CPA UK LUNCHTIME LECTURE SERIES: A REALITY CHECK FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS? PNG: A CASE STUDY 13 MARCH 2013 | 1230-1345 | CPA ROOM SPEAKERS’ BIOGRAPHIES

Lorely Burt MP (Liberal Democrat)

Member of the CPA UK delegation to , February 2013.

PPS to Danny Alexander as Chief Secretary to the Treasury

Electoral history: Contested Dudley South 2001 general election. Member for Solihull 2005-10, for Solihull (revised boundary) since 6 May 2010 general election.

Commons Career: Liberal Democrat: Whip 2005-06, Shadow Minister for: Northern Ireland 2005-06, Small Business, Women and Equality 2006-07, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 2007-09, Business, Innovation and Skills 2009-10; PPS to Danny Alexander as Chief Secretary to the Treasury 2012-

Commons Select Committees: Member: Treasury 2005-06, Regulatory Reform 2006-10

Commons Backbench Committees: Chair, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party Committee on Business, Innovation and Skills 2010-12

Political interests: Industry, manufacturing, equalities, planning, women in enterprise, osteoporosis, funerals and bereavement, personal and company debt, management, prisons

Dr Tony Crook, Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews

Research on Knowledge practices, ritual, gardening, mining, property rights. Papua New Guinea. Anthropology of Melanesia, knowledge-practices, 'secrecy', male initiation ritual, taro horticulture, anthropological epistemology, impacts of and responses to the Ok Tedi mine, machine-thinking, perpetual motion, genetic engineering, climate change.

Dr Melissa Demian, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Kent

Melissa Demian received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, following a BA from Bryn Mawr College and an MPhil from Cambridge.

Directly following the PhD she spent two years as a research associate with the ESRC-funded project ‘Property, Transactions and Creations: New Economic Relations in the Pacific’ at Cambridge. Since then she has taught at Bard College, Rutgers University, The New School for Social Research, and at Emory University where she was the Marjorie Shostak Lecturer from 2004-2006.

In 2008 she was an affiliated researcher with the Constitutional and Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea.

H.E. Winnie Kiap, Papua New Guinea (PNG) High Commissioner to the

Her Excellency Winnie Anna Kiap arrived on 25 August 2012 to head the Mission in London with accreditation to , Egypt, Israel, and Zimbabwe. She is keen to use her role to promote her country in the UK and the other countries of her accreditation as a as well as to learn more about democratic and governance processes from her Commonwealth partners which may be applied back home.