ANU CRAWFORD LEADERSHIP FORUM PROGRAM GLOBAL REALITIES, DOMESTIC CHOICES Rebuilding trust 23-25 JUNE 2019
ANU Public Policy and Societal Impact Hub
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Information 1 Maps 2 Welcome 5 The Forum 3 Convening Group 6 Program 7 After the Forum 16 Breakfast sessions 18 International speakers 24 Domestic speakers 27 Participant list 57 INFORMATION
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4 WELCOME
The central challenge for democratic governments everywhere is to make good policy good politics. Australia is not alone in facing ever more intense geopolitical, economic and social policy challenges, but finding it difficult to build the political and community consensus necessary to confront them effectively. The ANU Crawford Leadership Forum, now in its sixth year, brings together on an invitation- only basis, 150 distinguished business, public sector, research and advocacy community leaders, Australian and international, to debate for two days both the global realities and the domestic choices needed to address them. There is no more appropriate venue to wrestle with these issues, and to begin building the consensus necessary to resolve them, than this great national university of ours, and I offer all our visitors the warmest of welcomes.
Gareth Evans Chancellor, The Australian National University Chair, ANU Crawford Leadership Forum Honorary Professorial Fellow, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy
The Australian National University aspires to the highest standards of excellence—to be recognised not only as our national university but our finest; in research, in academic excellence and in our contribution to national and international public policy-making. I am proud to welcome you to this year’s Crawford Leadership Forum. In its sixth year, this forum has become an important arena for leaders across our nation to discuss the major challenges facing our country and beyond, and to foster ideas that can inform the development of public policy. We have some incredible minds coming together for this year’s forum and I look forward to participating in these discussions as we look at ways to rebuild trust.
Brian Schmidt Vice-Chancellor, The Australian National University 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics
5 THE FORUM
Trust is a precious commodity. It is hard to win and easy to lose. In mid-2019 trust in many of our institutions is severely damaged. The Banking Royal Commission, the reports of institutional abuse and the lack of response from the churches, the decline of mainstream media and the rise of echo chamber social media have all challenged our trust in Australian institutions. But it is a global phenomenon. Brexit has exposed the UK parliament’s inability to resolve a crisis; Donald Trump has exploited the hyper-partisanship in US politics. And the established international order of treaties and agreements is under challenge. This all reinforces the need to look at how we re-build trust. We need institutions worthy of the people’s trust and messages that tell people the truth about them. This year’s Forum brings together a truly outstanding group of international and domestic speakers to attempt to distinguish the ephemeral from the enduring trends and begin the necessary task of rebuilding the trust that is essential to a healthy democracy.
Bob McMullan Director, ANU Crawford Leadership Forum The Australian National University
CONVENING GROUP
Gareth Evans (Chair) Brian P. Schmidt Chancellor, The Australian National University Vice-Chancellor, The Australian National University
Bob McMullan Heather Smith Director, ANU Crawford Leadership Forum, The Australian Secretary, Department of Industry, Innovation and Science National University Helen Sullivan Melinda Cilento Professor and Director, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Chief Executive, Committee for Economic Development of Australian National University Australia Michael Wesley Allan Gyngell Professor and Dean, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific President, Australian Institute of International Affairs
Sean Innis Director, Public Policy and Societal Impact Hub, The Australian National University
Sung Lee Director, Asia Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia
Graeme Samuel Member, The Australian National University Council
6 PROGRAM
Sunday 23 June 2019
6 - 7.30pm Registration & opening reception
Foyer, National Gallery of Australia
7.30 - 9.30pm Gala dinner
Gandel Hall, Welcome to Country National Gallery of Matilda House Australia Honorary Doctor, The Australian National University Ngambri-Ngunnawal-Canberra Indigenous elder Gandel Hall, Welcome remarks National Gallery of Gareth Evans Australia Chancellor, The Australian National University The state of the world
Zhu Feng Executive Director, China Centre for Collaborative Studies of South China Sea Director, Institute of International Studies, Nanjing University Kelly Magsamen Vice President, National Security and International Policy, Centre for American Progress Gideon Rachman Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times in conversation with
Gareth Evans Chancellor, The Australian National University
7 PROGRAM
Monday 24 June 2019
7.30 - 8.45am Concurrent breakfast sessions
Seminar Rooms Please see page 19 for more details.
8.45 - 9am Break
Acton Foyer
9 - 9.10am Welcome
Molonglo Theatre Brian P. Schmidt Vice-Chancellor, The Australian National University Bob McMullan Director, ANU Crawford Leadership Forum 9.10 - 9.30am Opening session
Molonglo Theatre Trends in trust
This session will provide a background of global trends in trust as measured by the most prestigious international benchmarks.
Daryl Karp Director, Museum of Australian Democracy Jill Sheppard Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University Laura Tingle (Chair) Chief Political Correspondent, 7:30, ABC
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Monday 24 June 2019
9.30 - 11am Plenary session 1
Molonglo Theatre State of the global economy
The Global Financial Crisis left many people around the world wondering whether the current regulatory regimes are adequate to the task they have been set and undermined trust in banks and the prevailing orthodoxy. Are we are facing a serious prospect of another global economic crisis? Warwick McKibbin Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, The Australian National University Thomas Lembong Chair, Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board Philip Lowe Governor, Reserve Bank of Australia Su-Lin Ong Managing Director, Chief Economist & Head of Australian Research, RBC Capital Markets Melinda Cilento (Chair) Chief Executive, Committee for Economic Development of Australia 11 - 11.30am Break
Acton Foyer
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Monday 24 June 2019 11.30am - 1pm Concurrent sessions 1
A1: Acton Theatre A1: Economic/Social B1: Geopolitics
B1: Barton Theatre Growth without inequality Global pressures and impact on South East Asia and South Asia One of the supposed perceived drivers of The sharpening of US-China strategic mistrust of economic and political institutions has competition, China’s strategic ambitions and been the unequal distribution of the benefits and economic policies, the prospect of a technology costs of economic growth. Are there options for “Cold War” and some of the Asia policies of the distributing opportunities more fairly, and what Trump Administration all raise challenges for the impact would these have on economic growth? region. This session will focus on how the two largest democracies, India and Indonesia, are likely to respond and also the implications for ASEAN. John W. H. Denton Thomas Lembong Secretary General, International Chamber of Chair, Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board Commerce Jenny Macklin Siddharth Varadarajan Former Member for Jagajaga, Australian Labor Founding Editor, The Wire Party Carol Austin Huong Le Thu Director, HSBC Bank Australia Senior Analyst, Australian Strategic Policy Institute Visiting fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University Martin Parkinson (Chair) Peter Varghese (Chair) Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Chancellor, The University of Queensland Cabinet
1 - 2.30pm Lunch
Seminar Rooms The inside story
Join some of our distinguished speakers in an intimate chat about some of the issues that keep them awake at night under Chatham House Rule. As part of a small group you will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a discussion on critical issues for Australia and the region.
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Monday 24 June 2019 2.30 - 4pm Plenary session 2
Molonglo Theatre Rebuilding trust in business
Evidence suggests that for many industries and businesses the public has lost trust in their approach to customers, public interest and taxation. How can individual businesses or the business community as a whole reverse this trend? Or should they just get on with doing business as proficiently is possible? Brad Banducci Chief Executive Officer, Woolworths Group Ken Henry Chairman, National Australia Bank Elizabeth Proust Chair, Advisory Board, Bank of Melbourne James Shipton Chair, Australian Securities and Investments Commission Lenore Taylor (Chair) Editor, The Guardian, Australia 4 - 4.30pm Break
Acton Foyer
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Monday 24 June 2019 4.30 - 6pm Concurrent sessions 2
A2: Acton Theatre A2: Economic/Social B2: Geopolitics
B2: Barton Theatre Trust in the public sector Prospects for the Chinese economy
Society is placing new and different pressures Phenomenal Chinese growth has been a on the public service. Can we trust it to come significant driver of economic growth globally forward with independent and rigorous policy and in Australia. Can we rely on this continuing? recommendations for Ministers? Can we Is there a potential conflict between the trust it to carry out the wishes of the elected centralisation of political power in President Xi government? Jinping, funding and the conditions necessary for sustained economic growth? Heather Smith Jane Golley Secretary, Department of Industry, Innovation Acting Director, Australian Centre on China in the and Science World, The Australian National University David Thodey Justin Yifu Lin Chair, CSIRO Dean, Institute of New Structural Economics and Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, Peking University Helen Sullivan Ligang Song Director, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Director, The China Economy Program, The Australian National University Australian National University Glyn Davis (Chair) Craig Emerson (Chair) Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Managing Director, Craig Emerson Economics Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian Distinguished Fellow, The Australian National National University University
6.30 - 7pm Reception
Common Room, University House 7 - 9:15pm Dinner
Great Hall, Rebuilding trust in politics University House Clare O’Neil MP Federal Member for Hotham, Victoria, Australian Labor Party Rebekha Sharkie MP Federal Member for Mayo, South Australia, Centre Alliance Andrew Laming MP Federal Member for Bowman, Queensland, Liberal Party of Australia Virginia Haussegger (Chair) Director, 50/50 by 2030 Foundation, University of Canberra
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Tuesday 25 June 2019
7.30 - 8.45am Concurrent breakfast sessions
Seminar Rooms Please see page 18 for more details. Please refer to your tickets in your registration pack or the Forum App for details of your session. 8.45 - 9am Break
Acton Foyer
9 - 10.30am Plenary session 3
Molonglo Theatre Rebuilding trust in global institutions and norms
The liberal democratic order appears to be under stress. Its long-term guardian the US, has turned its back on the institutions and norms which have been the basis of international stability for more than 70 years. Other countries and regions are also facing challenges to the basic institutions and norms of liberal internationalism. What steps need to be taken to redress this erosion of trust? Is there a role for Australia? Kelly Magsamen Vice President, National Security and International Policy, Centre for American Progress
Jean-Marie Guehenno Senior Adviser, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Thant Myint-U Partner, Ava Advisory Group
Clare Walsh (Chair) Deputy Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
10.30 - 11am Break
Acton Foyer
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Tuesday 25 June 2019
11 - 12.30pm Concurrent sessions 3
A3: Acton Theatre A3: Economic/Social B3: Geopolitics
B3: Barton Theatre Falling levels of trust in the media Defence spending for self-reliance
In the age of disruption, how much trust can Self-reliance has been a staple of discussion or should we put in traditional media and new about Australia’s defence future. But what are media? How real is the ‘echo chamber’ effect of the implications? How much should we be social media? Does it matter? spending? And on what? How important is the local defence industry capability? How much should we be prepared to pay for it? Megan Brownlow Rebecca Skinner Deputy Chair, Screen Australia and Media Associate Secretary, Department of Defence Federation Australia Jennifer Hewett Hugh White Journalist, The Australian Financial Review Professor of Strategic Studies, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University Siddharth Varadarajan Claire Willette Founding Editor, The Wire Chief Executive Officer Australian Defence Alliance - Victoria
Andrea Carson (Chair) Brendan Sargeant (Chair) Associate Professor of Journalism, La Trobe Honorary Professor, Strategic and Defence University Studies Centre, Coral Bell School of Asia and Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University 12.30 - 2pm Lunch
Canberry/ Mass surveillance by the state? - Security, liberty and public trust Springbank Rooms This session will be under Chatham House Rule.
Michael Pezzullo Secretary, Department of Home Affairs
Michelle Grattan Chief political correspondent, The Conversation
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Tuesday 25 June 2019
2 - 2.45pm What does the election tell us about Australia?
Molonglo Theatre Wayne Swan National President, The Australian Labor Party Andrew Bragg Senator - Elect for NSW, Liberal Party of Australia Marija Taflaga Director, Centre for the Study of Australian Politics, The Australian National University Mark Kenny Senior Fellow, Australian Studies Institute, School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University Patricia Karvelas (Chair) Presenter, ABC Radio 2.45- 4pm Final plenary
Molonglo Theatre How does Australia rebuild its trust in our institutions?
