Opening Remarks
- Masafumi Shukuri
- Chairman, International High-speed Rail Association
IHRA FORUM
Guest Speech
- Shinzo Abe
- Prime Minister of Japan (Video Message)
Prime Minister of Japan (Video Message)
- Keiichi Ishii
- Minister, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan
Opening Session
“Transportation and Economic Development of the Asia-Pacific”
Moderator
- Indrani Bagchi
- Senior Editor, Times of India
Panelists
- Syed Hamid Albar
- Chairman, Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD), Malaysia
- Mike Mrdak
- Secretary, Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development, Australia
- Surin Pitsuwan
- Former Secretary General, ASEAN
- NK Singh
- Chairman, Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Review Committee, India
- Akihiko Tanaka
- Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, Tokyo Univ.
Former President, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Session1
“Challenges to Connectivity, Integration and Sustainability in HSR Projects”
— Maximizing the Benefit of HSR Development —
Moderator
- Roderick Smith
- Professor, Imperial College, UK
Panelists
- Azmi Abdul Aziz
- CEO, Prasarana, Malaysia
- Nakorn Chantasorn
- Adviser to President, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Thailand
- Chua Chong-Kheng
- Deputy Chief Executive, Land Transport Authority, Singapore
- Mohamed Nur Kamal
- CEO, MyHSR Corp., Malaysia
- Arunendra Kumar
- Former Chairman, Railway Board, India
- Takao Nishiyama
- Executive Director, East Japan Railway Company
Special Session
“Future of India with HSR”
Moderator
- Shishir Gupta
- Executive Director, Hindustan Times, India
Panelists
- Shaurya Doval
- Director, India Foundation
- Jyotiraditya Scindia
- Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha), Chief Whip-Congress Party, India
Session 2
“International Affairs, Strategy and HSR”
Moderator
- Aiko Doden
- Senior Commentator / Senior Producer, NHK, Japan
Panelists
- Tom Daschle
- Former Senator and Senate Majority Leader, USA
- David Howell
- Former UK Transport Secretary
- Yoshiyuki Kasai
- Chairman Emeritus & Representative Director, Central Japan Railway Company
- Andrew Robb
- Former Minister for Trade and Investment, Australia
Session 3
“HSR and Regional Development”
— Examples of Implementation in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Europe —
Moderator
- Shigeru Morichi
- Director, Policy Research Center, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan
Panelists
- Toshihiko Aoyagi
- President & Representative Director,
Kyushu Railway Company - Jaehak Oh
- Vice President, Korea Transport Institute, South Korea
- Werner Rothengatter
- Professor, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Yasunori Yamazaki
- Director-General, Management and Administration Department, Toyama Pref., Japan
- Yao-Chung Chiang
- Chairman, Taiwan High-Speed Rail Corporation
Closing Remarks
- Seiji Manabe
- Chairman & Director, West Japan Railway Company
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