Executive Roundtable | US Trade Policy in the Region with International Trade Negotiator Wendy Cutler

In these roles, she focuses on leading initiatives that address challenges related to trade, investment, and innovation, as well as women’s empowerment in Asia. She joined ASPI following an illustrious career of nearly three decades as a diplomat and negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), where she also served as Acting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative.

Philipp is a China specialist with extensive experience in strategy, organisational renewal, policy and research.

He is a co-leader of the Asia Taskforce by the Business Council of Australia and Asia Society Australia to advance Australian business engagement with Asia. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Australian Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC). His commentary and analysis have appeared in The Australian, ABC, Bloomberg News, CNBC, The Australian Financial Review, Melbourne Asia Review and ChinaFile.

He was Senior Adviser to Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 1986 to 1990 and, after entering parliament in 1998, went on to serve as Minister for Trade and Competitiveness, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research, and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Asian Century Policy between 2010 and 2013.

​Dr Emerson is Director of the the Australian APEC Study Centre at RMIT University. He is also Managing Director of Craig Emerson Economics, a Distinguished Fellow at the Australian National University, an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University’s College of Business, and Chair of the McKell Institute. He writes a fortnightly column for The Australian Financial Review.