Alan Oxley
Chairman of the Australian APEC Study Centre
Alan Oxley is
Chairman of the Australian APEC Study Centre, and is Managing Director
of a leading public policy & trade consultancy, ITS Global in
Melbourne. He is also Chairman of World Growth, a pro-development NGO
based in Washington. His career draws on more than 25 years of practice
in international affairs. He is a former Ambassador of Australia to the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and a former Chairman of
the GATT. He played a key role in creating the ground-breaking
coalition of agricultural exporters, the Cairns Group. Alan is also a
Senior Fellow at the European Centre for International Political Economy
(ECIPE) and is the founder and Chairman of World Growth, a free market
NGO based in the United States. He is a regular commentator in
international media on governmental and multilateral activities, and is
considered an expert on APEC and ASEAN related trade issues,
particularly those with a direct bearing on economic development and the
environment. Alan holds a Bachelor degree with Honours in Politics and
Asian History from Monash University.