Tan Sri Rebecca Santa Maria, Executive Director, APEC Secretariat

19-Nov-20 08:05

The APEC Secretariat strives for freer trade, smoother flow of people, and digital and gender-based inclusiveness among its 21 member economies that includes the US, China, Russia and Japan.

But unlike its policy-based peer ASEAN, the APEC Secretariat is a cooperative, discussive and non-binding platform. So how does it achieve its goals when its biggest members are increasingly anti-globalisation?

Tan Sri Rebecca Santa Maria, its Executive Director, discusses.