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Louise updates us on her recent visit to Indonesia and shares her observations following the recent Indonesian national elections.
James and Louise discuss the impact on business from new regulations covering all areas of business operations, including end-to-end supply chains, A.I., modern day slavery, digitalisation, decarbonisation and more.
They discuss ‘the year of elections’ of 2024 and discuss the upcoming Australian federal elections in 2025.
The two finish the year by reviewing the long-term issues that have been discussed over the last 10 months. Louise shares her insights on where each issue has landed and where some may go next year. She reminds us that Industry Policy and Development is a constant progress of small incremental improvements and achievements.
Merry Christmas from all at the DBrief podcast.
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After a long career in multiple aspects of supply chain management, corporate training and business advisory, James brings a business improvement mindset to his role as General Manager of Supply Chain Resilience for Ai Group. A skilled communicator and adviser, James has been involved with Oil & Gas, the Defence industry and supply chain across the board for over 40 years.
James has a Masters degree in International Management and a partially completed Doctor of Business Administration. He says he'll get around to finishing it when he retires.
In her role as Ai Group’s Head of Industry Development and Policy Louise provides strategic leadership and guidance for Ai Group’s policy agenda in building competitive industries through global integration, infrastructure development and innovation. She ensures that through policy leadership members have a voice at all levels of government, by representing and promoting their interests on current and emerging issues.
Louise represents Australian Industry in several multilateral forums, such as the B20 Taskforces, Global Business Coalition, and the East Asia Business Council working group on RCEP. She advocates for the interests of Ai Group members during Free Trade Negotiations and translates those agreements to support the strategic aims of members. She is a member of CSIRO’s Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence Think Tank and the Manufacturing Advisory Group, the NESP Sustainable Communities and Waste Hub and the Advisory Group of The Australian Consortium for ‘In-Country’ Indonesian Studies (ACICIS).
Louise has studied a Bachelor of Arts (Arabic Language and Culture) at Deakin University and an Advanced Diploma in International Trade at RMIT. She has also studied Arabic at universities in Jordan and Egypt.
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