Masterclass on The Future of ASEAN Economies: Opportunities and Challenges

Prof. Ramkishen Rajan, Professor of Economics at ESSEC Business School, will lead a Masterclass on The Future of ASEAN Economies: Opportunities and Challenges on Thursday, 6 April 2017. 

To register for the Masterclass, kindly drop us a message at essecasia@essec.edu.

Event Details

Date and Time: Thursday, 6 April 2017 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Venue: ESSEC Business School, Asia-Pacific, 5 Nepal Park, Singapore 139408

Abstract

As a single entity, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which comprises 10 member economies, is the seventh largest economy in the world. Over the years, ASEAN has evolved with its core focus having shifted from issues pertaining to regional security and fostering trade integration to achieving a holistic and comprehensive economic community.

December 31st, 2015 marked a milestone in the history of ASEAN with the formation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), aimed at furthering regional economic integration to a single market and production base to keep up with changing times and dynamic global needs. Although ASEAN appears to be emerging as a resilient force in the face of rising global uncertainties, it also faces several challenges post-AEC in light of the considerable heterogeneity and widening disparity in the levels of economic development among its member countries.

During the Masterclass, Prof. Rajan will share the economic significance of ASEAN and provide insights on how the regional grouping has evolved as a major economic force since its inception and what constraints it faces moving forward.

About the Speaker

Ramkishen S. Rajan is a Professor of Economics at ESSEC Business School, Asia-Pacific. Previously he was a Professor of International Economic Policy at George Mason University (GMU) in Virginia from 2006 to 2016. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and on the faculty at the School of Economics, University of Adelaide, Australia. He has also taught at Claremont Mckenna College and Claremont Graduate University in California, Singapore Management University and Nanyang Technological University. He has been a visiting scholar at various regional research institutes and has been a consultant with the Asian Development Bank, Development Bank of Singapore and the World Bank. He specializes in international finance with particular reference to the developing Asia-Pacific region. He has published numerous books, journal articles and book chapters and a number of policy briefs, op-eds and book reviews on various aspects of international economics.