International Conference on Business, Economics and Finance (ICBEF) | 23 August 2017 | Brunei, Jalan Tungku Link, Gadong BE1410, Brunei

Theme: Change, Challenges and Opportunities: Strategies for a Sustainable Future in Asia

The recent 2015 report by the United Nations predicted that by 2050, the world population will grow to 9.7 billion, wherein half of them reside in Asia (54.1 percent), an estimated growth of 19.9 percent from 2015. Social changes and economic shifts in Asia, coupled with recent financial crises, pose significant challenges to sustainable development and business practices in Asia and around the globe. While there are urgency on developing, planning and implementing sustainable strategies to enable and ensure productivity and viability of businesses, new opportunities are also opening up, requiring innovative strategies at all levels to ensure productivity of workers and successful business practices.

Business practices that seize new opportunities with innovations pose a great challenge for Asian firms in the 21st century. The potential growth of the region calls for close collaboration between universities, research institutes and government agencies for the advancement of new knowledge on sustainable business practices as well as on required institutional changes. Social changes accompanying the economic growth and the expansion of the financial market raise new concerns that need to be addressed at the same time. With an unprecedented new horizon opening up for the future of Asia, this conference calls for in-depth discussion to identify new sources of opportunities, by exploring new strategies that enable changes, enhance sustainable growth and meet rising challenges facing firms in Asia.

Professor Charles Horioka
(Vice-President and Research Professor at the Asian Growth Research Institute, Japan)
Link to biography: http://en.agi.or.jp/staff/charles-yuji-horioka/
Professor Charles Horioka is a Japanese-American economist and is currently Vice-President and Research Professor at the Asian Growth Research Institute in Kitakyushu City, Japan. Horioka received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. Previously, he taught at Stanford, Columbia, Kyoto, and Osaka Universities, and most recently, he was Vea Family Professor of Technology and Evolutionary Economics Centennial at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, from 2013 until 2014. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and until 2013 Co-Editor of the International Economic Review.

Professor Chris Dubelaar
(Professor or Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law, Deakin University, Australia.)
Link to biography: http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/chris-dubelaar
Professor Chris Dubelaar, Deakin University, Faculty of Business and Law.

UBD School of Business and Economics Universiti Brunei Darussalam