The ADVANCE 100 Global Australians Summit




With one million Australians overseas at any given time, and many Australians holding influential positions in corporations and institutions around the world, the summit provided Australia with an opportunity to engage this important national asset and formalise the relationship between the country and the leading members of the Australian diaspora.

An invitation only event, the Advance 100 Global Australians Summit was held in Sydney December 18th and 19th, 2006. A Summit whitepaper and outcome statement will be produced as a record of the event. To view speeches, reports, photos from the event, please click on the links from the sessions below:
 

Monday December 18, 2006 - Prime Minister's Reception

WELCOME RECEPTION:

Prime Minister the Hon John Howard MP addresses the Advance 100 Global Australians Summit at Kirribilli House

 
 
Ladies and gentlemen, Janette and I would really like to thank all of you for taking the trouble to join us tonight to celebrate Australia regaining The Ashes. I hope you all have a drink on that and you all enjoy that immensely, but there is another reason as well and that is to welcome you all to this worldwide gathering of Advance and I am particularly delighted to welcome Ken Allen in many ways is the inspiration for this wonderful thing, to Brad Orgill and to Elena Douglas and to everybody else who has come back to Sydney for the conference.

The concept of Advance is really quite superb. What it does is to challenge in the most emphatic way, that rather silly notion that in some way Australia is diminished by some of the brightest and the best of our country going overseas and making an enormous contribution to the societies and the economies of other parts of the world. And your coming here and the breadth of talent and achievement and success that is represented by the group that’s gathered here is I think something that sends a very strong message to our fellow country men and women that in the globalised world in which we now live forever, it is enormously to Australia’s advantage that we have a talented, energetic, achieving, highly successful diaspora.

That’s an enormous global investment made by this country, it’s an enormous asset because it brings with it an understanding of the countries with which we interact, and it brings with it a sophisticated involvement of Australia in the modern world and it’s also a reminder that Australia, proud though it is to be known around the world by sports men and women, by its entertainers, by people who are part of popular culture, it is also a country that is also a high performer in business, a high performer in science, a high performer in areas of research and this gathering to say to the nation, and particularly to those who occasionally lament the so-called ‘brain drain’ to say to them that this is a country of all the talents in all parts of the world. And that’s something that as Prime Minister I am very proud of and I know that Australians are very proud of it indeed.

Ken it’s great to have you and the other members of the board here. I know how hard you worked when you were in New York as Consul-General doing wonderful things representing our country in that fantastic city, what wonderful things you did to get Advance going and the fruits of that endeavour is here on the lawns of Kirribilli House to get this extraordinary number of people here, although Sydney is not a bad place at this time of the year – Kirribilli House is not a bad place at this time of the year either I have to confess and it is particularly tonight.

Anyway it’s great to have you all here, Janette and I welcome you, we wish you well and I will invite Ken Allen to say a few words. Thank you very much.


    Session 2 - Global Challenges: Australian Responses

    Global challenges arise from the war on terrorism, uncertainty about US foreign policy, the rise of and a new consciousness about global warming. This session analyses these challenges and examines the Australian responses.

    The Hon. Gareth Evans AO, President, International Crisis Group
    HE the Hon. Robert Hill, Australian Permanent Representative to the UN
    Alan Gyngell, The Lowy Institute
    Moderated by Paul Kelly, Editor-at-Large, The Australian

      Introduction: Barry Jones, Invest Australia

      Overview of the emerging power of diasporas in world affairs: Michael Fullilove, Program Director, Global Issues, The Lowy Institute.
       

      Panel discussion:       How does the diaspora aid Australian innovation. What can we do to strengthen this?
       
      Professor Peter Doherty, Nobel Laureate Medicine
      David Anstice, President Merck Human Health
      Mitch Davis, CEO Massive Incorporated
      Greg Clark, International Board Member, ANZ Bank
       
      Moderated by Christopher Aitken – Global Australian Professionals. Sponsored by Invest Lunch Time Address & Roundtables


      Session 4 - Luncheon Presentation & Roundtable Discussions

      Introduction: John Eales, Director of the Mettle Group

      “Not even the sky is the limit. My journeys in space.”
      Dr Andy Thomas, Australian NASA Astronaut.

      Building the Bridges: Global Industry Networking
      Delegates were be seated at tables with a facilitator and a scribe for each group. Material produced will be part of the record of the event and recommendations will be included in a whitepaper, one of the outcomes of the summit.

      Luncheon groupings:
      Universities and higher learning
      The arts
      Life sciences
      Financial services
      Media, communications and technology
      Global corporates

      How does Australia use its one trillion in funds under management, and its large diaspora of talented financial services professionals, to enhance the country’s role as an important centre in global financial markets?

      John Fraser      , Global Chairman and CEO, UBS Global Asset Management
      David Murray, Chair of the Future Fund Board of Guardians
      Phil Green, Managing Director & Chief Executive, Babcock & Brown
       
      Moderated by Bob Joss, Dean, Giving Back: Philanthropy for a New Age
      Michael Hintze, CEO CQS LLP and global philanthropist. Address followed by question and answer moderated by Adele Ferguson, Business Review Weekly.

      Read Michael Hintze's address here


      Session 6 - A Global Australian Community for the 21st Century

      What is the role of a global Australian community in the 21st Century?
      Moderator: Alan Jones, Presenter, Radio 2GB



      Panelists:
      Dr Peter Shergold AM, Secretary Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
      Jeremy Philips, Executive Vice President, Office of the Chairman, News Corporation
      Professor Rodney Brooks, Director MIT Computer Science and Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
      Andrew Banks, Executive Director, Talent 2
      Elena Douglas, CEO Advance – Global Australian Professionals

      Master of Ceremonies: Geoffrey Robertson QC
      Welcome John Watkins MP, Deputy Premier NSW,  Minister for Transport and Minister for Police 
      After dinner speaker: Clive James
      Entertainment: Australian Chamber Orchestra and Qantas Choir


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      SUMMIT ADVISORY BOARD
       
      Mr Ken Allen AM
      Former Australian Consul General to New York and Chairman Emeritus of Advance
       
      H. E. the Hon. Richard Alston
      High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
       
      Mr David Anstice
      President, Asia Pacific Human Health, Merck & Co., Inc.
       
      Sir Rod Eddington
      Non Executive Chairman, Australia and New Zealand, JP Morgan
       
      Mr Doug Elix AO
      Senior Vice President & Group Executive, IBM Sales and Distribution
       
      Mr Bob Joss
      Dean, Stanford Business School
       
      Mrs Josephine Linden
      Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
       
      Mr Peter Lowy
      Managing Director,
      the Westfield Group

      Ms Jennifer Nason
      Managing Director,
      JP Morgan
       
      Mr Brad Orgill
      Chairman and CEO, UBS Investment Bank Australasia
       
      Mr Jeremy Philips
      Executive Vice President,
      Office of the Chairman, News Corporation

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