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Alan Oxley is one of Australia's most authoritative advisers on international trade. He has an enormous depth and spread of experience, drawing on nearly twenty years of practice, first in government as a successful trade negotiator and then as an influential advisor to the private sector.
He runs a strategic consultancy, International Trade Strategies, which is based in Melbourne. Clients include global corporations, governments, as well as local businesses working in world markets.
Before establishing his consultancy in 1990, Alan was a career diplomat. He represented Australia in Singapore, at the United Nations in New York and in Geneva. He transferred to the Trade Department in 1985 and served as Australian Ambassador to the GATT, the predecessor of the World Trade Organisation until 1989. He played a key role in creating the groundbreaking coalition of agricultural exporters, the Cairns Group. He was the first Australian to serve as GATT Chairman.
He has expertise in all areas of international trade, from agriculture to services, from intellectual property to government procurement, as well as the particular provisions of international trade agreements.
His advice is sought on the impact of globalisation. He established the Internet based advocacy www.worldgrowth.org to seek to add some balance to the globalization debate. He also advises on the greenhouse effect and other global environmental issues and how businesses can expand in global markets.
He has advised Australian exporters threatened by Washington and Australian food producers being undercut by cheap imports. He has advised Asian Governments on how to manage obligations under international trade agreements.
In April 2000, Alan published "Seize the Future" which was described by the Sydney Morning Herald as "a new book that looks beyond the bleak short term and sees an Australia perfectly primed to prosper." In 1995 he published "International Trade and Environment Agreements on CD ROM" and in 1990, "The Challenge of Free Trade" which was described by the Economist as "lucid". He is a regular commentator in the press and current affairs television in Australia and in the media in Asia.
Alan is chairman of the national APEC Study Centre, which is based at Monash University, Melbourne. He is a member of the Australian Government's Foreign Affairs Council. He has acted as academic adviser on International Trade for an MBA offered in four countries by the Asian Association of Management Organisations. He has developed and delivered courses on international trade for trade officials in Australia and the Asian region.
Alan graduated from Monash University with honours in 1970 where he studied Asian history and politics. He was born in Australia in 1947.
He has published a book on global trade trends, is a regular commentator in the press and teaches MBA courses. He believes Australia will enter its third golden age of prosperity in the globalised and IT-based world of the twenty-first Century.
CLIMATE CHANGE – THE GRIM TRUTH – WHAT OFFICIALS ARE NOT TELLING YOU.
Rising flood waters, parched earth, wild storms. How about falling living standards, high unemployment and industry migrating to Asia? That’s a real risk from the sort of climate change policies bureaucrats are toying with in Canberra. Australia is not in danger of parching suddenly. There is no “tripping point” looming as Al Gore claims. Australia faces a different threat.
Alan Oxley has been tracking closely the international climate change negotiations as an official observer. He is chairman of Washington-based NGO, World Growth He is an expert on international treaties, having formerly served as Chairman of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the predecessor of the World Trade Organization.
Alan Oxley has been unafraid to tell the truth about climate change. He labeled the Kyoto Protocol a chimera in 1996 and was branded by Greenpeace as a “sceptic”. When the G8 Leaders decided to abandon Kyoto in 2006 he was vindicated. Green activist Clive Hamilton called Oxley one of Australia’s twelve most influential critics of Kyoto, ‘because the media consider him credible’. He is regular commentator in The Australian and on TV and radio current affairs. International media seek his comments at climate change meetings.
Oxley accepts that most people want the government to take action on climate change. His point is that if Australia does not tread carefully and deliberately, we could impoverish ourselves and make no difference to global warming. Business leaders are increasingly anxious about policies officials are toying with.
If you want to know what is likely to happen and how this could affect you personally or your business, you should hear Alan Oxley.
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