The full agenda for the 2016 Corporate Affairs Forum – entitled “Unlocking the Power of Trade and Investment” – has been released.
The forum, taking place at The Fullerton Hotel on Tuesday 10 May 2016, is sponsored by lead sponsor Vriens & Partners and co-sponsrs KKR and GR Japan. The event, now in its sixth year, is aimed at an audience of senior corporate public affairs and communications practitioners operating across the region.
Click here for the agenda.
Sessions will include the politics of trade and investment in Asia Pacific today, the practice of government relations in-country and regionally and the function of effective stakeholder engagement. The session will also include a top-level panel discussion on the impact NGOs and interest groups can have on companies’ licence to operate in Asia Pacific’s markets.
Mark O’Brien, Vice President of PublicAffairsAsia, said: “Corporate affairs practitioners are at the battlefront: monitoring and shaping the political, regulatory, trading and investment environment. It’s a high risk, fast moving game in which your company can flourish or fail based on how you respond to these changes. This years forum brings together a wide range of experts who will share their experience of dealing with a fast changing regulatory and policy environment.”
Partners for the executive-level event include AmCham Singapore, Food Industry Asia and The Europe-ASEAN Business Alliance.
Conferenced speakers include:
- Hans Vriens, Managing Partner, Vriens & Partners
- Segsarn Trai-Ukos, Secretary General for East Asia and Oceania and Country Director, Thailand, Michelin
- Akihiko Tamura, Senior Fellow, The Research Institute of Economy Trade and Industry (RIETI), Japan
- Ann Lavin, Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs SE Asia and China, Google Inc
- Deborah Elms, Executive Director, The Asian Trade Centre
- Steve Okun, Director of Asia-Pacific Public Affairs, KKR
- Bruce Blakeman, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Cargill
- Jim Loi, Counsellor, US Embassy, Singapore
- Shiumei Lin, Vice President of Public Affairs Asia Pacific, UPS
- Rafaelle Quarto, EU Trade and Economic Counsellor, EU Delegation to Singapore
- Wee Choo Hua, Head of Government Relations, Asia Pacific and Japan, HP
- Shakilla Shahjihan, Regional Director, Abbott Laboratories
- Andrew McConville, Head of Corporate Affairs Asia Pacific, Syngenta
- Judith Fergin, Executive Director, AmCham Singapore
- Amit Vatsyayan, Regional Economic Empowerment Manager, Oxfam
- Neal Horwitz, Managing Director, Henry Hale Maguire
- Jakob Edberg, Managing Director, GR Japan
- Nyantha Lin, Vriens & Partners (Myanmar)
- Phil Robertson, Deputy Director, Human Rights Watch
- Chloe Martinez, Vriens & Partners/The South East Asia Toy Association
- Caroline Whatley, Corporate Engagement Centre, Save the Children
- Jeanne Stampe, Asia Finance and Commodities Specialist, WWF-Singapore
