Given the relevance of the Pacific state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform experience to other regions of Asia, this learning event was jointly organized by Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Governance Thematic Group and Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI) to discuss the findings from a decade of SOE reform in the Pacific. New Zealand’s first Minister of State Owned Enterprises, Honorable Richard Prebble, CBE, who led one of the most comprehensive SOE reform programs ever undertaken anywhere in the world, talked the experiences of New Zealand and neighboring Pacific countries.

The seminar presented the key lessons from the SOE benchmarking studies and reform work undertaken by ADB’s PSDI and Pacific Regional Department (PARD), and discussed their relevance and application to the broader work on SOE reforms being undertaken in other parts of Asia by ADB.