In the 2023 Annual Forum, members from CAPRI’s International Advisory Council and board, key stakeholders in the region’s policy community, and contributors to CAPRI’s ongoing research will discuss pressing challenges to resilience and solutions as the Asia Pacific emerges from the latest crisis and prepares for future ones.
In a CAPRI forum held at NTU, Prof. Wei Shyy, former President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, described his journey in higher education from studying aerospace engineering in Taiwan to leading a top university in Hong Kong. He then joined Mr. Daniel M. Tsai, Chairman of Fubon Group, and Prof. Wen-Chang Chen, President of NTU, in a discussion on how universities, businesses, and students can cultivate resilient and innovative minds.
At the University of Virginia’s historic Rotunda, Malcolm Turnbull, former Prime Minister of Australia and Chair of CAPRI International Advisory Council, and Lucy Turnbull, former Lord Mayor of Sydney, discussed democratic resilience and effective leadership from the local to the global level.
CAPRI’s second public forum featured Dr. Richard Bush, nonresident senior fellow at Brookings, focusing on themes in his recent book Difficult Choices: Taiwan’s Quest for Security and the Good Life and the challenges Taiwan faces in balancing competing priorities when formulating policy. Dr. Bush was joined by Alicia García Herrero, Enoch Wu, and Jiunn-rong Yeh to discuss how to build a resilient future of Taiwan.
In this public forum moderated by Syaru Shirley Lin of the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation and the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, the Pottingers reflect on successes and failures in responding to COVID-19 and ongoing efforts to understand the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in order to build resilient healthcare systems and improve governance for future crises.
