This week's episode of Asia Unscripted features Alejandro T. Reyes, Director of Knowledge Dissemination and a visiting associate professor at Asia Global Institute. Prior to joining the institute, he was for two years senior policy adviser to the Assistant Deputy Minister for Asia Pacific and Convenor of the Asia Pacific Policy Hub at Global Affairs Canada, the Canadian foreign ministry. He has also served as a senior policy adviser to the Canadian Foreign Minister and was a Hong Kong-based independent consultant from 2001 to 2017. In the following clips, Mr. Reyes speaks about governance and politics in Hong Kong and the 2019 Hong Kong protests.

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In this week's episode, Isabelle and Vivien are honored to have with them Kishore Mahbubani, a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore, or NUS. Professor Mahbubani was with the Singapore Foreign Service for 33 years, with postings in Cambodia, Malaysia, Washington DC, and New York, where he twice was Singapore’s Ambassador to the UN and served as President of the UN Security Council in January 2001 and May 2002. He joined academia in 2004, when he was appointed the Founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS. In the following clips, Professor Mahbubani speaks about his works on the rise of Asia, the logic of One World, and the future of Singapore. 

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This episode of Asia Unscripted features Mr. Don Lam, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of VinaCapital, which is one of the leading fund managers in Vietnam. Before founding VinaCapital, Mr. Lam was a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Vietnam, where he led the Corporate Finance and Management Consulting practices throughout the Indochina region, which includes Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. With more than 12 years of experience in Vietnam, Mr. Lam is an authority on investments, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and privatisations. He is a frequent speaker at international investment seminars and was featured as Vietnam’s “Mr. Wall Street” in Fortune magazine. In this episode, Mr. Lam discusses the growth of Vietnam's economy and the rise of Vietnam as a leader in Asia.

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In this episode, Isabelle and Vivien speak to Ernie Bower, one of the world’s leading experts on the Asia-Pacific. Ernie is the founder and CEO of BowerGroupAsia, and founder and chairman of AkarAsia, Inc. In addition to founding BowerGroupAsia, Ernie created the Southeast Asia Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and helped to create the US-ASEAN Business Council, serving as President of the Council for a decade. In these clips, Ernie discusses business, investment, and economic growth in Southeast Asia.

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This episode of Asia Unscripted features Dr. Michael Green, Senior Vice President for the Asia and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and host of the CSIS podcast Asia Chessboard. Dr. Green is also the director of Asian Studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. From 2001 through 2005, Dr. Green served on the National Security Council in director positions for Asia, and has also held positions at the Council on Foreign Relations, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In the following clips, Dr. Green speaks about Japan’s security and defense policies, as well as Japan’s relations with the United States and South Korea. To learn more about security and strategy in Asia, check out Dr. Green’s Asia Chessboard podcast at https://www.csis.org/podcasts/asia-chessboard

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We are honored to have with us in the episode Ambassador Aung Lynn, the current Ambassador from Myanmar to the United States. Prior to his appointment as Ambassador in 2016, Ambassador Aung Lynn held leadership positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Myanmar’s ASEAN Affairs Department, the Myanmar consul in Hong Kong, the Department of Protocol, the Permanent Mission of Myanmar to the United Nations, and at the Myanmar Embassy in South Africa. In the following clips, Ambassador Aung Lynn speaks to Isabelle and Vivien about nation-building and current issues in Myanmar. 

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In this week's episode of Asia Unscripted, Vivien and Isabelle speak with Craig Allen, President of the US-China Business Council and the former Ambassador of the US to Brunei Darussalam. Prior to his time in Brunei, Craig had a long, distinguished career in US public service, notably working for the US Department of Commerce in Taiwan, Beijing, Tokyo, and Johannesburg. Craig was sworn in as the United States Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam on December 19, 2014, and he served there until July 2018, when he transitioned to President of the US-China Business Council. In the following clips, Craig speaks about the economic prosperity and political stability that he observed during his time in Brunei. 

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In this week’s episode of Asia Unscripted, Isabelle and Vivien hear from Courtney Weatherby, research analyst with the Stimson Center’s Southeast Asia and Energy, Water, & Sustainability programs. Her research focuses on sustainable infrastructure and energy development challenges in Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific, particularly food-water-energy nexus issues in the Greater Mekong Subregion. In these clips, Courtney discusses sustainability and energy initiatives in Cambodia and the Greater Mekong Subregion.

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In this week’s episode of Asia Unscripted, Isabelle and Vivien hear from by Dr. Alicia Campi, current Vice President and President Emeritus of The Mongolia Society. Dr. Campi is a China and Mongolian specialist and was a US State Department Foreign Service Officer for 14 years, serving in Asian posts in Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and Mongolia. Since 2013, she has also been a Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. In these clips, Dr. Campi gives a comprehensive perspective on the democratization of Mongolia following the Cold War, geopolitics in Northeast Asia, as well as US-Mongolia relations. 

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In this episode of Asia Unscripted, Vivien and Isabelle hear from David Dollar, senior fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution and host of the Brookings trade podcast, Dollar&Sense. David is a leading expert on China's economy and U.S.-China economic relations. From 2009 to 2013, he was the US Treasury’s economic and financial emissary to China, based in Beijing, facilitating the macroeconomic and financial policy dialogue between the United States and China. Prior to joining Treasury, David worked 20 years for the World Bank, serving as country director for China and Mongolia based in Beijing in his last five years. In the following clips, David discusses the Chinese economy and the ongoing US-China trade conflict. 

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