Peter Drysdale

Professor
Peter Drysdale
Born (1938-10-24) 24 October 1938 (age 85)
Academic career
Field
  • International trade & economic policy
  • Japanese economy & economic policy
  • Chinese trade & economic reform
  • East Asian economy
Alma mater
Other notable studentsRoss Garnaut
Awards
Websitewww.eastasiaforum.org

Peter David Drysdale AO (born 24 October 1938, in Grafton, New South Wales) is an Australian economist and writer. He is Emeritus Professor of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy in the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University.[1] He was executive director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre (AJRC) until 2002.[2]

Drysdale is Head of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER).[3] He is also co-editor of East Asia Forum, which is consistently cited in Reuters, The Telegraph, The Australian Financial Review, PBS, BBC News and Global Times, among others.

His 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.[4] 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.

  1. ^ ANU, Crawford School of Economics and Government: staff bio note.
  2. ^ Dysdale, Peter. 4th I-House Academy: "Japan and China: Toward Asia- Pacific Cooperation," Archived 24 November 2010 at the Wayback Machine International House of Japan. 22 May 2007.
  3. ^ Drysdale, Peter. "Renewing or Reinventing the Pacific Partnership?" East-West Dialogue (East-West Center), Issue 1 (2008).
  4. ^ ANU Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies: staff bio note.

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