Asia Europe Economic Forum

The Asia-Europe Foundation works together with a consortium of top think tanks in both Asia and Europe to organise the Asia Europe Economic Forum (AEEF) programme.

Established in 2006, the AEEF serves as a high level forum, offering Asian and European policy experts a platform for in-depth research-based exchanges on regional, inter-regional and global issues of mutual interest. The programme consolidates the linkages between economists, practitioners and institutions from both Asia and Europe.

The AEEF programme organises an annual high level conference for experts and policy makers per year, alternating between cities in Asia and Europe. The conferences feature specialised research papers and the outcomes of the conference are channeled to policy makers in both regions.

ASEF and ADBI initially joined the consortium in 2013, and have since supported a number of conferences, including:

• European troubles, Asian worries

  8th AEEF Conference, Brussels, 21-22 January 2013

• Challenges and Prospects for Asian and European Economies

  9th AEEF Conference, Beijing, 29 October 2013

• Asia and Europe in Times of Global Change

  10th AEEF Conference, Berlin, 15-16 May 2014

• What can Asia learn from Economic reforms in Europe?

  11th AEEF Conference, Tokyo, 5-6 December 2014

• Global Governance of Public Goods: Asian and European Perspectives (upcoming)

  12th AEEF Conference, Paris, 1-2 October 2015

• Global Macro-economic Policy Coordination in the New Era

  13th AEEF, Beijing, China, 21-22 September 2016

• Prospects for Asia-Europe Economic Cooperation in a New World Order

  14th AEEF, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 20-21 September 2017

• Europe and Asia: Global Partners for Global Economic Challenges

  15th AEEF, Brussels, Belgium, 17-18 October 2018

The AEEF consortium consists of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Bertelsmann Stiftung, Bruegel (overall secretariat), Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII), Institute of World Economic and Politics – Chinese Academy for Social Sciences (IWEP-CASS), and Korea University.