Fabio Giacopello @ ASEAN Italy Economic Relations meeting

Last week Fabio Giacopello, HFG Partner, attended the prestigious High-Level Dialogue on ASEAN Italy Economic Relations, an annual event organized by the European House-Ambrosetti in Bangkok. 

The High-Level Dialogue on ASEAN Italy Economic Relations is the reference event for strengthening economic and strategic ties between ASEAN countries and Italy. 

The Dialogue was an occasion to meet many Government representatives and industry managers from Asia and Italy. Between others, Attilio Fontana (Governor of Lombardy region, Italy); Chadchart Sittipunt (Governor of Bangkok, Thailand); Stefano Pontecorvo (President of Leonardo, Italy).

The first six editions – Jakarta (2017), Singapore (2018), Hanoi (2019), the 2020-2021 digital editions, and Kuala Lumpur (2022) – brought together more than 2,500 Chairmen and CEOs of companies, Ministers and Institutional leaders from ASEAN Countries and Italy.

In 2023, the High-Level Dialogue on ASEAN Italy Economic Relations has been held in Bangkok, Thailand, with an in-person event. It fell on the 155th anniversary of Italian-Thai bilateral relations. 

ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is an organization founded in 1967, and consisting of ten countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam.

The total population in the ASEAN region amounts to more 670 million people which makes ASEAN the world's third largest population region (8.4% of the world). 

ASEAN has a combined GDP of US$3.3 trillion as of 2021. This makes ASEAN the third-largest economy in Asia and the fifth-largest in the world.