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