Peter Drysdale
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Emeritus Professor Peter Drysdale AO |
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24 October 1938 Grafton, New South Wales |
| Fields | International trade & economic policy Japanese economy & economic policy Chinese trade & economic reform East Asian economy |
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University of New England BA(hons) The Australian National University (Ph.D) |
| Notable awards | Officer of the Order of Australia (2016) Centenary Medal (2003) Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon (2001) Dunlop Asia medal (1995) Member of the Order of Australia (1985) |
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Website http://www.eastasiaforum.org/, http://www.eaber.org |
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Peter David Drysdale AO (born 24 October 1938, in Grafton, New South Wales) is Emeritus Professor of Economics and Visiting Fellow in the Crawford School of Economics and Government in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. Until 2002, he was Executive Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre (AJRC).
Drysdale is currently Head of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER). He is also co-editor of the East Asia Forum, which is consistently cited in Reuters, The Telegraph, The Australian, PBS and Global Times among others.
His main areas of interest are international trade and economic policy and diplomacy; the East Asian economy; Australia's economic relations with Asia and the Pacific and direct investment. His expertise encompasses work on the Japanese economy and economic policy as well as Chinese trade and transformation. His academic focus includes developments in Asia Pacific economic integration, and relations between East Asia, Europe, India and APEC.
He is the author of many books and papers and his work has had considerable policy influence in Australia, East Asia and the Pacific. His path-breaking study, The Economics of International Pluralism: Economic Policy in East Asia and the Pacific, laid the intellectual foundations for the establishment of APEC.
Drysdale was born in Grafton, New South Wales and graduated from Armidale High School in 1955. He attended the University of New England where he completed a BA (hons) majoring in economics and taught for two years. He was brought by Sir John Crawford to the Australian National University where he received his PhD in 1967 under the supervision of Max Cordon. In 1978, he went to Yale as Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence.
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