Ms Christine Gibbs Stewart 

Christine Gibbs Stewart is the General Manager of Australian Business International Trade Services. She has 20 years of professional experience in assisting companies to grow their business offshore.  This experience has included 6 years of working for an export management company in New York City where she managed the exports of over 60 US firms to 100 different countries.  Since 1994, Christine has been working with Australian companies to develop and grow export markets.  Her work has included export development, investment strategies and building bi-lateral trade linkages at an industry level.

Chris has worked across a range of market sectors including environmental consulting, software, furniture, fire fighting equipment, medical devices, industrial design consulting, training, construction, barbecues, heating, air conditioning, refrigeration, food and agricultural equipment.

At Australian Business International Trade Services, Chris manages a team of over 30 international trade professionals who work with Australian companies to enhance their international competitiveness and grow their markets offshore through export, import and investment.  She is the key spokesperson on international trade matters, including providing comment on international trade negotiations, bi-lateral agreements (particularly free trade agreements) and insight into exporter needs and export facilitation issues.

Christine has a BA in Political Science from the University of Michigan, USA, and a MBA in International Management from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Mr David Morris 

David Morris heads up a whole-of-government unit that coordinates NSW international business promotion.  The International Business Relations Unit is part of the Department of State and Regional Development, the State Government's business development agency. The Unit leads NSW international engagement in "Brand Sydney" promotions, Ministerial and other Missions, works with international partners such as the Australian Government's global network and NSW universities, and manages Sydney's international web portal, www.sydneyaustralia.com to attract investment and visitation to NSW.

David is a former Australian diplomat, with roles including short term assignments on United Nations and international trade and investment projects and long term postings to Eastern and Western Europe. He has served as chief of staff to several state and federal ministers in portfolios including Primary Industries, Water and Environment; Health and Human Services; Regional Development and Housing.  He was senior adviser to the Tasmanian Government on its "Tasmania Together" project.  He has an MBA from Henley Management College (UK) and was a pioneer of place branding research.

Ms Lorna Wong 

Ms Wong joined the Hong Kong SAR Government Administrative Service in 1981 and has worked in various policy bureaux and departments.  Since promotion to the Directorate rank, Ms Wong has served in the Civil Service Bureau, the Health and Welfare Bureau and the Housing Bureau. 

She has also served in the Central Policy Unit where she was responsible for formulating the Government's population policy. 

In the last four years, she heads the Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority which regulates the broadcasting and film industries and the control of obscene and indecent articles.

 Mr Wu Jun

Major Responsibilities:
In charge of Foreign Investment Promotion Division, Foreign Investment Administration Division, Processing Trade Division, Development Zone Administration Division and Guangdong Board of Investment Promotion.

Academic Qualification:
Postgraduate

Mr Peter Osborne

Peter Osborne is currently the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade)’s National Manager Investment responsible for the delivery of the Australian government’s inward foreign direct investment function across Austrade’s global and Australian network.

From January 2007 to end February 2008 Peter was Australia’s most senior trade official in China, as Senior Trade Commissioner and Minister (Commercial) and Austrade’s Country Manager for China, based in the Australian Embassy Beijing.  Peter had overall management responsibility for Austrade’s 13 office network in China – the largest network of any foreign government trade organisation in China.

From June 2003 to December 2006 Peter was Austrade’s Senior Trade Commissioner and Deputy Consul-General (Commercial) of the Australian Consulate-General, Hong Kong, with responsibility for Australian trade and investment promotion and facilitation in Hong Kong and Macau.  Peter was also concurrently Austrade’s sub-regional manager with management responsibility for Austrade’s operations in Taiwan and Vietnam.

For the period June to December 2004 Peter was Austrade’s Acting Regional Director for North East Asia, managing Austrade’s operations in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.  

Peter was previously based in Shanghai from 1999 to March 2003 as the Senior Trade Commissioner and Deputy Consul-General, and prior to that held two postings in Taiwan - from mid 1996 to mid 1999, as Senior Trade Commissioner; and from 1991 to 1994 as Projects and Investment Director of the Australian Business Centre in Taipei, representing Australia’s commercial interests in the Taiwan market.

From 1994 to 1996 Peter spent two and a half years in Suva, Fiji as the Trade & Investment Director of the South Pacific Forum Secretariat – a regional organisation representing the interests of the 14 island countries of the South Pacific.  Peter also served as the South Pacific Expert Adviser on trade development to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the UN Commission for Sustainable Development.

Prior to his overseas postings, Peter worked in various positions within the Australian Trade Commission, and also travelled the length and breadth of Australia as a field officer with the Australian Bureau of Agricultural Economics.

Peter has travelled extensively throughout China, and is a prolific freelance travel writer in his spare time, having written numerous articles on China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Peter is also a published children’s author of a fantasy set in Taiwan titled The Golden Dragon.

Peter’s interests include surfing, martial arts, Chinese temples, writing and travelling. Peter is married with four children.

Ms Lily Chen

Lily Chen graduated from University of New South Wales and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was employed by Telstra as a network engineer and later became a project coordinator for Telstra’s 3G network construction projects. She once worked at M&Y Daqing and Zhuhai Data entry centre in China as a project manager. Lily can speak fluent English, Mandarin and Cantonese, and she have in depth knowledge of BPO industry in Australia and New Zealand. In 2008, Lily was appointed as Client Services Manager in M&Y Sydney. Her main role is to monitor existing data entry/processing projects, and to negotiate and roll out new projects for M&Y’s existing clients in Australia and New Zealand.

 Ms Chooi Ho

Role:

Chooi is a partner in the Sydney Tax practice, Ernst & Young

Relevant experience:

Chooi has worked extensively in the technology/ media industry for over 20 year.  Her consulting experience extends to advising on company business models.  Consideration of intellectual property, royalties, characterisation, acquisitions, transfer pricing for inbounds and outbounds.

Clients served:

Clients served include technology companies from China, Australia and the US