Our panellists will be asked to reflect on their conclusions from the Forum, and discuss what lessons we can draw.
Andrew Charlton Director, Alpha Beta Advisors
Katherine Mansted Senior Researcher, National Security College, The Australian National University
Jason Yatsen Li Chief Executive Officer, Yatsen Associates
Swati Dave Managing Director and CEO, Efic
Gareth Evans (Chair) Chancellor, The Australian National University > End of Forum
15 AFTER THE FORUM
Tuesday 25 June 2019
4 - 5.30pm Networking with Future Shapers delegates
Molonglo Foyer
Semi-structured networking event for ANU Crawford Leadership Forum & Future Shapers delegates. Come along to meet some of Australia’s next generation of leaders.
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BREAKFAST SESSIONS
Monday 24 June 2019
7.30 - 8.45am
Session Topic
1 Agricultural workforce
Stephen Howes, Professor of Economics, Director, Development Policy Centre, The Australian National University Emma Germano, Vice President, Victorian Farmers Federation Robert Ingram (Chair), Director, Australian Wool Growers Association
2 Future strategies for superannuation
Nicola Roxon, Chair, HESTA John Daley, Chief Executive Officer, Grattan Institute John Hewson (Chair), Chair, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, The Australian National University
3 Sustainable global supply chains
Vikram Bhakoo, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne Brooke Summers, Supply Chain Consultant, Cotton to Market Project Marika Calfas (Chair), Chief Executive Officer, NSW Ports
4 Will we trust tomorrow’s universities?
Glyn Davis, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, The Australian National University Sandra Harding, Vice Chancellor and President, James Cook University Jane O’Dwyer (Chair), Vice President, Engagement and Global Relations, The Australian National University
5 Myanmar: What do we need to know?
Thant Myint-U, Partner, Ava Advisory Group Nicholas Farrelly, Associate Dean (Development and Impact), ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Veronica Taylor (Chair), Professor, RegNet, ANU College of Asia and Pacific, The Australian National University
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Tuesday 25 June 2019
7.30 - 8.45am
Session Topic
Nutrition: who cares enough and who can be trusted to feed the world in a 1 sustainable and equitable way?
John Anderson, Chair, Crawford Fund Sharon Friel, Professor and Director, RegNet, ANU College of Asia and Pacific, The Australian National University Lyn Roberts (Chair), Acting CEO, VicHealth
2 Trust in science
Anna-Maria Arabia, Chief Executive, Australian Academy of Science Ian Chubb, Former Australian Chief Scientist, The Australian National University Frank Jotzo (Chair), Director, Centre for Climate Economics and Energy Policy, The Australian National University
3 The crumbling nuclear arms control architecture
Marianne Hanson, Associate Professor, University of Queensland Ramesh Thakur, Emeritus Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University Allan Gyngell (Chair), National President, Australian Institute of International Affairs
4 Enhancing pacific investment - private sector perspectives
Sally McCutchan, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Impact Investing Australia Frank Yourn, Executive Director, Australia-Papua New Guinea Business Council, Australia-Fiji Business Council, Australia-Pacific Islands Business Council
Milissa Day, Regional Representative for East Asia and the Pacific, International Finance Corporation Meg Keen (Chair), Associate Professor, Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
5 Trust in the bush
Gabrielle Chan, Political correspondent, The Guardian Ali Cupper MP, Independent Member for Mildura, Victoria Carolyn Hendriks (Chair), Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University
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Zhu Feng Executive Director, China Center for Collaborative Studies of South China Sea, Director, Institute of International Studies, Nanjing University
Zhu Feng is Executive Director of the China Center for Collaborative Studies of the South China Sea and a Professor of International Relations at Nanjing University. Feng is a member of editorial boards of scholarly journals and consults independently for the Chinese government and the private sector. He comments frequently on television, radio and in the print media on Chinese foreign affairs and security policy. Feng writes extensively on regional security in East Asia, the nuclear issue in North Korea, China-US military and diplomatic relations.
Jean-Marie Guéhenno Senior Adviser, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Jean-Marie Guéhenno is currently a Senior Adviser at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation and since 2014, has been a Distinguished Fellow with the Brookings Institution. He was the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for the funding of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and from 2014-17, he was the President and CEO of the International Crisis Group. From 2000-2008 he was Undersecretary-General for peacekeeping operations at the UN, where he led the biggest expansion of peacekeeping in the history of the United Nations. Before joining the United Nations, Guéhenno had a distinguished career in the French government and in the private sector. He was the director of policy planning in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1989 to 1993. He has also been ambassador to the Western European Union, and chairman of the French Institute of Higher Defense Studies.
Thomas Lembong Chairman, Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board
Thomas (Tom) Lembong is the Chairman of the Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board, and former Minister of Trade of Indonesia (August 2015 to July 2016). Prior to his appointment in the Cabinet, he was a Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Managing Partner and Partner at Quvat Management Pte Ltd, a private equity fund established in 2006. Mr Lembong worked in the Equity Division of Morgan Stanley (Singapore) Pte Ltd from 1995 to 1996. He served as Investment Banker of Deutsche Securities Indonesia, and as Division Head and Senior Vice-President at the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA). He has also served as President Commissioner at PT Graha Layar Prima Tbk (BlitzMegaplex) since 2012.
24 Kelly Magsamen Vice President, National Security and International Policy, Centre for American Progress
Kelly Magsamen is the Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress. She served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs from 2014 to 2017. Prior to joining the Defense Department, Magsamen served on the National Security Council in various positions, most immediately as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Strategic planning from 2012 to 2014. During her years at the National Security Council, she also served as the director for Iran, from 2008 to 2011; and then as director and senior advisor for Middle East reform in the wake of the Arab Spring, from 2011 to 2012.
Justin Yifu Lin Dean, Institute of New Structural Economics, Peking University
Justin Yifu Lin is Dean of Institute of New Structural Economics, Dean of Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development and Professor and Honorary Dean of National School of Development at Peking University. He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, 2008- 2012. Prior to this, Mr. Lin served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University. He is Councillor of the State Council and a member of the Standing Committee, Chinese People’s Political Consultation Conference.
Thant Myint-U Partner, Ava Advisory Group
Dr Thant Myint-U is an award-winning historian, writer, and former adviser to the president of Myanmar. He is the author of several books, most recently the best-selling “Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia”. He has also served on three United Nations peacekeeping operations and as the Chief of Policy Planning in the UN’s Department of Political Affairs. He was also the Principal Officer at the UN Secretariat responsible for the World Summit of 2005 and the establishment of the UN Peace- building Commission.
25 Gideon Rachman Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times
Gideon Rachman became Chief Foreign Affairs columnist for the Financial Times in July 2006. He joined the Financial Times after a 15-year career at The Economist, which included spells as a foreign correspondent in Brussels, Washington and Bangkok. He also edited The Economist’s business and Asia sections. His particular interests include American foreign policy, the European Union and globalisation.
Siddharth Varadarajan Founding Editor, The Wire
Siddharth Varadarajan is an Indian-American journalist, editor, and academic. He is the former editor of The Hindu. He has reported on the NATO war against Yugoslavia, the destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq and the crisis in Kashmir. Varadarajan has edited a book titled Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy which is about the 2002 Gujarat riots.
26 DOMESTIC SPEAKERS
John Anderson Chair, Crawford Fund
John Anderson was the Member for Gywdir in the Federal Parliament for nineteen years. From 1996 until 2005 he served in the Coalition Cabinet, with responsibilities for Primary Industries and Energy and then Transport and Regional Services. He was Deputy Prime Minister for six years from 1999, and served on the Economic Reform Committee (ERC) and the National Security Committee (NSC) of Cabinet. Since his retirement he has been active in the not-for-profit sector, including as the current Chair of the Crawford Fund for Agricultural Research. He and his family are farmers and graziers from north-west NSW.
Anna-Maria Arabia Chief Executive, Australian Academy of Science
Prior to her appointment as Chief Executive of the Australian Academy of Science, Anna-Maria was Principal Adviser to the Hon Bill Shorten. Anna-Maria brings with her experience as General Manager of Questacon - the National Science and Technology Centre; and CEO of Science & Technology Australia. Anna-Maria has worked in senior policy roles in both social and economic portfolios. She has worked extensively with parliamentarians, the business and community sectors, and the media. Anna-Maria was recently a Director of the Board of Spinal Cord Injuries Australia, an organisation committed to creating independence, dignity and unlimited opportunity for people living with spinal cord injury. Anna-Maria obtained her Bachelor of Science (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and has undertaken medical research in the field of neuroscience both in Australia and abroad. She is a passionate advocate for science, social justice and gender equity.
Shiro Armstrong Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University
Shiro Armstrong is an economist and Fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy. He is Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre, Editor of the East Asia Forum, Director of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research and Research Associate at the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at the Columbia Business School. Shiro is a Visiting Scholar at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) and is a Visiting Associate Professor at Keio University (2018-2019). He is recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Staff Excellence Award for Public Policy and Outreach and twice the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Excellence in Service Quality.
27 Meera Ashar Director, South Asia Research Institute, The Australia National University
Meera Ashar is a historian of ideas at the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of history, political theory and literary studies. Her work questions categories and conceptual frameworks with which we seek to make sense of human societies past and present. In critically investigating the genealogy of the terms with which human and social sciences make sense of the world, she engages in a study of colonialism, postcolonialism, decolonisation and nationalism. Her manuscript on the social history of colonial Gujarat examines the region through the lens of a controversial nineteenth-century novel, Saraswatichandra; its author and its audience. She has also coedited a volume on Everyday English Keywords in India. Meera is currently the Director of the South Asia Research Institute (SARI). She has previously worked as an Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong and was the LM Singhvi Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Carol Austin Director, HSBC Bank Australia
Carol Austin is an experienced investment professional. She started her career with the Reserve Bank of Australia and has held senior positions in finance, economics, mining, and government. She is currently a Director of HSBC Bank Australia, State Super and the Grattan Institute. She is a Commissioner with the NSW Government’s Independent Planning Commission and Chairman of the ACT Investment Advisory Board. Carol was previously a Guardian of the Future Fund and has served on a number of advisory boards including the Australian Office of Financial Management. She has a Science degree from Monash University and an honours degree in Economics from the Australian National University.
Brad Banducci Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Woolworths Group
Brad was appointed Managing Director of Woolworths Food Group in March 2015 and Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Group in February 2016. Prior to this appointment, he was Director of the Group’s Liquor business between 2012 and March 2015. Brad joined the Group in 2011 after the acquisition of the Cellarmasters Group, a direct wine retail and production company. He was Chief Executive Officer of Cellarmasters from 2007 to 2011. Prior to this, he was the Chief Financial Officer and Director, and later a Non-executive Director at Tyro Payments and a Vice President and Director with The Boston Consulting Group, where he was a core member of their retail practice for 15 years.
28 Vikram Bhakoo Associate Professor, Department of Management and Marketing, The University of Melbourne
Vikram Bhakoo is an Associate Professor within the Department of Management & Marketing at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His principle domain of interest is supply chain management where he focuses on two key themes; technology and innovation management and sustainability. His current research within the sustainability domain seeks to develop a better understanding of the role NGO’s play in mitigating modern slavery across the seafood supply chain. He has published his work in a variety of prestigious journals such as the Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Supply Chain Management amongst others. He is currently the Associate Editor for Journal of Supply Chain Management & International Journal of Logistics Management. In addition, he also serves on the editorial review boards of Journal of Operations Management and Organizational Research Methods. His research agenda continues to draw support from the Australian Research Council and the University of Melbourne.
