Green Industrial Policy in Asia Pacific and the Global Supply Chain: A Dynamic Exchange of Ideas for a Sustainable Future
May 21-23, 2025
The international workshop is an initiative of the Amsterdam-based Transitional Institute (TNI) and the GreenPaths project of the Horizon Europe research programme (grant agreement 101112305), in partnership with the GRIP-ARM/Green Industrial Policy in the Age of Rare Metals project of European Research Council (grant number 9500565) and the Science Technology and Innovation Policy Institute (STIPI) at King Mongkutt’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand.
The workshop agenda aims to address the contemporary opportunities and challenges related to green industrial policy and global supply chains as the Asia Pacific region moves from the era of economic global integration towards strategic competition. This knowledge-sharing platform will feature a series of presentations from researchers and experts with wide-ranging experience who are actively working in the field, examining the conditions and dynamics necessary forcoordination across major policy areas to promote structural transformation. The workshop has three key objectives:
(a) Re-examine the theoretical concepts and policy experiences of the Asian Tigers in the 20th century and their analytical relevance in explaining recent efforts to reinvent industrial strategies for the 21st century;
(b) Capture the range of new initiatives across countries and sectors to spur industrial transformation in response to China-US geopolitical competition and restructuring of world supply chains of manufacturing; and
(c) Draw out broader policy lessons from national experiences of industrialization in Asia relevant to Africa and Latin America.
Based on the workshop in Bangkok, the participants will produce an edited collection tentatively entitled New Industrial Policy in Asia Pacific: One Region, Many Pathways, which will consist of ten substantive chapters on green industrial policy and global supply in the Asia Pacific region. The publication will serve as a knowledge-based resource to support the green industrial transition in other regions of the world, particularly Latin America and Southern Africa. The book will be part of a forthcoming book series: Green and Fair Industrial Policy in the Global South: Transformative Pathways for Reclaiming Development.
The international seminar is co-organized by three researchers:
• Prof. Jewellord T. Nem Singh: Principal Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK; Principal Investigator of the GRIP-ARM project; and Global Fellow at the Wilson Center, Washington DC (jojo.nemsingh[at]gmail.com).
• Dr. Bank Ngamarunchot: Director, Science Technology and Innovation Policy Institute (STIPI), King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (bank.nga[at]kmutt.ac.th).
• Dr. Daniel Chavez: Coordinator of the Global Industrial Policy Lab at the Transnational Institute (TNI) (chavez[at]tni.org).
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