(Hybrid) Latest Security Update in Myanmar at the FCCT

Event Details

The ninth round of The American Chamber of Commerce Myanmar Conflict & Security brief series will bring our members to Bangkok, Thailand!

In collaboration with our valued partner the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand (FCCT) - AMCHAM will host a hybrid closed door briefing by security and strategic experts, including Adam Castillo, our very own AMCHAM President and Managing Director of ATALIAN Global Services Myanmar and Jason Tower, Burma Country Director at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in conversation with Gwen Robinson, FCCT Vice President and Senior Fellow, Institute of Security and International Studies, Chulalongkorn University Thailand.

This session will be conducted under Chatham House Rule and is off-the-record. This session is not open to members of the press. For press inquiries, please contact service@amchammyanmar.com.

Date and Time: February 22, 3:30 pm to 5 pm (Myanmar Time) / 4 pm to 5:30 pm (Bangkok Time)
Venue: Hybrid -- Virtually via Zoom (an access link will be sent to you in advance) or in-person at the FCCT. >>> Please choose how you plan to attend during registration. If you need to change your ticket type, please contact the AMCHAM office and we will assist you to make sure you get the type of ticket you need!
Tickets: FREE for AMCHAM Myanmar Members and FCCT Members
Booking deadline: February 20, 4 pm (Myanmar Time) / 4:30 pm (Bangkok Time)
Capacity is limited and tickets are on a first-come-first-serve basis.
Prior booking is required and no walk ins accepted.
Tickets are non-transferable.
This event is open to AMCHAM Myanmar members and FCCT members only.

Speakers

Adam Castillo

Managing Director of ATALIAN Global Services Myanmar

Gwen Robinson

Editor-at-Large at Nikkei Asian Review

Jason Tower

Burma Country Director of United States Institute of Peace

Gwen Robinson is Editor-at-Large of Nikkei Asia, the English-language journal and website of Japanese media group Nikkei Inc. (https://asia.nikkei.com/) and a former president of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand. She is also a senior fellow at the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, where she specializes in the politics and economics of Myanmar and more broadly mainland Southeast Asia.

Before joining Nikkei as founding chief editor in 2014 she was a senior editor and correspondent with the Financial Times for 19 years, from 1995 to 2014, in Asia, Europe and the US where she was the FT’s Comment editor, US news editor and Online news editor, among other roles. Her last FT post was Bangkok bureau chief for Southeast Asia (2011-14). She was a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney in 2005.

In 1993-95, she was North Asia correspondent for The Times of London. In the 1980s, she covered Southeast Asia for US, Australian and UK media organizations.

Jason Tower is the Country Director for the Burma Program of the United States Institute of Peace. Jason has 20 years of experience working on conflict and security issues in China and Southeast Asia. From 2009 to 2017, he worked to establish the Beijing office of the American Friends Service Committee and initiated programming across north and southeast Asia on the impacts of cross-border investments on conflict dynamics. During this time, Jason also worked extensively in Burma on peace and security issues. From 2018 to 2019, he served as Southeast Asia program manager for the PeaceNexus Foundation, managing a portfolio of grants and partnerships in China, Burma, and Cambodia. Since 2019, Jason’s research has shifted to focus on a range of issues at the nexus of crime and conflict in Southeast Asia. Recent publications include a study of the impacts of Chinese transnational criminal networks on conflict in Burma and regional security across Southeast Asia; a report on criminal activity on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and a review of the impacts of the BRI on conflict. Jason has also published more than half a dozen articles analyzing the impacts of the Myanmar coup, including on regional security in Asia. Jason completed his undergraduate work in economics and international studies at St. Louis University, and his graduate studies in political science and Asian studies at the University of Michigan. He is fluent in Mandarin, and has been named a Fulbright research student, a Fulbright-Hays scholar, and a Harvard-Yenching fellow.

AMCHAM Myanmar member attending virtually

This ticket is eligible for listed representatives of AMCHAM Myanmar member companies only.

Member PriceComplimentary

AMCHAM Myanmar member attending in-person