Organizers of a May 29 conference in Indianapolis are seeking to support the ongoing reform process in Myanmar and encourage Burmese expatriates to offer support economically and educationally according to a press release dated 20 May.
Among those expected to attend and speak at the U.S.-Myanmar Engagement Conference at the IUPUI Campus Centre, are U Kyaw Tin, permanent United Nations representative of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.
Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will speak at the conference through a video message andis expected to address critically important issues such as the need for constitutional reform as part of fundamental change and political development in Myanmar, as well as economic development.
She is expected to discuss policy and action priorities of the National League for Democracy, both before and after upcoming elections.
Other speakers will include Aye Sanda Lwin, economic attaché of Myanmar to the United States; Harn Yawnghwe, executive director of the Euro-Burma Office; Anne Gillman, Burma/Myanmar desk officer in the Office of ASEAN and the Pacific Basin at the U.S. Department of Commerce; Nicholas Farrelly, a fellow at the College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University and co-director of the ANU-IU Pan Asia Institute; and Dany Khy, economic growth team leader in the Asia bureau of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Conference organizers hope the daylong event will provide a holistic overview of Myanmar's economic and political outlook and the growing diplomatic and economic relations between Myanmar and the United States.
The Centre for International Business Education and Research, part of Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, and the Centre for Constitutional Democracy in the IU Maurer School of Law are co-hosting the conference with the Burmese American Community Institute. Also participating is IU's Pan Asia Institute.