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A Portrait of Southeast Asia’s Infrastructure Development: The Asian Development Bank
An Indo-Pacific Political Economy and Trade Seminar featuring:
Dr. Fei Yu
Deputy Representative for North America
Asian Development Bank
Dr. Ellen L. Frost (Moderator)
Senior Advisor, East West Center in Washington
A Portrait of Southeast Asia’s Infrastructure Development: The Asian Development Bank from East-West Center on Vimeo.
According to the McKinsey Global Institute, Southeast Asia will need over $2 trillion in investment over the next few decades to update its infrastructure to maintain its current levels of economic growth. In addition to projects undertaken by individual
countries, infrastructure needs are facilitated by multinational organizations such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB). In this seminar, Dr. Fei Yu of the ADB’s North America office discussed ADB programs in Southeast Asia, particularly its Greater Mekong Sub-regional Program, which seeks to increase connectivity in the region via sustainable infrastructure development.
This seminar will be part of a series tied to the U.S.-Japan-Southeast Asia in a Dynamic Asia Fellowship program jointly held by the East West Center and Osaka University’s Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP). Generously funded by The Japan Foundation and US Embassy Tokyo, this fellowship has brought together two American, two Japanese, and two Southeast Asian fellows for three months to explore the following theme: How should the United States, Japan, and Southeast Asia collaborate on trade, investment, and economic integration in Southeast Asia?
Click here to view Dr. Yu's PowerPoint presentation.
For more images, please visit the album for this event on the East-West Center's Flickr page.
Ms. Fei Yu is the Deputy Representative for North America of the Asian Development Bank based at ADB’s North American Representative Office in Washington, DC. Her responsibilities include representing ADB in engaging with North American stakeholders and mobilize resources for ADB’s developing member countries. She previously served at the ADB’s headquarters in Manila and the resident mission in Beijing where she led processing and administration of loan and technical assistance projects in the environment, natural resources and agricultural sectors in China and Mongolia. She also led the joint ADB-China Regional Knowledge Sharing Initiative. For four years prior to joining ADB, Fei was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Colby College and Mount Holyoke College. She also consulted with the World Bank and held positions with UNDP and Chinese government. Fei is an economist specializing in development and environmental economics, with publications in peer reviewed economics journals. She received her PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University.
Dr. Ellen L. Frost is a Senior Advisor and Fellow at the East-West Center and a Visiting Distinguished Research Fellow at the National Defense University's Institute of National Strategic Studies. She writes and lectures frequently on Asia-related topics, especially Indo-Pacific political-economic issues and their strategic and security implications. Her most recent book is Asia's New Regionalism . She is also the author of For Richer, For Poorer: The New U.S.-Japan Relationship and Transatlantic Trade: A Strategic Agenda. Dr. Frost previously served in the US government as Counselor to the US Trade Representative (1993–95), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Economic and Technology Affairs (1977-81), various positions in the Treasury Department (1974–77) and the State Department (1963), and as a legislative assistant in the US Senate (1972–74). During the 1980s she worked for two multinational corporations. From 1996 to 2014 she was a senior fellow and subsequently visiting fellow at the Institute for International Economics. She received a B.A. from Radcliffe College, an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University.
A Portrait of Southeast Asia’s Infrastructure Development: The Asian Development Bank
An Indo-Pacific Political Economy and Trade Seminar featuring:
Dr. Fei Yu
Deputy Representative for North America
Asian Development Bank
Dr. Ellen L. Frost (Moderator)
Senior Advisor, East West Center in Washington
A Portrait of Southeast Asia’s Infrastructure Development: The Asian Development Bank from East-West Center on Vimeo.
According to the McKinsey Global Institute, Southeast Asia will need over $2 trillion in investment over the next few decades to update its infrastructure to maintain its current levels of economic growth. In addition to projects undertaken by individual
countries, infrastructure needs are facilitated by multinational organizations such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB). In this seminar, Dr. Fei Yu of the ADB’s North America office discussed ADB programs in Southeast Asia, particularly its Greater Mekong Sub-regional Program, which seeks to increase connectivity in the region via sustainable infrastructure development.
This seminar will be part of a series tied to the U.S.-Japan-Southeast Asia in a Dynamic Asia Fellowship program jointly held by the East West Center and Osaka University’s Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP). Generously funded by The Japan Foundation and US Embassy Tokyo, this fellowship has brought together two American, two Japanese, and two Southeast Asian fellows for three months to explore the following theme: How should the United States, Japan, and Southeast Asia collaborate on trade, investment, and economic integration in Southeast Asia?
Click here to view Dr. Yu's PowerPoint presentation.
For more images, please visit the album for this event on the East-West Center's Flickr page.
Ms. Fei Yu is the Deputy Representative for North America of the Asian Development Bank based at ADB’s North American Representative Office in Washington, DC. Her responsibilities include representing ADB in engaging with North American stakeholders and mobilize resources for ADB’s developing member countries. She previously served at the ADB’s headquarters in Manila and the resident mission in Beijing where she led processing and administration of loan and technical assistance projects in the environment, natural resources and agricultural sectors in China and Mongolia. She also led the joint ADB-China Regional Knowledge Sharing Initiative. For four years prior to joining ADB, Fei was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Colby College and Mount Holyoke College. She also consulted with the World Bank and held positions with UNDP and Chinese government. Fei is an economist specializing in development and environmental economics, with publications in peer reviewed economics journals. She received her PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University.
Dr. Ellen L. Frost is a Senior Advisor and Fellow at the East-West Center and a Visiting Distinguished Research Fellow at the National Defense University's Institute of National Strategic Studies. She writes and lectures frequently on Asia-related topics, especially Indo-Pacific political-economic issues and their strategic and security implications. Her most recent book is Asia's New Regionalism . She is also the author of For Richer, For Poorer: The New U.S.-Japan Relationship and Transatlantic Trade: A Strategic Agenda. Dr. Frost previously served in the US government as Counselor to the US Trade Representative (1993–95), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Economic and Technology Affairs (1977-81), various positions in the Treasury Department (1974–77) and the State Department (1963), and as a legislative assistant in the US Senate (1972–74). During the 1980s she worked for two multinational corporations. From 1996 to 2014 she was a senior fellow and subsequently visiting fellow at the Institute for International Economics. She received a B.A. from Radcliffe College, an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University.
