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The United Kingdom has become an increasingly active partner for ASEAN. In 2021, the UK became an ASEAN dialogue partner, and in 2024, the UK Mission to ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat launched the ASEAN-UK Economic Integration Programme (EIP)—a four-year initiative aimed at supporting ASEAN economic integration through technical assistance, capacity building, knowledge sharing, and work in areas such as digitisation, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), financial services, regulatory reform, and trade.
Mr Kenn Especkerman-True join us in this podcast. Kenn is Southeast Asia's Director for Economics and Trade Policy at the British High Commission of the United Kingdom, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, FCDO for short. Based in Singapore, he works on the UK's economic and trade policy engagement with Southeast Asia, including cooperation with ASEAN and regional partners. Kenn's work sits at the intersection of trade policy, development cooperation, economic resilience, and regional integration.
The “ASEAN in Practice” podcast aims to invite practitioners from around the region that have spent many years working on ASEAN issues and policies. Through this podcast series, we hope to gain some valuable insights from their experiences that will contribute towards the policy-making level in the form of policy papers and future research on ASEAN.
Guest Speaker: Kenn Especkermann-True, Southeast Asia Director for Economics and Trade Policy, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
Host: Denis Hew, Senior Research Fellow, Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Podcast Producer & Editor: Mae Chow, Research Assistant, Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
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The United Kingdom has become an increasingly active partner for ASEAN. In 2021, the UK became an ASEAN dialogue partner, and in 2024, the UK Mission to ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat launched the ASEAN-UK Economic Integration Programme (EIP)—a four-year initiative aimed at supporting ASEAN economic integration through technical assistance, capacity building, knowledge sharing, and work in areas such as digitisation, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), financial services, regulatory reform, and trade.
Mr Kenn Especkerman-True join us in this podcast. Kenn is Southeast Asia's Director for Economics and Trade Policy at the British High Commission of the United Kingdom, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, FCDO for short. Based in Singapore, he works on the UK's economic and trade policy engagement with Southeast Asia, including cooperation with ASEAN and regional partners. Kenn's work sits at the intersection of trade policy, development cooperation, economic resilience, and regional integration.
The “ASEAN in Practice” podcast aims to invite practitioners from around the region that have spent many years working on ASEAN issues and policies. Through this podcast series, we hope to gain some valuable insights from their experiences that will contribute towards the policy-making level in the form of policy papers and future research on ASEAN.
Guest Speaker: Kenn Especkermann-True, Southeast Asia Director for Economics and Trade Policy, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
Host: Denis Hew, Senior Research Fellow, Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Podcast Producer & Editor: Mae Chow, Research Assistant, Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
#ASEANinPractice #ASEAN #CAG_LKYSPP #GovernancefortheFuture #publicpolicy #policymatters #internationaltrade #GovernancefortheFuture #publicpolicy #policymatters #UK #trade
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![[Foreseeable Podcast] A new era: Outcome & significance of Indonesias 2024 presidential elections](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yh9Md94ONOs/mqdefault.jpg "[Foreseeable Podcast] A new era: Outcome & significance of Indonesias 2024 presidential elections
Indonesian voters in Southeast Asia’s largest democracy elected the ticket of former military general Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka in February 2024, but not without controversy. Gibran is the son of outgoing President Joko Jokowi Widodo, who is accused of manipulating the courts to allow Gibran to run despite being below the constitutional minimum age.
There are even charges of vote rigging that are being handled by Indonesia’s Election Supervisory Agency or Bawaslu and The General Elections Commission known as KPU.
Associate Professor Suzaina Kadir is Vice Dean of Academic Affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and an expert on politics in Southeast Asia. As an avid Indonesia watcher, we wanted to get her take on what the upcoming administration means for Indonesia domestically, regionally and globally.
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