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The East Asia Forum

 

The single largest project recently funded by the Centre is the East Asia Forum. This initiative is directed by Professors Peter Drysdale and Andrew MacIntyre of the Crawford School of Economics and Government at ANU, and Professor John Fitzgerald of La Trobe University. The project has attracted $5.7 million funding over six years including the $700,000 approved by ICEAPS between 2006 and 2008.

The Forum follows the establishment of the East Asian Summit (EAS) held in Kuala Lumpur in December 2005 which focused attention on prospects for economic and other integration in East Asia. The ICEAPS Board endorsed this major project to support Australian engagement in the new regional grouping. The Forum commenced in 2006 with these major conferences:

• East Asian Crisis – Ten Years After (ANU, 21-22 July, UC-Berkeley, November)

• East Asia, APEC and East Asian Strategies (ANU, 6-7 August)

• East Asia Energy: Prospects and Strategies (ANU, 29-30 August)

• East Asian Modernities (ANU, [Date to be confirmed]).

Australia’s Treasurer, the Hon Peter Costello, launched the East Asia Forum and the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, with which the Forum is associated, in the MacDonald Room of the Menzies Library at ANU on 17 October and made a major speech on Australia’s East Asian economic interests.

 

East Asia Forum Photo Gallery