Dear Fellow CPAs,
This is Judy Gao, a proud CPA member, I have an exciting upcoming event to share. If you are interested in Australia-China relations, your businesses or yourselves are suffering from the diplomatic tensions between Australia and China, please register and join below event:
At 6pm, 29 Oct, I will moderate a panel discussion
on the Australia-China relations and impact on young professionals from geopolitical, economic and cultural perspectives with three distinguished panellists including former #ForeignMinister Gareth Evans, #Commissioner to Greater China Brett Stevens and #GroupCEO of Asialink Penny Burtt.
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Detailed Bios:
Gareth Evans is Distinguished Honorary Professor at the ANU, where he was Chancellor from 2010 to 2019. He was a member of the Australian Parliament for twenty-one years, and a Cabinet Minister for thirteen, including as Foreign Minister from 1988-96, Gareth was also Minister for #Transport and #Communications, and Minister for #Resources and #Energy. Leaving politics he was President of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group from 2000-09. He co-chaired the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2000-01).
Brett Stevens is the Victorian Government’s Commissioner to China and is responsible for advancing Victoria’s trade and investment interest across the region. He was previously appointed as the Premier of Victoria’s representative in Southeast Asia in 2013 and has over 25 years of international trade experience in the region, across both the public and private sector.
Penny Burtt has more than 25 years of experience in diplomacy, trade and investment, international business, and consulting at the most senior levels across four continents. She is currently the Group CEO of Asialink, Australia’s leading centre for Asia engagement. In a career spanning the business, government, and nonprofit sectors, she has held senior leadership positions in the Asia-Pacific with global multinationals Visa Inc, the digital payments company, and consulting firm McKinsey & Company. A former senior diplomat, Penny represented Australia in Asia and the United Nations and as an Asia advisor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
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