Announcement for the 9th South China Sea International Conference

Sessions

Speakers

Keynote Speech

H.E. Judge Vladimir Vladimirovich Golitsyn, President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) (2014-2017)

SESSION 1: Current State of Affairs in the South China Sea

Prof. You Ji, Head of Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Macau, China

Dr. Aries A. Arugay, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines

Prof. Pham Quang Minh, Dean of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Dr. Euan Graham, Director, International Security Program at the Lowy Institute, Australia

SESSION 2: Powers’ Interactions and Rule-based Order in the South China Sea

Prof. Shi Yinhong, Director of the Center on American Studies at Renmin University of China

Ms. Colin Willett, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State

Mr. Hideshi Tokuchi, Senior Fellow, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan

Prof. Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies, Centre for Policy Research, India

SESSION 3: The military and paramilitary balance in the South China Sea

Major General Nguyen Hong Quan (rtd.), Former Deputy Director General, Institute for Defense Strategy, Viet Nam

Dr. Fu-Kuo Liu, Senior Fellow, Institute of International Relations, Taiwan Chengchi University

Prof. Carl Thayer, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defense Force Academy, Australia

Mr. Lyle J.Morris, Senior Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation, United States

SESSION 4: Activities at Sea: Sources of Conflict or Areas for Cooperation

Ms. Theresa Fallon, Member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP-EU)

Prof. Zhang Renping, Director, Center for International Maritime Convention Studies, Dalian Maritime University, China

Ms. Shafiah F. Muhibat, Senior Fellow, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia/Maritime Security Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore

Captain Martin A. Sebastian RMN (R), Senior Fellow/Centre Head, Centre for Maritime Security and Diplomacy, Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA)

SESSION 5: Legal Dimensions in the South China Sea

Prof. Geneviève Bastid Burdeau, Professor of International Law, Sorbonne Law School (Univ. of Paris I); Member of the Institute of International Law, France

Assoc. Prof. Nguyen Thi Lan Anh, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Bien Dong Institute for Maritime Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV)

Dr. Kim Wonhee, Senior Research Fellow, Korea Maritime Institute, Korea

Prof. Jay Batongbacal, Director, Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea, University of the Philippines, Philippines

SESSION 6: Sustainable Development and Cooperation Initiatives

Ms. Chen Chenchen, Deputy Director of the Macro Research Department at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China

Ms. Joanna Mossop, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Prof. David M. Ong, Research Professor of International & Environmental Law, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Commander Nguyen Khac Vuot, Director, International Cooperation Department, Vietnam Coast Guard

SESSION 7: Code of Conduct (COC): Substance and process

Prof. Robert Beckman, Head of Ocean Law and Policy Programme, Centre for International Law (CIL), the National University of Singapore (NUS)

Prof. Zhang Renping, Director, Center for International Maritime Convention Studies, Dalian Maritime University, China

Prof. Jay Batongbacal, Director, Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea, University of the Philippines

Captain Martin A. Sebastian RMN (R), Senior Fellow/Centre Head, Centre for Maritime Security and Diplomacy, Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA), Malaysia

Ms. Shafiah F. Muhibat, Senior Fellow, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia/Maritime Security Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore

Dr. Tran Truong Thuy, Senior Fellow, Foundation for East Sea Studies (FESS), Viet Nam