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APEC Voices of the Future 2020 Webinar
The APEC Voices 2020 Webinar was telecast live on
YouTube on 30 November 2020 during the Malaysian
chairmanship of APEC in 2020. Mr James Soh, Co-
Chair, APEC Voices Leadership Council, delivered the
welcome address viewed by more than 400 youth
leaders from the 21 APEC Member Economies. H.E.
Tan Sri Datuk Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria, Executive
Director, APEC Secretariat, welcomed the APEC
Voices Youth Leaders to share their future concerns
in the Asia Pacific region. APEC Leaders had the
opportunity to hear the youth voices of the 21 The APEC Voices 2020 Webinar hosted by ITE College Central.
APEC Member Economies - to help develop a more
vibrant and dynamic Asia Pacific. Dato Rohana Tan
Sri Mahmood, Chair of the APEC Business Advisory
Council of Malaysia, encouraged the youth leaders to
work with their respective ABAC Members to build
a cohesive environment that will benefit the entire
region.

The panellists comprised Mr Alvin Tan, Minister of
State for Trade and Industry and Culture, Community
and Youth; Dr Noeleen Heyzer, United Nation’s
Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board
Member; and Mr Ho Meng Kit, Chief Executive
Officer, Singapore Business Federation and Member,
APEC Business Advisory Council of Singapore. Mr APEC Voices representatives from the 21 APEC Member
Economies participated in the APEC Voices 2020 Webinar.
Viswa Sadasivan, Former NMP and Chief Executive
Officer, Strategic Moves Pte Ltd, moderated the
panel discussion. Youth leaders from the 21 APEC
Member Economies engaged the panellists on the
state of the world economies, trade policies, the
impact of COVID-19 on the economies and youth.
Their concerns caught the attention of the APEC
Leaders and ABAC Members.

H.E. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand,
delivered her closing speech and welcome the APEC
Voices delegates to participate in the APEC Leaders
Meeting 2021 hosted by New Zealand. Next year’s H.E. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, welcome
meeting will be a virtual event. the APEC Voices of the Future to participate in the APEC 2021
hosted by New Zealand in November 2021.

Foreign Ambassadors’ Reception 2020
H.E. James Sinclair, Ambassador of Chile to Singapore
and Dean of the Diplomatic Corp of Singapore,
invited NYAA Executive Director, Mr James Soh and
Ms Aileen Yap, Deputy Executive Director, to the
Ambassador’s Reception on 23 January 2020 held at
the Singapore Polo Club. It was a night of meeting
many Ambassador Friends and supporters of the
NYAA and new Ambassadors who started their new
postings in Singapore.

High Commissioners of Canada and New Zealand with
Ambassador of Ireland and Thailand and NYAA Executive
Director at an event hosted by the Dean of the Diplomatic Corp
of Singapore, Ambassador James Sinclair of Chile.

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