The Rise of Southeast Asia | Gita Wirjawan

With 700 million people and a $4 trillion economy, Southeast Asia has what it takes to move from the periphery to global discourse consciousness. In his new book, 'What It Takes: Southeast Asia,' entrepreneur and educator Gita Wirjawan traces the realities of the present and charts a forward vector for the region. He explores the collaborations that Southeast Asia must forge with neighboring regions and the wider world to unlock its full potential, bringing this region from the periphery to the core of global consciousness. This event was co-sponsored by the Precourt Institute for Energy. It is part of Gita Wirjawan's 'What It Takes: Southeast Asia' book tour in the United States. Found out more: ‪@gwirjawan‬ Gita Wirjawan is a visiting scholar at Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy and formerly a visiting scholar at Shorenstein APARC (2022-24). Wirjawan is the chairman and founder of Ancora Group and Ancora Foundation, as well as the host of the podcast "Endgame." While at APARC, he researched the directionality of nation-building in Southeast Asia and sustainability and sustainable development in the U.S. and Southeast Asia. Moderator ============= David Cohen is the co-director of The Southeast Asia Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. He is also a leading expert in the fields of human rights, international law and transitional justice, as well as one of the world's leading social and legal historians of ancient Greece. Cohen taught at UC Berkeley from 1979-2012 as the Ancker Distinguished Professor for the Humanities, and served as the founding Director of the Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center, which moved to Stanford in 2013 and became the Center for Human Rights and International Justice. He now serves as the Center's faculty co-director. Cohen holds the WSD-HANDA Professorship in Human Rights and International Justice and is appointed in the Classics department at Stanford. He is also appointed as Professor of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems in the Department of Environmental Behavior Sciences at Stanford's Doerr School of Sustainability.