Dr John Hewson has had virtually four careers as an academic and economist, a businessman, a political advisor and politician, and in the media as a columnist and commentator.
In economics, he has worked for the Treasury, the RBA, the IMF , the UN, and as a Professor and Head of School at UNSW, and as Dean, Macquarie Graduate School of Management.
In business he is best known as a Founder of Macquarie Bank, Chairman ABN AMRO Australia and as Chairman/Director of a host of public/private companies and charities.
In politics, he was Chief of Staff/Advisor to the Prime Minister and Treasurer in the Fraser Government, and as a Member of the federal Parliament he became Leader of the Liberal Party and the Federal Opposition.
In the media, he has written regularly for the BRW, the AFR and comments regularly on radio and television.
A significant focus of Dr Hewson’s career has been in Asia, including China, and he was recently Special Advisor on Infrastructure Finance to the Executive Director UNESCAP.
Interest rates, the Euro, the US economy, China, the Arab Spring and middle–east tensions, Julia Gillard’s hold on power, the Independants, consumer confidence, property prices…….
It’s only the beginning of 2012 and already there’s a ‘laundry list’ of national and international issues hanging in the balance, any of which can have a significant flow-on effect to Australia, Australians and ultimately, your business. And that’s before considering the ‘x-factor’, something no-one predicted that turns out to be each year’s significant event. Join in the discussion at what promises to be an absorbing session when our educated, informed and involved panelists throw all the balls up in the air and see how they land.
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