SBF scheduled for July 8-9
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The Sasin Bangkok Forum (SBF) will kick off on July 8, with a number of big-wig guest speakers from the around the world to help share their ideas and opinions on a number of issues.
The two-day forum is hosted under the theme "Asia's Transformation", as an academic and neutral platform for top leaders and rising stars to exchange views on improving the state of Thailand and ASEAN.
The Sasin Bangkok Forum is an independent, non-ideological platform dedicated to advancing the economic and social welfare of Thailand and its Asian neighbors by engaging key figures in the public and private sectors, scholars, civil society members, and the media to shape the regional agenda.
The forum was created as Sasin, as a collaborator in Thailand’s competitiveness survey for the past 5 years in collaboration with TDRI (Thailand Development & Research Institution), witnessed Thailand's eroding competitiveness position in the past years.
Under the tentative schedule, guest speakers include Professor Deborah J. Lucas, Ph.D., Sloan School of Management, MIT; Professor Lian Ping, Ph.D., Chief Economist, Bank of Communications, Shanghai PRC; Kishan Kumar Modi, Chairman of K.K. Modi Group, India; Noritada Morita, former Director-General of the Programs
Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB); Dr. Hiroyuki Taguchi, JICA Expert in Office of the National Economics and Social Development Board (from Cabinet Office,
Government of Japan); U Htay Aung, Deputy Minister for the Ministry of Hotels and
Tourism, Myanmar; Professor Mohanbir Sawhney, Ph.D., Kellogg School of
Management, Northwestern University; Professor Siqing Peng, Ph.D., Guanghua School of Management, Peking University; Steven Nia, Chairman of NIAenergy.com, USA; and Professor Michael Useem, Ph.D., The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Dr Eric S. Rosengren, President and CEO, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Dr. Charles L. Evans, President and CEO, The Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago will also descend to Bangkok for a private dinner meeting.
The articles that are posted on this website are parts of the forum's agenda. See more of the schedules on http://www.sasinbangkokforum.org/about-sasin-bangkok-forum.html.
