lowyinstitute
Summary: The Lowy Institute is an independent, nonpartisan international policy think tank located in Sydney, Australia. Ranked as Australia’s top think tank, the Institute provides high-quality research and distinctive perspectives on foreign policy trends shaping Australia and the world. On Soundcloud we host podcasts from our events with high level guest speakers as well as our own experts. Essential listening for anyone seeking to better understand foreign policy challenges!
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On 15th March 2006 at Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Ambassador Martin Indyk, Lowy Institute Board Member and Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Studies at the Brookings Institution and Anthony Bubalo, Lowy Institute Research Fellow, debated the pros and cons of the Bush Administration's great democratisation gamble.
On 6 December 2007, as part of it Distinguished Speaker Series, the Lowy Institute hosted an address by the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns, on U.S.-Australian relations in a new era.
On 31 July 2007, as part of the Lowy Institute's Distinguished Speaker Series, John Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, spoke on financial market globalisation.
The Institute was pleased to host an address by Helen Clark, head of the United Nations Development Programme, on 12 February 2010. Helen Clark discussed the role of the UNDP and the importance of aid in managing these priorities, while remaining flexible to the ever present threat of natural disasters and conflicts.
At the Wednesday Lunch on 24 October 2007, the Lowy Institute's Malcolm Cook and Mark Thirlwell discussed the economic future of the big five economies of Southeast Asia. A decade on from the financial crisis finds policymakers in the region's richer economies struggling with a series of important questions.
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 13 September 2009, Dr Andrew Charlton talked about a radical new plan to break the deadlock in the Doha Round and create a trading system that does more for global poverty reduction.
In the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 18 February 2009, Mark Thirlwell, Director of the Institute's International Economy program, looked at how the world economy will cope with what's turning into its biggest stress test in decades.
On 7 November 2007 at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Dr Meryl Williams launched her new Lowy Institute Paper entitled 'Enmeshed: Australia and Southeast Asia's Fisheries'.
On 31 October 2007 at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Dr Milton Osborne examined China's growing influence in Southeast Asia by looking at the water politics of the Salween and Mekong River systems that link China to continental Southeast Asia.
On 30 May 2007 at the Wednesday Lowy Lunch, at 31 Bligh Street, Professor James Piscatori discussed Iraq and the future of political Islam.
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 2 August 2006, Dr Malcolm Cook, program director Asia and the Pacific, discussed Prime Minister Koizumi's legacy and the changes he has overseen to Japan’s domestic politics and international policy.
At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 27 February 2008, Archbishop John Odama spoke about the brutal twenty-year conflict in northern Uganda in his presentation 'Reconciliation and development: The Ugandan experience'.
On 11 July 2007 at the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy, Dr Stephen Grenville addressed the questions: As international capital flows back into the Asian region's economies, is the region now seeing old vulnerabilities re-emerge? And has the IMF learned the right lessons from history?
Dr Michael Fullilove was the speaker at the Wednesday Lowy Lunch on 26 April 2006. The topic was: 'After Honiara: Implications for the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands'.
In a speech on 23 August 2006 co-hosted jointly by the Lowy Institute and the University of Sydney, Lowy Institute Board Member, Ambassador Martin Indyk, addressed the current turmoil in the Middle East and, in particular, what this meant for the United States goal of re-shaping and democratising the Middle East.
