Australian Davos Connection
| Australian Davos Connection Website | |
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| File:ADC Forum 2023.png Speaking at ALR 2021 in march 2021, Kevin Rudd "shared insights on the challenges facing Australia in a competitive geopolitical environment. Is Australia ready? 50m+ population required?"[1] | |
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| Formation | 1996 |
| Founders | Ninian M Stephen, Michael Roux |
| Headquarters | Melbourne,Hayman Island,Queensland |
| Partners | Australian National University,The Ethics Centre,Lamb Agency,Aspen Institute,King's College London,Bond Forum for Asia,Beirut Institute,Oxford Analytica,China Overseas Development Association,Roscongress,Forbers Summit Group,World Economic Forum,Valdai Discussion Group,Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy,Horasis,INSEAD,YPO |
| Membership | Michael Jeffery,Jeanne Pratt,Anton Roux,Matt Faubel,Sean Innis, Loretta Joseph,Jane Thomason,Greg Medcraft, Richard Alston,Glenn Barnes,Chris Barrie,Steve Bracks,Edward Byrne,Terrence Campbell, Megan Clark, Tim Costello,Glyn Davis,Saul Eslake,Allan Fels,Philip Freier,Margaret Gardner,Charles Goode,John Karkar,Graham Kraehe,Simon Longstaff,Steven Marshall, Terry Mor,Hugh Morgan,Sam Mostyn,Maurice Newma,Hon Andrew Robb,James Roche,Steven Skala,John Stanley,Glenn Stevens,Catherine Walter,Richard Warburton,Ian Watt,Eric Beinhocker,Robert Bishop,Phillip Blond,Woody Brock,Nick Butler,Robert Cervero,Ken Courtis,Paul Davies,Charles Emmerson,Dan Esty,Raghida Dergham,Thomas Friedman,Ian Goldin,Ralph Gomory,Nik Gowing,Susan Greenfield,Gideon Henderson,Ove Hoegh-Guldberg,Yoshito Hori,Dan Kahan ,Anatole Kaletsky,David Kilcullen ,Ellen Langer,Lawrence Lessig,Kishore Mahbubani,William Mayer,Jonathan Medved,David Menashri,Ilian Mihov,Robin Niblett,Olivier Oullier,Paul Rome, Mahmood Sariolghalam,Bror Saxberg ,Anthony Scaramucci,Tom Schelling,Joe Schoendorf,Nicholas Stern,Joseph Stiglitz,Hirotaka Takeuchi,Manuel Trajtenberg,Adam Trombly,Geoffrey West,Martin Wolf,Gabe Zichermann,Helen Nugent,Francis Finlay,Terry Campbell,Craig Drummond,Stephen Fitzgerald,Greig Gailey,John Hay,Helen Nugent |
| Organization created to promote the World Economic Forum within Australia. Its secretive, invitation only, annual Leadership Retreat "brings together Federal Ministers, State Premiers and Ministers, Chief Executives, senior government officials, leading international academics and other community leaders to "contribute to the process of setting the agenda". | |
The Australian Davos Connection is an organization to promote the World Economic Forum within Australia[2].
It hosts an annual Australian Leadership Retreat, a secretive conference of approximately 160 delegates from business, government, academia and politics "gathered to discuss the challenges facing Australia and the world"[3] and contribute to the process of setting the agenda.
Australian Leadership Retreat
The ADC Forum was founded in 1996, when it was named the Australian Davos Connection.[3]
The Australian Leadership Retreat "provides a forum for top-level discussion on a range of globally focused topics including: economics, management and finance; geopolitics; social and community issues; climate change and the environment; regional insights; technology, science and medicine."[4]
The ‘invitation only’ two and a half day Retreat brings together Federal Cabinet Ministers from Australia and Asia, State Premiers and Senior Ministers, Chief Executives from the top 100 companies in Australasia, senior government officials, leading international academics and other community leaders to discuss the key issues affecting the nation, the wider region, and the international community.[5]
The ADC Forum is Melbourne-based.[3] Its yearly Retreat on Hayman Island in Queensland is far more secretive than its Davos counterpart, and no list of participants is released, and it receives a minuscule amount of corporate media coverage. It is run under Chatham House rules.
The Retreat is an exclusive invitation-only event for people to contribute to the process of setting the agenda.[6]
People
People include the board and "International Faculty" of the ADC as of 2023,[7] which seems to mean people who have held speeches, plus some older board members.[8]
References
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/ADCForumOrg/photos/a.957417397609402/5663501213667640/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130809121137/http://www.adcforum.org/about-adc-forum
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 https://www.afr.com/policy/australian-leaders-grapple-with-uncertainty-at-davos-conference-20180623-h11rfk
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120502153518/http://adcforum.org/australian-leadership-retreat/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130809121137/http://www.adcforum.org/about-adc-forum
- ↑ https://adcforum.org/initiatives/australia-leadership-retreat
- ↑ https://archive.is/EkROj
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101128011249/http://www.adcforum.org/adc-board.html