Good Morning
The Director of the Centre for Public Policy, Professor Mark Considine, would like to invite you to the fourth and final forum in the Centre for Public Policy 'Australian Trade Policy Directions' series on Tuesday the 24th of September, 5:30pm in the Centre for Public Policy, 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton. In this session we will be joined by A/Prof Richard Leaver from Flinders University and Alan Oxley from the Australian APEC Study Centre (biographies are below). Richard Leaver will be speaking on the topic 'Coalition Trade Policy: the Return of Imperial Preference' and Alan Oxley on 'Free Trade Agreements in the Era of Globalization - New Instruments to Advance New Interests, the Case of Australia'. This event will be chaired by Dr Ann Capling, author of the 2001 book 'Australia and the Global Trade System' (Cambridge University Press). No cost involved and no RSVP needed. Please forward this email on to friends and colleagues. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to email me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or phone me on 8344 9482. Hope to see you on the 24th. - Lauren. -- Lauren Rosewarne Centre Manager Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne 3010 Phone : 8344 9482 / Fax : 9349 4442 Visit our website <http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/> Participant Biographies A/Prof Richard Leaver Richard Leaver is Reader in International Relations in The School of Political and International Studies, Flinders University, where he has been for the last nine years. Prior to that, he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University. His primary teaching and research interests relate to the economic aspects of International Relations, nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation, the history and theory of International Relations, and Australian foreign policy, especially in relation to all the above. Leaver has published widely, including having 5 edited works and written 100+ articles and book chapters. His works include: Middling, Meddling, Muddling: Issues in Australian Foreign Policy (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1997, co-edited, with Dave Cox) and Pacific Economic Relations in the 1990s: Cooperation or Conflict? (Lynne Rienner, Boulder, CO 1993, co-edited, with Richard Higgott and John Ravenhill). Alan Oxley Alan Oxley runs International Trade Strategies Pty Ltd, one of Australia's leading trade consultancies. It advises business, governments and international agencies on international economic issues. Current assignments include managing AUSTA, the Australian Business Group for a Free Trade Agreement with the US; advising the Lao Government on accession to the WTO and providing short term expert economic assistance to economic agencies in Indonesia. ITS is a contractor to Ausaid. It has delivered aid programs as well in China, South Africa and Malawi. Alan is a former Ambassador of Australia to the GATT, the predecessor of the WTO and played a seminal role in the establishment of the Cairns Group coalition of agricultural exporters during the Uruguay Round. His publications include Seize the Future: How Australian can succeed in the New Century, (Allen and Unwin, 2000), and The Trade and Environment Issue, with Kristen Osborne, APEC Study Centre 2002. He is Chairman of the APEC Study Centre at Monash University and is founder of www.worldgrowth.org a pro-market website resource on international development issues. He is a regular commentator on international economic issues in the Australian media. -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