Andrew Bragg Senator Elect for NSW, Australian Liberal Party
Andrew Bragg is an incoming Liberal Senator for New South Wales. Andrew started his career as an accountant at Ernst & Young and went on to work in senior roles at the Financial Services Council and the Business Council of Australia. Andrew regularly contributes for the Australian Financial Review, Daily Telegraph and The Australian and appears on the ABC and Sky News. Andrew typically writes about economic policy such as tax, regulation, foreign and trade policy and superannuation / financial services. His 2017 short book Fit for Service (Connor Court) provides a framework for 21st century trade policy for Australia. Its extracts appeared in the Australian Financial Review and were featured on Sky News, Radio 2GB and Quadrant. In 2018, Andrew wrote the modern version of the “Scrap Iron for Japan” essay in Paul Ritchie’s Forgotten People Updated (Connor Court). Andrew was also the National Director of the 2017 Liberals & Nationals for Yes campaign in support of same sex marriage which delivered Yes majorities in 71 of 76 Coalition seats. Andrew’s passion for public policy stems from his belief a strong economy is the basis of a just society.
Megan Brownlow Deputy Chair, Screen Australia and Media Federation Australia
Ms Brownlow is a media and entertainment industry specialist. Up until April 2019, Megan was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) where she performed strategy, due diligence, forecasting, and market analysis work for clients and was the National Industry Leader for Technology, Media and Telecommunications. She has over 25 years of experience in media and marketing ranging from producing television and radio programs to designing cross-media strategies – both content and advertising – for online and traditional media properties. As well as being Deputy Chair of Screen Australia, Ms Brownlow is Deputy Chair of the Media Federation of Australia, Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Small and Regional Publishers’ Innovation Fund and on the Advisory Board for the School of Communications, UTS. Ms Brownlow holds an Executive MBA from the AGSM; a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the ANU and is a graduate of the INSEAD leadership program and the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).
29 Marika Calfas Chief Executive Officer, NSW Ports
Marika Calfas is the Chief Executive Officer of NSW Ports, the organisation responsible for managing a $5 billion infrastructure portfolio comprising Port Botany, Port Kembla and the intermodal terminals at Cooks River and Enfield. Marika has operated in the port sector for 18 years, across a broad range of portfolio areas including strategy, planning, environment and infrastructure. Marika was appointed by the Commonwealth Minister for Infrastructure & Transport to the Expert Panel advising the Government Inquiry into the National Freight and Supply Chain Strategy Priorities in 2017. Marika is a board member of Infrastructure NSW and Ports Australia, Deputy Chair of the Australian Logistics Council, Member of Infrastructure Partnerships Australia National Advisory Board and Wollongong University’s SMART Advisory Council as well as Australia’s representative to PIANC (International Waterborne Transport Association) International Environmental Commission. Prior to working in ports, Marika worked in water resources with Sinclair Knight Merz. Marika holds an Engineering Degree (Environmental), Masters of Engineering Management and Masters of Environmental Law.
Andrea Carson Associate Professor, Journalism, La Trobe University
Andrea Carson is a political scientist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy at La Trobe University. She has authored numerous articles on Australian politics, election campaigns and digital media. Her most recent co-authored book is Australian Politics in the Twenty-First Century: Old Institutions, New Challenges (2018). She was awarded Australian Research Council (2018-2021) funding as part of a team using big data to understand the media’s role in political debate and policy decisions. She holds a PhD in Political Science and a Master of Arts in International Politics. She has taught courses on journalism, political communication, women in politics, and campaigns and elections. Andrea worked as a newspaper journalist and section editor at The Age in Melbourne from 1997- 2001 and as a radio broadcaster (RRR) and radio and television producer (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) from 2001-2010. She is a regular media commentator and examines the latest media trends and issues for The Conversation’s podcast ‘Media Files’.
Gabrielle Chan Political correspondent, The Guardian
Gabrielle Chan has been a journalist for more than 30 years. She began covering politics for The Australian in NSW parliament during the 1990s and moved to the Canberra press gallery in 1995. Gabrielle has also worked at ABC radio, the Daily Telegraph, in local newspapers and politics. She has written and edited histories and biographies. Since 2013, she has worked for Guardian Australia as a political correspondent and Politics Live blogger. In 1996 – the same year as Pauline Hanson entered parliament. Gabrielle, the city-born daughter of a Chinese migrant, moved to a sheep and wheat farm in country NSW. She noticed the economic and cultural divide between the city and the country and yawning gap between the parliament and small town life. So in September 2017, she swapped interviews with politicians in favour of ordinary people on her main street to discover why they think politics has moved so far from their lives. The result is Rusted Off: Why Country Australia is Fed Up, released in September 2018 by Penguin Random House. In the process, Gabrielle draws conclusions about the current state of our rural political representation, the gap between city and country and how to bridge it.
30 Andrew Charlton AlphaBeta Advisors
Dr Andrew Charlton is co-founder of AlphaBeta, a leading economic analytics company based in Sydney and Singapore. He has previously worked for the United Nations and the London School of Economics. From 2008- 2010, through the period of the global financial crisis, he served as senior economic advisor to the Prime Minister of Australia and Australia’s senior government official to the G20 economic summits. He received a Doctorate and Masters in Economics from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the author of two books, Ozonomics (2007) and Fair Trade for All (2005), co- written with Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. In 2011 he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Ian Chubb Former Chief Scientist, The Australian National University
Ian William Chubb AC is an Australian neuroscientist and academic, who was the Chief Scientist of Australia from 23 May 2011 to 22 January 2016. In 1999 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia “for service to the development of Higher Education policy & its implementation at state, national & international levels, as an administrator in the Tertiary Education sector, & to research, particularly in the field of neuroscience”. In 2001 he was awarded the Centenary Medal “for service to Australian society through tertiary education and university administration”. In 2006 he was appointed a Companion of the Order “for service to higher education, including research and development policy in the pursuit of advancing the national interest socially, economically, culturally and environmentally, and to the facilitation of a knowledge based global economy”. Named ACT Australian of the Year 2011, Chubb was recognised for three decades of service to tertiary education and university governance in Australia, and internationally. In 2012 he was appointed a member of the board of the Climate Change Authority.
Melinda Cilento Chief Executive, Committee for Economic Development Australia
Melinda is the CEO of CEDA. She is also a non-executive director of Australian Unity and Co-Chair of Reconciliation Australia. Melinda is also a member of the Parliamentary Budget Office panel of expert advisors. She was previously a non-executive director of Woodside Petroleum, a Commissioner with the Productivity Commission and Deputy CEO and Chief Economist with the Business Council of Australia. Melinda has also previously held senior roles with the Federal Department of Treasury, Invesco and the International Monetary Fund. Melinda’s executive and director experience covers the corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors and she has a strong track record of working collaboratively across sectors.
31 Ali Cupper MP Independent Member for Mildura
Ali Cupper is the Member for Mildura in the Parliament of Victoria, elected in November 2018. Prior to her election, Ali worked as a solicitor, family law mediator, senior child protection practitioner and lecturer in social work and social policy. Ali was also on Mildura Rural City Council from 2012 to 2018 where she held the position of Deputy Mayor and the portfolios of Community Development, Community Services and Gender Equality. Ali has been a determined and influential advocate for Mildura’s social and economic interests, which was reflected in her 2018 election campaign policies. The return of Mildura Base Hospital to public management, restoration of passenger rail services to Mildura and attraction of greater government investment across the electorate were campaign cornerstones. Ali’s election to the Victorian Parliament marked the end of an era for the National Party, which had enjoyed safe seat status in the electorate for 12 years. Ali is proud to count herself among a number of high profile rural independents who are changing the face of politics in rural and regional Australia. Ali lives in Mildura with her husband, Ben, and their active and spirited little boy, Jed.
John Daley Chief Executive Officer, Grattan Institute
John Daley is one of Australia’s leading public policy thinkers. He has been Chief Executive of the Grattan Institute since it was founded over ten years ago. Grattan Institute’s work is independent, rigorous, and practical. It fosters informed public debate on the key domestic policy issues for Australia, through both private forums and public activities, engaging key decision makers and the broader community. Its work ranges across education, health, energy, cities, housing, transport, budget, and tax issues. John has published extensively on economic reform priorities, budget policy, tax reform, retirement incomes and housing affordability. A theme of the importance of government prioritisation runs through this work. He has 30 years’ experience spanning academic, government and corporate roles at the University of Melbourne, the University of Oxford, the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet, consulting firm McKinsey and Co, and ANZ Bank. John graduated LLB (Hons) and BSc at the University of Melbourne in 1990. He completed a D Phil in public law at the University of Oxford in 1999. John is also a keen amateur pianist and gardener. Swati Dave Managing Director & CEO, Export Finance and Insurance Corporation
Swati Dave is an experienced senior banking executive and non-executive director with an established track record of successfully leading and growing complex P&L businesses in Australia, the UK, Hong Kong and Singapore. Swati has over 30 years’ banking and finance experience across a number of sectors including infrastructure, energy and utilities, renewable energy and property. She has held senior positions at National Australia Bank, Deutsche Bank, AMP Henderson Global Investors, Bankers Trust and Westpac. Swati currently serves on the boards of State Super and Asia Society Australia. She has served as a former director of Australian Hearing, Great Western Bancorp Inc. (USA) and the NAB Wealth Responsible Entity Boards. Swati holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Newcastle and is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees.
32 Glyn Davis Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University
Glyn Davis is the Chief Executive Officer of the Paul Ramsay Foundation, Australia’s largest philantrhopic trust. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the Crawford School of Public Policy and Chair of the ANZSOG Research Committee. In 2018 Professor Davis was also elected a Visiting Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government and a Visiting Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford. Professor Davis holds visiting appointments at Kings College London, Manchester University and the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. Professor Davis was educated in political science at the University of New South Wales and the Australian National University, before undertaking post-doctoral appointments as a Harkness Fellow at the University of California Berkeley, the Brookings Institution in Washington DC and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Professor Davis teaches and researches in the field of public policy. His public-sector service includes terms as the Director-General of the Department of Premier and Cabinet in Queensland and Foundation Chair of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
Milissa Day Regional Representative for East Asia and the Pacific International Finance Corporation
Milissa supports investment across fragile, conflict affected and poor (FCV/LIC IDA) countries across the East Asia and Pacific region and leads Pacific business development. She is also the representative for countries in the Pacific including Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. In her role, Milissa builds regional knowledge and resources to increase the number of projects and value of total investment portfolio. She provides technical support and access to global knowledge and resources to help deliver meaningful projects in the region’s most difficult markets. Milissa has twenty years of experience living and working in post-conflict and fragile environments including Timor-Leste, Kosovo, Indonesia and Somalia. In 2010, she joined IFC as Timor-Leste Resident Representative, and led engagement resulting in IFC’s first-ever investments in the country and for reform projects which resulted in costs savings of over USD$20 million. Milissa’s educational background includes a Masters in Finance from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in political economy from the University of California, Irvine. John W.H. Denton Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce
John W.H. Denton AO is Chairman of Corrs’ International Advisory Council, and was formerly Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Corrs. John is the Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). His appointment to this role marked the first time an Australian has held this position. John was a member of the Australian Government advisory panel overseeing the development of the ‘Australia in the Asian Century’ White Paper. He was on the Government’s Cabinet sub-committee for the White Paper review process published in October 2012, and was later a member of the Strategic Advisory Board advising the Government on implementation and emerging policy issues. A former diplomat, John was a Panel Member of the Independent Review of Aid Effectiveness and was the founding Chairman of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees Australia for more than a decade. John has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Melbourne, and is a Harvard Business School Alumnus. In 2015, John was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for his work in business and commerce, the arts and social welfare, and with refugees.
33 Craig Emerson Managing Director, Craig Emerson Economics Distinguished Fellow, The Australian National University
Craig Emerson Economics provides expert advice to business clients seeking commercial opportunities in Australia and Asia, and on actual and proposed government policies and their implications for business. Dr Craig Emerson is an eminent economist, holding a PhD in economics from the Australian National University, with 35 years of experience in public policy, politics and public service. He was Senior Adviser to Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 1986 to 1990 and, after entering parliament in 1998, went on to serve as Minister for Trade and Competitiveness, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research, and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Asian Century Policy between 2010 and 2013. Dr Emerson is now Managing Director of Craig Emerson Economics, President of the Australia China Business Council NSW, an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University’s College of Business, and writes a fortnightly column for The Australian Financial Review. He is also a member of CEDA’s Council on Economic Policy.
