Direct Line: U.S – ASEAN Connect: Opportunities for U.S. Businesses

Topic: U.S.-ASEAN Connect: Opportunities for U.S. Businesses

Host: Nina Hachigian, U.S. Ambassador to ASEAN

Other Speakers:

• Ziad Haider – U.S. Department of State Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs
• Maggie Hanson-Muse – U.S. Department of Commerce Regional Senior Foreign Commercial Service Officer

Date, time, time zone: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. EDT (Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. Jakarta time)

Brief Description of Call: U.S.-ASEAN Connect (“Connect”) is the U.S. Government’s strategic framework for economic engagement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the 10 ASEAN Member States (Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam). Announced by President Obama on February 15, 2016, at the historic U.S.-ASEAN Special Leaders’ Summit in Sunnylands, California; Connect is organized around four pillars – Business, Energy, Innovation, and Policy. Connect brings together all the resources and expertise of the U.S. government and private sector to create a whole-of-U.S. approach to economic engagement in the region, and reflects both the U.S. government and U.S. private sector’s desire to support ASEAN’s continued integration, including the success of the ASEAN Economic Community, and increased U.S.-ASEAN trade and investment. Join U.S. Ambassador to ASEAN Nina Hachigian, Regional Senior Foreign Commercial Service Officer Maggie Hanson-Muse, and the State Department’s Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs as they highlight opportunities your firm may be interested in taking advantage of through this exciting new initiative.