Upcoming Events 
Speaker: Andrew Sheng, Chief Adviser to the China Banking Regulatory Commission
Date: Monday, 9 November 2009
Time: 5.00 p.m. - 6.15 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: This is a unique insider account of the new world of unfettered finance. The author, an Asian regulator, examines how old mindsets, market fundamentalism, loose monetary policy, carry trade, lax supervision, greed, cronyism, and financial engineering caused both the Asian crisis of the late 1990s and the global crisis of 2008–2009. This book shows how the Japanese zero interest rate policy to fight deflation helped create the carry trade that generated bubbles in Asia whose effects brought Asian economies down. The study’s main purpose is to demonstrate that global finance is so interlinked and interactive that our current tools and institutional structure to deal with critical episodes are completely outdated. The book explains how current financial policies and regulation failed to deal with a global bubble and makes recommendations on what must change.
Speaker: Susan C. Schwab, Former U.S. Trade Representative and Professor, University of Maryland
Date: Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Time: 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Speaker: Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Time: 3.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: In the wake of the financial crisis, governments and businesses are trying to figure out new realities and paradigms of how to work together to achieve economic recovery. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce believes in the critical role of governments in establishing clear rules, ensuring the rule of law, resolving disputes in courts, providing education and infrastructure, and protecting health and safety. To achieve these goals, governments need officials who understand the impact of policies on economic systems and support policies that create a climate that promotes economic growth, innovation, and business development.
Speakers:
Ms. Aban Marker Kabraji, IUCN Asia Regional Director
Dr. T. P. Singh, Ph.D, Regional Group Head, Ecosystems and Livelihoods, Bangkok
Mr. Ganesh Pangare, Water and Wetlands Programme Coordinator, IUCN Asia
Mr. Donald J. Macintosh, Ph.D., Coordinator Mangroves for the Future (MFF), IUCN Asia Regional Office
Co-Organiser: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Time: 5.00p.m. ‐ 7.00 p.m.
Venue: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Auditorium, Level 3, Blk B, Faculty of Law, NUS Bukit Timah Campus, 469G Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772
Synopsis: Nature is changing – more frequent and unpredictable violent storms, heat waves, forest fires, floods, droughts, retreating glaciers and ice sheets, rising sea levels – these are just a few examples of the impacts of Climate Change on the world today. As world leaders meet at the Conference of Parties in Copenhagen to agree on a global response to the problem, the whole world is grappling to understand what Climate Change means to us, and what we can do about it.
In this dialogue, experts from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will explore the impacts of Climate Change on Asia’s people, economies and states. We will discuss issues affecting our environments from the Himalayas to the oceans. We will talk about the role of policy at global and national levels and its effectiveness in addressing these issues. Finally, we discuss the opportunities of nature‐based solutions, and the positive actions Asian policy makers and the business community can take to improve Asia’s resilience to the impacts of Climate Change. Please come and discuss these topics with IUCN, raise your own concerns and explore possible responses to one of the most important issues affecting our lives today.
