The Regional Outlook Forum (ROF), ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute’s flagship event held at the beginning of each year, will be held on 10 January 2023, at Shangri-La Singapore, Island Ballroom.

This year’s theme “Understanding the Drivers of Change in a Disrupted World," seeks to address the drivers which can disrupt and reshape not only the global economic order, but more fundamentally, long-cherished paradigms about identity, religion, and political ideology. For Southeast Asia, these forces of change portend significant risks to political and economic stability, social cohesion, and prospects for growth and development.

ROF2023 will explore the forces that are driving the global tectonic shifts in world affairs and discuss their implications for Southeast Asia. The far-reaching impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global health, trade, finance, and politics is still running its course, even as the fresh shocks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on global energy and food security are exacerbating the economic and financial stress on many debt-laden countries across the globe.

Featured speakers

• Chan Heng Chee, Chairman, Board of Trustees, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
• George Yeo, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Singapore; Visiting Scholar, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
• Choi Shing Kwok, Director and CEO, ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
• Azalina Othman Said, Minister for Law and Institutional Reform, Malaysia; Member of Parliament for Pengerang; Former Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Malaysia
• C. Raja Mohan, Senior Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute, New Delhi
• Anies Baswedan, Former Governor of Jakarta, Indonesia
• Anthony Loke, Minister for Transport, Malaysia; Member of Parliament for Seremban; Secretary-General of the Democratic Action Party