This year’s conference focuses on the G20 agenda to support the Australian government and its hosting of the G20 leaders’ meeting later in 2014. The Asia and the Pacific Policy Society Conference (APPS) 2014 brings together some of the world’s leading scholars and practitioners from a diverse range of research fields for two days of dialogue to propose solutions to some of the region’s and the world’s most pressing policy challenges.

Over 20 internationally renowned scholars and practitioners will share research and insights in a program of public roundtables on critical issues including development policy; tax and transfer policy; social policy; energy security; climate change; and food policy.

Speakers include:

• Masakazu Toyoda, Chairman and CEO, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan
• Professor Aleh Cherp, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University
• Jeannie Oliver, Senior LLM Fellow, Institute for Energy and the Environment, Vermont Law School, US
• Anthea Harris, Chief Executive Officer, Climate Change Authority, Australia
• Professor Zhongxiang Zhang, Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of Public Economics, Fudan University, China
• Professor Daniel Murdiyarso, Principal Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia
• Professor Charles Godfray, Director, Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food, Oxford Martin School
• Julian Cribb, Science writer, Julian Cribb and Associates
• Assistant Professor Sudha Narayanan, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)

Crawford School gratefully acknowledges DFAT’s financial support for APPS and the APPS 2014 Conference.

For more information about the Asia and the Pacific Policy Society and to join as a member, please visit here.

Asia and the Pacific Policy Society Conference 2014 - Day One

Conference preliminary program

This event is free and open to the public.