IIP Project: The APEC Study Center
The APEC Study Center at the University of Washington was established in the summer of 1994 in response to the APEC Leaders Education Initiative introduced by President Clinton and endorsed by the leaders of the other APEC member nations at their historic meetings on Blake Island, Seattle in November 1993. Professor Hellmann served as the first director of the U.S. Consortium of APEC study centers from 1993 to 1997.
This Initiative called on institutions of higher education to collaborate on policy research on Asia-Pacific issues and on the free exchange of ideas, technologies and students and scholars engaged in advanced studies of regional economic importance.
The mission of the APEC Study Center is to stimulate, facilitate and coordinate inter-disciplinary, multi-lateral policy-related research on regional and global issues that affect APEC member nations.