TF1 - Open Trade, Sustainable Investment and Industry
Contact Info
Coordinator: Dandy Rafitrandi
dandy.rafitrandi@csis.or.id
Host Institution: CSIS Indonesia
Policy Areas
- WTO reform agenda
- Pandemic and resilient supply chain
- Open, fair and green trade policy
- Sustainable investment
- 21st century trade and industrial policy
- Digital trade & digitally enabled services
- Inclusive global value chain
Host Institution
Lead Co-Chair
Yose Rizal Damuri
Executive Director, CSIS Indonesia
Yose Rizal Damuri
Yose Rizal Damuri is the Head of the Department of Economics, Centre for Strategic and International Studies. His research activities focus on international trade, regional integration and globalization of value chain. He received his PhD in International Economics from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. He is active in many networks of research institutes in East Asia, such as in Asia Pacific Research Network on Trade (ARTNet) and ERIA Research Institute Network (ERIA-RIN) and Think 20, think tank network of G20 countries. Currently he serves as the Co-Chair of Indonesia National Committee of Pacific Economic Cooperation (INCPEC), while also serving as a Member of Governing Board of Economic Research Institute of ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).
Co-Chairs
Dionisius Narjoko
Senior Economist at The Economic Research Institute for ASEAN & East Asia
Dionisius Narjoko
Dionisius Narjoko received his PhD in Economics from the Australian National University. His dissertation was awarded The Ann Bates Postgraduate Prize for Indonesian Studies 2006. His research covers industrialization in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, economic integration in ASEAN and East Asia (focusing on ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint and regional economy architecture), and topics in economic development, such as small and medium enterprise, and interrelationship between human capital and economic growth.
As part of his role in ERIA, Dr. Narjoko provides evidence-based policy recommendations to a number of ASEAN Member States on topics related to AEC or regional integration in general. Dr. Narjoko is also active in ‘second-track’ policy discussion for various topics, extending the link from his previous affiliation with the Jakarta-based think-tank Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Dr. Narjoko also once thought at Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia. He co-authored and co-edited books and published book chapters, policy papers, and articles in peer-reviewed journals in the past ten years. He also serves as Associate Editor of Asian Economic Journal and Jurnal Ekonomi Pembangunan Indonesia.
Jane Drake-Brockman
Visiting Fellow, Institute for International Trade, The University of Adelaide
Jane Drake-Brockman
Albert F. Park
Chief Economist and Director General of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Albert F. Park
Mr. Park has more than 2 decades of experience as a development economist and is a well-known expert on the economy of the People’s Republic of China. He has worked on a broad range of development issues including poverty and inequality, intergenerational mobility, microfinance, migration and labor markets, the future of work, and foreign investment.
Mr. Park is Chair Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic Policy at HKUST (on leave). He served as a founding director of HKUST’s Institute for Emerging Market Studies and professor at the University of Oxford.
A national of the United States, he received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University and his doctorate in applied economics from Stanford University.
Andreas Freytag
Professor of Economics at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Andreas Freytag
Dr. Andreas Freytag is Professor of Economics at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (http://www.wipo.uni-jena.de), Honorary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch and Visiting Professor at the Institute of International Trade, University of Adelaide. He is also Director of Tutwa Europe (www.tutwa-europe.eu), member of the CESifo Research Network, a STIAS Fellow, a Senior Fellow at Kings College’s DAFM, Senior Research Fellow at ECIPE, Brussels, and a Senior Research Associate at SAIIA, Johannesburg; Freytag is also founding member of the G20 Trade and Investment Research Network (www.g20-tirn.org). Freytag has obtained his diploma from the University of Kiel, his doctorate as well his Habilitation from the University of Cologne. He has published a number of books and articles in first-class peer-reviewed journals on economic policy, international trade policy, development economics and international policy coordination. He contributes to blogs and has a weekly column on wiwo-online, a German magazine (http://www.wiwo.de/themen/Freytags-Frage).
Manjeet Kripalani
Executive Director, Gateway House
Manjeet Kripalani
Manjeet Kripalani is the co-founder and executive director of Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations. Prior to this, Kripalani was India Bureau chief of Businessweek magazine from 1996 to 2009. During her extensive career in journalism she has won several awards, including the Gerald Loeb Award and the George Polk Award. Kripalani was the 2006-07 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, deputy press secretary to Steve Forbes in 1995-96 as Republican candidate for U.S. President, and media advisor to Lok Sabha independent candidate Meera Sanyal in 2008 and 2014 in Mumbai. Kripalani holds bachelors degrees in Law and in History from Bombay University and a master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University, New York
Coordinator
Dandy Rafitrandi
Researcher, Centre for Strategic and International Studies
Dandy Rafitrandi
Dandy Rafitrandi is a researcher at the Department of Economics, Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta, Indonesia. His research agenda focuses on the intersection of international trade, digital economy, and ASEAN. He currently undertakes several research projects related to e-commerce and the digital economy ecosystem in Indonesia, WTO reform, digital skills, and urban amenities. He is also a part-time lecturer at Prasetiya Mulya University. He received his Bachelor of Economics from the University of Indonesia and Master of Science in Policy Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a scholarship from the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education, Ministry of Finance, Indonesia.