Warwick ASEAN Conference 2015
Speakers
His Excellency Dato Ahmad Rasidi Bin Hazizi
High Commissioner of Malaysia to the UK
Attila Emam
Group Head of Risk & Government Relations, Air Asia
Officiating Speech
Opening Keynote
His Excellency Sayakane Sisouvong
Laos Ambassador to the UK;
Former Deputy Secretary General for ASEAN Political Security
2009-2014
Nicola Stewart
Southeast Asia Research Analyst – Asia Pacific Research Group Foreign and Commonwealth
Office UK
Professor Duncan McCargo
Professor of Political Science at the University of Leeds;
President of European Association for Southeast Asian Studies
Dr. Gerard Lyons
Chief Economic Adviser,
Mayor of London
Politics-Security Session
Professor Danny Quah
Datuk S. K. Lingam
Professor of Economics and International Development, and Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre,
London School of Economics and Political Science
President of ASEAN UK Business Forum (AUBF), Chairman of Malaysian Link UK (MLUK), Senior Vice president Friends of Barisan Nasional UK
Dr. Dessy Irawati FERSA
Full-time executive consultant and Business Representative of BNI (Bank Negara Indonesia), CEO and founder of eduPRIME, President for I-4
Korn Chatikavanij
Chairman of Thailand Democrat Party Policy Unit, Former Finance Minister of Thailand 2008-2011
Human Rights Panel
Sociocultural Session
Dr. Janet Cochrane
Senior Research Fellow,
School of Events, Tourism and Hospitality
Leeds Beckett University
Dr. Alice M Nah
Moderators
Research and Teaching Fellow
Center for Applied Human Rights
University of York
Special Address
Sinapan Samydorai
Convenor-Consultant, Task Force on ASEAN Migrant Workers
Corporate Session
Dr. Mohammad Nazir OBE
CEO, Ghanim International UK Ltd..
Soksamphoas Im Meas
Deputy Secretary General of External Affairs to ASEAN Youth
Leaders’ Association – AYLA
Dr. Catherine Jones
East Asia Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
Dr. Lena Rethel
Associate Professor of International Political Economy Department of Politics and
International Studies, University of Warwick
Dr. Juanita Elias
Associate Professor in International Political Economy Department of Politics and
International Studies, University of Warwick