Former parliamentarian leads coordination of senior East Asian visit to the UK

A senior group of East Asian civil servants will visit the UK this autumn at the invitation of a leading UK institution.

As part of the two-week tour visits will be arranged with a leading UK Think Tank, government, several discussions with UK politicians of new and old, as well as leading players in the British media landscape.  Senior figures from the UK-Indo Pacific trading relationship will also present to the delegates.

Speaking in the run-up to the programme, Mark Logan (who is leading the visit), said that:

In this time of global volatility, now more than ever we need to be speaking with people from a wide range of countries to understand not only that which makes us different, but also identifying those challenges that are common to all

Mark Logan was a former British Foreign Office employee serving in the Indo-Pacific during the 2010s and has significant experience in UK's relations with the region having lived, studied and worked in and on China and Japan for fast approaching 20 years.

He was a Vice-Chair of the UK Parliament’s All-Party Parliamentary China and Japan Groups. Speaks and writes Mandarin Chinese, is studying Japanese, and holds two advanced degrees in China-related studies.