Event Info:

  • Tue 23 February, 2016
  • 08:00
  • D22 - Phnom Penh Tower
  • EuroCham Event

Details

After a successful first event with speakers from Amazon, the EuroCham Digital & New Technologies Committee and BritCham eCommerce Business Group brought you the second in our series of eCommerce in ASEAN Emerging Markets with special guest Dr. Astrid Tuminez, Regional Director of Legal and Corporate Affairs in Southeast Asia at Microsoft.

Dr. Tuminez provided her insights on:
  • eCommerce and eBusiness in the context of ASEAN in 2015 and 2016;
  • ICT and a More Competitive Cambodian Economy;
  • Cybersecurity and Trusted Cloud Computing.
A discussion on emerging Issues threatening e-Commerce and Online Computing in Cambodia followed.

Agenda

07.30-08.00: Registration and Networking over Breakfast
08.00-08.30: Presentation by Dr. Tuminez
08.30-09.00: Open Discussion and Networking

Speaker Bio

Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez joined Microsoft in October 2012 as the Regional Director of Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA) in Southeast Asia (SEA).  

She is also an Adjunct Professor, the former Vice-Dean (Research) and Assistant Dean (Executive Education) of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.  Previously, at the U.S. Institute of Peace, she assisted in advancing peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.  Astrid was also a Senior Advisor to the Salzburg Global Seminar, Director of Research for alternative investments at AIG Global Investment, and a consultant to The World Bank.
In the 1990's, Astrid ran the Moscow office of the Harvard Project on Strengthening Democratic Institutions and was a program officer at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.  She is a member and former Adjunct Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is the author of Russian Nationalism Since 1856. Ideology and the Making of Foreign Policy, “Rising to the Top? A Report on Women’s Leadership in Asia,”and other publications.
Astrid has been a U.S. Institute of Peace Scholar, a Freeman Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, a Harvard Kennedy School fellow, a Distinguished Alumna of Brigham Young University (BYU), a fellowship recipient of the Social Science Research Council and the MacArthur Foundation, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Global Economic Symposium, the Asian Women Leadership University project, and the Institute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP).  She serves on the boards of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI); Singapore American School; and ASKI Global, an NGO focused on entrepreneurship among Asian migrant laborers.
Astrid was selected in 2013 as a “Top 100 Global Influencer” by the Filipina Women’s Network of the U.S.  She holds a B.A. in Russian Litterature and International Relations from BYU; a Master’s in Soviet Studies from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  She is the mother of three children, aged 19, 13 and 5.