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About the Center
The Asia-Pacific Center for Economics and Business (APC), located within IBS, conducts research, teaching and outreach on business and economic issues in the Asia Pacific region and on US-Asia Pacific relations. Its activities include faculty research projects, conferences, seminars, graduate and undergraduate courses, and exchange programs with Asia-Pacific universities. Faculty members associated with the Center include Professors Anne Carter, Ben Gomes-Casseres, Blake LeBaron, Gary Jefferson, Rachel McCulloch, and Founding Dean Peter Petri, who is the acting Chair of the Center.
APEC Study Centers
The Brandeis APC is one of 14 member institutions of the US APEC Study Center (ASC) Consortium. Peter A. Petri is the Director of the Brandeis APC and also serves as Chair of the Consortium. The APEC Study Center Network was established by the APEC Leaders' Summit of 1993 in Seattle; each of APEC's 20 economies has, or is creating, an ASC center or consortium.
Recent Conferences
In May 1998, in the midst of the Asian financial crisis, the APC organized a conference at Brandeis on the recovery of the Asia-Pacific economy and the role APEC might play in it. The conference was sponsored jointly by the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore, and the Brandeis APC, with support from the Center for Global Partnership, the Asia Foundation, and the APEC Education Foundation. A book of the conference papers edited by Dean Petri, Regional Cooperation and Asian Recovery, was published in 2000 based on this effort.
On 6 September 2001 the APC marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty with a symposium focused on the evolving US-Japan relationship. The symposium included two expert discussion panels: one broadcast by satellite from the 20/20 Vision Conference being held simultaneously in Tokyo and San Francisco, and the other live at Brandeis. The conference was co-organized by the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia University, with support from the Japanese Consulate-General in Boston and the Japan Society of Boston.
The discussion panel at Brandeis was moderated by Peter A. Petri and featured Wakako Hironaka, Member of the House of Councillors of Japan and Vice President of the Democratic Party; Hugh Patrick, Professor and Director of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia University; Merit Janow, Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Director, Program in International Economic Policy and Co-director, APEC Study Center at Columbia University; and Edward J. Lincoln, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution.
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