Guest Speakers
Mrs Lim Hwee Hua, Minister, The Prime Minister's Office, Singapore
Mrs Lim Hwee Hua was appointed Minister of State for Finance and Transport on 12 August 2004. She was promoted to Senior Minister of State for Finance and Transport on 1 April 2008.
On 1 April 2009, she was promoted to Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and appointed concurrently as Second Minister for Finance and Second Minister for Transport.
Eisuke Sakakibara, Professor of Aoyama University, Japan
Eisuke Sakakibara became Professor of Aoyama University in Tokyo in 2010. From 1997 - 1999 he was the Vice Minister of Finance and International Affairs.
Prior to this Professor Sakakibara has held many government positions including that of Director General of the International Finance Bureau and Special Advisor to the President at the Japan Center for International Finance.
Session Speakers
Jesmond Blumenfeld
Associate Senior Lecturer, Brunel Business School, Brunel University, London
Independent Consultant on African politics and economics
Philip Bowring
Asia columnist, the International Herald Tribune
Consultant on regional affairs for numerous financial institutions and specialist in East Asian Economy
Noel Brehony
Chairman, Menas Associates
Chairman, Council for British Research in the Levant
Advisor, Middle East Affairs, Rolls-Royce Plc
Harvey Chen
Founder & President of First Light Academy
Former Senior Currency Analyst, JP Morgan Chase
Bibek Debroy
is an economist and is Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi. He is also a Visiting Honorary Senior Fellow at the Institute for South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, a member of India's National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council and a Contributing Editor to the Indian Express group of newspapers.
Matt Ferchen
Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Living in China since 2000, Ferchen specializes in the political economy of China's domestic informal economy as well as China's trade and investment relations with Latin America.
Mark Galeotti
Academic Chair, Center for Global Affairs, New York University. Specialises in Transnational crime, Terrorism and insurgency.
Philip Hanson
Associate Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs
Graham Hutchings
Managing Editor, The Oxford Analytica Daily Brief
Francis McGowan
Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sussex; Research Fellow in the Sussex European Institute. Research interests are focused on questions of regulation and liberalisation with a particular focus on the European Union. He is currently working on a British Academy funded project comparing the responses of the European Union to the energy crises of the 1970s and 2000s.
Rory Macleod
Managing Director, Objective Analysis; former Head of Fixed Income and Currency, Baring Asset Management; Specialises in Financial markets and investments.
Vanessa Rossi
Senior Research Fellow, International Economics, Chatham House
Anthony Rowley
Field Editor, Japan, Oxford Analytica
Former Business Editor and International Finance Editor for the Far Eastern Economic Review
David Washbrook
Senior Research Fellow,Trinity College, Cambridge University
Fellow Emeritus of St Antony's College, University of Oxford.
His special interest lies in southern India on whose history, politics and economy he has published extensively.
Laurence Whitehead
Senior Fellow, Politics, Nuffield College
University of Oxford
