Cal-Asia
Cordially invites you to a Briefing with:
The Rt Hon Mike Moore
New Zealand Ambassador to the United States
Friday, September 16, 2011

Bilateral, Regional and Global Trade Impacts:
What is happening with the TPP?

	We are delighted that Ambassador Mike Moore, who is in San Francisco for the APEC talks, will join us to discuss both US-New Zealand trade and investment opportunities, as well as very timely global, regional and bilateral trade and investment topics. A former Prime Minister of New Zealand, he is also the former Director General of WTO, and oversaw the accession of China to WTO. More recently he is one of the architects of the TransPacific Strategic Economic Partnership agreement between New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei and Chile; this agreement has become known as the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) which US negotiators hope to join and help formalize in November. He will be joined by Rebekah Mawson, New Zealand second secretary for trade and economics and the Embassy's APEC specialist Bring your questions, business-specific concerns and engage in a productive dialogue.  About the Ambassador Rt Hon Mike Moore is a true global trade visionary. He is past Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) where he oversaw the launch of the Doha Development Round. His period in office saw the successful accession to the WTO of China and Chinese Taipei along with Estonia, Jordan, Georgia, Albania, Oman, Croatia, Lithuania, and Moldova. The Ambassador is a former Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand. He has held portfolios in a wide range of areas and served in a number of senior political positions including Trade Minister, Foreign Minister, Minister of Tourism, Minister for the America's Cup and Deputy Minister of Finance. Mr Moore worked as a meat and construction worker, and a printer where he became an active Trade Unionist. He became a social worker in a hospital for the criminally insane – an experience he claims “prepared him well for a life in politics”. The Ambassador held numerous appointments and board memberships with global policy and commercial organisations. These included Membership of the United Nations Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor; Commissioner for the UN Global Commission on International Migration; senior counsellor for Fonterra; and a Board member for SGS. He served on the Economic Development Board of South Australia, and was an advisor to other governments. Ambassador Moore is also a Trilateral Commission member and a member of the Privy Council. Mr Moore was an Adjunct Professor at Adelaide University, Australia, and La Trobe University, Australia, is Honorary Professor at Beijing Normal University in Zhuhai, Honorary Professor at the Chinese University for Political Science and International Law in Beijing, and Honorary Professor, Shanghai Customs College. He is the recipient of numerous honours from governments in Africa, Europe and South America. The Ambassador has been awarded New Zealand’s highest honour, the Order of New Zealand. Mr Moore also holds honorary doctorates in commerce from Lincoln University, New Zealand; in economics from the People’s University of China, Beijing; in commerce from Auckland University of Technology and Canterbury University, and law from La Trobe University in Australia. He is the author of ten books including: A Pacific Parliament; Hard Labour, Fighting For New Zealand; Children of the Poor; A Brief History of the Future and A World Without Walls. Mr Moore’s latest book, “Saving Globalisation”, was published by Wiley’s in 2009. Mr Moore is the founder of a New Zealand Charity “School Aid” which creates investment funds which are managed by High School students, the profits of which will go to schools in developing countries. Click for Cal-Asia country pages: New Zealand. New Zealand Embassy in Washington DC can be found at: http://www.nzembassy.com/usa Briefing Location: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP 275 Battery St., 26th Floor San Francisco CA 9 a.m. -- 10:30 a.m. Registration: Cal-Asia Patron, Advisory Circle, Council Fellow members: No fee; email info@calasia.org On line registration: $15 Registration at the door: $25 Space is limited. Please RSVP Questions: Tel: (415) 986-8808 E-Mail: alerts@calasia.org Register Here About our host: Squire Sanders & Dempsey combines sound legal counsel with a deep knowledge of clients’ businesses to resolve their legal challenges. "We care about the quality of our services, the success of our clients and the relationships that are forged through those successes."