VIEW FROM THE 19th FLOOR Reflections of the first APEC Executive Director is in the words of the author part narrative part case study and part of my own thoughts about where APEC should be headed In 1993 United States Ambassador William Bodde was sent to Singapore to set up a new economic organization Bodde clearly relished the challenge of establishing a brand new international economic organization in the most dynamic region of the world Instructed to keep the Secretariat small effective and financially accountable he describes his efforts to build a functioning cross cultural institution in less than a year He also has to satisfy the fifteen member economies spanning the Pacific that the organization reflected the wishes of all APEC members and not just those of the United States This account in addition to serving as a case study in international public administration chronicles the meetings of the APEC Senior Officials and Ministers leading up to the historic APEC Leader s Meeting in Seattle at the end of 1993 He concludes the monographs with a number of provocative organizational and policy recommendations for the future of APEC

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