US ASEAN will host the fifth YSEALI Women’s Leadership Workshop in Jakarta 10 – 14 June 2019 (travelling day on June 10 to Jakarta and travel back to their respective countries on June 15).

The workshop will gather 33 women entrepreneurs from all 10 ASEAN countries as well as Timor-Leste. The workshop will focus on capacity-building with an emphasis on building economic capacity among ASEAN participants in line with international best practices. The program will include mentorship and will emphasize participants’ ties with the larger ASEAN Economic Community.

In July 1944, representatives from 44 countries met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire to establish a system of global cooperation to foster global economic growth and international trade and overcome the perceived problems of the interwar period (protectionism, currency wars, unstable exchange rates, among others). The conference led to the establishment of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the precursor of the World Trade Organization.