TALKS

Upcoming Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

  • “End-Users at Inflection Point: The Gulf Region in the U.S.-China Tech War,” Panel on ‘The Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Regional Order and Disorder,’ The Annual International Multidisciplinary Conference, ‘The Gulf in the Emerging Regional (Dis)Order’. Gulf Studies Center, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar (November 17-18, 2024)
  • Panel on Economic Security, The Shahal M. Khan Cyber and Economic Security Institute, American University, Washington, DC USA (October/November 15, 2024)
  • Panel on Semiconductors, Institute of Geoeconomics, The International House of Japan, Tokyo, Japan (November 2024 TBD)
  • Brownbag Seminar, “EVs and Batteries in the Gulf,” Middle East Council on Global Affairs, Doha, Qatar (September 2, 2024)

Past Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

  • Day 1: “The “Geolegality” of U.S. Investment Screening on Chips and AI: Cases from East Asia and the Gulf,” Workshops on Law, Geoeconomics, and the Breakdown of the International Rules-Based Order: Economic Lawfare Amid Rising “Geolegal” Rivalry (August 12, 2024); Day 3: Panel III. Geoeconomics in Investment Analysis: Risk and Opportunity, Helsinki Geoeconomics Week 2024, Geoeconomics Society & Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Helsinki, Finland (August 12-16, 2024)
  • Panel, ‘Academic Plenary 1: How would managing economies to change in an increasingly complex and fragmented world?’ The 10th Singapore Economics Association (SER), Singapore (July 31-August 2, 2024)
  • “Overcoming the Digital Divide in Finance for the Aging Population in South Korea on the Path toward CBDCs,” Inaugural ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) & ASEAN+3 Finance Think-tank Network (AFTN) Seminar, “Dawn of a New Age in the ASEAN+3?”, Shanghai National Accounting Institute, Shanghai, China (June 6–7, 2024, scheduled)
  • Panel 1, ‘Is the Indo-Pacific a Relevant Scale to Develop Economic Security Policy Frameworks?’ in ‘The Indo-Pacific, an opportunity for our economic security strategies?’ Institut Montaigne & the Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG) Joint Public Conference, Tokyo, Japan (June 3, 2024)
  • Pre-panel, CBDC Roundtable, ‘Reinventing Money: Central Bank Digital Currencies and their Global Implications,’ Middle East Council and IICPSD, Istanbul, Turkiye (May 10-11, 2024)
  • Panel 2, ‘The International Semiconductor Landscape: ‘Siliconpolitik’ and Global Partnerships,’ in ‘Semiconductors, AI and Global Economic Security: A Framework for International Strategic Cooperation,’ Centre on Emerging Technologies and Security, Alan Turing Institute, British Library, London, United Kingdom (May 7, 2024)
  • Workshop 1 on the Revival of Industrial Policy and Competition with China, Trilateral U.S.-ROK-Japan Cooperation on Economic Security, Center on Asian Policy Studies (CAPS), Foreign Policy Program, The Brookings Institution (April 25, 2024)
  • “The Race for Supremacy in AI Chips: Industrial Policy, Export Controls, and Investment Restrictions.” Panel 4: ‘International Developments in Supply Chain Resilience Amid De-Globalisation,’ Asia-Pacific Programme for Senior National Security Officers (APPSNO) 2024: Defining the State of Security in Uncertain Conditions: Lessons and Responses, Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore (April 14-19, 2024)
  • “AI Chip Competition amid U.S. Chip Export Controls Expansion into the Gulf.” Non-Brownbag Seminar, Middle East Council on Global Affairs, Doha, Qatar. (March 26, 2024)
  • Roundtable on the Multilateral Reform Agenda – Global Financial Safety Net & Financial System Stability, The Brookings Institution (Online, January 24, 2024)