Location: Center for Strategic and International Studies
1800 K Street, NW
Washington DC, 20006

The CSIS Southeast Asia program is pleased to invite you to participate in a Singapore Conference on February 8, 2012, with a select and high level group of experts and senior policy officials at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The conference will bring together several ministers from Singapore’s new cabinet and other Singaporean and U.S. Officials, thought leaders, business executives, and journalists to discuss a range of issues from the political changes taking place in Singapore to cooperation between our countries on regional and global priorities. The Singapore Conference will focus on five key themes:1. Assessing Singapore’s politics and foreign policy2. Strengthening trade partnerships and constructing a framework for growth in the Asia-Pacific3. Bolstering security cooperation in Asia4. Educational partnerships and preparing students for the 21st Century economy5. Defining a strategic cooperation for the 21st centuryThe conference is organized at a vital moment for both the United States and Singapore. The center of gravity for American foreign policy, national security, and economic interests are being realigned and shifting towards Asia. The United States is thinking more strategically about the Asia-Pacific and Southeast Asia in particular. Singapore has been a vital partner of the United States with extensive linkages from trade and investment, sustainable environmental policy, to security and political ties. American officials, business leaders, and civil society leaders and the new Singaporean leadership value this opportunity to discuss these issues, and the conference has been designed to meet that need.I hope that you will be able to join us and provide you insights and input to enrich this important and timely discussion.Please note that all of the keynote speeches will be on the record. However, the panel discussions that follow will adhere to Chatham House Rule. Please click here to RSVP by Monday, February 6, 2012. You must log on to register.NOTE: The link for RSVPs only works if you DO NOT have a language pack installed on your computer. If you have language packs on your computer, please RSVP directly to the Southeast Asia Program. When you RSVP please include the panels you wish to attend.Agenda:0830 Registration of Participants 0900 Welcoming Remarks Ernest Bower
Senior Adviser & Director for Southeast Asia, CSIS The Hon. Chan Heng Chee
Ambassador, Embassy of Singapore 0915 New Directions: Singapore Politics and Foreign Policy Moderator: Ernest Bower
Senior Advisor & Director for Southeast Asia Keynote Speech:
Minister K. Shanmugam
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Singapore Panel Discussion and Q&ASpeakers:
Ashok Mirpuri Singapore
Ambassador to Indonesia Janadas Devan
Director of Institute of Policy Studies Stanley Roth
Vice-President, International Government Relations, Boeing Stapleton Roy Former
US Ambassador to Singapore & Director of Kissinger Institute for Chinese-US studies,
Woodrow Wilson International Center 1100 Strengthening the Trade Partnership: Recovery through Growth in the Asia-Pacific
Moderator:
Carla Hills
CEO, Hills and Co Introductory Comments: Minister S. Iswaran
2nd Minister for Trade and Industry, Singapore

Panel Discussion and Q&ASpeakers:
The Hon. Charlene Barshefsky
Chair, International Trade, Investment and Market Access Practice, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Jeffrey J. Schott
Senior Fellow, Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics Ng How Yue
Second Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Singapore Ong Ye Kung
Deputy Secretary-General, National Trade Union Congress, Singapore 1230 Luncheon: Building Security Partnerships in AsiaModerator:
Dr. Michael Green
Japan Chair, CSIS Keynote speech:
Chee Wee Kiong
Second Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore Panel Discussion and Q&ASpeakers:
The Hon. Richard Armitage
Former Deputy Secretary of State Dennis Blair
Former Director of National Intelligence and former Commander-in-Chief, US Pacific Command BG Gary Ang
Deputy Secretary (Policy), Ministry of Defence, Singapore Barry Desker
Dean of S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University Major-General (NS) Ng Chee Khern
Director of the Security and Intelligence Division (SID), Singapore 1400 Partnerships in Education: Preparing Students for a 21st Century Economy
Introductory Comments:
Minister Heng Swee Keat
Minister for Education, Singapore Joanne Weiss (invited)
Chief of Staff, Office of the Secretary, United States Department of Education Panel Discussion and Q&A Speakers:
Linda Darling-Hammond
Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University Jessica Kehayes (invited)
Director of Education and Chief of Staff
Education Department, Asia Society Susan Fuhrman (invited)
President of Teachers College, Columbia University and
President of the National Academy of Education Tan Ching Yee
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Singapore 1530 Coffee Break1600 Defining a 21st Century Strategic PartnershipModerator:
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Professor of Politics and International Affairs Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Princeton University Peter Ho
Senior Advisor, Centre for Strategic Futures & Senior Fellow, Civil Service College Kurt M. Campbell
Assistant Secretary for East Asian & Pacific Affairs U.S. Department of State Discussion and Q & A1730 Reception1830 Closing Remarks and Adjourn