Description

This volume of essays examines a wide range of issues related to the regionalisation of competition policy in South East Asia, where the ten member states of ASEAN have launched the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). A collaborative project involving academics, practitioners and policy-makers, this book explores issues such as the role of competition policy in facilitating the market-integration ambitions of the ASEAN member states, the challenges arising from divergences in the national competition law regimes of the ASEAN member states, and the absence of a supranational legal framework and the future of competition policy in light of the AEC Blueprint 2025. Given the nexus between regional competition policy and regional market integration, this book should be of interest to lawyers, economists and policymakers working in the fields of competition law and regional trade law.

The Editor

Dr Burton Ong, LLB (NUS), BCL/DPhil (Oxon), LLM (Harv) teaches and researches in the areas of Contract Law, Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law. He is a Director (Competition Law) of the EW Barker Centre for Law and Business.

Guest of Honour

Ambassador ONG Keng Yong is Executive Deputy Chairman of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Concurrently, he is Ambassador-at-Large in the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Singapore’s non-resident High Commissioner to Pakistan and non-resident Ambassador to Iran. He was High Commissioner of Singapore to Malaysia from 2011 to 2014. Mr Ong was Secretary-General of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), based in Jakarta, Indonesia from January 2003 to January 2008.

Advance Praise

Toh Han Li – Chief Executive, Competition Commission of Singapore ‘ASEAN recognises the importance of effective competition regimes in its member states so as to build a competitive, innovative and dynamic economic community. This book has never been more timely and Burton Ong has assembled a team of global competition law scholars to help ASEAN chart its growth towards the ASEAN Economic Blueprint 2025.’