Guest Speaker:
Alison Mann
Division Manager, Asia Pacific Integration Division
Event Date: Thursday 28th May 2015
Event Time: 5:30 pm-7:00 pm
Event Location:
Bell Gully
Level 21, HP Tower, 171 Featherston Street, Wellington, 6011.
Please note no building access after 6pm.
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About our Speaker
Alison Mann is New Zealand’s Senior Official for APEC, the East Asia Summit, the Asia Regional Forum and ASEAN, and leads the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Asia Pacific Regional Integration Division. She has a trade policy background, with extensive experience in the Australian and North Asian markets in particular. She has been posted to Seoul, to Beijing and Canberra as Deputy Head of Mission, and to Brazil as New Zealand Ambassador. She has also worked in the Australia, North Asia and Trade Negotiations Divisions in Wellington, as well as a stint as the Ministry’s internal auditor. As a trade negotiator, she managed New Zealand’s bilateral negotiations on the WTO accessions of China and Chinese Taipei, and commenced bilateral FTA negotiations with Korea as New Zealand Lead Negotiator.
