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32nd International General Meeting May 14-19, 1999 Hong Kong, China

Main Page Policy Statements Speakers Speeches Photos This is a partial list of the distinguished speakers confirmed to participate in PBEC's 32nd IGM in Hong Kong, China, confirmed as of May 11, 1999. They include leaders from government, business, international organizations, research institutes, media and academia. Government Hisamitsu Arai, Vice-Minister for International Affairs, Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan) Allan Behm, Head of the International Policy Division, Australian Defence Headquarters (Australia) David Carse, Deputy Chief Executive of the HK Monetary Authority (Hong Kong Special Admninistrative Region, The People’s Republic of China) The Honorable Benjamin J. Cayetano, Governer of Hawaii (USA) The Honorable Mrs. Anson Chan, Chief Secretary for Administration (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China) The Honorable Peter Costello, Treasurer (Australia) Du Ying, Director-Research Department, Ministry of Agriculture (The People’s Republic of China) His Excellency Joseph E. Estrada, President (Republic of the Philippines) K C Kwong, Secretary for Information Technology & Broadcasting (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China) The Honorable Kyu-Sung Lee, Minister of Finance (Korea) Li Dachang, Vice Governor, Sichuan Province (The People’s Republic of China) Li Dang, Assistant Governor, Shaanxi Province (The People’s Republic of China) Luo Zhijun, Vice Mayor, Nanjing (The People’s Republic of China) Ing. Juan Jose Pons Arizaga President of the National Congress of Ecuador (Ecuador) Ms. Marta Lucia Ramirez, Minister of Foreign Trade (Colombia) Gabriel Singson, Governor, Central Bank (Republic of the Philippines) Su Shuili, Vice Mayor, Xiamen (The People’s Republic of China) The Honorable Tung Chee Hwa, Chief Executive (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China) Madam Wu Yi, State Councillor (The People’s Republic of China) Yi Xiqun, Assistant Mayor, Beijing (The People’s Republic of China) Business Greg Arason, President & CEO, Canadian Wheat Board (Winnipeg, Canada) Tadahiro Asami, Managing Director, The Tokyo Mitsubushi Bank (Tokyo) Morton Bahr, Vice President, American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations (New York) John R. H. Bond, Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc., UK (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China) Bill Bryant Chairman, Bryant Christie Inc. (USA) Sokan Chang, Vice Chairman, Korea Federation of Textile Industries (Seoul) Dr. Lily Chiang, Executive Director, Chen Hsong Holdings, Ltd. (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China) Victor Chu, Chairman, First Eastern Investment Group (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China) Mong-Gyu Chung, Chairman, Hyundai Industrial Development & Construction Co, Ltd. (Seoul) Barrie Cook, Chief Executive Director, CKI Materials (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China) Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr., Chairman, Projects International, Inc. (Washington D.C.) Hiroyuki Fujimura, Chairman, Ebara Corporation and Chairman, Environmental Committee of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Tokyo) Victor Fung, Chairman, Hong Kong Trade Development Council (Hong Kong Special Administative Region, The People’s Republic of China) Ian Gillespie, President & CEO, Export Development Corporation (Ottawa, Canada) Han Songlin, Deputy Director, China Telecom (The People’s Republic of China) Bob Healy, Vice President of Federal Relations, Atlantic Richfield Co. (ARCO) (USA) Eugenio Heiremans, Executive President, The Chilean Social Security Association (Santiago) Kosaku Inaba, Chairman & CEO, Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) Kiyoshi Kanitani, President, Nachi Robotics Advanced Technology America Inc. (Toyama, Japan) Yong-Teh Lee, Chairman, TriGem Computer Inc. (Korea) Liu Yonghao, Chairman, New Hope Group (The People’s Republic of China) Shyue-ching Lu, President & CEO, Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd. (Taipei) Ernest S. Micek, Chairman, Cargill Incorporated (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Lachlan Murdoch, Chairman & CEO, News Ltd. (Australia) Chandran Nair, Chief Executive Officer, Environmental Resources Management Hong Kong (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China) Tadashi Nishimoto, President, KDD Corporation (Tokyo) Dean O’Hare, Chairman and CEO, Chubb Corporation (Warren, New Jersey) JoAnne Patrick-Ezzell, President & CEO, AT&T Asia/Pacific Group Ltd (Hong Kong Special Adminsitrative Region, The People’s Republic of China) Dennis Pedini, President for Asia Operations, New York Life International (USA) Joe Pope, Chairman, Trade New Zealand (Wellington) Qin Zhongyi, Vice President, China Yangtze Three Gorges Project Development Corporation (People's Republic of China) Michael Rawding, Regional Director, Microsoft China Co. Ltd (USA) Roberto R. Romulo, Chairman, Equitable Cardnetwork, Inc. (Manila) Ross Sayers, Managing Director & CEO, CLP Holdings Ltd. (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China) Hiroyuki Shimojima, Senior Managing Director, Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) Helmut Sohmen, Chairman, World-Wide Shipping Agency Limited (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China) Chartsiri Sophonpanich, President, Bangkok Bank Public Company Ltd. (Bangkok) Manuel Sotomayor, General Manager, Sotomayor S A (Peru) Tan Sri Datuk Zainal Abidin Bin Sulong, Chairman, Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (Malaysia) Colin Tam, President, PSEG Asia Ltd (USA) Enrique Vilatela Riba, President, Mexican Bank for Foreign Trade (Bancomext) (Mexico) John S. Wadsworth, Jr., Chairman, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Asia (New York/Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China) Yu Ying, Senior Engineer, Changchun First Automobile (The People’s Republic of China) Robert Yung, Director, Intel China Research Center, Intel Corporation (USA) Zhu Xiaohua, Chairman, China Everbright (Group) Co, Ltd. (Beijing) International Organizations Michel Camdessus, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (Washington D.C.) Peter Eigen, Chairman, Transparency International (Berlin) Robert G. Lees, Secretary General, Pacific Basin Economic Council (Honolulu) Noel Levi, Secretary General, South Pacific Forum Secretariat (Suva, Fiji) John Strickland, Chairman, PBEC Hong Kong, China Member Committee (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China) Yu Xiaosong, Chairman, Pacific Basin Economic Council, China Member Committee, (Beijing) Research Institutes Hahn-Koo Lee, President, Daewoo Economic Research Institute (Seoul) Clyde Prestowitz, Jr., President, Economic Strategy Institute (Washington, D.C.) Zhang Yunling, Director of APEC Policy Research Center, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing) Media Robert Keatley, Editorial Advisor, South China Morning Post (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China) Lynette Lithgow, Anchor, CNBC (Singapore) Yasuhiro Tase, Deputy Editor, Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. (Tokyo) Dominic Ziegler, Asia Bureau Chief, The Economist (UK) Academia Jagdish Bhagwati, Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics, Colombia University (New York) Nieves Confesor, Professor, Asian Institute of Management (Republic of the Philippines) Peter Hills, Director-Center of Urban Planning & Environmental Management, University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China) Others Christine Loh, Legislator (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, The People’s Republic of China)