Conferences Agendas and Reports

Third Annual Asian Dialogue on HIV/AIDS
As India moves quickly into the 21st century to assume a global leadership position across all sectors, including business, arts, politics and security, the impact of HIV/AIDS threatens to reverse its potential growth and prosperity. With more than 5 million people estimated to be living with the virus, India’s HIV/AIDS prevalence is second in the world only to South Africa; there were half a million new infections last year alone and there are ominous signs that it is spreading. The stakes are very high—an unchecked HIV epidemic could undermine economic gains in the world's largest democracy.

Asian Corporate Conference
An impressive roster of mulitnationals and organizations operating in Asia have sponsored the Asian Corporate Conference, along with Dow Jones & Company, which has been an Organizing Sponsor since 1993. Through keynote addresses by heads of Asian governments and other key decision-makers, as well as roundtable discussions with business and policy leaders from around the world, this unique conference highlights developments in the conference site country, while examininig the cutting edge issues shaping important trends in Asia's dymanic markets and in the global economy.

Kazakhstan Draws a New Wave of Investment: Strategies for Diversification and Sustainable Growth
Asia Society’s International Business Conference
June 14-16, 2005

The Williamsburg Conference
The Williamsburg Conference is the pre-eminent gathering of leading Americans and Asians committed to strengthening US-Asia relations. Founded by John D. Rockefeller, 3d in 1971, the Williamsburg Conference has brought top leaders from Asia and the United States together for the past 35 years to discuss the greatest challenges facing the Asia-Pacific community and develop creative approaches for addressing them.

To assure its continued vitality, in 2007 the Williamsburg Conference has shifted its structure from the three co-convenors system of previous years to the Steering and Executive Committee system. 13 distinguished individuals from the Asia-Pacific region currently serve as members of the Steering Committee and five members of the Steering Committee also serve on the Executive Committee. Members of the Committees assist the Asia Society in identifying key themes/issues to be discussed, and recruit the next generation of leaders of the region to participate in the Conference.

The Williamsburg Conference provides a forum that brings together the top leaders from government, business, academia, and other sectors from across Asia and the United States to thoughtfully explore the most challenging issues facing the Asia-Pacific community and develop proposals for how these challenges can be collaboratively addressed; and build a network of these leaders whose relationships with one another developed through the Williamsburg process can facilitate engaged multi-national and cross-sectoral dialogue and the peaceful resolution of any conflicts that may emerge.

The three-day Williamsburg conference has been held in 17 countries across Asia, including Siem Riep (Cambodia), New Delhi (India), Hanoi (Vietnam), Zhongshan (China), and Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia). It has also been held five times in the United States.

(Please note: 2004-2008 Williamsburg Conference reports are downloadable PDF documents that require Adobe Reader for viewing. Click here to download Adobe Reader.)

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China's Capital Markets:
Is the Global Financial Center of Gravity Moving East?
October 12, 2006

A Vision for a 21st Century India:
Economic Powerhouse and Global Leader
Thursday, March 17, 2005

China, Northeast Asia and the Next American Administration
A One-day Conference co-sponsored by The Brookings Institution and The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Social Sciences
Hong Kong, December 2, 2004

The Human Security Challenges of HIV/AIDS and Other Communicable Diseases: Exploring Effective Regional and Global Responses.
Click here for Japanese version of transcript.
Tokyo, March 2004

New Priorities in South Asia: U.S. Policy Toward India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
Chairmen’s Report of an Independent Task Force
Cosponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asia Society. October 2003.

Afghanistan: Are We Losing the Peace?
Mahnaz Ispahani
Senior Fellow for South and West Asia
Chairmen's Report on Afghanistan by the Independent Task Force on India and South Asia cosponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asia Society. June 2003.

Investing in China's Capital Markets: Where Will WTO-Sparked Reforms Lead?
May 2002.
Justin Sommers, Rapporteur

The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know
November 2001.
Justin Sommers, Rapporteur

Yankee Go Home But Take Me With You
Yet Another Perspective on Indo-American Relations
Jairam Ramesh
Presented at the Roundtable on Indo-American Relations organized by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asia Society. November 1999.

South Asia After the Tests Where Do We Go From Here?
Roundtable Report
July 1, 1998

South Asia and the United States after the Cold War
Rapporteur, Satu Limaye
A group of prominent academics, business people, and journalists report on their spring 1994 trip to South Asia. The report includes recommendations on U.S. policy for the region.

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