Hon. Ted O’Brien MP

Ted O’Brien is Australia’s Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy. He is formulating Australia’s next energy policy on behalf of the Liberal-National Coalition which includes the introduction of nuclear energy and a plan to work with allies to reclaim energy security for the West. He entered the Australian Parliament in 2016 after over 20 years in business, including senior leadership positions across the Asia Pacific and over a decade with global technology service firm, Accenture. Ted holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics & Politics from the University of Queensland; an Asia Pacific Fellowship in Chinese Mandarin from the National Taiwan Normal University; a Master of International Business with 1st Class Honours from the University of Melbourne; and a Master of Economics from the London School of Economics.

Director and Founder of the Centre for Independent Studies

Cancer researcher and clinical oncologist, with Genesis Care Newcastle

Director of China and Free Societies program, CIS

Australia’s Ambassador to China from 2007 to 2011, Chairman & CEO of Geoff Raby and Associates Ltd based in Beijing

Liberal Party Member for Berowra

Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure

Diplomat, American Board of Pathology

UQ-CSIRO Chair in Personalised Nanodiagnostics, Professorial Research Fellow, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland

Professor of Economics at Stanford University; Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and Chair of the Working Group on Economic Policy, (US)

Executive Director, CIS

Head of Economic Research, Reserve Bank of Australia

Internationally acclaimed novelist and journalist, (US)

Senior Research Fellow and Director, Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society Program, CIS

Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne

Founder and President, Middle East Forum, publisher Middle East Quarterly Journal, (US)

Pro Vice-Chancellor Arts and Academic Culture, and Professor of History, Australian Catholic University

Professor of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University

 

Former Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives and Cabinet Minister

CEO and Founding Director, China Matters

Senior Research Fellow, Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society Program, CIS

Chinese Canadian human rights advocate

Programme Co-ordinator of the Masters of Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Western Australia

Research Director, CIS

Australian writer and columnist for the News Limited Press

Executive Director, The New Zealand Initiative (NZ)

Founder and CEO, Cognoscenti Group

Director and Founder, Academy of Ideas, London, (UK)

Health Director, Health and BioSecurity, CSIRO

Director, Free Market Foundation, (Hungary)

Sociologist, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney.
Author of The New Authoritarianism

Senior Research Scholar, Marron Institute of Urban Management, New York University, (US)