Panel D: Macro - Asia Direct Investments

Foreign Direct Investment, LBO, and M&A Trends in Asia. What's Ahead?

In recent times, Asian governments have started to diversify their national reserves portfolio to include asset classes such as private equity and PIPEs. Private equity firms have also ventured into Asia, creating a vibrant buy-out and acquisition environment for both the public and private sectors. Distinguished panelists focus on the political and economic factors that are driving FDI, LBO and M&A activities in Asia and what governments should do to further encourage and/or regulate such activities. In addition what forms of Foreign Direct Investments are currently made by the government of Asian countries? Will Asian government investment corporations make good private equity players? Find out what are the future trends ahead for these hot segments of the industry.

Panelists:

Sean King Vice President Park Strategies

	Sean King joined Park Strategies in February 2006. Mr. King covers the entire Asia-Pacific region, with his primary market of focus being Taiwan. Before joining Park Strategies, Mr. King spent five years at the United States Department of Commerce, where he served as Senior Advisor for Asia in the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service. On separate occasions, while at Commerce, he joined former Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans, former New York State Governor George Pataki and Marriott International, Inc. Chairman and CEO, J.W. Marriott, Jr. on fact-finding missions to mainland China. Before joining Commerce, Mr. King was based in Singapore for both PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Citibank. From 1999-2001, his consulting engagements included, among others, creating a Southeast Asian government export finance blueprint and launching a credit card in Thailand. Mr. King also worked for the New York State Department of Economic Development, on whose behalf he led a February 1997 trade mission to Taiwan. Mr. King has an MBA from the University of Notre Dame and an undergraduate degree from the American University in Washington, D.C. As part of his MBA, Mr. King did a 1998 summer internship for Citibank in Taipei. He is fluent in Swedish. Mr. King makes regular public speaking appearances, at events like the 2007 Florida Business Summit at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, and the 2006 University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Asia-Pacific Business Conference. He has also appeared on CNBC-Asia¡¯s "Squawk Box." Since joining Park Strategies, Mr. King¡¯s opinion editorials have appeared in the Seoul Times, Singapore Straits Times, Taiwan Security Research, and the South China Morning Post.

K Sukomaran Director Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (MIDA)

	Mr. K. Sukomaran is the Director of the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority office in Chicago (MIDA Chicago) since February 2001. MIDA is the principal Malaysian government agency responsible for the industrial promotion and development in Malaysia. Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, MIDA has 16 offices throughout the world including 5 offices in the United States. Mr. Sukomaran has been with MIDA since 1978 and has also served as a Vice Consul for Investment in MIDA Los Angeles from 1987 to 1991. He graduated in Economics from University of Malaya and is a Business Major.

Takashi Tsuchiya Chief Executive Director Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)

	Mr. Tsuchiya was appointed the Chief Executive Director of JETRO Chicago in Marc 2005. As CED, he oversees the Chicago office in its activities designed to facilitate business development between Japan and companies in the 12 states within the Midwest region. He has served as Director of Public Affairs Department at JETRO New York from 1985 to 1989, and was VP of JETRO Bangkok from 1997-2000. Prior to his current post, he was Director of the research Planning Division, Overseas Research Department at JETRO HQ in Tokyo, a position he assumed in 2003. Mr. Tsuchiya joined JETRO in 1975, after earning his Bachelor's Degree in American Studies from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He also holds a Master's Degree in American Studies from the University of Hawaii.

Moderator:

Phillip Braun Visiting Professor of Finance University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

	B.A., Economics, with Honors, Oberlin College, 1981; M.A., Economics, with Honors, Washington University in St. Louis, 1986; Ph. D., Finance and Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 1993. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES The interactions between the macro economy and financial markets. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS "Good News, Bad News, Volatility, and Betas," joint with Dan Nelson and Alain Sunier, Journal of Finance, 50, 1995: 1575-1604; "Time Nonseparability in Aggregate Consumption: International Evidence," joint with George Constantinides and Wayne Ferson, European Economic Review, 37, 1993: 897-920; "Misspecifications in Vector Autoregressions and their Effects on Impulse Responses and Variance Decomposition¡¯s," joint with Stefan Mittnik, Journal of Econometrics, 59, 1993: 319-341; "Twenty-two Years of the NBER-ASA Quarterly Economic Outlook Surveys: Aspects and Comparisons of Forecasting Performance," with Victor Zarnowitz, in Business Cycles, Indicators, and Forecasting, James Stock and Mark Watson, eds., University of Chicago Press, 1993: 11-84; "A Case Study of Expert Judgment: Economists' Probabilities Versus Base-Rate Model Forecasts," joint with Ilan Yaniv, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 5, 1992: 217-231 RELATED EXPERIENCE Office of the Prime Minister, Thaksin Shiniwatra, Executive Member, Chief Policy Advisory Group, 2000-2006; The Brooker Group Plc., President and Executive and Authorized Director, 2003-2004; Credit Lyonnaise Securities (Asia) Ltd., Global Emerging Markets, Managing Director, Corporate Finance, 2000-2003; A. T. Kearney Inc., Principal (London, New York) and Country Manager (Thailand), 1997-2000 ; Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Assistant Professor of Finance, 1991-1997; Executive Office of the President (Ronald Regan), White House Council of Economic Advisers, Economist, 1986 -1987.

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