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Dr Keith Suter, Broadcaster & social commentator

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Dr Keith Suter is a social commentator, strategic planner, writer and broadcaster (including being 7 Network's Sunrise foreign affairs expert).

Dr Suter is a member of the prestigious global think tank The Club of Rome, which includes Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Gates, Al Gore and Jimmy Carter. He is Senior Fellow, Global Business Network Australia and the Executive Director of National Goals and Directions (a think tank working on Australia's future). He is also a Consultant on Social Policy at Wesley Mission, Sydney, Consultant to Aged and Community Services (NSW), Health Services Association (NSW) and the Conflict Resolution Network.

Keith is also the Chairperson, Environment Committee, Australian Institute of Company Directors, Chairperson, International Humanitarian Law Committee of Australian Red Cross (NSW), Chairperson, International Commission of Jurists (NSW) and Director of Studies, International Law Association (Australian Branch).

His first doctorate was in the international law of guerrilla warfare and his second in the economic and social consequences of the arms race. His masters degree is in religious studies and was on the role of the Uniting Church in the debate over economic justice.

Between 1978 and 1999 he was at various times the national and state presidents (NSW and WA) of the United Nations Association of Australia. In 1999 he was made a Life Member of the UN Association. From 1991 to 1998 he was the President of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney.

His current teaching positions include part-time lecturer in the Department of Social Work, University of New South Wales (in the Masters of International Social Work), where he teaches the introductory course on international organisation.

His latest book is In Defence of Globalisation (University of New South Wales Press) was released in 2001. Immediately prior he published Legal Studies 1 (Melbourne: Macmillan, 2000), where he is a co-author and wrote the international law sections - Book 2 was released the following year and again he wrote the international law sections. He is author of several other books: Global Change: Armageddon and the New World Order, Global Agenda: Economics, the Environment and the Nation-State, and Indonesia, East Timor and West Irian. Dr Suter also writes HSC material for the NSW Board of Studies.

Dr Suter received the Australian Government's Peace Medal in 1986: the International Year of Peace. He was Rostrum's Communicator of the Year in 1995. and in 1994, he was voted Australian Communicator of the Year. He was made a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow in 1997 in recognition of his work for international co-operation.

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  • Effective Models of Business Engagement with China (Research)

    Understanding how to do business in China is of undeniable importance for many Australian firms but experience suggests that there are many different business models that are proving successful. 

    Through a contextual analysis of the economic, regulatory and political environment prevailing in China this year, and a series of case studies, this project will analyse actual experiences of Australian companies successfully competing in China, that other Australian companies should find instructive in mapping their own competitive position.