The tension between security and prosperity is greater now than it has been in generations. Governments, societies and businesses face complex, intersecting risks from rising geopolitical tensions and economic fragmentation, while simultaneously navigating profound revolutions in energy and digital technologies.
Policies being implemented in Washington, Beijing, Brussels, Tokyo and elsewhere reflect assumptions starkly different from those that propelled ever deeper globalisation over recent decades, as more and more nations seek to “de-risk” areas of economic vulnerability and build strategic and competitive advantage in key sectors and technologies.
Several governments have adopted formal “economic security” strategies and old boundaries that separated national security and international economic policy have largely dissolved. The COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have further accelerated the search for national resilience and economic security in global capitals.
This first-of-its-kind conference in Australia brought together experts and senior officials working on an ever-expanding economic security agenda that encompasses industrial policy in strategic industries, supply chain resilience measures, energy security, critical technologies policy, economic sanctions, export controls, investment screening and anti-economic coercion measures.
Economic security in a turbulent world highlighted the policy choices and trade-offs facing governments and businesses as they seek to manage risk and build resilience in the face of increasing geopolitical instability and economic volatility.
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Alan Beattie
Senior Trade Writer at the Financial Times
Dr Steven Kennedy PSM
Secretary to the Australian Treasury
Dr Elizabeth Economy
Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
Professor Yoo Myung-hee
Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University
Jan Adams AO PSM
Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Tadashi Maeda
Chairman of the Board for the Japan Bank for International Cooperation
The Honourable Mathias Cormann
Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Andrew Shearer
Director-General of the Office of National Intelligence
Dr Kazuto Suzuki
Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo and Director of the Institute of Geoeconomics at the International House of Japan
Emily Kilcrease
Senior Fellow and Director of the Energy, Economics, and Security Program at the Center for New American Security
Dr Daniel Yergin
Vice Chairman of S&P Global
Ziad Haider
Partner and Global Director of Geopolitical Risk at McKinsey & Company
David Fredericks PSM
Secretary of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Sally Auld
Chief Investment Officer at JBWere
Dr Yunjong Wang
Deputy National Security Advisor for Economic and Cyber Security in the Office of the President of the Republic of Korea
Jonathan Fritz
Chief of Staff to the Undersecretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment, US Department of State
Yasuo Takamura
Cabinet Counsellor, National Security Secretariat, Government of Japan
Meghan Quinn PSM
Secretary, Department of Industry, Science and Resources
Denis Redonnet
Deputy Director-General and Chief Trade Enforcement Officer, Directorate-General for Trade, European Commission
Dr Richard McGregor
Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute
Neville Power
Chairman of Future Battery Minerals, Deputy Chairman of Strike Energy and former Chair of the Australian Government’s National COVID-19 Coordination Commission
Tania Constable PSM
Chief Executive Officer of the Minerals Council of Australia
Paul Everingham
Chief Executive Officer, Asia Natural Gas & Energy Association
George Mina
Deputy Secretary, Trade and Investment Group, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Meg McDonald
Non-Resident Senior FellowUnited States Studies Centre
Mike Yeh
Regional Vice President, Corporate External and Legal Affairs, Microsoft Asia
Senator Dave Sharma
Senator for New South Wales
The Honourable Arthur Sinodinos AO
Former Australian Ambassador to the United States
Matthew Warren
Principal at Boardroom EnergyAgenda
With support from the Australian Government
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