Strategic Stability in the Technology Domain
How can governments address genuine security risks without making access to technology, trade and investment increasingly unpredictable? Five proposed standards for restraint.
Trade Wars, Technology and the Global Economy
My remarks at the Global Prosperity Summit in Hong Kong on technology, services and the practical challenges of navigating geopolitical rivalry.
Investment Facilitation and the Global Technology Sector
What attracts technology investment, and what drives it away? A chapter on the scope for international cooperation amid growing geopolitical rivalry.
US–China Relations: Finding Common Ground
An interview with China-US Focus on shared interests, the risks of treating rivalry as enmity, and the case for continued engagement.
Building a Stronger, Fairer Global Economy
A short World Economic Forum interview on the choices that will determine whether changing trade patterns bring greater resilience or deeper fragmentation.
Critical Minerals, Geopolitical Rivalries, and Sustainable Development
A discussion I convened at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi on mineral supply chains, geopolitical rivalry and the interests of producer countries.
Timor-Leste and WTO Accession
How can WTO accession support development in Timor-Leste? A World Bank report on reform, economic diversification and the work needed to turn commitments into results.
Deepening Australia–Thailand Economic Engagement
A report for the Australian Embassy in Bangkok on opportunities for deeper trade and investment ties, prepared with Bolliger & Company.
Digital Reboot - Reimagining Aid for Trade
In early 2021, I was asked by The Commonwealth Secretariat (ComSec) an intergovernmental organization based in London, to write a research paper to document how much official development assistance (ODA) - aid…
Faster vaccine approvals—and the political will to make them happen
The pandemic showed what regulators could achieve under political pressure. What would it take to bring that urgency to other medicines and treatments?
Megatrends and their implications for international trade and investment
This article focuses on three over-arching megatrends and their implications for the global trading system and cross-border investment flows. The first of these are the geopolitical tensions that we have all…
Projecting Asia’s Future
An August 2021 corporate briefing on Asia’s prospects, geopolitical rivalry and the economic strengths and vulnerabilities shaping the region’s future.