The High Commissions of Australia, India, and Singapore to the United Kingdom, in partnership with the Centre for Statecraft and National Security at King’s College London welcome you to the 2025 Indo-Pacific Conference.

Programme:

09:00 – 09:30 Arrival and registration

09:30 – 09:45 Welcome remarks

09:45– 10:15 Keynote address

• Seema Malhotra MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Indo-Pacific, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

10:15 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 12:00 Perspectives on a Fragmented World

An exchange on the geopolitical, economic, and technological forces driving global fragmentation, and its implications for the Indo-Pacific

• Chair: Professor Alessio Patalano, Professor of War & Strategy in East Asia, Centre for Statecraft and National Security, King’s College London
• Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King’s College London
• Dr Lavina Lee, Director of Foreign Policy and Defence Program, United States Study Centre, University of Sydney
• Ashok Malik, Partner and Chair of India Practice, The Asia Group
• Professor Danny Quah, Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics; Dean, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore