ASCC Creation and Structure

Presented by

Alex Rogers, Director (Program), 13 May 2015

Copyright © 2015 APEC Secretariat

1993 ‘Education Initiative’ by APEC Economic

Leaders

1994 APEC Leaders Education Initiative

Conference

1995 First APEC Study Centres Consortium

Conference

Today Around 60 ASCs in 20 APEC economies

Background

ASCC Membership

Status of ASCC in the APEC process?

- Independent

How to establish an APEC Study Centre?

- SOM Office

Accreditation of ASC delegates

APEC’s Guidelines on Non-Member Participation do

not apply to ASC

However, ASCC has recently held its annual

meeting during an APEC SOM cluster – where

overall registration and security procedures get

applied to all events

Practical impact: 2 of 21 economies required their

ASCs to register via the Secretariat; others part of

economy delegation

Updating of ASCC Directory

Secretariat holds the ASCC Directory

Individual updates as welcome at any time and

usually processed within 24hours; the responsible

Program Executive is Ms Joyce YONG (jy@apec.org)

Secretariat also proactively seeks updates

periodically from all ASCs