From the Executive Chairman

The Turkish G20 Contributions
Moving forward to China
Executive Posts
February 9, 2017
Jack Ma was visiting Melbourne and Andy was invited to the function to announce the opening of an Alibaba office Andy had the opportunity to talk briefly with Jack Ma and meet various people attending the function. One of the comments made by Ma resonated with me...
March 2017
It was a great pleasure to meet Richard Baldwin and have some follow up communications with him about the GTR and Richards new book ‘ The Great Disruption’ In discussions with Sergio Arzeni the President of the INSME a Rome based association for the promotion of...
April 21 2017
Nigel Arthur is meeting Giovanni Zazzerini the Secretary General of INSME in Rome for a discussion on collaboration while on way to U.K. And then Berlin for the B20 Summit.
September 2016
The G 20 and B 20 Summits are taking place in Hangzhou China this month and Andy Song and Nigel Arthur will be attending task force meetings to wrap up details for the leaders and the B20 Summit that takes place on September 3 and 4. The reception is being held in...
October / November 2016
I was traveling in the US during the October November period and of course had the opportunity to observe the election campaign up close. One trip into New York actually took me to Trump Tower for a lunch with a prominent marketing identity and professor of...
December 15, 2016
Andy Song and I met up with Mahmoud Bakkar for some photos at RMIT before I went off to the awards ceremony at the Etihad Stadium where he received his doctorate PHD.
Paris May/ June 2016
Another OECD week, meetings with B20 task forces and BIAC. Nigel Arthur and Andy Song joined me at a number of these meetings held at the OECD over the first days of June. These included a session at which Nicolas Cary the co-founder of Blockchain participated.
August 2016
Keidanren and Africa Recent announcements by Keidanren and TICAD in Japan about initiatives in Africa caught my attention and reminded me of the good work of the Japanese government agencies and private sector in this regard in past years and my many friendships in...