APEC

(l-r) Jackson Robinson, Rob Cain, Katherine West, David Cousar and Mary Bradley Pazdan
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT APEC 2020

APEC 2020 is currently scheduled for November in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Although The Riley Institute typically accepts applications for APEC in the spring, the committee has decided to delay the process until later this summer.  With the uncertainty around how long the necessary social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19 will last, we won’t know for some time whether the APEC Voices of the Future program will even be held this coming fall. If the gathering does proceed, we will share information with all of our majors about how to apply prior to the start of the fall semester.

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), established in 1989, is an organization comprised of twenty-one member economies from Asia and the Pacific Rim. APEC's mission is to gather its twenty-one member economies together annually to discuss three main pillars: trade and investment liberalization; business facilitation; and economic and technical cooperation. Meetings, hosted by one of the twenty-one economies, focus on the accomplishment of the Bogor Goals—free and open trade, and investment in the Asia-Pacific region. For additional background information on the APEC Voices of the Future program, click here. To view the Bogor Goals, click here. The Bogor Goals are one of APEC’s flagship initiatives.