ECCT Supply Chain Committee Seminar

Enhancing trade with Europe through supply chain resilience

Guests of honour:

• Cynthia Kiang, Director General, International Trade Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs
• Christoph Saurenbach, Head of the Trade Section, European Economic and Trade Office

Guest speakers:

• Lin Shiumei, Vice President APAC Corporate Affairs, UPS International Inc.
• More speakers are to be invited.

Date & Time: Thursday, 3 October, 14:00-16:30
Venue: 4F, VIP Room 1, Regent Taipei/台北晶華酒店 4樓 第一貴賓廳
Address: No.3, Ln. 39, Zhongshan N. Rd., Sec. 2, Taipei/台北市中山區中山北路二段39巷3號

Ever since the global Covid-19 pandemic, the question of supply chain resilience has become a critical concern of governments and corporations globally. Governments are especially concerned about how shortages of critical commodities, goods and components will affect their ability to sustain domestic populations and the overall economy while corporations are focused on increasing the diversity of sources, production facilities and markets to prepare them for various forms of disruption. In this environment, there is a risk that policy responses aimed at increasing resilience could have unintended consequences that disrupt functioning markets or otherwise negatively affect normal business operations. For this reason, it is critical for companies to be able to give their input to help governments to devise polices that enable rather than hinder businesses. This includes Taiwanese companies looking to diversify operations into Europe and maintaining resilience along intra-Asia and US trade lanes. This event will discuss the need for trade diversification between Europe and Taiwan as part of an overall effort to build supply chain resilience for Taiwanese companies. The guest speaker from UPS will give a summary of “The State of APEC Supply Chains” report and offer insights and proposed strategies for strengthening resilience.

Agenda (Tent.)

About the speaker

Lin Shiu-mei is Vice President for Corporate Affairs overseeing UPS’s government affairs, sustainability, community relations, and communications in the Asia Pacific Region. A public policy practitioner with more than 25 years of experience, she leads a team of professionals managing advocacy, political risk and issues management, communications, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, and corporate responsibility. In 2023, her team received the Public Affairs Asia Gold Standard Award for Outstanding Issues Management and Crisis Communications for UPS’s response in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Prior to joining UPS in 2010, she worked for Singapore’s Ministry of Trade & Industry on APEC and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. She has spent more than ten years working on US-Vietnam economic normalization, facilitating government to government dialogue and assisting US companies doing business in Vietnam. While living in Hanoi in the late nineties, she designed technical assistance programmes for Vietnamese ministries and advised on issues relating to the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement and Vietnam’s WTO accession. She currently serves on the boards of Green Freight Asia and Conference of the Asia Pacific Express Carriers (CAPEC). She is a graduate of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University (Master of Arts) and the University of Colorado, Boulder (Bachelor of Arts).   

Supporting organiser

Cost: NT$1,200 for members and NT$1,500 for members' guest(s)

To cancel without penalty, written cancellations must be received 48 hours before the event.

**About 48 hours before the event, you will receive another email that will contain a QR code, which will enable you to register at the event using your mobile device.

Contact: Meredith Sun

Tel: 2740-0236 ext. 219 / Meredith.sun@ecct.com.tw