Lowy Institute

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On 30 May 2007 at the Wednesday Lowy Lunch, at 31 Bligh Street, Professor James Piscatori discussed Iraq and the future of political Islam.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.