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Malaysia Is Top Country in Emerging Southeast Asia for Foreign Investment, Says Milken Institute

Milken Institute’s Global Opportunity Index evaluates 126 countries across seven geographic regions – highlighting emerging Southeast Asia – to measure their potential attractiveness to foreign investors; Sweden ranks No.1 overall in best...
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Chad Clinton

Director, Media Relations
Chad Clinton is the director of media relations for the Milken Institute. Hired to this role in August 2021, Clinton develops and executes strategies to amplify the Institute’s core messages by generating coverage of its pillar workstreams, experts, and events.

Framing the Issues: Digital Mental Health in Asia

More than a decade since the World Health Organization declared “no health without mental health,” its message bears heeding more than ever. Many countries have suppressed certain infectious diseases and chronic physical illnesses, but...
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Quintus Lim

Associate Director, Asia, Milken Institute International
Quintus Lim is an associate director of policy and programs for the International pillar at the Milken Institute. He focuses on policy areas such as R&D financing, technological adoption across domains such as health, food, agriculture, finance, and the broader economy, and issues of ecosystem building.

How Business Can Build Better Lives

The pressure is on for corporations to take the lead in solving social challenges, bringing innovation, technology, and partnership to bear in accelerating our recovery from the pandemic’s worst impacts. This mandate comes from the Milken...
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Pier Luigi Sigismondi

President, Food & Beverages Group, Dole Sunshine Company

Achieving the Global Goal of Universal Health Coverage

When every member of the United Nations signed on to the Astana Declaration in October 2018, it offered a new commitment to making comprehensive primary care available and accessible to all—to every single person, irrespective of relative...
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Donald Li

President , World Organization of Family Doctors

Accelerating Change in Medical Education and Research

Duke-NUS Medical School is a graduate-entry medical school that brings together experienced and highly accomplished students with outstanding faculty, translational biomedical research programs, bench-to-bedside innovation, lifelong...
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Thomas M. Coffman

Dean, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

Young People Are Crucial to Green Recovery Plans

COVID was a storm that the entire world weathered, but no two individuals experienced the storm in the same boat. Although the virus did not respect national borders, spreading like wildfire across the globe, there were factors like...
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Gianfranco Casati

Chief Executive, Accenture Growth Markets (Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East, South Africa)