Gareth Evans Chancellor, The Australian National University
Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC FASSA FAIIA has been Chancellor of the Australian National University since January 2010. He was a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor Governments from 1983-96, in the posts of Attorney General, Minister for Resources and Energy, Minister for Transport and Communications and - from 1988-96 - Foreign Minister. During his 21 years in Australian politics he was Leader of the Government in the Senate (1993-96) and Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives (1996-98). From 2000 to 2009 he was President and CEO of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, the independent global conflict prevention and resolution organisation.
Nicholas Farrelly Associate Dean (Development and Impact), ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Dr Nicholas Farrelly is the Associate Dean in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific responsible for development and impact initiatives. After graduating from the ANU in 2003 with First Class Honours and the University Medal in Asian Studies, he completed his M.Phil and D.Phil at Balliol College, University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Nicholas recently served as a Deputy Director of the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and as Director of the ANU Myanmar Research Centre, an institution he helped establish in 2015. Nicholas is the Ambassador for the Westpac Research Fellowship program. His own academic research focuses on political conflict and social change in mainland Southeast Asia. He has examined these themes across the borderlands where Myanmar rubs against India, Bangladesh and China. Nicholas is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).
34 Sharon Friel Professor and Director of the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), The Australian National University
Sharon Friel is Director of the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) and Professor of Health Equity, Australian National University. She is also Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Policy ANU. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia and an ANU Public Policy Fellow. In 2014 she was named by her international peers as one of the world’s most influential female leaders in global health. She is the Co-Director of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity. In 2010 she was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship to investigate the interface between health equity, social determinants and climate change, based at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU. Between 2005 and 2008 she was the Head of the Scientific Secretariat (University College London) of the World Health Organisation Commission on Social Determinants of Health.
Emma Germano Vice President, Victorian Farmers Federation
Emma Germano hails from Mirboo North, where she is Managing Director of her family mixed operation I Love Farms. On Gippsland’s fertile red soils the Germanos grow fresh vegetables for local and export markets, as well as running sheep and beef cattle. I Love Farms has a firm focus on sustainability and strives to connect consumers with Australian farmers to increase community understanding of food and fibre production. Emma is the current VFF Horticulture Group President. She also sits on the Vegetable Industry Market and Value Chain Strategic Investment Advisory Panel and has previously held tenure on the Victorian Vegetable Growers Executive Committee and as the VFF Horticulture Group Vice- President. Emma is also a Nuffield Scholar (2014), her research examining global export opportunities for Australian primary producers.
Jane Golley Acting Director, Australian Centre on China in the World, The Australian National University
Jane Golley is an Associate Professor and economist, and is currently Acting Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU. Her career has taken her from the Asia Section of the Australian Commonwealth Treasury to the World Bank in Washington DC, and the UNU’s World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki. Jane spent eight years studying and teaching at the University of Oxford, where her thesis was on ‘The Dynamics of Chinese Regional Development’. Jane was the president of the Chinese Economic Society Australia in 2010–2012. Jane’s research over the last two decades has covered a wide range of Chinese transition and development issues, including demographic change and economic growth (modelling the economic impacts of the One- and Two-Child policies and sex ratio imbalances); household consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, inequalities in education and earnings; and the Belt and Road Initiative. Jane teaches The Chinese Economy to Masters students at the Crawford School of Public Policy, and is co- editor of the ‘China Story Yearbook’ series, including the ‘China Story Yearbook 2017: Prosperity’.
35 Michelle Grattan Chief Political Correspondent, The Conversation
Michelle Grattan is one of Australia’s most respected political journalists. She has been a member of the Canberra parliamentary press gallery for more than 40 years, during which time she has covered all the most significant stories in Australian politics. As a former editor of The Canberra Times, Michelle Grattan was also the first female editor of an Australian daily newspaper. She has been with the Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald and political editor of The Age since 2004. Michelle currently has a dual role with an academic position at the University of Canberra and as associate editor (politics) and chief political correspondent at The Conversation.
Allan Gyngell National President, Australian Institute of International Affairs
Allan Gyngell was appointed the National President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) in September 2017, having previously been named a Fellow of the AIIA in 2010. He was the Director- General of the Australian Office of National Assessments (ONA) from 2009 to 2013. Before his appointment to ONA, Mr Gyngell was the founding Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy (2003-09) in Sydney. He has a wide background in international policymaking and analysis and has written and spoken extensively on Australian foreign policy, Asian regional relations and the development of global and regional institutions. He is co-author with Michael Wesley of Making Australian Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press). Between 1993 and 1996, he was Senior Advisor (International) to the Prime Minister, Paul Keating. He worked earlier in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and ONA. He served as an Australian diplomat in Rangoon, Singapore and Washington.
Marianne Hanson Associate Professor, The University of Queensland
Marianne Hanson teaches and researches at the University of Queensland. She gained her doctorate from Oxford University in 1993. Her research focuses on international security, and primarily on the issue of weapons control. She addresses these topics within a framework of international law, ethics, the role of international institutions, and the competing claims of sovereignty and strategy.
36 Sandra Harding Vice-Chancellor and President, James Cook University
Professor Sandra Harding, Officer of the Order of Australia, took up her appointment as Vice Chancellor and President of James Cook University Australia in January 2007. In this role, she is responsible for ensuring clear and effective leadership and management of the University across all operating sites, including campuses in Cairns, Singapore and Townsville. Educated at the Australian National University, The University of Queensland and North Carolina State University (USA), Professor Harding has extensive academic and academic leadership experience. An economic sociologist by training, her areas of enduring academic interest include work, organisation and markets and how they work. She also has a keen interest in public policy in two key areas: education policy and related areas; and; the global Tropics, northern Australia and economic development. In addition, she has undertaken a wide variety of senior university-aligned roles as well as memberships/ directorships of a variety of local, national and international Boards and Councils.
Virginia Haussegger Director, 50/50 by 2030, University of Canberra
Virginia Haussegger AM is Director of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation, at the University of Canberra’s (UC) Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis (IGPA). She is also 2019 ACT Australian of the Year. With over 30 years’ experience in news broadcasting, Virginia is a sought after commentator on gender equality; women, power and leadership issues; workplace diversity and social reform. Virginia served six years on the board of UN Women National Committee Australia, where she hosted numerous gender equality campaigns. In 2017 she was commissioned by DFAT to facilitate the Australian and Philippine Governments co-hosted event ‘Women’s Economic Empowerment’ in Manila, at ASEAN. In her capacity as Adjunct Professor at UC, Virginia has designed a suite of Strategic Communication and Media Knowledge Masterclasses and modules for both MPA and Graduate Certificate courses in Public Administration. In 2014, Virginia was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), for her “significant service to the community, particularly as an advocate for women’s rights and gender equity, and to the media”. Carolyn Hendriks Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University
Carolyn M. Hendriks is an Associate Professor with a background in both political science and environmental engineering. Her work examines democratic aspects of contemporary governance, including participation, deliberation, inclusion and representation. She has taught and published widely on the application and politics of inclusive and deliberative forms of citizen engagement. Her recent research work is exploring alternative modes of political participation, particularly those enabled by online and offline spaces of political contestation (see below). Carolyn is an appointed member of newDemocracy Foundation’s Research Committee and sits on the editorial board of several international journals, including the European Journal of Political Research. Her research outputs have won awards including: the Mayer Journal Prize for best paper in published in 2017 in the Australian Journal of Political Science the Ken Young Journal Prize for the best paper published in Policy & Politics in 2017 (together with co-authors Selen Ercan and John Boswell) the Harold D. Lasswell Journal Prize for best article in Policy Sciences for 2005.
37 Ken Henry Chairman, National Australia Bank
Dr Henry is Chair of National Australia Bank and the Sir Roland Wilson Foundation at the ANU. He is also a Non-Executive Director of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Cape York Partnership and Accounting for Nature Ltd. He is a Governor of CEDA and a Council member of Voiceless. Henry held senior policy advising positions in the Australian Treasury from late 1984 until early 2011. From 2001 to 2011 he was Secretary to the Treasury and a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Board of Taxation. In 1997 and 1998 he chaired the Howard Government’s tax review task force that produced the policy blueprint, A New Tax System. He was a member of the Howard Government’s Task Group on Emissions Trading in 2007. In 2009-10 he chaired the Review into Australia’s Future Tax System commissioned by the Rudd Government. As Special Adviser to Prime Minister Gillard in 2011 and 2012, Dr Henry was responsible for leading the development of the White Paper on Australia in the Asian Century.
Jennifer Hewett Journalist, The Australian Financial Review
Jennifer began her career in 1976 as a cadet journalist with WA Newspapers in Perth. After completing a master’s degree in Journalism at New York’s Columbia University Journalism School, where she was awarded best international journalism student, she joined The Sydney Morning Herald in the Canberra press gallery.
Between 1983 and 1986 Jennifer was the New York and then Washington correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald, before returning home join The Australian Financial Review as a political and business feature writer. In 1996 she returned to Washington for another three-year stint as correspondent for the Herald before returning to take up a position as political and business feature writer.
John Hewson Chair, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, The Australian National University
Dr John Hewson is an economic and financial expert with experience in academia, business, government, media and the financial system. He has worked as an economist for the Australian Treasury, the Reserve Bank, the International Monetary Fund and as an advisor to two successive Federal Treasurers and the Prime Minister. Dr Hewson was the former leader of the federal opposition in Australia during 1990-1994.
38 Matilda House Honorary Doctor, The Australian National University Ngambri-Ngunnawal-Canberra Indigenous elder
Dr Matilda House is a Ngambri-Ngunnawal elder and has a long-established connection to Canberra and its surrounding regions as one of the traditional custodians of the land. Matilda House is the Chair of the Ngunnawal Local Aboriginal Land Council in Queanbeyan and the Joint Chair of the Interim Namadgi National Park Committee.
Stephen Howes Director, Development Policy Centre, The Australian National University
Stephen is a Professor of Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He is the Director of the Development Policy Centre, He served as Director of the International and Development Economics program of the Crawford School from 2009 to 2014. Prior to joining the Crawford School in 2009, Stephen was Chief Economist at the Australian Agency for International Development. He worked from 1994 to 2005 at the World Bank, first in Washington and then in Delhi, where he was Lead Economist for India. In 2008, he worked on the Garnaut Review on Climate Change, where he managed the Review’s international work stream. In 2005, while working for AusAID, Stephen was a member of the three-person Core Group whose report formed the basis for the 2006 Australian Aid White Paper. In 2010-11, Stephen was a member of the five-person panel who wrote the Independent Review of [Australian] Aid Effectiveness. In 2016, he served as a member of the Australia-Pacific Technical College Design Reference Group.
Robert Ingram Director, Australian Wool Growers Association
Robert has spent almost forty years designing, implementing, and evaluating rural and regional development programs in Asia, the Pacific and Australia. He has been involved in over 80 projects in more than 35 countries. His work is focused on integrated sustainable rural and agricultural development and driving the philosophy that private sector development needs to be focused on by development assistance especially to drive the economic base through agriculture. In recent years his work has focused on the Pacific and he was the initial team leader for the first two years of the Seasonal Worker Programme. His family is one of the pioneering families of the far southern Monaro and since 2002 he has progressively purchased and taken over these operations. In conjunction with his partner and two sons they now operate a 2500 ha fine wool merino operation. Through these farming activities, Robert has become involved in the politics of the wool industry and has been a director of Australian Woolgrowers Association since 2011. He is a former President of the Victorian branch of the Institute of Agricultural Science and is also the director of a small e-agriculture company that has patented technology that identifies genealogies digitally.
