2016 Activities

YTI-UKM PUBLIC LECTURE

Cross-Border Arrangements

The Way Forward for Mutual Fund and Unit Trust Industry

22 August 2016 (9:00am – 12pm) │ Senate Meeting Hall, Level 6, Chancellery, UKM

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER  Professor Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and Professor Emeritus at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Yayasan Tun Ismail Ali Distinguished Chair (YTI-UKM), in collaboration with the Faculty of Economics and Management (FEM) of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, is proud to present a Public Lecture on “Cross-Border Arrangements: The Way Forward for Mutual Fund and Unit Trust Industry”. This public lecture is expected to benefit audience from broad arrays of communities from academic to practitioners in private financial institutions and government officials in Malaysia, as well as few representatives from academic institutions in Indonesia.

BACKGROUND OF THE SPEAKER

Our distinguished speaker, Professor Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino, is currently the Dean and CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) under the direction of the President of Asian Development Bank (ADB). He is also a Professor Emeritus at Keio University.

Professor Yoshino obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University and has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other major universities as well. Throughout his academic career, Professor Yoshino has worked on and written extensively about a variety of financial and economic issues, including Japan’s monetary policy and the country’s banking system, as well as Japan’s pension system and the need for financial education.

Professor Yoshino would be one of the best candidates to address of the pertaining issue on cross-border arrangement, particularly the Trans-Pacific Partnership because he has been directly involved in formulating of economic and financial policies, not only for Japan but also Asian countries in general. Looking at his profile, Professor Yoshino has had a rich and varied professional life, serving in numerous important roles as an adviser on financial matters to the government of Japan. He currently serves as Chief Advisor of the Financial Research Center at the Financial Services Agency (FSA) and Chair of asset management for pension funds at the Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare.

Professor Yoshino’s 4-day programs at UKM probably may be considered as a part of his East Asian tour this August. He has been scheduled to deliver a keynote speech at the 1^st International Conference on Management in Emerging Markets at Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia on 10 August. He is then scheduled to deliver another keynote speech at the International Finance and Banking Society (IFABS) 2016 Asia Conference in Brunei on 17-18 August 2016. The conference is organized by Universiti Teknologi Brunei and Authoriti Monetari Brunei Darussalam, in collaboration with the Universities of Oxford, Nottingham, Sheffield and Hull. After his programs at UKM, he is scheduled to deliver another keynote speech at a conference in Singapore on the 23 August 2016.

ABOUT ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK INSTITUTE (ADBI)

Japan has been one of the leading players in the Trans-Pacific Partnership because the agreement is a keystone of its Abenomics and trade strategy. ADBI, especially under the leadership of Professor Yoshino who is also the key person of Abenomics, plays a major role in the setting of common rules for trade and investment in the agreement.

Established in 1997 in Tokyo, Japan, ADBI helps build capacity, skills, and knowledge related to poverty reduction and other areas that support long-term growth and competitiveness in developing economies in the Asia-Pacific region. ADBI is also a hub for policy dialogue and capacity development for government officials and academia from the Asia and Pacific region.

ADBI provides intellectual input for policy makers in Asia Development Bank’s (ADB) developing member countries (DMCs) including Malaysia. It does so by conducting research with a focus on medium- to long-term development issues of strategic importance that affects the region and through capacity building and training (CBT) activities that contribute to ADB’s overarching objective of poverty reduction.

The objectives of ADBI are to identify effective development strategies and improve the capacity for sound development of the agencies and organizations engaged in development work in ADB’s DMCs. ADBI focuses its activities on areas where it has a strategic advantage, such as the analysis of emerging policy issues from regional as well as medium- to long-term perspectives, and the facilitation of policy dialogue among senior DMC policy makers. ADBI also seeks to enhance its visibility, impact, and accessibility through high-quality knowledge products and services. It strives to be a trusted source of insight, knowledge, and information to which policy makers, academics, and others interested in Asia’s development issues turn for guidance.

ADBI was named the fifth best government affiliated think tank in the world by the 2013 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report published by the University of Pennsylvania.