Canada, China and the Asia-Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges
Institute for the Study of the Americas
Senate Room, 1st Floor, Senate House, University of London,
Friday 29 June 2012
Speakers include:
- Gordon Campbell (High Commissioner for Canada to the UK)
- Joseph Caron (former Canadian Ambassador to China, Japan and India and Asia Consultant, Vancouver)
- Nicolas Maclean CMG (Chief Executive, MWM (Asia) and former Senior Fellow for International Affairs at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS))
- Jennifer Welsh (Professor in International Relations, Somerville College, University of Oxford)
Attendance is free of charge. To register please email Tony McCulloch by 25 June 2012.
Programme
9.30 am Registration and refreshments
10.00 am Welcome by Professor Iwan Morgan, Institute for the Study of the Americas
10.15 am Keynote address: His Excellency Gordon Campbell, the High Commissioner for Canada to the UK “Canada, China and the Asia-Pacific region – Opportunities and Challenges”
11.15 am Refreshments
11.30 am Joseph Caron, Former Canadian ambassador to China, Japan and India & Asia consultant, Vancouver, “Canada in the Asia-Pacific – how did we get there, and where are we going?”
Discussant: Alan Hallsworth, Professor, Faculty of Management and Law, University of Surrey
12.45 pm Lunch
1.30 pm Jennifer Welsh, Professor in International Relations, Somerville College, University of Oxford,
“Canada’s international policy - the Asia-Pacific region in its global context”
Discussant: Tony McCulloch, Associate Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Americas, London
2.45 pm Refreshments
3.15pm Nicolas Maclean CMG, Chief Executive, MWM (Asia) and former Senior Fellow for International Affairs at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London, “Canada and the Asia-Pacific – the European business perspective”
Discussant: Andrew Halper, Head of CMS UK China Group, London
4.30pm – End of conference
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