On June 7, 2022, the Friends of Multilateralism Group (FMG) organized an internal online session on The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF).

 

At the meeting, Wendy Cutler, FMG member, Vice President of the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI), former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative (USTR); Deborah Elms, FMG member and the Founder and Executive Director of the Asian Trade Centre (ATC); Fan Cui, Deputy General Secretary and Director of Research at China Society for WTO Studies shared their insights on IPEF and its impact, and then answered the questions from the participants. Nearly 20 FMG and FFMG members attended this session.

 

 

Annex 1: Programme

14:00-14:04

Opening Remarks

Speaker: Xiankun Lu (FMG)

 

 

14:04-14:40

Presentations

Moderator: Xiankun Lu (FMG)

14:04-14:16

Speaker 1: Wendy Cutler (FMG)

14:16-14:28

Speaker 2: Deborah Elms (Asia Trade Centre)

14:28-14:40

Speaker 3: Fan Cui (UIBE, China)

 

 

14:40-15:30

Discussions

 

Moderator: Xiankun Lu (FMG)

 

 

 

Annex 2: List of confirmed participants

 

Mercedes ARAOS (FMG)

Clemens BOONEKAMP (FMG)

Wendy CUTLER (FMG)

Deborah ELMS (FMG)

Jonathan T. Fried (FMG)

Stuart HARBINSON (FMG)

Bernard HOEKMAN (FMG)

Xiankun LU (FMG)

Mario MATUS (FMG)

Cecilia MALMSTRÖM (FMG)

Mia MIKIC (FMG)

Sherry STEPHENSON (FMG)

Victor DO PRADO (FMG)

John M WEEKES (FMG)

Alan WOLFF (FMG)

TU XINQUAN (FMG)

Brad MCDONALD (FFMG)