At the 27th GRIPS Forum held on 18 January, 2010, GRIPS invited Mr. Masahiro Kawai, Dean and CEO of Asian Development Bank Institute to deliver a lecture entitled andquot;Beyond the Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Rebalancing Growth in Asiaandquot;. Mr. Kawai talked about the influence of the global financial and economic crisis on the Asian economy and the policies needed to deal with it. It was a fruitful lecture, with many questions raised during the Q&A session.