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Joint Conference
European and Asian Integration: Achievements and Challenges
organized by ADB and the European Commission

This conference aims at shedding light on how Asian monetary and financial integration, which is still at an early stage despite several initiatives, can be further enhanced to cope with global financial turmoil through lessons learned from the European experience.

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The conference will discuss the following issues:

• How will a regional dimension, as in the case of the European Union, help Asia to better cope with a global financial turmoil?
• Do Asian economic authorities need to coordinate their monetary and exchange rate policies in order to prevent possible future currency and financial instability?
• Are there lessons that Asia and Europe can share, despite the pronounced differences between the two regions?
• Which integration and cooperation processes followed by Europe could inspire Asia to progress towards an Asian Economic Community?
• Are there regional best practices and decision-making mechanisms that the European Union could share with Asia?

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Participation by invitation only

• About 150 participants from government, think tanks, business sector academe, NGOs and media

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Speakers, Discussants, and Panelists

1. Eneko Landaburu, Director General
   for External Relations, European Commission (EC)



2. Haruhiko Kuroda, President
   Asian Development Bank



3. Klaus Regling, Director General for
   Economic and Financial Affairs (ECFIN), EC



4. Jong-Wha Lee, Head
   Office of Regional Economic Integration, ADB



5. André Sapir, Senior Fellow
   Bruegel



6. David Wright, Deputy Director General
   DG Internal Market, EC



7. Giovanni Capannelli
   Senior Economist, ADB



8. Antonio de Lecea, Director
   International Economic and Financial Affairs, EC



9. Alfred Pastor, Professor
   IESE Business School



10. Masahiro Kawai, Dean
    Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)



11. Cyn-Young Park
    Senior Economist, ADB



12. Emmanuel Van der Mensbrugghe, Special Representative,
    Brussels, International Monetary Fund



13. João Aguiar Machado, Deputy Director General for External Relations, EC



14. Peter Petri, Brandeis University



15. Charles Wyplosz, Université de Genève



16. Joaquín Almunia, Commissioner for
    Economic and Financial Affairs, EC