PROGRAMME

Please note this programme is subject to change.

Tuesday 25 June 2019

SPEAKERS

Stephanie Honey, MC

Stephanie is Associate Director of the New Zealand International Business Forum and policy advisor to the New Zealand members of the APEC Business Advisory Council.  She is also a trade policy consultant and co-founder of a business offering executive education in trade policy.  Stephanie’s interests include regional economic integration and the WTO, agriculture and food trade, services trade, investment and the digital economy.  She has expertise and experience in the Asia-Pacific including China and ASEAN, the Americas, Europe and Australia.  Prior to becoming a consultant, Stephanie served as the New Zealand Agriculture Negotiator in the WTO Doha Round as well as a variety of other roles in the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. 

Hon. David Parker

Hon. David Parker grew up and studied in Dunedin, graduating with a BCom/LLB from the University of Otago. He had a long career in business and law before being elected to Parliament as Labour Member of Parliament in the former electorate of Otago in 2002.
David was appointed to Cabinet in 2005, and served as Minister of Energy, Climate Change, Transport, State Services, Attorney-General, and Land Information under Helen Clark’s Government. In Opposition, he served as Deputy Leader, Shadow Attorney General, and in Finance, Economic Development and various other roles. His focus has always been, and remains, on delivering prosperity and fairer economic outcomes for all New Zealanders. 

Hon. Tim Groser

Hon. Tim Groser was New Zealand’s Trade Minister, Administrator of the Trans Pacific Partnership Negotiations and a Member of Parliament between 2005 and 2015.  He brings unparalleled insights into global trade and economic integration. A former diplomat he has served as New Zealand Ambassador to the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, New Zealand’s Chief Negotiator in numerous negotiations and Chair of the WTO Agriculture Negotiations.  He was also Ambassador to Indonesia. In  December 2015 he took  up the role of New Zealand's ambassador to the United States of America, a position he held for a three-year term. Tim’s vantage point is of a long-time practitioner and public policy maker who is widely respected in international trade circles.

Sir Don McKinnon

Sir Donald McKinnon served as the Commonwealth Secretary-General from 2000 to 2008. He is a former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and has also served as Leader of the House and Minister of Pacific Island Affairs.
During his tenure as New Zealand’s longest serving Foreign Minister, he was the inspiration behind what now has become The Asia Society from the Asia 2000 Group, and also the Centre for Strategic Studies.
Sir Don was named Foreign Minister of the Year by a World Economic Forum publication in 1998 and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in bringing about a peaceful resolution to the decade-long civil war on Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.
He now sits on the Board of Advisors of the Global Panel Foundation and is an Associate with the Aspen Atlantic Group in Washington DC.  Sir Don is also Patron of  the Latin America New Zealand Business Council (LANZBC), New Zealand War Graves Trust, the Rutherford Foundation and Trustee of Asia Foundation.  He has also been CEO of the Auckland War Memorial Museum and is now the Chair of Regional Facilities Auckland and the New Zealand China Council.
The New Zealand Government awarded him its highest honour, the “Order of New Zealand” ONZ and Queen Elizabeth II awarded Don McKinnon a Knighthood being the Knight Grand Cross of the Victorian Order G.C.V.O. 

Huang Renwei

Professor Huang is Executive Director-General of Fudan Institute of Belt and Road and Global Governance. He is the former Vice-President of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Senior Fellow for international studies, as well as Chairman of the Think Tank Research Center, and Secretary-General of World Forum for China Studies.Prof Huang is currently Vice Chairman of the Chinese Association of International relations, Chairman of Shanghai Association For American Studies, and Senior Fellow of the Cross Strait Research Center.Professor Huang has published many books and articles on global governance, Sino-US relations, belt and road initiatives, international trade and cross strait relations.  His books, including The Time and Space of China’s Rise (2002), have been widely quoted; and he has participated in many second-track strategic dialogues between China and US.

Carlos Portales

Institute of International Studies, University of Chile

Carlos Portales Cifuentes is the former permanent representative of Chile in the international organizations in Geneva. He was coordinator of Chile for the Río Group and the Ibero-American Summit after serving as ambassador of Chile to Mexico 1994 to 1997 and as permanent representative of Chile to the Organization of American States in Washington from 1997 to 2000. He was also the director of the Diplomatic Academy “Andrés Bello,” managing director of planning in the Ministry of Foreign Relations, and director of foreign policy for the Chancery. Mr. Portales earned his degree in Legal and Social Sciences at the Unviersidad de Chile and a Master’s of Arts in Political Sciences at Stanford University. 

