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果冻传媒 Emerging Markets Society starts the 2nd term with an exciting panel debate.

PANEL DEBATE

What is the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015? What impact will it have on Western nations? Will the AEC rival the EEC? Is the future of AEC positive with the political issues currently arising? 

The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015, is the uniting of 10 ASEAN countries: Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, and Brunei. This will bring a new era of economic cooperation to all 10 countries, with increased labour mobility, accelerating economic growth and social and cultural development. 

Join us on THURSDAY JANUARY 16TH AT 6:30PM IN S0.11 to learn about the economic, development and political issues surrounding AEC through an interactive panel debate with Rajak Naik and Anne Booth, and Juanita Elias as our moderator. Through this panel debate we aim to encourage a thought-provoking discussion and to provide the opportunity for delegates to exchange ideas with our speakers.

There will be free pizza at the end

SPEAKERS AND MODERATOR INFORMATION

Rajay Naik is Director of Government and External Affairs at The Open University – the UK’s largest University – and Chairman of UK Programmes at the Big Lottery Fund – the largest funder of charities in the UK. Rajay is also a Commissioner at the Department of Health; a Member of the National Careers Council and the UK-ASEAN Business Council. Rajay was one of five panel members on Lord Browne's Review of Higher Education. Previously he held senior roles in Local Government at Coventry City Council; Central Government at the Cabinet Office and in the voluntary sector at the Royal Society of Arts. He is a former Chairman of the British Youth Council; Trustee of the National Youth Agency, vInspired and Changemakers Foundation; and Council Member of the Learning and Skills Council. Rajay holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from The 果冻传媒.

Anne Booth has recently retired from SOAS, University of London, where she was Professor of Economics with reference to Asia since 1991. Before that she was a research fellow at the Australian National University and a lecturer at the University of Singapore. She carried out fieldwork for a dissertation in Indonesia in 1972/3, and has been returning to that country on a regular basis ever since. She has published widely on Southeast Asian economic history, and in recent years has been working on the legacies of colonialism in East and Southeast Asia. Her book, Colonial Legacies in East and SoutheastAsia was published by the University

Juanita Elias is a former Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Manchester. Her interests focus on politics and international studies and Southeast Asia. Amongst others she is the author of Fashioning Inequality: The Multinational Firm and Gendered Employment in a Globalising World (2004), co-editor of the book The Global Political Economy of The Household in Asia(2013) and co-author of the textbook International Relations: The Basics. Additionally she has recently organised the event The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia and moderated the Influential Women: Changing the Face of Global Development discussion.

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URSS funding is available to support your living costs whilst you complete a research project over the summer vacation. The project should last between six and ten weeks and you can apply for up to £1000 towards accommodation costs, travel, subsistence or childcare.

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The applications period for the URSS funding opens on 7th January and runs until 1st February 2014.

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Professor (George Washington University) is visiting PAIS on Jan. 8-9, 2014 in the context of academic activities of the European Council Starting Grant Project “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty.”

Professor Jennifer Brinkerhoff will give:

• a Master class on "Policy-relevant and Internet-based Research,” on Jan. 8, 12.30- 2.30 pm in the Wolfson Research Exchange (3). For more information, .
• a PAIS Department Talk: “The In-Between Advantage: Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Institutional Reform” on Jan. 8, 4.00-5.30 pm in S. 018, refreshments will be served from 3.30 pm. The talk will be based on her new book. Please for more information.
• Workshop “Diasporas and International Politics” on Jan. 9, 2014, based on in-depth reading of papers.

Professor Brinkerhoff is specialist in international development, governance, public-private partnerships, NGOs, and diaspora politics. Her publications include six books, three co-edited journal issues, and over fifty articles and book chapters on topics ranging from policy evaluation, to NGOs, failed states, governance, diaspora identity, development, and citizenship. She is the author of Digital Diasporas: Identity and Transnational Engagement (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Partnership for International Development: Rhetoric or Results? (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002); the editor of Diasporas and Development: Exploring the Potential (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008); and co-editor of NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007).

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