On 26 Feb 2025, the Friends of Multilateralism Group (FMG) organized the 11th session of its “Trade Policy Preview” (TP-P) brainstorming series on Australia. Xiankun Lu, CEO of FMG moderated this session.
Simon Evenett, FMG member and coordinator of Global Trade Alert; Peter Draper, FMG member and Executive Director of the Institute for International Trade in the Faculty of the Professions, University of Adelaide, and Mia Mikic, Chair of FMG Board and former Director, Trade, Investment and Innovation Division in United Nations ESCAP shared their views on the trade policies of Australia.
Over 20 participants joined the session, including members of FMG, Ambassadors/DPRs of WTO members, and experts from renowned think tanks etc.
FMG has launched the brainstorming initiative titled “Trade Policy Preview” (TP-P) to host a candid and forward-looking dialogue on trade policy trends of key players of the WTO and their implications on the WTO reform discussions. FMG has successfully organized eleven TP-P sessions on China, Russia, Pakistan, Mexico, Brazil, U.S.A, Japan, EU, SACU, China, Nigeria and Australia.
The slides of two speakers are attached below.
Recording of this session can be watched via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wda6_8MkcKs
Listen to this session via Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/5mNtvBY3lCiDXnXsBAJMQG
FMG Australia presentation Evenett Shared
Annex 1: Programme
12:00-12:05 Introduction
Speaker: Xiankun Lu (FMG)
12:05-12:50 Presentations
Moderator: Clemens Boonekamp (FMG)
12:05-12:20 Speaker 1: Simon Evenett (FMG)
12:20-12:35 Speaker 2: Peter Draper (FMG)
12:35-12:50 Speaker 3: Mia Mikic (FMG)
12:50-13:30 Discussions
Moderator: Xiankun Lu (FMG)
Annex 2: List of Participants
- FMG
Xiankun Lu (FMG)
Rajesh Aggarwal (FMG)
Willy Alfaro (FMG)
Clemens Boonekamp (FMG) Peter Draper (FMG)
Simon Evenett (FMG)
Jonathan T. Fried (FMG)
Stuart Harbinson (FMG)
Wenhua Ji (FMG)
Mia Mikic (FMG)
Valerie Picard (FFMG)
2. WTO Missions
New Zealand: James Andersen, DPR
Netherlands: Audrey Goosen, Ambassador
Austalia: Jeremy Green, DPR
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