Eduardo A. Sadous

Eduardo A. Sadous is Ambassador (ret.). He served as Argentine Ambassador to Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam and Venezuela. Undersecretary of International Economic Negotiations (1998-99). Director of the Committee on Asian Affairs at the Argentine Council for International Relations (since 2011). Professor at Belgrano University, Salvador University, National University of La Plata, Catholic University of Salta, etc. President of the International Law Association -Argentine Branch (since 2017). Member of the Argentine Academy of History, Argentine Academy of Communication Sciences, Academia del Ptata, etc. 

Loreto Leyton

Loreto Leyton is the Executive Director of the Chile Pacific Foundation and currently is serving as Executive Director of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) during 2019. As a former diplomat of the Chilean Foreign Service, she served, among other postings, five years at the Embassy of Chile in Argentina, five years at the Mission of Chile to the United Nations and two years as senior adviser to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS). She has a deep experience in international negotiations and affairs. During her work at the UN, she was elected Vice-President of the Third Committee of the General Assembly and Vice-President of the Commission on the Status of Women, both on behalf of Latin America. Before leaving the diplomatic service, she also spent two years at the Chilean Trade Promotion Agency where she was the Executive Secretary of the Advisory Councils on Attraction of Foreign Investment and on Industry and Services. She has a Master´s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the Institute of High Entrepreneurial Studies of the Universidad Austral of Argentina and a degree in Geography from the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. 

Chen Zhimin

Dr. Chen Zhimin is Vice President of Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He is a Changjiang Scholar and a Jean Monnet Chair of European foreign policy. He is vice president of Chinese Association of International Studies. He serves as editor-in-chief of Chinese Political Science Review. His research interests include international relations theory, diplomacy studies, Chinese foreign policy and EU studies. Dr Chen's  major publications in Chinese include: China, the United States and Europe: Cooperation and Competition in a New Trilateral Relation (2011, first author); Contemporary Diplomacy (2008, first author); Foreign Policy Integration in European Union: An Mission Impossible? (2003, first author); Subnational Governments and Foreign Affairs(2001). He also co-edited (with David Zweig) China's Reforms and International Political Economy (Routledge, 2007). Professor Chen received all his degrees from Fudan University. He was a visiting fellow at Harvard University (1996-1997), also visiting scholar at Queen’s University, University of Durham, Lund University, Sciences Po. and Keio University. He was made a Chevalier dans L’Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French Government in 2006.

Stephen Jacobi

Stephen was appointed to the role of Executive Director of the NZ China Council in May 2016. He has broad experience in government, industry and trade development. He serves concurrently as Executive Director of the NZ International Business Forum and Managing Director of Jacobi Consulting Ltd.
Stephen has extensive diplomatic, trade and government experience including posts as Deputy High Commissioner in Ottawa, Assistant Trade Commissioner in Paris and adviser on trade and diplomatic issues with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Previously, Stephen served as Chief Executive of the New Zealand Forest Industries Council, a national pan-industry body representing the forestry and wood processing sector, the country’s third largest exporter. Stephen also ran the NZ US Council as Executive Director from 2005 to 2014.
In all these roles Stephen is a frequent media and public commentator on trade and economic development issues.

Jerry Clode

Jerry is arguably one of the few people with deep-level familiarity across our three key regions - China, South America and New Zealand.  After studying Chinese at Otago University, he has become a leading expert on China's consumer and digital culture.  In a 20 year career focused on China, Jerry has personally interviewed thousands of locals in their homes, out-shopping and doing what they love.  In a distinguished career, he is most well known for helping international brands such as Disney, Budweiser, H&M and Unilever localise their experiences and develop footholds in China.  
As part of a global career, as one of WPP's senior cultural specialists in London, Jerry spent four years in South America, in Sao Paulo and Santiago.   His focus at this time was helping brands connect with local millennials through events and collaborations.  While in South America, Jerry acted as a correspondent for Monocle Magazine, and also directed a full length documentary focused local urban music scenes. 
Jerry speaks Mandarin and Portuguese/Spanish.  He is the Founder of the consultancy, The Solution, focused on helping brands succeed in China and emerging markets.