SPEAKERS
- ANDREW STOLER
is the Executive Director of the Institute for International Economics, Business
and Law at the University of Adelaide.
- DONALD ROTHWELL is currently an Associate Professor
at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney where he is the Director of the Sydney
Centre for International and Global Law. His major research interest is international
law with a specific focus on law of the sea, law of the polar regions, dispute
resolution, and international law in Australia. He is currently working on a project
reviewing the regime of navigation under the law of the sea, and is the current
President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL).
- BRETT
WILLIAMS is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney
and is an Associate of the Sydney Centre for International and Global Law. He
is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of South Australia
and holds degrees in Law and in Economics from the University of Adelaide. His
PhD on the application of the GATT to agriculture won the University of Adelaide's
Bonython Prize. His recent research has related to the accession of China to the
WTO including being joint editor of China and the World Trading System (CUP, 2003).
He is a Research Affiliate of The Centre for International Economic Studies at
the University of Adelaide and of the Centre for Law and Economics at the Australian
National University, and is a Consulting Principal to Law and Economics Consulting
Group.
- JAN MCDONALD, BA, LLB(Hons)(UQ), LLM(Hons)(Northwestern
School of Law, Lewis and Clark College), PhD(Bond)
Jan is John F Kearney Professor of Law at the Gold Coast campus of Griffith Law
School and has just completed a term as Head of School. She specialises in Environmental
Law, with particular interests in the WTO-environment linkage, international forestry
and the global timber trade. She is a Barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland,
a member of the Environmental Institute of Australia & New Zealand and the
IUCN's Environmental Law Commission.
- DONALD MACLAREN is an Associate
Professor in the Department of Economics at The University of Melbourne.
He has had a long-standing interest in international agricultural trade policy
and the role of the GATT/WTO in setting the regulatory framework. In 2001 he was
a member of a WTO Dispute Panel. He has published papers in the major agricultural
economics journals as well as the Journal of Policy Modeling, the Review of International
Economics and The World Economy. His current research interests include an economic
analysis of state trading enterprises, the economics of quarantine policy and
evaluating trade liberalisation using the GTAP computable general equilibrium
model of the world economy.
- GORDON ANDERSON is an Associate Professor in
the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington and a Barrister of the High
Court of New Zealand. He specialises in labour law and international trade law.
Gordon's interests in international trade law focus on issues arising out of the
export of primary products and most recently he has become involved in a research
project on aspects on intellectual property and international trade law including
the use of geographic indications.
- KYM ANDERSON is Professor of Economics and
foundation Executive Director of the Centre for International Economic Studies
at the University of Adelaide. During a period of leave he has spent 1990-92 at
the Research Division of the GATT (now WTO) Secretariat in Geneva, and subsequently
became the first economist to serve on a series of dispute settlement panels at
the World Trade Organization (concerning the EU's banana import regime, 1996-2000).
In 1996-97 he served on a panel advising the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and
Trade in their preparation of Australia’s first White Paper on Foreign and
Trade Policy. Since the late 1970s he has been a consultant with all the major
international economic agencies including the World Bank, OECD, UN and ADB. He
is taking extended leave from May 2004 to become Lead Economist (Trade Policy)
in the Research Group of the World Bank in Washington DC.
- LEE ANN JACKSON has been a Research Fellow at
the Centre for International Economic Studies at the University of Adelaide and
a part-time Lecturer for the School of Economics. Her research looks at issues
related to international trade and agricultural biotechnology, with an emphasis
on non-tariff trade barrier impacts of national regulations associated with biotechnology
products. Previously, she spent several years working for the International Food
Policy Research Institute in Washington DC. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Economics
from the University of Minnesota, a joint Masters degree in Environmental Studies
and Public and Private Management from Yale University and a B.A. in Biology from
Princeton University. In February 2004 she moved to a position in the Agriculture
Division of the WTO Secretariat in Geneva.
- DAVID MORGAN is a Trade Policy Adviser, currently
on leave from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, where he
provided advice on policy and legal issues affecting international trade. Most
recently he was responsible for trade and environment issues, including Australia's
third-party participation in the GMO dispute in the WTO, and was previously responsible
for quarantine and food safety issues. He is co-author with Richard Snape and
Jan Adams of Regional Trade Agreements: Implications and Options for Australia
and the principal author of The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): Implications
for Australia. His and Gavin Goh's article, "Peace in Our Time? An Analysis
of Article 13 of the Agreement on Agriculture", is shortly to be published
in the Journal of World Trade.
- GAVIN GOH is an Adviser on WTO Law based in Western
Australia.
- CHRISTOPHER FINDLAY is a Professor of Economics
at the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government at the Australian National
University. Prior to that he was Associate Professor of Economics at the University
of Adelaide. Australia's economic relations with Asia are the theme of his research.
