Asia Leadership Forum
The Asia Leadership Forum is the flagship event of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. The forum invites world leaders from Asia to discuss relevant topics within a global context.
2023: Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Journalist (VIDEO)
If you don’t have facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without these three, we have no shared reality.
2018: Ban Ki-moon, Eighth United Nations Secretary-General (PDF)
Global citizenship is an important concept that can serve as a unique tool to help solve some of our most pressing challenges and assist us in reaching our global goals.
2016: Ma Ying-jeou, Former President of the Republic of China (VIDEO)
My early life had a lot to do with the Catholic Church in Taiwan and, for that matter, American aid to Taiwan.
2015: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Former President of the Republic of Indonesia (PDF)
What we need is reason. We need compassion. Not provocation, but persuasion. We need to build bridges, not burn them.