Appendix C – Witnesses appearing at public hearings
Canberra, Friday, 28 November 2008
Embassy of Peru
His Excellency Mr Claudio de la Puente, Ambassador
Embassy of Colombia
His Excellency Mr Diego Betancur, Ambassador
Mr Carlos Arturo Forero, Counsellor
High Commission of Pakistan
His Excellency Mr Jalil Abbas Jilani
Canberra, Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Embassy of Mexico
Her Excellency Mrs Martha Ortiz de Rosas, Ambassador
Canberra, Wednesday, 18 March 2009
Embassy of Argentina
His Excellency Mr Pedro Villagra Delgado, Ambassador
Mr Leopoldo Sahores, Trade Attachè
Sydney, Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Crescent Capital Partners
Mr David Mortimer AO, Chairman
New South Wales Business Chamber
Ms Christine Stewart, General Manager, International Trade
Export Consultants Group
Mr Peter Campbell, Director
Australian Institute of Export
Mr Peter Mace, General Manager
Mr Ian Murray, Executive Director
Tradegate Australia Ltd
Mr Peter Blanchard, Chief Executive Officer
Sinogold Goldmining Ltd
Mr Kevin Hobgood-Brown, Group Executive and General Counsel
Melbourne, Thursday, 21 May 2009
The Australian APEC Study Centre, RMIT University
Mr Ken Waller, Director
Sandilands Export
Mr Peter Sandilands, Managing Director
Barokes Wines
Mr Greg Stokes, Chief Executive Officer
Merchantwise Pty Ltd
Mr Andros Georgiades, Creative Director and Co-owner
Melbourne, Friday, 22 May 2009
Australian Council for
Private Education and Training
Mr Andrew Smith, Chief
Executive Officer
Mr Steve Quirk, Manager of
International Engagement
Exportise (Melbourne) Pty
Ltd
Mr Michael Rogers, Director
Three Plus Pty Ltd - Hospira Australia
Mr Jason Thomas, Consultant
Hospira Australia
Dr Timothy Oldman, President – Asia Pacific
National Union of Workers
Mr Timothy Kennedy, Assistant National Secretary
Generic Medicines Industry Association
Ms Kate Lynch, Chief Executive Officer
Australian Services Union
Mr Paul Slape, National Secretary
Community and Public Sector Union – SPSF Group and Public
Services International (PSI) Oceania Region
Mr David Carey, Federal Secretary – CPSU and SPSF Group and
Executive Board Member representing Oceania – Public Services International
Canberra, Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Embassy of Chile
His Excellency Mr Jose Luis Balmaceda, Ambassador
Embassy of Philippines
His Excellency Mr Ernesto De Leon, Ambassador
Office of Trade and Investment
Ms Michelle S. Sanchez, Special Trade Representative
Canberra, Friday, 11 September 2009
Medicines Australia
Mr Ian Chalmers, Chief Executive Officer
Ms Deborah Monk, Director – Innovation and Industry Policy
Branch
Universities Australia
Dr Glen Withers AO, Chief Executive Officer
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Mr Paul Ross, General Manager – Bilateral Trade Branch
(Americas, South East Asia, Subcontinent, New Zealand and Pacific), Trade and
Market Access Division
Mr Paul Morris, Executive Manager – Technical Market Access,
Trade and Market Access Division
Ms Victoria Anderson, General Manager – Bilateral Trade
Branch (North Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa), Trade and Market Access
Division
Law Council of Australia
Ms Margery Nicoll, Director – International
Mr Andrew Percival, Deputy Chair – International Law Section
Mr Andrew Hudson, Member of the Law Council of Australia and
Section Chair of the International Law Section of the Law Institute of Victoria
Austrade
Mr Gregory Harvey, Manager – Americas
Ms Helen Munro, Manager – Government, International Policy
Group
Mr Pat Stortz, Manager – International Liaison Unit, South
East Asia, South Asia and the Pacific
Mr Hian Yap, Manager – International Liaison Unit, North
East Asia
Canberra, Wednesday, 28 October 2009
South Pacific Trade Commissioner
Mr Caleb Jarvis
Canberra, Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade
Mr Paul Tighe, First
Assistant Secretary – Trade and Economic Policy Division
Mr Tim Yeend, First Assistant
Secretary – Office of Trade Negotiations
Ms Cathy Raper, Assistant
Secretary – Trade Commitments Branch, Office of Trade Negotiations
Mr Nicholas Coppel, Assistant Secretary – Pacific Regional
and New Zealand Branch, Pacific Division
Mr Michael Mugliston, Special Negotiator – Free Trade
Agreement
Mr Ian Turland, Director – New Zealand Section, Pacific
Division
Mr Michael Dean, Director – PACER Plus FTA Section, Pacific
Division
Mr Michael Growder, Director – North Asian Investment and
Services Branch, Free Trade Agreement Division
Dr Mike Adams, Director – Regional Trade Policy, Trade
Development Division
Mr Milton Churche, Coordinator – Goods and Government Procurement,
South East Asia Goods Branch, Free Trade Agreement Division
Canberra, Wednesday, 10 March 2010
New Zealand High Commission
Mr Vangelos Vitalis, Deputy High Commissioner
Canberra, Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Embassy of Uruguay
His Excellency, Mr Alberto L. Fajardo Klappenbach,
Ambassador
Embassy of Brazil
His Excellency, Mr Fernando De Mello Barreto, Ambassador
Sydney, Wednesday, 14 April 2010
New Zealand High
Commission
Mr Vangelis Vitalis, Deputy
High Commissioner
Australian Federation of
International Forwarders
Mr Paul Golland, Chairman
Mr Brian Lovell, Chief
Executive Officer
Export Finance and
Insurance Corporation
Mr Angus Armour, Managing
Director and CEO
Mr Matthew Hocken, Associate
Director, Government and Industry Relations
Mr Roger Donnelly, Chief
Economist
Canberra, Friday, 3 June 2011
Department of Foreign
Affairs and Trade
Ms Jan Adams, First Assistant Secretary – Free Trade
Agreement Division
Mr Michael Dean, Director – PACER Plus Section, Pacific Regional
and New Zealand Branch, Pacific Division
Mr Jonathan Kenna, Assistant Secretary – Trade Commitments
Branch, Office of Trade Negotiations
Mr Hamish McCormick, First Assistant Secretary – Office of
Trade Negotiations
AusAID
Ms Julie Delforce, Director – Economic Growth and Regional
Organisations Section, Pacific Division