Peter Draper

from School of Economics and Public Policy

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BIOGRAPHY: PETER DRAPER

Peter is Professor, and Executive Director of the Institute for International Trade in the Faculty of the Professions, University of Adelaide, Australia. He holds a Jean Monnet Chair in Trade and Environment, and directs the IIT’s Jean Monnet Centre in Trade and Global Affairs. He is also Deputy Dean – International – of the Faculty of Arts, Business, Law, and Economics at the University of Adelaide. He is a Board member of the Australian Services Roundtable, and member of the South Australia Committee of the Australia-India Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Research Foundation; non-resident senior fellow of the Brussels-based European Centre for International Political Economy; and Associated Researcher at the German Development Institute. For ten years he was, respectively, member, chair, vice chair, and co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Global Trade and FDI system. He was also Senior Research Fellow at the South African Institute of International Affairs. In South Africa’s national Department of Trade and Industry he was head of bilateral economic relations (East Asia then Mercosur), and head of the economic analysis and research unit in the Department’s International Trade and Economic Development Division. Prior to that he was an academic teaching economic history and political economy, and headed the Department of Economics and Economic History at the then University of Durban-Westville (now University of KwaZulu-Natal). He is a recipient of an honorary Doctorate degree from the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Germany.

Peter is Professor, and ExecutiveDirector of the Institute for International Trade in the Faculty of the Professions,University of Adelaide, Australia.He holds a Jean Monnet Chair in Trade and Environment, and directs the IIT’s Jean Monnet Centre in Trade and Global Affairs. He is also Deputy Dean –International –of the Faculty of Arts, Business, Law, and Economics at the University of Adelaide. He is a Board member of the Australian Services Roundtable, and member of theSouthAustralia Committee of the Australia-India Chamber of Commerce. He is amember of the Board of Trustees of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Research Foundation; non-resident senior fellow of the Brussels-based European Centre for International Political Economy; and Associated Researcher at the German Development Institute. For ten years he was, respectively, member, chair, vice chair, and co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s GlobalFutureCouncilon the Global Tradeand FDI system. He was also Senior Research Fellow at the South African Institute of International Affairs. In South Africa’s national Department of Trade and Industry he was headof bilateral economic relations (East Asia thenMercosur), andhead of the economic analysis and research unit in the Department’sInternational Trade and Economic DevelopmentDivision.Prior to that he was an academic teaching economic historyand political economy, and headed the Department ofEconomics and Economic History at thethen University of Durban-Westville(now University of KwaZulu-Natal).He is a recipient of anhonorary Doctorate degree from the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Germany.

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