APEC Conference 2011 - Is Australia managing‪?‬ RMIT University

Professor Margaret Gardner is the Vice Chancellor at RMIT University. She is also the President of the Museum Board of Victoria, Chair of the Australian Technology Network, Chair of the Education Advisory Group of the Council for Australia-Latin America Relations and Director of the Australian Teaching and Learning Council. Previously she was the Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Queensland. Professor Gardner has an Bachelor of Economics (Hons.) from University of Sydney, a Doctor of Philosophy on Industrial Relations, and was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship and studied in the US at the University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell University.

7-3 - Dr Ziggy Switkowski, Chancellor, RMIT University

7-2 - Dr John Edwards - Board Members, Reserve Bank of Australia

Dr. John Edwards is a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute, an Adjunct Professor at Curtin University, and a member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia. From 2009 to 2011 he was Director for Economic Planning and Development for the Economic Development Board of the Kingdom of Bahrain. From 1997 to 2009 Dr. Edwards was Chief Economist for HSBC Australia and New Zealand. Before this he was the principal economic adviser to the Treasurer and then Prime Minister, Paul Keating. A journalist in his early career, Dr. Edwards was the Sydney Morning Herald’s correspondent in Washington, DC. He has published four books and holds a Ph.D. in economics from George Washington University.

7-1 - Richard Martin - Managing Director - IMA Asia

Richard Martin is the Managing Director of International Market Assessment, an advisory firm that runs an Asia CEO Forum in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore; an India country program
in six cities in India; an Asia Program in Australia and supports country CEO programs in other Asian economies. He has been advising MNCs on the business environment in Asia since 1981
when he joined the Hong Kong office of Business International (BI). Following The Economist Group’s acquisition of BI he was the EIU director for Southeast Asia from 1985 before founding IMA
in 1990. He is based in Singapore and is a graduate of University of Sydney (Asian politics), SOAS and LSE (Southeast Asia Area Studies).

7-0 Key Messages and conclusions - Alan Oxley, Chairman, Australian APEC Study Centre

6-0 The State of Australia's Competitiveness - qanda