A/P Michael Ewing-Chow, Head of CIL’s Trade and Investment Law and Policy Programme and WTO Chair, NUS was invited by the Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH) and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN (ERIA) and East Asia to speak at the UPH-ERIA Distinguished Lecture Series on “Engendering ASEAN’s Services Value Chains”. H.E. Gita Wirjawan, the Minister of Trade for Indonesia opened the session and Prof Ewing-Chow emphasized the value of the rule of law for investor confidence in services investments particularly for telecommunications, logistics and finance.