Session 5: Policy and Business Forum: Cross-Sectoral Collaboration for Nation-Building and Recovery after the Crisis?
Without collaboration and cooperation, we will not be able to tackle the pandemic in a successful way. Cross-sectoral collaboration between public, private, and people sectors within a country and cross-border cooperation is necessary. Knowledge and information sharing, medical supplies support across country, cross-border disease control, are just a few examples of desired cross-sectoral collaboration the world demands. Especially producing the number of vaccine doses needed to effectively immunize the population will require the combined efforts of many different organizations from many different fields. On a global level, vaccine distribution will require collaboration between governments, relaxing competition laws pertaining to the development and production of vaccine. However, such needed collaboration in response to the current COVID-19 pandemic appears to be insufficient nowadays. This session will search for innovative ideas and good practices of cross-sectoral collaboration models. What would be effective measures, mechanisms, systems, or incentives that could institutionalize such kind of needed collaboration?
Moderator: Dr. Amornsak Kitthananan, Advisorial Committee to the Prime Minister of Thailand
Speakers:

1. YB Dato’ Sri Hajah Nancy Binti Shukri,
Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture of Malaysia

2. Hon. Amir Khosru Chowdhury,
Former Minister of Commerce of Bangladesh

3. Thibault Danjou,
Expert to the Directorate General on Research and Innovation of the EU Commission (France)

4. Dr. Eden Woon,
President of Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)