39 Frank Jotzo Professor, Director of the Centre for Climate Economics and Policy The Australian National University
Frank Jotzo is Professor at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, where he directs the Centre for Climate Economics and Policy. He is also co-director of the Energy Transition Hub. As an environmental economist, his research focuses on policy relevant aspects of climate change and energy, and on development and economic reform. Frank Jotzo is joint editor-in-chief of the journal Climate Policy and a Lead Author of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th and 6th Assessment Reports. He has been involved in a number of policy research and advisory exercises, including as senior advisor to Australia’s Garnaut Climate Change Review, as advisor to governments, and to international organisations including the World Bank. He is a member of the Australian Capital Territory’s Climate Change Council and has advised other State governments. He frequently writes and comments in the media and tweets @frankjotzo. He teaches the courses Domestic Climate Change Policy and Economics, International Climate Change Policy and Economics, and Research in Climate Change Economics and Policy, and co-convenes the Master of Climate Change degree.
Daryl Karp Director, Museum of Australian Democracy
Daryl is currently the Director of the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, where she has established a strategic direction focusing on ‘the spirit of Australian democracy and the power of your voice within it’, positioning the museum as a new kind of town square, based on the democratic principles of equality, freedom, justice, representation. Her programs have won numerous awards and she has worked with many of the key factual broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, NHK, Discovery Channel, National Geographic and PBS, CBC Canada, and ZDF Germany.
Patricia Karvelas Presenter, ABC Radio
Patricia Karvelas is the presenter of RN Drive and has been a prominent senior journalist in the Australian media for 15 years, beginning her professional career in broadcast journalism at the ABC and SBS as both a producer and presenter. She has worked for The Australian newspaper since 2002 covering federal politics, most recently working as the Victorian Bureau Chief and Editor and Senior National Affairs Journalist. Patricia specialised in Indigenous affairs reporting for more than 10 years. Patricia has been a regular fill-in presenter on 774 ABC Melbourne, and frequently appears on a range of television and radio programs including RN’s Sunday Extra and ABC TV’s The Drum.
40 Meg Keen Associate Professor, Department of Pacific Affairs The Australian National University
Dr Meg Keen joined DPA in 2015; she has a professional background in South Pacific resource management, regionalism, development and intelligence/security. Meg has been a senior analyst in the Oceania Branch of the Office of National Assessments (2006-2015). In 2011, Meg was seconded to the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) as a senior policy adviser in the Office of the Special Coordinator. Prior to joining the government, she was a Senior Lecturer in the Environmental Management and Development Graduate Program, National Centre for Development Studies (now Crawford School), and in the Human Ecology Program, Fenner School at the ANU. She is the project leader for the Urbanisation in Honiara project (2015-16) which is working across multiple stakeholder groups to critically examine the politics of urbanisation, and the ways in which better urban management in Honiara can create pathways to prosperity and national stability. Meg also has research interests in the sustainable livelihoods, labour mobility, the blue economy and regional policing.
Mark Kenny Senior Fellow, Australian Studies Institute, School of Politics and International Relations, The Australia National University
Mark Kenny is a columnist and long-time political journalist turned academic. He was appointed to the post of Senior Fellow at the Australian National University’s Australian Studies Institute in January this year. It followed several years as Chief Political Correspondent and then National Affairs Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and before that, as national political editor at The Advertiser. Mark is a regular commentator on the ABC’s Insiders and has weekly spots and ABC radio in Adelaide and Sydney, and on Sky News. He also appears from time to time on French media, BBC World, CNN, and on several domestic programs from The Project to 4Corners. Mark has travelled extensively with prime ministers John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Tony Abbott, and Malcolm Turnbull. In 2018, Kenny attended the Australia-EU Leadership forum in Brussels, as a “senior leader” from Australia.
Amy King Senior Lecturer, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University
Dr Amy King is a Senior Lecturer in the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. She has expertise in Chinese foreign and security policy, China-Japan relations, and the relationship between economic and security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. She holds a Westpac Research Fellowship and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship (2017-2019) to investigate China’s role in shaping the international economic order. Amy’s book, China-Japan Relations after World War Two: Empire, Industry and War, 1949-1971 explains how and why Japan became China’s most important economic partner in the aftermath of major war, and at a time when the two countries were still Cold War opponents. Amy holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
41 Andrew Laming Federal Member for Bowman, Queensland, Liberal Party of Australia
Andrew Laming has been the federal member for the southern Moreton Bay seat of Bowman, Queensland, since 2004. During his 14 years in Parliament, he has fought tirelessly for his local community with a strong record of progress and delivery. This includes delivering funding for: improved local roads; new health facilities (like the radiation oncology service opposite Redlands hospital); better mental health (including headspace and “Aftercare”); wireless phone towers; and support for a wide range of community groups. An ophthalmologist before entering Parliament, Andrew has been a passionate voice on the national stage on health and education issues.
Huong Le Thu Senior Analyst, Australian Strategic Policy Institute Visiting fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University
Dr. Huong Le Thu is a Senior Analyst at ASPI, Defence and Strategy Program. Prior to joining ASPI she worked at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs (ANU), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore), and Institute of International Relations (Taiwan). Her research interests include multilateral security in Asia, foreign policy in post-socialist countries, as well as identity politics. She has held short- term research fellowships in Seoul (private think-tank), Kuala Lumpur (University of Malaya) and Jakarta (the ASEAN Secretariat). She is an alumna of the DKI Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, and a recipient of the U.S. State Department Fellowship for East Asian Security and IISS ShangriLa Dialogue Southeast Asian Fellow. Dr. Le Thu’s academic publications have appeared in The Pacific Review, Asia-Europe Journal, Oxford University Press among others; her policy analyses have featured in the The International Institute for Strategic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, The Brookings Institution, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, East West Center, Royal United Services Institute, Nikkei Asian Review, South China Morning Post, and the Sydney Morning Herald.
Jason Yatsen Li Chairman, Vantage Holdings Australia
Jason is Chairman of Vantage Asia Holdings and CEO of Yatsen Associates. He is a Senate Fellow of the University of Sydney, Chair of Refugee Talent and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. Jason was formerly a director of the George Institute for Global Health, the Sydney Institute and the Australia China Chamber of Commerce.
42 Philip Lowe Governor, Reserve Bank of Australia
Philip Lowe holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.Comm (Honours) in Economics/Econometrics from the University of New South Wales. He has authored numerous papers, including on the linkages between monetary policy and financial stability. He commenced as Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia on 18 September 2016. He is Chair of the Reserve Bank Board and Payments System Board, and Chair of the Council of Financial Regulators. He is a member of the Financial Stability Board. Prior to his current role, he held the positions of Deputy Governor, Assistant Governor (Economic) and Assistant Governor (Financial System). He also spent two years at the Bank for International Settlements working on financial stability issues.
Jenny Macklin Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Melbourne
Jenny Macklin is a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne in the School of Government. She served for 23 years as the Member for Jagajaga in the Federal Parliament. Jenny was the longest serving woman in the Parliament and was the first woman to be elected Deputy Leader by a major political party. She served as Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Minister for Disability Reform in the Labor Governments from 2007-2013. She oversaw the Apology to the Stolen Generations and development of the Closing the Gap strategic framework together with substantial increases in funding particularly for remote Indigenous housing. She introduced Australia’s first National Paid Parental Leave Scheme, delivered the largest increase to the aged and disability pension, and was responsible for the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Jenny also oversaw the Apology to the Forgotten Australians and was an integral part of the establishment of the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse.
Katherine Mansted Senior Researcher, National Security College, The Australian National University
Katherine is a policy adviser, writer and advocate with a focus on emerging technologies, cybersecurity and international relations. Her publications cover information warfare, cyber-enabled foreign interference, and internet privacy. Katherine previously practiced law, and served as a ministerial adviser in the Australian Government.
43 Sally McCutchan Executive Director and CEO Impact Investing Australia
Sally has extensive experience in finance, funds management and strategy, and has spent many years working in and understanding Asia Pacific markets. Sally first joined Impact Investing Australia in May 2015 to manage the strategic development and implementation of a new financial institution to scale impact investing in Australia, Impact Capital Australia. Sally has held senior roles with Accenture, Legg Mason Asset Management and SBC Warburg (now UBS). Sally is a non-executive director of Indigenous Business Australia Asset Management, Oxfam Australia, Millennium Service Group (ASX: MIL) and two National Australia Bank securitisation companies. She is currently a member of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment’s (GSG) Working Group on impact investing wholesalers, the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing and the QBE Classification of Social Impact Committee. Sally is a Certified Practising Accountant and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Warwick McKibbin Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis The Australian National University
Professor Warwick McKibbin, AO is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University (ANU). He is also an ANU Public Policy Fellow; a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences; a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia and Pacific Policy Society; a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C (where he is co-Director of the Climate and Energy Economics Project) and President of McKibbin Software Group Inc. Professor McKibbin served for a decade on the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia until July 2011. He has also served as a member of the Australian Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council, and on the Australian Prime Minister’s Taskforce on Uranium Mining Processing and Nuclear Energy in Australia. Professor McKibbin is internationally renowned for his contributions to global economic modeling. He has been a consultant for many international agencies and a range of governments on issues of macroeconomic policy, international trade and finance, greenhouse policy issues, global demographic change and the economic cost of pandemics.
Rory Medcalf Head, National Security College, The Australian National University
Professor Medcalf is Head of the National Security College at the Australian National University. His professional background spans diplomacy, journalism, think tanks and intelligence analysis. He was Director of the Lowy Institute’s International Security Program from 2007 to 2015. He has worked as a senior strategic analyst with the Office of National Assessments, Canberra’s peak intelligence analysis agency. His experience as an Australian diplomat included a posting to New Delhi, a secondment to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, truce monitoring after the civil conflict in Bougainville and policy development on Asian security institutions. He has contributed to three landmark reports on nuclear arms control and disarmament including the Canberra Commission and the Tokyo Forum. His earlier work in journalism was commended in Australia’s leading media awards, the Walkleys. He has been active in developing Australia’s relations with India, including as founding convener and co- chair of the Australia-India Roundtable, the leading informal policy dialogue between the two countries.
44 Daniel Moss Columnist, Bloomberg Opinion
Daniel Moss is columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, covering Asian economies. Now based in Singapore, Moss returned to Asia in January after almost two decades in London, Washington and New York. Prior to joining the commentary team, he held a number of leadership roles at Bloomberg spanning economics, politics and markets. He ran economics news during the global financial crisis, has testified to Congress and is a regular contributor to Bloomberg Television and podcasts. Dan’s first foray into Asia was as bureau chief in Kuala Lumpur from 1996 to 1998, spanning the last year of the boom and the first year of the crisis that followed. He is a graduate of the Australian National University and was a director of ANU Foundation USA from 2016 to 2019. Dan is a member of Asia Society (Chairman’s Circle), the Economic Club of New York and the Singapore Institute of International Affairs.
Bob McMullan Director, ANU Crawford Leadership Forum
Bob McMullan has had a long and distinguished career in the Australian Parliament as one of Australia’s pre-eminent Labor politicians. He is a former Parliamentary Secretary for International Development (2007-2010) and Executive Director for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In 1981, he was elected National Secretary of the Labor Party and he directed the ALP’s three successful election campaigns in the 1980s. After being appointed Senator for the Australian Capital Territory in 1990, Mr McMullan was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer in 1990 and in 1991 became Manager of Government Business in the Senate. As Senator for the ACT, held the positions of Minister for the Arts and Administrative Services (1993) and Minister for Trade (1994), before being elected to the seat of Canberra in 1996 and, after a redistribution, as Member for Fraser in 1998. Between 1996 and 2007 Mr McMullan held a number of Shadow Ministerial positions including Shadow Treasurer, Shadow Minister for Finance and Small Business and Shadow Minister for Federal/ State Relations, and after the election of the Rudd Government in November 2007, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance.
