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Patricia Holmes
Assistant Secretary at the Department of Foreign Affairs and TradeMs Patricia Holmes is the Assistant Secretary, Trade and Investment Strategy Branch in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Prior to this appointment, Ms Holmes was the Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to the World Trade Organization, UNCTAD and WIPO (2019-2022). Ms Holmes’ previous positions include Assistant Secretary, Trade and Investment Law Branch in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (February 2015 to July 2019) and Assistant Secretary, FTA Legal Counsel Branch (2010-2011).
Ms Holmes was Australia’s Ambassador to Argentina, with concurrent non-resident accreditation to Paraguay and Uruguay, from November 2011 to December 2014. Ms Holmes has served previously in Geneva WTO (Counsellor 2006-2009), Papua New Guinea (First Secretary 1998-2000) and Vanuatu (Third, later Second, Secretary 1994-1996).
Ms Holmes holds a Bachelor of Science with a Bachelor of Law (Hons) degree from Macquarie University; a Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies from the University of Technology, Sydney; a Masters of Arts in Foreign Affairs and Trade and a Masters of Laws in Environmental Law from the Australian National University. Ms Holmes was admitted to the Bar of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory in 1992. Ms Holmes is married with three children.
Peter Draper
Executive Director of the Institute for International Trade - The University of AdelaidePeter is Professor, and Executive Director of the Institute for International Trade in the School of Economics and Public Policy, The University of Adelaide, Australia. He holds a Jean Monnet Chair in Trade and Environment and Directs the Jean Monnet Centre on Trade and Environment. He is a board member of the Australian Services Roundtable; and member of the South Australia Committee of the Australia-India Chamber of Commerce. He is also a Director of the Board of Trustees of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Research Foundation; non-resident senior fellow of the Brussels-based European Centre for International Political Economy; and Associated Researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability.
Peter has extensive international trade and investment policy research experience. This traverses a wide variety of global, regional, and national contexts from the WTO, through various regional economic integration groupings, to country-focused projects. He has also worked on many different aspects of global supply chains, particularly their governance and immersion in trade cooperation arrangements, including the political economy of evolving governance arrangements. He has consulted to many international organizations, including the OECD, the World Bank, the WTO; the United Nations including UNESCAP; the EU, the African Union, and the Southern African Development Community. He has also worked for G7 governments on a bilateral basis, and key developing countries, notably the BRICS, in the G20 context. He has published widely on trade policy, arrangements, and negotiations, and has extensive experience in the think tank world. His expertise lies in international political economy, or the practical study of why states pursue particular forms of integration into the global economy and their approaches to negotiating their terms of engagement (or trade policy settings). He has led and participated in many consulting projects related to these themes.