen Lee is Director of Policy Programmes at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), the country’s oldest think tank and founding member of the ASEAN-ISIS network of think tanks. Since 2015, she has led both the ASEAN and Sustainability teams, analysing regional political and economic relations, as well as the haze, the resource sector and sustainable infrastructure. Prior to that, Chen Chen was the Head of Strategic Planning and Coordination Division at the ASEAN Secretariat based in Jakarta for 4 years. Chen Chen started her career as a TV producer with Channel News Asia. She was a Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholar, where she majored in International Relations. She has written and published articles on ASEAN’s centrality, ASEAN’s digital economy, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, haze and climate change in ASEAN, Indonesia’s political economy, etc.