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America / Asia / Europe / North America / South America / /
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AUD / /
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Commonwealth Day / /
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investment banking industry / social news network / scholarship systems / radio networks / built diverse global networks / manufacturing industry / finance / regular media appearances / constitutional and administrative law / manufacturing competitiveness / daily newspaper / telecommunications / mobile-phone technology / food security / tollroad operator / board advocacy / economic newspaper / multi-lingual online journal / /
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Japan Foundation / Institute for Advanced Study / Australian Chamber Orchestra / Association of Southeast Asian Nations / Embassy of Japan / Tufts University / Naval Postgraduate School / Textile Monitoring Body / InterParliamentary Union / Institute of Strategic / Vice / Malaysia Office / Royal Institution of Australia / Agency of National Resources and Energy / Senate Select Committee on School Funding / Institute of Strategic and International Studies / Commonwealth Department of Industry / /
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Nam Duong / Hiroyasu Ando / PENNY BURTT GREG / Maria A. Ressa / Naoko Saiki / Kirida Bhaopichitr / Souvanpheng Bouphanouvong / R. DJONOPUTRO / Junichi Yamada / Hidetaka Saeki / MOHD ANNUAR BIN ZAINI / Asia Focus / Penny Burtt / Women Parliamentarians Caucus / Umesh Pandey / Azirah Hashim / Nguyen Nam Duong / MOE THUZAR MARIA / Jenny McGregor / Ryue Nishizawa / HIROTSUGU AIDA HIROYASU ANDO / Boun-Gnong Boupha / Moe Thuzar / ARMAND HERMAWAN / Francis Fukuyama / Narushige Michishita / Hashimoto / SOUVANPHENG BOUPHANOUVONG PROFESSOR AZIRAH HASHIM / MICHI KAKIZAWA PROFESSOR HIDETAKA SAEKI / SIMON EVANS / MARIA A. RESSA BILAHARI KAUSIKAN / LEE BRIDGET / KAKIZAWA PROFESSOR HIDETAKA SAEKI / Torres Strait / Fortune / Hirotsugu (Hiro) Aida / Fumio Kishida / Sid Myer / KITTI PRASIRTSUK / H. RAJA NAZRIN SHAH DATO / PETER YATES / KIRIDA BHAOPITICHR UMESH / TAKASHI SHIRAISHI PROFESSOR ANTHONY / CLAUDINE OGILVIE / Greg Earl / JOHN LEE BRIDGET / Takashi Shiraishi / Simon Merrifield / BOUN-GNONG BOUPHA HON / Anthony (Tony) Milner / Bin Laden / NAM DUONG NGUYEN / Michael Hintze Fellow / Hussein Onn Chair / McKENZIE Adjunct Associate Professor / Malaya / /
Position
Director and Board Member / advisor / comparative public lawyer / Executive Director / deputy editor / Physician / member of the Board / senior diplomat / business and political reporter and editor / Secretary / Ambassador / founder / Regional Product Manager / regular public speaker at international conferences / author / Official / Professor / Counsellor / Managing Director / Chairperson / Representative / Director General of the Middle East Department / Deputy Director-General / Director-General / Cultural Affairs / Queen / Thailandbased reporter / Director / and Manager / Foreign Minister / Consultant / Pacific Editor / Assistant Secretary / journalist / political and business reporter / President / architect / lead investigative reporter / director of OC Funds Management / Chief Executive Officer / Director of Finance and Risk Management / assistant counsellor / Managing Partner / Advisor and Chief Executive / Executive / Major / professor and director of the Security and International Studies Program / Founding CEO / Policy Advisor / First Secretary / Private Secretary / specialist / lecturer and researcher / Dean / Police Superintendent / Director / Writer / Second Permanent Secretary and Permanent Secretary / Deputy High Commissioner / Second Secretary / Acting Executive Editor / Julie Bishop MP / registered accountant / Coordinator of the Asia / Director of Economic Policy Division / Budget Director / Deputy Press Secretary and Deputy Director-General / frequent commentator / director of Publishing / Trustee / Director General / Chief / Editorin-Chief / Director of Teaching / frequent speaker / Economist / editor / board member / Professor and Director Security and International Studies Program / Minister / Spokesperson / frequent media commentator / Deputy Secretary / Senator / member of the Board of Directors / Founding Editor / correspondent / CEO and Executive Editor / lecturer / Julie Bishop MP / Foreign Minister of Australia Minami Room / Prime Minister / bureau chief / Senior Special Advisor / Senior Consulting Advisor / Acting Director-General / Director-General / Chief Information Officer / Head / Envoy / Staff Writer / political adviser and senior manager / King / Chief Editorial Writer and Chief / visiting professor / Associate Professor / Deputy Chairman / Executive Managing Director / Executive Managing Director and General Manager of the Corporate Planning Division / Managing Director and General Manager of the Administrative Department / senior writer / Chancellor at Universiti Teknologi Mara / Whip / International Director / companies editor / national affairs editor / opinion page editor / Special Analyst and Secretary / Chairman / Chairman Asialink / Coordinator / Co-Chair / President Office / Chair / Columnist / analyst / Director of Finance and Administration / Professor of Special Appointment / Deputy Chair / Director of the International Affairs Division / Lead Researcher / Chairman of the National Asian Languages and Studies / main author / Pro-Chancellor / columnist for Japan / political and business reporter in Australia / companies editor / national affairs editor / former executive / Country Economist for Thailand / journalist in Asia / Professor / Melbourne Law / member / political adviser and senior manager in Australia / past board member / business and political reporter and editor in Australia / /
Product
Economic Monitor / Asialink Leaders Program / /
ProvinceOrState
Perak / Victoria / California / New South Wales / Shimane Prefecture / /
PublishedMedium
Asian Survey / the Financial Review / the Bangkok Post / the Asian Wall Street Journal / The Australian Financial Review / The American Interest / /
RadioStation
CBN / /
Region
East Asia / South Wales / West Asia / Central Asia / South Asia / Eastern Europe / Asia Pacific / Middle East / Southeast Asia / Asia-Pacific / /
SportsLeague
International Association / /
Technology
mobile-phone technology / HDTV / Information Technology / /
THE 2014 ASIALINK CONVERSATIONS HIROSHIMA 10 –12 APRIL JAPAN Cover image: Fukita Diner