Asia enhances global leadership skills amid the financial crisis

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Updated June 23, 2009 21:03:14

Some say the global recession demands that the international economy be rebuilt and restructured with new leaders at the top - but while Asia has had a relatively good crisis so far, is it time for the region to take the lead?

Presenter: Graeme Dobell, Radio Australia's associate editor for the Asia Pacific
Speakers: Dr Narognchai Akrasanee, former Thai commerce minister and now chairman, Export-Import Bank; Mahendra Siregar, Indonesian deputy co-ordinating minister for economic affairs; Kishore Mahbubani, former head of Sinagpore's foreign ministry and now dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy; Azman Mokhtar, director, sovereign investment fund, Malaysia

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