Jane O’Dwyer Vice-President, Engagement and Global Relations The Australian National University
Jane is charged with leading innovative, strategic engagement activity that enhances the unique position and nature of ANU in Australia and overseas. Jane has 25 years of Australian and international experience stretching across politics, media, peak bodies and corporate affairs. She was the foundation Director of ANU Strategic Communications and Public Affairs, and foundation Director of the ANU North America Liaison Office. In Washington DC (2010 - 2012), she oversaw the implementation of the ANU North America Strategy, introduced programs to foster access to US funding, worked on building the US alumni community and helped establish the ANU (US) Foundation. Prior to joining ANU in 2004, she spent four years in Tokyo working in journalism and public diplomacy. She has previously worked in corporate affairs at the Australian Local Government Association and Sports Medicine Australia, and as a political advisor covering Trade, Regional Development and Resources and Energy portfolios.
45 Clare O’Neil MP Federal Member for Hotham, Australian Labor Party
Clare O’Neil was elected to the Parliament as the Federal Member for Hotham in 2013, and was re- elected in 2016 and 2019. In July 2016, Clare was appointed to the Shadow Ministry as the Shadow Minister for Justice. In June 2018 Clare was also appointed the Shadow Minister for Financial Services. In June 2019 Clare was appointed Shadow Minister for Innovation, Technology and the Future of Work. Immediately before entering Parliament, Clare worked in business as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. There, she worked with CEOs of Australian companies, helping them solve their most difficult problems. Clare has Arts and Law degrees with Honours from Monash University, and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar. Clare is a former Mayor of Greater Dandenong. At the age of 23, she was Australia’s youngest ever female Mayor. Clare co-authored a book with Tim Watts MP, entitled ‘Two Futures - Australia at a Critical Moment’, in August 2015.
Su-Lin Ong Managing Director, Chief Economist & Head of Australian Research RBC Capital Markets
Su-Lin Ong is a Managing Director of RBC Capital Markets, Chief Economist & Head of Australian Research. She has led the Economics & Fixed Income Strategy team for AU/NZ since 2010 and her role expanded in 2015 to also include oversight and supervision of Australian equity research.
She is an Executive Member of The Australian Business Economists, sits on the NSW/ACT FINSIA Regional Council, is part of CEDA’s Economic Policy Committee, and joined the Women in Banking and Finance Board at the end of 2014. She is also a member of RBC’s Diversity Council, chairs its RWomen Committee and is actively involved in their mentoring and charity programs including Dress for Success & A Woman’s Place. Su-Lin regularly represents RBC at various industry, policy, and education forums. She holds a BEc from the University of Sydney, Post Graduate in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia, is a Fellow, FINSIA, and scholarship recipient and recent graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Martin Parkinson Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
Martin Parkinson commenced as Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet on 23 January 2016. Prior to this Martin was a professional Non-Executive Director, serving on the boards of ORICA, O’Connell Street Associates, and the German-Australian Chamber of Industry and Commerce. He also served as a member of the Policy Committee of the Grattan Institute and on the Australian Federal Police Future Directions Advisory Board From March 2011 to December 2014, Martin served as Australia’s Secretary to the Treasury. Prior to this, he was the inaugural Secretary of the Department of Climate Change from its establishment in December 2007. Between 1997 and 2000 he worked at the International Monetary Fund on reform of the global financial architecture.
46 Michael Pezzullo Secretary, Department of Home Affairs
Michael Pezzullo was appointed as the Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs in 2017. Prior to this, Mr Pezzullo was Secretary of Immigration and Border Protection, and Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. Mr Pezzullo first joined the Service as the Chief Operating Officer in July 2009. In that role, he was responsible for offshore maritime security, border-related intelligence, national security and law enforcement programmes, integrity and professional standards, and corporate operations. Prior to joining the Service, he was Deputy Secretary Strategy in the Department of Defence—a position to which he was appointed in January 2006. Between February 2008 and May 2009 he led the Defence White Paper team and was also the principal author of the 2009 Defence White Paper.
Elizabeth Proust Advisory Board Chairman, Bank of Melbourne
One of Melbourne’s leading business figures, Elizabeth Proust has held leadership roles in the private and public sectors in Australia for over 30 years. Elizabeth has an outstanding record in developing and leading organisations both locally and internationally. Prior to taking on roles as a non-executive director, Elizabeth spent eight years with the ANZ Group, including four years as Managing Director of Esanda. At ANZ itself, she held the positions of Managing Director, Metrobanking and Group General Manager, Human Resources, Corporate Affairs and Management Services. She was global head of HR at ANZ at a time when the bank was represented in some 43 countries.
Lyn Roberts Acting CEO, VicHealth
Dr Lyn Roberts has extensive experience of working within health NGOs having spent over 25 years working at an Executive level in state, national and international capacities. She was CEO of the National Heart Foundation of Australia from 2001 to 2013. During this time Dr Roberts was elected to the Board of the World Heart Federation (2006 to 2012) also serving as its Vice-President from 2009 to 2010. She has considerable expertise in strategic public health policy development and implementation, working with a wide range of stakeholders. She has been a member of a number of expert advisory committees for the government and non-government sectors, and has widely presented at national and international conferences. In 1997, Dr Roberts was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) for service to the community and to health. In June 2015 she was awarded an AO for distinguished service to community health through executive and governmental advisory roles.
47 Nicola Roxon Chair, HESTA
The Honourable Nicola Roxon MP is the Chairman of industry super fund, HESTA, whose members work in the health and community sectors. Ms Roxon was in politics for 15 years and served as Health Minister and Attorney-General. For the last six years, Ms Roxon had built a portfolio of non-executive director roles including chairing the Cancer Council for 4 years. Currently she is also Chair of Bupa, and a director of ASX listed companies Dexus and Lifestyle Communities.
Brendan Sargeant Honorary Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre The Australian National University
Mr Sargeant has had wide experience in Defence and has held senior appointments including Deputy Head of the Defence Personnel Executive, Minister/Counsellor Defence Policy at Australian Embassy Washington, Deputy Director Intelligence at Defence Signals Directorate, Head of Strategic Policy Division and Deputy Secretary Strategy. In 2006, Mr Sargeant transferred to Centrelink and held a number of senior appointments, including General Manager, Information Technology, Planning and Project Coordination, and General Manager, Strategy and Capability. In January 2009, Mr Sargeant transferred to the position of First Assistant Secretary, Government and Defence Division, Budget Group, Department of Finance and Deregulation. Mr Sargeant was promoted to Deputy Secretary Strategy (Operations), Department of Defence in February 2010, and subsequently transferred to Deputy Secretary Strategic Reform and Governance for two years prior to taking up the Deputy Secretary Strategy role. He was then promoted to Associate Secretary in September 2013. In October 2015, Mr Sargeant completed the Advanced Management Program at Wharton’s Business School. Mr Sargeant has degrees in Political Science and English Literature.
Brian P. Schmidt Vice-Chancellor The Australian National University
Professor Schmidt is the 12th Vice-Chancellor of The Australian National University (ANU). Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, Professor Schmidt was an astrophysicist at the ANU Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics before becoming Vice-Chancellor. Professor Schmidt received undergraduate degrees in Astronomy and Physics from the University of Arizona in 1989, and completed his Astronomy Master’s degree (1992) and PhD (1993) from Harvard University. Under his leadership, in 1998, the High-Z Supernova Search team made the startling discovery that the expansion rate of the Universe is accelerating. Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, The United States Academy of Science, and the Royal Society, he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2013
48 Rebekha Sharkie MP Federal Member for Mayo, South Australia, Centre Alliance
The Federal Member for Mayo, Rebekha Sharkie, is a politician of firsts. She was the first Nick Xenophon Team (now Centre Alliance) member to be elected to the House of Representatives; the first non-conservative politician to represent the once safe Liberal electorate of Mayo since it was created in 1984; and the first woman to represent her part of regional South Australia since Federation. Rebekha won Mayo with a 17% swing in 2016 and has increased her two-party preferred margin by 2.23% in the recent 2019 election, taking into account the electoral redistribution in South Australia. Rebekha has worked hard to “Make Mayo Matter” and follows the principle of always putting her community first and being their “independent voice”. She is the Centre Alliance spokesperson for Social Services, Ageing, Education, Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Housing, Family & Community Services, Indigenous Affairs, Arts, Sport, Women and Youth. Before being elected to Federal Parliament, Rebekha worked as a paralegal, researcher, policy adviser and a manager of youth services. She lives in the Adelaide Hills with her family and grabs the chance to fish any time she can!
Jill Sheppard Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations The Australian National University
Jill Sheppard’s research focuses on why people participate in politics, what opinions they hold and why, and how both are shaped by political institutions and systems. Her current projects include studies of ethnic political participation in Australia, opinion formation and electoral behaviour, compulsory voting and its effects on voters, and social class in Australia. Recent papers on participation and voting have been published in Australia and internationally. Methodologically, her interests focus on sampling and fielding population-based surveys, questionnaire design, and respondent recruitment and retention. Jill is an investigator on Australia’s contribution to the Asian Barometer and World Values Survey projects, and the Australian Election Study, as well as authoring the ANUpoll
James Shipton Chair, Australian Securities and Investments Commission
James has more than 20 years experience in regulation, financial markets, the law and academia – internationally and in Australia. Most recently, he was the Executive Director of Harvard Law School’s Program on International Financial Systems. Prior to that, James was an Executive Director and Commission member of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong, where he led the Intermediaries (Supervision & Licensing) Division.
49 Rebecca Skinner Associate Secretary, Department of Defence
Rebecca was appointed as the acting Associate Secretary of Defence in October 2017 and confirmed in the role September 2018. She is responsible for Defence enterprise planning, performance and risk management, and the integration of all corporate enabling functions across the Department. Prior to this appointment, Rebecca was Deputy Secretary Strategic Policy and Intelligence from September 2016, where she was responsible for the Defence intelligence agencies, strategic, international and industry policy and contestability. This followed her promotion to Deputy Secretary Defence People in May 2014, responsible for ADF and civilian personnel policy, delivery of people shared services, the ADF recruitment and family programs, culture change and honours and awards.
Heather Smith Secretary, Department of Industry, Innovation and Science
Dr Heather Smith was appointed Secretary of the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science in September 2017. She previously held the positions of Secretary of the Department of Communications and the Arts and Deputy Secretary in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Heather was responsible for innovation policy and public data policy and headed the Prime Minister’s Taskforce on Innovation. In October 2013 she was appointed by Prime Minister Abbott as Australia’s G20 Sherpa, a role she held during Australia’s Presidency. Prior to this Heather had responsibility in the Department for economic, industry, infrastructure, environment and strategic policy matters in her role as Deputy Secretary Economic and Strategy.
Ligang Song Director, The China Economy Program, The Australian National University
Ligang Song is an Associate Professor in the Crawford School of Economics and Government, and Director of China Economy Program at The Australian National University. His research interests include international economics, development economics and policy studies, and the Chinese economy. His main publications include a monograph entitled ‘Changing Global Comparative Advantage: Evidence from Asia and the Pacific’, published by Addison-Wesley (1996), a co-authored book entitled ‘Private Enterprise in China’, published by Asia Pacific Press (2001), and a co-authored book entitled ‘China’s Ownership Transformation: Process, Outcomes, Prospects’, published by the World Bank (2005). His current projects include the ARC Linkage project on China’s rapid industrialisation and its increasing demand on mineral resources focusing on the transformation of China’s steel industry (a co-edited book to be published by Edward Elgar), and a co-authored monograph onChina’s Tests of Limits to Growth (to be published by Oxford University Press).
50 Helen Sullivan Director, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University
Professor Helen Sullivan is the Director of the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. She has advised governments, and public, private and not-for-profit bodies at all levels from the local to the global. She has worked with a range of UK government departments as well as state and federal government in Australia.
