As negotiations for the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement conclude join Asia Society Australia and HSBC to meet Indonesia’s man behind the scenes and understand what comes next for our bilateral trade and investment ties.

We warmly invite you to join us for an Executive Briefing lunch with Thomas Trikasih Lembong, former Indonesian Trade Minister, Asia Society Australia-Victoria Distinguished Fellow, and Chairman of the Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board.

Date: Monday 24 September 
Time: 12:15 for 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm 
Venue: HSBC, Tower 1, International Towers Sydney, Barangaroo NSW 2000

This event is by invitation only, with limited places available. For more information please contact [email protected].

About our speaker:

Thomas Trikasih Lembong, also known as Tom, is the Chairman of Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board. He was the Indonesian Minister of Trade from August 2015 to July 2016. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Lembong served as Managing Partner and CEO of Quvat Management, a Singapore-based private equity fund with investments in Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. Founded in 2006, Quvat manages funds for several leading American universities endowments as well as Asian and Middle-Eastern sovereign wealth funds.  Prior to co-founding Quvat, Mr. Lembong had extensive experience from the financial sector, working amongst others for Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley. From 2000-2002, Mr. Lembong was also a Senior Official at the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA), a government - led economic program set up to restructure Indonesia's banks and private sector non-performing loans following the 1997/98 Asian Financial Crisis.  Mr. Lembong holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from Harvard University. Mr. Lembong was named a Young Global Leader (YGL) by The World Economic Forum (WEF) Davos in 2008.

Asia Society Australia’s Executive Briefings are a curated series of meetings presented by diplomats, business leaders and subject matter experts from Asia and Australia. Designed to offer a deep dive into the critical issues of the day, to an audience of senior executives from the business, political, educational and cultural institutions that make up the Asia Society network.

This event is proudly hosted by HSBC.