Globinar Series on Trilateral Trade – Australia, United Kingdom & Japan: Trade Update

Globinar Series on Trilateral Trade

Australia, United Kingdom & Japan - Part 2 of 3 on Trade

Who should attend? Business leaders in any of the three regions, looking to grow. Other business leaders looking to learn more about the business opportunities in Australia, Japan and the UK.

Join a dynamic global business line-up of speakers to explore emerging opportunities across the three regions. In this second session we'll be focused on trade/business opportunities.

International Trade Secretary Liz Truss in the UK discussed the move with ministers in Japan and New Zealand early in January 2021 and requested to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). The impact of joining CPTPP will cut tariffs in trading with its 11 members along the Pacific rim, which also include Australia, Mexico, New Zealand, and Vietnam. UK trade with the group last year was worth £111 billion.

Australia and the UK have a significant  relationship underpinned by a shared heritage, common values, strong people-to-people links, closely aligned strategic outlook and interests and substantial trade and investment links. The Australia–Japan partnership is its most mature across Asia for Australia and is fundamentally important to both countries' strategic and economic interests. Japan was Australia's second-largest trading partner and second-largest export market, and third-largest source of foreign direct investment at the end of 2019.

October 27th on business and trade.

• Richard Cuda - Head of Asia Pacific & Emerging Markets at International Investment Services
• Sally Townsend - Chair of ANZCCJ
• Ziv Nakajima-Magen - Partner & Executive Manager at Nippon Tradings International
• Cristina Merino - Head of Travel and Hospitality for Sports, Travel & Hospitality (STH) Japan

The series:

6^th October 2021 - Business Culture / completed

• Language and cultural norms
• Business success and blockers
• Tips & hints from the experts

27^th October 2021 - Trade Update / this time

• Update on trade agreements
• Business opportunities to be aware of
• How can you increase/start for your business

10th November 2021 - Tri-Metro Meet-Up / next time

• Invite attendees from both events to connect
• Attendees and speakers to interact
• Breakout rooms and connecting

Sign up to receive the zoom information for this event on October 27th.

Biographies 

Richard Cuda - Head of Asia Pacific & Emerging Markets at International Investment Services. Richard is an International Business Leader with more than 12 years’ experience identifying, negotiating, and executing partnerships and advising and structuring businesses for international expansion. Richard has worked across global financial services, consulting firms and Government managing relationships with large and small businesses to scale and grow their businesses locally and internationally. Richard has helped businesses across 6 continents and conducted business on the ground in 35 countries. He has an extensive global network to call on particularly in the Asia Pacific region to help clients achieve their international ambitions.

 
Sally Townsend - Chair of ANZCCJ. Sally became Chair of ANZCCJ in January 2019, and has served as Commissioner for South Australia to Japan and Korea since March 2019. Prior to her current role, She was in charge of Business Development for Japan at global luxury lifestyle company Sarment Group, and before that, for an importer of premium Australian and New Zealand wine in Tokyo. She has been a member of ANZCCJ since 2008, with over 4 of those years on our Executive Council, including active roles within 3 committees; supporting the Food, Agriculture & Hospitality committee and establishing both the Sports for Business and TIER committees. A graduate of Nihon University, Sally is also the former President of the Australia Society Tokyo, a volunteer organisation that ran social events for Australians in Tokyo while raising money for charities in Japan.

Ziv Nakajima-Magen - Partner & Executive Manager at Nippon Tradings International. Trained and experienced as a corporate project manager, Ziv has been immersed in Japan's cultural & business arenas since the early 2000's. Together with his partner, they have established a real-estate buyer and proxy agency in 2011, representing buyers and sellers, large and small, in their forays into Japan's real-estate property market.

Cristina Merino - Head of Travel and Hospitality for STH Japan. Cristina currently serves as Head of Travel and Hospitality for Sports, Travel & Hospitality (STH) Japan, the exclusive Official Hospitality provider for Rugby World Cup 2019 and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Previously she worked as Executive Director of the Australian and New Zealand Chamber of Commerce in Japan where she focused on strengthening the commercial links between Australian / New Zealand and Japan, and raising awareness about the opportunities for Australian businesses in Japan. Over her career, she has worked at Meat & Livestock Australia, the Australian Embassy Tokyo, and as part of a Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) development project in Central America. Cristina first came to Japan in 2001 as a Researcher under the Japanese Government’s Monbukagakusho Scholarship Programme. She holds a Bachelor of International Business, specialising in Japanese, from Queensland University of Technology; and a Master of Intercultural Communication from Kyushu University. She is fluent in English, Japanese and Spanish.

Moderators:

Kathleen Keith, Executive Director

Global Chamber® London

Meet Katie Keith, a British / Australia Citizen, originally from a small colonial town on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia.  Katie moved to the UK in 2016 to pursue international career exposure, and to complete her master’s degree at Henley Business School.  Katie is now pleased to call the UK home.

As a Thought Leader with 20 years’ experience within the Institutional and Retail Banking space, Katie has extensive exposure to corporate leadership, business growth and change management strategies within the corporate and finance sector.

Katie operates her Executive Coaching & Business Consultancy practice and works closely with companies such as Equals Group Plc, and Business Networking International (BNI), focused on developing and managing business growth and corporate partnership opportunities. 

Katie also works very closely with prominent business networks in the UK focused on connecting decision makers and business owners into her global network.  Having recently been appointed as the Executive Director within the Global Chamber, Katie’s mission is ‘to make a big world small’ one genuine and authentic business connection at a time.

Kirsty Wilkinson, Executive Director

Global Chamber® Melbourne

Kirsty Wilkinson is Deputy Director for Global Chamber® Melbourne. In addition Kirsty is Principal and Founder of Asia Market Makers. She founded Asia Market Makers about six years ago to help businesses wanting to export to Japan, teach Japanese language and culture and empower translators and interpreters with the right skill set for their businesses to flourish.

Originally from Whyalla, Kirsty has lived in Melbourne  for over 15 years after returning from London and is committed to helping companies be more global and successful with a focus on Japan, UK, Europe and the U.S. She has lived in 3 Australian States and 3 countries (UK, Japan and Indonesia), and travelled extensively.

Education: BA (Advanced Japanese); BBus (International Trade) – Monash University

Boards: Global Chamber® Melbourne

Member: Golden Key International Honours Society, Lions Club of South Vermont

Past Affiliations: BHP Billiton, Allied Domecq Wine,  Holden, Shell

About Global Chamber®: Global Chamber® is a growing and collaborating community of CEOs, executives, and leaders in 525 metro regions around the world... connecting member businesses to new opportunities and advancing growth and success. It's the only chamber of commerce in the world operating in hundreds of locations that help to export, importing, and investing members to connect through warm introductions to clients, partners, projects, and resources. Global Chamber® is a registered trademark of Global Chamber, LLC.