Brooke Summers Supply Chain Consultant, Cotton to Market Project
Brooke Summers oversees Cotton Australia’s supply chain marketing strategy. She has worked in strategic communication, marketing and community engagement for Australia’s agriculture sector for over 20 years including with Landcare Australia, the vegetable and rice industries and the Australian cotton industry, where she’s spent most of her time for over 15 years. Most recently Brooke has been responsible for the development and implementation of Cotton Australia’s Cotton to Market Strategy, a multi-stakeholder project to position Australian cotton in the world textile market. A past Chair of the International Forum for Cotton Promotion, member of the Australian Cotton Conference Committee since 2012, current working group member of global initiative Cotton 2040 and a member of the Australian Cotton Sustainability Working Group, Brooke has a strong knowledge of cotton production, sustainability and supply chain marketing. Brooke runs a strategic consultancy business, has a BA in Communication, a Churchill Fellowship in Urban Conservation and is a graduate of the Australian Rural Leadership Program.
Wayne Swan National President, The Australian Labor Party
Wayne Swan is an Australian politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Deputy Leader of the Labor Party from 2010 to 2013, and the Treasurer of Australia from 2007 to 2013. Swan was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1993 for Lilley in Queensland, although he lost this seat in 1996. He regained the seat in 1998 and has represented it until 2019. Following the Labor victory in 2007, Swan was appointed Treasurer of Australia by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. On 24 June 2010, after Julia Gillard became Prime Minister, Swan was elected unopposed as her deputy and was subsequently sworn in as the Deputy Prime Minister. In 2011, Swan was named Finance Minister of the Year by Euromoney magazine, joining Paul Keating as the only Australian Treasurer to have been awarded that title. After Rudd successfully challenged Gillard for the leadership in June 2013, Swan resigned both of his positions, but remained in the Parliament. In June 2018, Swan was elected National President of the Labor Party
51 Marija Taflaga Director, Centre for the Study of Australian Politics, The Australian National University
Marija Taflaga is a post-doctoral researcher at the Australian National University. She researches Australian politics in comparative context. Her research focus examines political parties’ relationship with parliament and the executive. Marija also undertakes research in Australian political history. Recently she has also began researching in the area of the career paths of political elites. Marija has undertaken research fellowships at the Australian Parliamentary Library and the Australian Museum of Democracy, Old Parliament House. She has also worked in the Australian Parliamentary Press Gallery as a researcher at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Lenore Taylor Editor, The Guardian Australia
Lenore Taylor is Guardian Australia’s editor. She has won two Walkley awards and has twice won the Paul Lyneham award for excellence in press gallery journalism. She co-authored a book, Shitstorm, on the Rudd government’s response to the global economic crisis.
Veronica L. Taylor Professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Veronica Taylor is a socio-legal scholar and Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University and an ANU Public Policy Fellow. Her major contribution to socio-legal studies centres on rule of law assistance as form of foreign policy and as an emergent field of professional practice. Veronica’s current work draws on 30 years’ professional experience as a designer and implementer of legal reform for the Asia Foundation, the International Development Law Organization, USAID, the World Bank, and (the former) AusAID, in Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and the United States. The normative core of her work is how to transform legal networks and institutions in developing Asia in ways that are effective and just, while making powerful actors more accountable.
52 Ramesh Thakur Emeritus Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy The Australian National University
Professor Ramesh Thakur is Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (CNND) in the Crawford School, The Australian National University and co-Convenor of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN). He was Vice Rector and Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University (and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations) from 1998–2007. Educated in India and Canada, he was a Professor of International Relations at the University of Otago in New Zealand and Professor and Head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University, during which time he was also a consultant/adviser to the Australian and New Zealand governments on arms control, disarmament and international security issues.
David Thodey Chair, CSIRO
David Thodey is a global business leader focused on innovation, technology and telecommunications with more than 30 years of experience creating brand and shareholder value. He is the Chairman of JobsNSW as well as an Ambassador for business events in NSW. He is also the Chairman of the NSW Government’s Quantum Computing Fund Advisory Panel. Mr Thodey is on the Advisory Boards of SquarePeg Capital and Unified Healthcare Group (UHG), is on the Investment Committee of Evans and Partners Global Disruption Fund, and is a non-executive Board director of Ramsay Health Care, a global hospital group. He also had a successful career as CEO of Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications and information services company and also CEO of IBM Australia and New Zealand.
Sue Thompson Senior Lecturer, The Australian National University
Dr Sue Thompson has extensive experience in academia, government, the media and the non- government sector. In academia Dr Thompson has taught a range of history and politics courses at ANU and the University of Canberra. Her research specialisation examines the history of regional cooperation in Southeast Asia during the Cold War with a focus on foreign and defence policy influences in the post- war evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism. Dr Thompson has conducted extensive fieldwork in North America, Europe and Southeast Asia and has recently published her second sole-authored book on this topic. Dr Thompson’s research has previously been awarded funding by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation, the Eisenhower Presidential Library Foundation and the Gerald Ford Presidential Library Foundation, amongst others.
53 Laura Tingle Chief political correspondent, 7:30 ABC
Journalist, essayist and author Laura Tingle has reported on Australian politics and policy for more than 35 years. In 2018, she joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as chief political correspondent for its flagship current affairs program 7.30, after 16 years with the Australian Financial Review where she was political editor, and previously, senior reporting positions with other major Australian mastheads. A multi-award winning journalist, she is the author of Chasing the Future - a book about the early 1990s recession; and three Quarterly Essays: Great Expectations (2012); Political Amnesia (2015) and Follow the Leader (2018). An assembly of her essays, In Search of Good Government, was published in 2017. She also regularly appears on Insiders on ABC TV and Late Night Live on ABC Radio.
Peter Varghese Chancellor, University of Queensland
Peter Varghese AO is Chancellor of The University of Queensland. Prior to this appointment, he served as Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2012-2016). Previous senior appointments included High Commissioner to India (2009-2012), High Commissioner to Malaysia (2000-2002), Director-General of the Office of National Assessments (2004-2009), and Senior Advisor (International) to the Prime Minister of Australia (2003-2004). Mr Varghese was the author of a comprehensive India Economic Strategy to 2035 commissioned by the Australian Prime Minister and submitted in July 2018. Mr Varghese was educated at The University of Queensland, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and a University Medal in history in 1978. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from The University of Queensland in 2013.
Clare Walsh Deputy Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Ms Clare Walsh is the Deputy Secretary for the Global Cooperation, Development and Partnerships Group with Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Ms Walsh has a wide range of international and domestic policy experience from her 16 years working in the Australian Public Service. Prior to her current role, she was the Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in Japan. Ms Walsh led DFAT’s development work of the G20 throughout Australia’s Presidency in 2014. She was responsible for Australia’s engagement in international efforts to design the post-2015 development agenda and the related global discussions on development finance. She managed DFAT’s relationships with key multilateral organisations, including the Multilateral Development Banks and global health, education and environment funds as well as DFAT’s bilateral relationships with other donor countries. Ms Walsh also managed Australia’s strategic engagement with development focused non-government organisations and the Australian Volunteers for International Development program. Ms Walsh was head of the International Division of the Department of Climate Change, and formerly held positions in the Department of Environment and the Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources.
54 Michael Wesley Dean, College of Asia and the Pacific The Australian National University
Michael Wesley is Professor of International Affairs and Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. He has previously worked at the University of New South Wales and Griffith University; was Assistant Director-General for Transnational Issues at the Office of National Assessments; and Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He is a Board Member of the Australia-China Council, the CEDA State Advisory Council for NSW/ACT; and the Australian Federal Police Commissioner’s Advisory Board.
Sally Wheeler Pro-Vice Chancellor for International Strategy The Australian National University
Professor Sally Wheeler, OBE MRIA FAcSS FAAL is the Pro-Vice Chancellor for International Strategy and Dean of ANU College of Law. Prior to taking up these positions at ANU, Sally was a Professor and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Enterprise at Queen’s University Belfast. Sally was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Irish Academy in 2011 and 2013, respectively. She became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law in 2018. Sally was the Head of the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast for several years where she also served as Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS), Dean of Internationalisation (AHSS) and, in 2017, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Enterprise. In the 2017 New Years’ Honours list, Sally was awarded an OBE for services to higher education in Northern Ireland.
Hugh White Professor of Strategic Studies, The Australian National University
Hugh White AO is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Australian National University. His work focuses primarily on Australian strategic and defence policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, and global strategic affairs especially as they influence Australia and the Asia-Pacific. He has served as an intelligence analyst with the Office of National Assessments, as a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald, as a senior adviser on the staffs of Defence Minister Kim Beazley and Prime Minister Bob Hawke, and as a senior official in the Department of Defence, where from 1995 to 2000 he was Deputy Secretary for Strategy and Intelligence, and as the first Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). In the 1970s he studied philosophy at Melbourne and Oxford Universities.
55 Claire Willette Chief Executive Officer Australian Defence Alliance - Victoria
Claire Willette is the CEO of Australian Defence Alliance – Victoria and a former senior management executive in the US Department of Defense for 18 years. Claire arrived in Australia in 2013 as the US Secretary of Defense’s Exchange Officer to the Australian Secretary of Defence, during which time she advised Defence and private sector peak bodies on frameworks addressing challenges impacting Australia’s SME community in the pursuit of diversification and growth into domestic and global defence arenas. She was embedded as Director, Strengthening Export Controls in the Strategic Policy, where she was responsible for public-private advocacy supporting the Defence Trade Controls Act of 2015, Australia’s introduction of controls on the export of intangible technology and data.
Danielle Wood Director, Budget Policy and Institutional Reform Program Grattan Institute
Danielle has extensive experience in advising on economic policy issues. Her research and advocacy efforts focus on tax and budget policy, intergenerational inequality and competition policy. Previously, Danielle worked at the ACCC as the Principal Economist and Director of Merger Investigations, as a Senior Consultant at NERA Economic Consulting and as a Senior Research Economist at the Productivity Commission. Danielle has a Masters of Commerce (Hons) and a Masters in Competition Law (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from the University of Adelaide. She is the National and Victorian Chair of the Women in Economics Network. She sits on the Victorian and Central Council for the Economic Society of Australia.During her distinguished career in Washington, DC, Claire served in senior roles within OSD(P), supporting security co-operation and bilateral and multilateral defence programs through the Defense Technology Security Administration, the F-35 Program Office, DARPA and the Intelligence Community. Much of this work centered on security cooperation, foreign military sales, strategic trade controls, policy development, mission critical infrastructure, strategic governance, and stakeholder engagement.
Frank Yourn Executive Director, Australia-Papua New Guinea Business Council, Australia- Fiji Business Council, Australia-Pacific Islands Business Council
Frank Yourn has been Executive Director of the Australia Fiji Business Council since 1998. Since 2000 he has also been concurrently Executive Director of the Australia Pacific Islands Business Council, and since 2001 also Executive Director of the Australia Papua New Guinea Business Council. The Business Councils are associations of Australian businesses with interests in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the other Pacific islands countries and economies. Previously he served in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade where his service included overseas postings in Egypt, Japan, The Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Fiji, as well as assignments in Canberra and in the Department’s Victorian State Office. Mr Yourn has more than 30 years’ experience living and working in the Pacific for the Australian government and for Australian business. In 2017 Mr Yourn was the recipient of the Australian Institute for International Affairs Queensland Award for achievement in international affairs as a leading advocate for increased Australia-Pacific business links.
