KEYNOTE SPEAKERS FOR TFWA ASIA PACIFIC EXHIBITION & CONFERENCE 2014 REVEALED

 ‘Asia: Shaping the World’ is the theme of the full-day conference and workshop programme that will open this year’s TFWA Asia Pacific Exhibition & Conference, to be staged in Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre from 11^th to 15^th May 2014.

The keynote speakers at the Conference on Monday May 12^th will be Julia Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia, and Parag Khanna, best-selling author and geo-political expert. The opening plenary session will also feature contributions from Erik Juul-Mortensen, President TFWA, and Jaya Singh, President APTRA. 

 

 

Erik Juul-Mortensen, President of TFWA

 

 

 

Parag Khanna, best-selling author and geo-political expert

Julia Gillard, former Prime Minister of Australia

Jaya Singh, President of APTRA

Thom Rankin, TFWA Vice-President: “The theme of the TFWA Asia Pacific Conference refers not only to the fact that the duty free and travel retail business is developing rapidly in Asia but to the impact of Asian travelling consumers on various markets. Our speakers have first-hand experience at the highest level and are very well-placed to comment on the ways in which Asia is shaping the world.”

As Prime Minister from 2010 to June 2013, and in her previous role as Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard was central to the successful management of Australia’s economy, the 12^th biggest economy in the world, during the global financial crisis. As Australia positioned itself to seize the benefits of Asia’s rise, Ms Gillard developed the country’s guiding policy paper, Australia in the Asian Century.

Parag Khanna is a leading global strategist and world traveller. A foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama during his first US presidential campaign, he holds various influential roles including professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School in Singapore and Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. He advises numerous governments around the world, and has published several best-selling books including ‘The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order’ on whose broad themes he will draw at the TFWA Asia Pacific Conference.

Following the plenary session a choice of four workshops will be offered, each focusing on a particular sub-region in Asia. Details will be revealed in due course.

Further details of TFWA events can be found at www.tfwa.com. Online registration for TFWA Asia Pacific Exhibition & Conference will open on 19^th February.

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