A special interest is the reform and industrialisation of the Chinese economy.
Professor Findlay has been especially involved in research on the textiles, steel
and air transport industries in East Asia and on the implications of developments
in those industries for Australia. He is also a principal researcher in a major
research program on impediments to services trade and investment. Professor Findlay
has a PhD and MEc from the ANU and an Honours degree in economics from the University
of Adelaide.
- PETER JOHN LLOYD is Emeritus Professor of
the University of Melbourne. He has a BA and an MA (First Class Honours) from
Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and a Ph.D. from Duke University
in the United States of America. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences
in Australia. His main areas of specialisation are international economics and
Asian economics and microeconomics in general. He has been a consultant to the
OECD, the WTO, UNCTAD and a number of government departments and authorities in
Australia and New Zealand. He was the joint editor of the Journal of the Economic
Society of Australia, The Economic Record, for five years and has served on numerous
committees for the Economic Society, the International Economic Association, the
Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia and other bodies. He is an author
or an editor of ten books and has written nine monographs and over one hundred
articles in refereed journals or chapters in books. He was Dean of the Faculty
of Economics and Commerce at the University of Melbourne from 1988 to 1993.
- DAVID ROUND is a Professor of Economics and Director,
Centre for Regulation and Market Analysis, University of South Australia. He is
also Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Delaware. He was previously
Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide and has held visiting
positions at Duke University, the University of Delaware, the College of William
and Mary, Wesleyan University, Vanderbilt University, and in 2001 was a Visiting
Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury. He has authored almost 100 papers
in leading Australian and international journals, on a variety of industrial economics,
competition policy and antitrust topics. He currently serves on the editorial
board of Review of Industrial Organisation, and Australian Economic Papers. From
1986-1998 he was an Associate Member of the Trade Practices Commission in Australia,
and its successor, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. In April
1998 he was appointed a member of the Australian Competition Tribunal. In 1989
he was appointed an Associate Member of the Australian Telecommunications Authority
(AUSTEL), and in 1997 was appointed a Member of the Australian Communications
Authority. He was also Chairman of the Employment Services Regulatory Authority
in 1997. He has acted as a consultant to a large number of Australian and New
Zealand companies, law firms and regulatory agencies.
- MARK WILLIAMS is an Assistant Professor of Law
at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
His main areas of research and teaching are commercial and trade law in particular
competition law. He completed a PhD at King's College, University of London on
the topic of 'Nascent competition law in China and Hong Kong', which will be published
in revised form by Cambridge University Press in 2004 as 'Competition Policy and
Law in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan'.
- MEGAN
RICHARDSON is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University
of Melbourne. Her major research interests are intellectual property and legal
theory (in particular economic theories of law). She has published widely across
the field. She is currently working on an ongoing project on the relationship
between trade marks and language.
- LEANNE STEWART is Legal Counsel at the Australian
Wine and Brandy Corporation.
Leanne commenced work with the Corporation in October 2001 as its Legal Counsel,
based in Adelaide, South Australia. One of the key responsibilities of this position
is trade and market access issues. Leanne's previous experience in the Australian
wine industry includes 2 years as the Executive Officer for the Australian Regional
Winemakers' Forum, part of the Winemakers' Federation of Australia, the peak national
wine industry body. Prior to working in the wine industry Leanne was a solicitor
in private practice and held several senior positions within government relating
to casino and environmental regulation. Leanne is a graduate of the University
of Adelaide and holds a Bachelor of Arts majoring in history and politics and
a Masters of Law which she completed in 1999. Leanne has recently commenced a
PhD in international trade law at the University of Adelaide.
- VICKI WAYE, LLM; GDLP
Vicki is a Senior Lecturer at the Law School, University of Adelaide. Her teaching
and research interests include Wine Law, Corporate Law, Arbitration, Evidence
and Procedure. Her significant publications include: A Guide to Arbitration Practice
in Australia; Evidence Handbook; and Australian Studies in Law: Administrative
Law
- ADRIAN WHITE is a Legal Adviser in the Australian
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Within the Office of Trade Negotiations, he was responsible for developing Australia's
policy on the 'access to medicines' issue in the lead up to the Doha WTO Ministerial
Conference and through to Cancun. He was a member of the Australian delegation
to the TRIPS Council and to the Sydney Mini-Ministerial meeting in 2002. He has
presented on 'access to medicines' and other emerging IP issues throughout Australia
and in China, India, Kenya, Nepal and Thailand. Adrian White is completing a Masters
of Law in Intellectual Property at the Australian Centre for IP in Agriculture,
ANU. His paper on 'The Ethics - gene patenting and human health' will be published
in AIPJ February 2004 edition.
- PATRICK LOW is the Director of Economic Research at the World Trade
Organization.
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