Professor Lee Chew Ging, Dean of NUBS Malaysia, co-opened the Conference on 'The Malaysian Economy Towards 2020: Issues and Challenges' at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, together with Mr Tan Chin Tiong, Director of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. The two-day conference, which took place on 22-23 March 2016, was jointly organised by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, and The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. The conference was also supported by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS).
The conference saw about 80 participants discussing Malaysia's trade, manufacturing, services, Government-Linked Companies (GLCs) and State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), education, labour market, poverty, inequality and well-being; infrastructure, regional development, agricultural and resource-based industries, SMEs, healthcare, development planning, banking and finance, and fiscal sustainability.
Professor Lee was also the Moderator for a session on the first day of the Conference, which saw a presentation by Professor Rokiah Alavi from the International Islamic University Malaysia dealing with issues and challenges in the area of Services, and a presentation on GLCs and SOEs by Ms Wan Khatina Wan Mohd Nawawi, Director of Research at Khazanah Research Institute, Malaysia.
More information on the proceedings of the Conference can be obtained from the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.
Posted on 23rd March 2016