In this special episode, ASPI’s executive director, Peter Jennings, talks with Walkley award winning journalist and ASPI senior fellow Stan Grant, who will be hosting ASPI’s conference series, ‘Strategic Vision 2020’, starting on 22 July.
Jennings and Grant consider the big strategic challenges Australia and the world are facing, as we endure the Covid-19 pandemic, a probable worldwide depression and changes to the global order.
Listen to the discussion now, prepare your questions for our guests and register for the conference.
Registration is free and the conference sessions will be delivered live online. Visit the event page on the ASPI website to register for the sessions you wish to attend and then watch live or on-demand.
Along with ASPI’s own expert analysts and researchers, speakers will include:
The Hon. Kim Beazley AC | Governor of Western Australia
Carl Bildt | Former Prime Minister of Sweden
Dr Dino Patti Djalal | Founder, Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia
Elizabeth Economy | C.V. Starr Senior Fellow, Director for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Christiana Figueres | Former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Dr Robert Glasser | Former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction and ASPI Visiting Fellow
Jane Halton AO PSM | Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra and the University of Sydney
The Hon. John Howard OM AC | Former Prime Minister of Australia
Bilahari Kausikan | Former Permanent Secretary of Singapore’s Foreign Ministry
Major General (Ret’d) Duncan Lewis | Former Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
Professor Raina MacIntyre | NHMRC Principal Research Fellow & Professor of Global Biosecurity at UNSW
The Right Hon. Sir Rabbie Namaliu KCMG CSM | Former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
Samantha Power | 28th US Permanent Representative to the United Nations
Senator the Hon. Linda Reynolds CSC | Minister for Defence
Sir John Scarlett KCMG OBE | Former Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service