Round Table Announced
Roundtable: Governing the resources boom
The global resources boom of the early 21st century is proving a vexatious challenge for policymakers, businesses and civil society. Surging international prices for energy, food and minerals, intensifying consumption driven by fast-growing developing economies, and emerging concerns about scarcity and ecological sustainability have driven a renewed interest in the governance of natural resources.
All resource governance systems carry distributional impacts – determining how the benefits and costs of resource extraction and consumption are shared in the global economy – and the resource boom has seen these governance systems become increasingly contested.
How, therefore, is resource governance being reconstituted in the contemporary world? What political actors are involved in contests over resource governance, what are the key issues at stake in governance contests, and how are have their resolution benefited certain interest groups and not others?
This roundtable will explore how key actors in resource governance, including governments, businesses and civil society groups, are attempting to reshape governance systems in the wake of the resources boom.
Speakers will address issues including the resources-development nexus, environmental politics, the role of business and NGOs, and the international dimensions of resource governance systems.
Participants:
Dr George Gilboy, Woodside China
George J. Gilboy is chief representative, China, for Woodside Energy Ltd. Before joining Woodside in 2005, he was the head of Strategy and Planning for Shell Gas & Power in China.
He has been living and working in Beijing since 1995. He is the co-author, with Eric Heginbotham, of Chinese and Indian Strategic Behavior: Growing Power and Alarm (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Gilboy is a 2008-2010 Public Intellectuals Program Fellow at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He holds a PhD. in political science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor Shaun Breslin, Warwick University
Shaun Breslin is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick where, as Director for the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, he is currently managing a large EU funded project on the EU and the Multipolar Global Order.
His research primarily addresses the political economy of contemporary China, with a second strand focussing on comparative studies of regionalism. He is also co-editor of the Pacific Review, and Associate Fellow of the Chatham House Asia Programme.
Professor Ronnie Lipschutz, University of California, Santa Cruz
Ronnie D. Lipschutz is Professor of Politics and Provost of College Eight at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Lipschutz received his PhD. in Energy and Resources from UC-Berkeley in 1987 and an SM in Physics from MIT in 1978. He has been a faculty member at UCSC since 1990.
Lipschutz's most recent books are Political Economy, Capitalism and Popular Culture (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), The Constitution of Imperium (Paradigm, 2008) and Globalization, Governmentality and Global Politics: Regulation for the Rest of Us? (Routledge, 2005).
Ronnie Lipschutz’s participation in APSA 2013 is generously funded by an American government Cultural Grant, through the US Embassy in Canberra and the US Consulate in Perth.
Ms Serena Lillywhite, Oxfam Australia
Serena Lillywhite is the Mining Advocacy Coordinator with Oxfam Australia. She has extensive expertise and experience in labour rights, supply chain management and business and human rights.
Serena is Australia’s leading expert in the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. She is a regular speaker at the OECD, UN and ILO, and other international CSR platforms.
Serena holds a Masters in International Business from the University of Melbourne. She has lived and worked in China, and as a member of the OECD Watch network and Coordinating Committee, has delivered training and capacity building in Ghana (extractive sector), India (garment sector) and Thailand (business and human rights).
Professor Peter Vale, University of Johannesburg
Peter Vale is an academic, public intellectual and journalist. He is Professor of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg, the Nelson Mandela Chair of Politics Emeritus, Rhodes University.
Vale is Member of Editorial Boards of academic journals in Argentina, Bangladesh, Britain, Lesotho, Portugal, Spain and South Africa. He was elected Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. He is author of numerous books and articles on Southern African regional security and development.
Chair
Dr Jeffrey Wilson, Murdoch University
Jeffrey Wilson is a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre and Lecturer in Politics and International Studies in the School of Management and Governance. He received his PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University in 2011.
In 2012 he was awarded the inaugural Boyer Prize by the Australian Institute of International Affairs. He has published widely on the political economy of resource security in Asia, and is the author of Governing Global Production: Resource Networks in the Asia-Pacific Steel Industry (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
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