East Asia Forum
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| URL | http://www.eastasiaforum.org/ |
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| Type of site | News and commentary |
| Launched | 17 October 2006 |
East Asia Forum (EAF) is a policy forum directed by Emeritus Professor Peter Drysdale of the Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University. Australia’s former Treasurer, the Hon. Peter Costello, launched the EAF and the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) at ANU on 17 October 2006.[1] Indonesia’s Minister for Economic Coordination, Boediono, launched EABER in Bogor, Indonesia in 2005.
The Forum provides a place for dialogue on Asian economic and public policy affairs at www.eastasiaforum.org and is coordinated through the Crawford School of Economics and Government in College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University.[2]
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[edit] Events
The East Asia Forum hosted a dialogue at the end of March 2008 with high level policy speakers from around the Asia Pacific region. The group included ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan, Professors Kim Beazley, Richard Cooper, Ross Garnaut, Justin Yifu Lin and many others.[3][4] Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave his first foreign policy speech at the official dinner.[5]
[edit] Blog
The EAF blog offers daily analysis of current events, trends and major themes around Asia and the region, with a focus on public policy issues, including trade, economic policy, governance, international relations, and political developments. Content includes Australian, East Asian and Asia Pacific region perspectives, with contributors from right around the region. It is run out of EABER, which is housed in the Crawford School of Economics and Government, ANU. It is edited by Shiro Armstrong and Peter Drysdale who are economists at the ANU.[6]
[edit] Contributors
Contributors to the blog include:
- Peter Drysdale, Head of EABER and Emeritus Professor, ANU.
- Andrew MacIntyre, Dean, College of Asia and Pacific, ANU.
- Suman Bery, Director-General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi.
- Yoichi Funabashi, Editor-in-Chief, Asahi Shimbun.
- Ross Garnaut, Professor of Economics, ANU.
- Gary Hawke, Professor, Victoria University of Wellington & NZIER
- Yiping Huang, Adjunct Professor, Crawford School and Asia Chief Economist, Citigroup.
- Rajiv Kumar, Director and Chief Executive, Indian Council of Research in International Economic Relations.
- Chung-In Moon, Professor, Yonsei University, and Ambassador for International Security Affairs, MOFAT, Republic of Korea.
- Amin Saikal, Director, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, and Professor of Political Science, ANU.
- Hadi Soesastro, Executive Director and Senior Economist, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta.
- Vo Thi Tranh, Director, International Economic Integration Studies, Central Institute of Economic Management, Vietnam.
- Hugh White, Head, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU.
- Yongsheng Zhang, Senior Research Fellow, Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC), PRC and Professor, Renmin University of China.[7]
Guest contributors include:
- Jagdish Bhagwati, Professor Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
- Rod Eddington, CEO of J P Morgan, Australia, Chair Designate of the ANZ Bank Board, member of the Board of News Ltd, and Head of Infrastructure Australia.
- Takatoshi Ito, Professor, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo.
- Yu Yongding, Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.[8]
[edit] Featured Issues
- Asia-Pacific Community
- Global Financial Crisis
- WTO and Multilateral Trade
- G20
- Climate Change
- Chinese Economic and Political Transition
- Obama and Asia