56 PARTICIPANT LIST
Paula Adamson General Manager, Trade Marks & IP Australia Designs Group John Anderson Chair Crawford Fund Lisa Annese Chief Executive Officer Diversity Council Australia Stephen Anthony Chief Economist Industry Super Australia Anna-Maria Arabia Chief Executive Australian Academy of Science Shiro Armstrong Director, Australia-Japan Research Centre Australian National University Meera Ashar Director South Asia Research Institute Carol Austin Director HSBC Bank Australia Rochelle-Lee Bailey Research Fellow Australian National University Hollie Baillieu Public Policy Manager Woolworths Group Drew Baker CEO Institute of Public Administration Australia - ACT Ken Baldwin Professor and Director, ANU Energy Australian National University Change Institute Brad Banducci Chief Executive Officer Woolworths Group Subho Banerjee Senior Advisor Public Policy and Societal Impact Hub, ANU Stephen Bartos Parliamentary Budget Officer Parliamentary Budget Office NSW Lauren Bartsch Engagement Manager Public Policy and Societal Impact Hub, ANU Tamerlaine Beasley Founder and Managing Director and Australia ASEAN Council Board Member Christian Bennett Group Head - Government Relations and Woolworths Group Industry Affairs Vikram Bhakoo Associate Professor In Supply University of Melbourne Chain Management Lachlan Blackhall Entrepreneurial Fellow and Head, Battery Australian National University Storage and Grid Integration Program Tanya Bowes Director Corporate Affairs CSIRO David Bowtell Associate Director CEDA Andrew Bragg Senator - Elect for NSW Liberal Party of Australia Gavin Brown PwC Australia Megan Brownlow Deputy Chair Screen Australia David Burt Executive Manager CSIRO Penny Burtt Group CEO Asialink Sofia Busch Executive Director U Thant House Matt Cahill Deputy Secretary Department of Environment and Energy Marika Calfas Chief Executive Officer NSW Ports Andrew Campbell Chief Executive Officer Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Michael Cardew-Hall Pro Vice-Chancellor (Innovation) Australian National University Andrea Carson Political Science and Journalism La Trobe University Gabrielle Chan Political correspondent The Guardian Andrew Charlton Director Alpha Beta Colin Chartres Chief Executive Officer The Crawford Fund Padam Chirmuley Head of Global HR Practices Stellar Asia Pacific Ian Chubb Former Chief Scientist Australian National University
57 Melinda Cilento Chief Executive Committee for Economic Development Australia Julie Coates Managing Partner, Client and Markets; PwC Australia Financial Services Industry Leader Blair Comley Director Port Jackson Partners Tania Constable Chief Executive Officer Minerals Council of Australia Marianne Cullen Regional Director, ACT Aurecon Ali Cupper Member for Mildura Independent Member for Mildura John Daley Chief Executive Officer Grattan Institute Swati Dave Managing Director & CEO Export Finance and Insurance Corporation Peter Davidson Principal Advisor Australian Council of Social Service Nina Davidson Head of Office Productivity Commisssion Sarah Davidson Australian Government Affairs Leader Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Glyn Davis Distinguished Professor Crawford School of Public Policy Emma Dawson Executive Director Per Capita Australia Milissa Day Regional Representative for East Asia International Finance Corporation and the Pacific Gordon de Brouwer Honorary Professor and Distinguished ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Policy Fellow John Denton Secretary General International Chamber of Commerce Paul Dibb Emeritus Professor, Strategic and Australian National University Defence Studies Centre Anthony Dickman Company Secretary Reserve Bank of Australia Pippa Dickson Director Asialink Arts Mick Dodson Emeritus Professor, ANU College of Law Australian National University Peter Drysdale Professor of Economics Australian National University Rebecca Dunn Special Counsel Gilbert + Tobin Megan Edwards Assistant Secretary Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Craig Emerson Managing Director Craig Emerson Economics David Epstein Principal Vigot & Co Andrew Ethell Board Member Infrastructure Australia Gareth Evans Chancellor Australian National University Jeremy Farrall Associate Dean (Research) Australian National University Nicholas Farrelly Associate Dean, ANU College of Asia Australian National University and the Pacific Patricia Faulkner CEDA Board of Directors CEDA Allan Fels Professor Melbourne University Zhu Feng Director, China Center for Collaborative Nanjing University Studies of South China Sea, and Director, Institute of International Studies Doug Ferguson Chairman NSW | Partner in Charge, Asia KPMG and International Markets Richard Fifer Manager, Government Relations Woolworths Group Rae Francis Dean, ANU College of Arts and Australian National University Social Sciences Sharon Friel Director, School of Regulation and Global Australian National University Governance (RegNet)
58 Dominic Geraghty Pro Vice Chancellor, Launceston University of Tasmania Emma Germano Vice President Victorian Farmers Federation Danny Gilbert Managing Partner Gilbert + Tobin Jane Golley Director, Australian Centre on China in Australian National University the World Angelia Grant Division Head, Macroeconomic The Treasury Conditions Division Michelle Grattan Chief Political Correspondent The Conversation Scott Gregson Executive General Manager - Merger And Australian Competition and Authorisation Review Consumer Commission Jean-Marie Guehenno Senior Adviser Centre for Humanitarium Dialogue Allan Gyngell Chair Australian Institute of International Affairs Marianne Hanson Associate Professor University of Queensland Sandra Harding Vice-Chancellor James Cook University Wendy Hartanti Director PwC Australia Kerri Hartland Secretary Department of Jobs and Small Business Tamsyn Harvey First Assistant Secretary, Legal Services Attorney-General's Department Policy Division Lin Hatfield Dodds Deputy Secretary Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Virginia Haussegger Director, 50/50 by 2030 Foundation, University of Canberra Institute of Governance and Policy Analysis David Hazlehurst Deputy CEO Australian Trade and Investment Commission Carolyn Hendriks Associate Professor, Public Policy Crawford School of Public Policy and Governance Ken Henry Chairman National Australia Bank Jennifer Hewett Journalist The Australian Financial Review John Hewson Chair, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute Australian National University Julian Hill Member For Bruce Parliament of Australia Martin Hoffman Secretary NSW Department of Finance, Services And Innovation Mitchell Hooke Chairman Partners in Performance Stephen Howes Director, Development Policy Centre Crawford School of Public Policy Llewelyn Hughes Associate Dean (Research), College of Australian National University Asia & Pacific Jennifer Hunt The Australian National University Robert Ingram Director Australian Wool Growers Association Sean Innis Director Public Policy and Societal Impact Hub, ANU Philipp Ivanov CEO Asia Society Australia Robert Johanson Chairman Bendigo Bank Frank Jotzo Director, Centre for Climate and Crawford School of Public Policy Energy Policy Daryl Karp Director Museum of Australian Democracy Patricia Karvelas Presenter ABC Radio Meg Keen Associate Professor, Department of Australian National University Pacific Affairs Mark Kenny Senior Fellow, Australian Studies Australian National University Institute, School Of Politics And International Relations
59 Glenn Keys Co-founder & Executive Chairman Aspen Medical Amy King Senior Lecturer, Coral Bell School of Asia ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Pacific Affairs Dean Knudson Deputy Secretary Environment Protection Group Andrew Laming Member for Bowman Liberal Party of Australia Huong Le Thu Senior Analyst Australian Strategic Policy Institute Sung Lee Director, Asia Practice PwC Australia Chris Legg Chief Adviser The Treasury Andrew Leigh Federal Member for Fenner Parliament of Australia Thomas Trikasih Lembong Chairman Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board Renee Leon Secretary Department of Human Services Martine Letts Chief Executive Officer Committee for Melbourne Jason Li Chairman Vantage Asia Holdings Justin Yifu Lin Dean Institute of New Structural Economics, Peking University Justin Lokhorst Director, Construction Statistics Australian Bureau of Statistics Philip Lowe Governor Reserve Bank of Australia John Lydon Senior Partner McKinsey & Company Alex Lynch Policy and Governance Google Australia Jenny Macklin Vice Chancellor’s Fellow University of Melbourne Kelly Magsamen Vice President for National Security and Center for American Progress International Policy Katherine Mansted Senior Researcher, National Australian National University Security College Michael Manthorpe Commonwealth Ombudsman Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman John McCormack Senior Manager Government and AGL Community Relations Sally McCutchan Executive Director and CEO Impact Investing Australia Meg McDonald Board member Australian Renewable Energy Agency Michael McKenzie Minister-Counsellor, Papua New Guinea Attorney-General's Department Warwick McKibbin Professor and Director, ANU Centre for Australian National University Applied Macroeconomic Analysis Travers McLeod Chief Executive Officer Centre for Policy and Development Bob McMullan Director, ANU Crawford Australian National University Leadership Forum Rohan Mead GMD & CEO Australian Unity Rory Medcalf Head of College National Security College Chris Moraitis Secretary Attorney-General's Department Daniel Moss Columnist Bloomberg Opinion Megan Motto CEO Governance Institute of Australia Francesca Muskovic Property Council of Australia Thant Myint-U Partner Ava Advisory Group Mukund Narayanamurti CEO Asialink Business Belinda Ngo Executive Director - Capital Markets Property Council of Australia May Ngui Manager - ACT, Southern NSW and PNG GHD Group Keith Nugent Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research Australian National University and Innovation)
60 Jane O'Dwyer Vice-President, Engagement and Australian National University Global Relations Clare O'Neil Shadow Minister for Innovation, Australian Labor Party Technology and the Future of Work (Australian Labor Party) Su-Lin Ong Managing Director, Chief Economist & RBC Capital Markets Head Of Australian Research Allison Orr Operations Director CPD Andrew Parker Partner and Asia Practice Leader, PwC Australia PwC Australia Martin Parkinson Secretary Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Vanessa Petrie Chief Executive Officer Beyond Zero Emissions Catherine Petterson Director, Communications Diversity Council Australia and Operations Michael Pezzullo Secretary Department of Home Affairs Jacqui Phillips Director of Policy and Advocacy Australian Council of Social Service Elizabeth Proust Chair, Advisory Board Bank of Melbourne Tina Psereckis Director, People Strategy University of Tasmania Gideon Rachman Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator Financial Times Janean Richards Chief Operating Officer Department of Industry, Innovation and Science Lyn Roberts Acting CEO Victorian Health Promotion Foundation Paul Ronalds Chief Executive Officer Save the Children Nicola Roxon Chairman HESTA Graeme Samuel Member Australian National University Brendan Sargeant Honorary Professor Strategic and Defence Studies Centre Helen Sawczak CEO Australia China Business Council Neil Saxton Executive - Partnership Engagement HESTA Brian Schmidt Vice-Chancellor Australian National University Michael Schwager Director General IP Australia Robyn Shannon Branch Manager Department of Jobs and Small Business Rebekha Sharkie Member For Mayo Federal Member for Mayo Jill Sheppard Lecturer, School of Politics and Australian National University International Relations James Shipton Chair Australian Securities and Investments Commission Rebecca Skinner Associate Secretary Department of Defence Heather Smith Secretary Department of Industry, Innovation and Science Ligang Song Director China Economy Program Bill Spain Partner Gilbert + Tobin Nick Stathis Program Manager Australian Bureau of Statistics Helen Sullivan Director Crawford School of Public Policy Brooke Summers Supply Chain Consultant Cotton Australia Wayne Swan Member for Lilley / National President Australian Labor Party Chin Tan Australian Race Australian Human Rights Commission Discrimination Commissioner Lenore Taylor Editor The Guardian
61 Veronica Taylor Professor of Law and Regulation, Australian National University ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) Ramesh Thakur Emeritus Professor, Crawford School of Australian National University Public Policy David Thodey Chair CSIRO Sue Thompson Senior Lecturer Australian National University Laura Tingle Chief Political Correspondent ABC Siddharth Varadarajan Founding Editor The Wire Peter Varghese Chancellor University of Queensland Elsina Wainwright Snr Fellow US Studies Centre University of Sydney Tim Watts Member for Gellibrand Federal MP Clare Walsh Deputy Secretary Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Michael Wesley Dean, ANU College of Asia and Australian National University the Pacific Hugh White Professor of Strategic Studies, School of Australian National University International, Political & Strategic Studies Clare Wilkes Senior Manager AGL Energy Claire Willette CEO Australian Defence Alliance - Victoria Glenn Withers Global Board Chair Global Development Learning Network Danielle Wood Chair Women in Economics Network Peter Woolcott Commissioner Australian Public Service Commission Luke Yeaman Deputy Secretary Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities Frank Yourn Executive Director Australia-Pacific Business Councils Yixiao Zhou Research Fellow, Crawford School of Australian National University Public Policy
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