About the 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.

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.

The APEC Study Center works with various groups engaged in international policy-related research within the University, elsewhere in the United States and in other APEC countries in three main areas:

* Issues of direct concern to business and the professions in the APEC countries,
* Applied science and technology as they bear on the environment, trade, telecommunications, economic development and the management of natural resources.
* APEC itself--its internal structure and its role in the political economy and security of the Asia-Pacific region and the world.

Funding for the Center is provided by the University of Washington and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.

Corporation and foundation support in the United States and Asia is secured for specific projects.

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