Asean Finns meet in Singapore

During the last week of April 28-29 April a unique meeting took place where all Finnish Business Councils’ Directors and representatives in the Asean region met with FinPro and Finland’s Ambassadors to Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand met to brainstorm and plan opportunities and collaboration.

Coinciding with this unique summit, the Finnish Business Council Singapore was privileged to be able to invite its members to a Team Finland ASEAN networking night on April 28th, at the new AaltoEE premises, to hear first hand about the business opportunities in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Myanmar directly from the respective Ambassadors and Charge d’Affairs, as well as to understand Finpro’s role and charter in advancing business between Finland and South East Asia.

The event contained: Ambassadors’ panel discussion moderated by Riku Mäkelä, Trade and Innovation Affairs Counsellor at Embassy of Finland in Singapore; Finpro in ASEAN presentation by Juha Miikkulainen, Vice President, Head of Region India & APAC at Finpro; Q&A: and Networking dinner.

The event was organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Finland and generously sponsored by Aalto Executive Education Academy.

Photos: Laura Ranin, Aalto EE – Aalto University Executive Education