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Following is a list of the distinguished speakers at "The Asian Financial Crisis: A Focus on Solutions," held on Monday, October 19, 1998 in Los Angeles, California.

  • Philip Bates
    Managing Director, Affiliate Relations
    Standard & Poor's (San Francisco)

  • Steve Dorfman
    Vice Chairman
    Hughes Electronics Corporation (El Segundo, California)

  • Richard Drobnick
    Vice Provost, International Affairs Research Professor and Management and Organizing Director
    Center for International Business/IBEAR Executive Programs
    University of Southern California (Los Angeles)

  • The Honorable Edgardo B. Espiritu
    Secretary of Finance (Philippines)

  • Sung-Hee Jwa
    President
    Korea Economic Research Institute (Seoul)

  • Takeshi Kondo
    Managing Director
    Itochu Corporation (Tokyo)

  • Flemming Larsen
    Director of Research
    International Monetary Fund (Washington, DC)

  • Robert G. Lees
    Secretary General
    Pacific Basin Economic Council (Honolulu, Hawaii)

  • Mike Oksenberg
    Senior Fellow, Asia Pacific Research Center
    Stanford University (Palo Alto, California)

  • Ambassador Nitya Pibulsonggram
    Thai Ambassador to U.S. (Washington D.C.)

  • Thomas Plate
    Syndicated Columnist, Los Angeles Times and
    Professor, Communication and Policy Study
    University of California Los Angeles

  • John A. Prasetio
    Chairman & Managing Partner
    Prasetio Utomo & Co./Arthur Anderson (Jakarta)

  • Ambassador Charles B. Salmon, Jr.
    Foreign Policy Advisor to the Commander in Chief
    US Pacific Command (Honolulu, Hawaii)

  • Julian Schweitzer
    Director, Strategy and Operations
    East Asia and Pacific Region
    The World Bank (Washington, DC)

  • Helmut Sohmen
    Chairman
    World-Wide Shipping Agency, Ltd. (Hong Kong)

  • Chote Sophonpanich
    Chairman
    Green Spot Co. Ltd. (Bangkok)

  • Jim Wilburn
    Dean, School of Public Policy
    Pepperdine University (Malibu, California)

  • Ambassador John Wolf
    U.S. Ambassador to APEC (Washington, DC)

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