New Geopolitics: APEC 2023 and the Asia-Pacific Business Landscape
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11:45 Registration
12:00 Welcoming Remarks
12:05 Lunch
12:50 Opening Remarks
12:55 Panel Discussion
13:35 Audience Q&A
13:55 Closing Remarks
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Asia Society Hong Kong Center is proud to present the latest program in our Scholar-in-Residence Series featuring Alejandro Reyes and Li Cheng, focused on the New Geopolitics of Asia. In this program, Professors Li and Reyes will be joined by Monica Hardy Whaley of the Seattle-based National Center for APEC to set the scene for this year’s APEC Leaders’ Summit hosted by the United States in San Francisco. The panel will explore the prospects for constructive outcomes from this year’s APEC leaders’ summit, taking into account the geopolitical challenges surrounding APEC and other multilateral engagements in the coming months. They will discuss what has happened during the 2023 APEC cycle to date and the key concerns and interests of business stakeholders in the Asia-Pacific region that are feeding into the APEC agenda.
Monica Hardy Whaley is President of the National Center for APEC (NCAPEC) has been with NCAPEC since the Center’s founding after the first-ever APEC Leaders Meeting that took place in Seattle in 1993. Monica is responsible for management of NCAPEC’s policy and administrative staff, membership, fundraising and fiscal management, and serves as the public spokesperson and representative of the National Center for APEC.
NCAPEC is the home of the APEC 2023 USA Private Sector Host Committee, the U.S. secretariat for the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (US-PECC), the secretariat for the U.S. appointees to the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), and Pacific Summit Resources, LLC, which partners with APEC Host economies to produce the annual APEC CEO Summit programs. NCAPEC was also the lead coordinator for the APEC 2011 USA CEO Summit Host Committee. Prior to assuming her responsibilities at the National Center for APEC, Monica served in various roles at the Washington Council on International Trade (WCIT), the premier trade policy organization in the most trade-dependent U.S. state. WCIT served as the coordinating organization for the U.S. hosting of the 1993 APEC meetings, which were the first APEC gatherings convened at the Leaders level.
Monica holds bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and French from the University of Santa Clara and studied in Paris at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Pô). She is an Alternate Member of the U.S. APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC), Chair of the US-APEC Business Coalition, a member of the U.S. Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (US-PECC) as well as being a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.
Li Cheng is professor of political science and founding director of the Centre on Contemporary China and the World at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Li’s research areas include the transformation of political leaders, the Chinese middle class, technological development in China, Sino-U.S. relations, and global governance. Li is the author and editor of 17 books, including more recently Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping U.S.-China Engagement, The Power of Ideas: The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China, and Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era.
Prior to joining HKU, Li served as director and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center, where he remains a nonresident senior fellow. Dr. Li is also a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a Distinguished Fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at University of Toronto, a nonresident fellow at Yale University’s Paul Tsai China Center, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Li received an M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University.
Professor Alejandro Reyes was previously adjunct professor and director of knowledge dissemination at the Asia Global Institute, the think tank on global issues at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), where he managed the digital journal AsiaGlobal Online. Prior to joining the Institute, he was for two years senior policy adviser to the assistant deputy minister for Asia Pacific and set up and led the Asia-Pacific policy planning unit at Global Affairs Canada, the Canadian foreign ministry. He had previously served in the department in 2002 as a senior policy adviser to the Canadian foreign minister, working on the G8 and a review of Canadian foreign policy.
From 2007 to 2017, he was an associate professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at HKU. A Hong Kong-based independent consultant from 2001 to 2017, he worked with several foundations and international organizations including the G20 Business Summit, the Clinton Global Initiative, the World Economic Forum and the US-Asia Institute, as well as some corporate clients. He has edited or written several books including a history of Manila in the closing days of the Japanese Occupation, an Asian investment guide, and a survey of the financial services sector in Asia. He began his professional career as a journalist with Asiaweek magazine, part of Time Inc, where he worked from 1988 to 2001 in Hong Kong and Singapore. Born in the Philippines and a citizen of Canada, he was educated at Harvard University and the University of Oxford and in 2000 was awarded an honorary doctorate by Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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