Dr George Barker - Reunion Dinner Speaker March 13th
Reunion Dinner Saturday March 13th, 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start at the School Dining Room. Follows the AGM (Rec Centre) at 5:30pm. Tickets available now – please see below to pay by PayPal. Please contact Chris Hodder at chris.hodder@gmail.com to reserve your seat(s).
We are delighted to announce that Dr George Barker (BA, MA (Hons), LLB, DPhil) will be speaking at the Reunion Dinner. George left Dilworth mid-1975 (in his second year as Head Prefect) on winning a UWC Scholarship to study at Pearson College in Canada for 2 years – where of all people Murray Wilton turned up as a French teacher! A top sportsman, academic and a leader at the School George has gone on to lead a successful and distinguished career. He is also a Dio Old Girl and continues that association today – but more on that, no doubt, on the night!
George is Director of the Centre for Law and Economics at the Australian National University and is President of the Australian Law and Economics Association. He was awarded the Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics at Cornell University in 2000. He gained a PhD in Economics from Oxford University 1992, and earned both a Bachelor of Laws and Master of Economics at Auckland where he won the senior prize in economics . George has authored books and articles on a wide range of matters from the Effects of China joining the WTO (Cambridge University Press 2003), through the economics of energy, communication, media and cultural industries to social policy, including education, health, welfare and the criminal justice system. He is also the editor of Asia Pacific Law and Economics Review (Berkeley Electronic Press), and on the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Law and Economics.
After finishing his masters at Auckland George went to work at the New Zealand Treasury and became chief analyst under the Lange Labour Government in the mid 1980’s (returned to Treasury again from 1992-1997). After his 80’s Treasury stint he won a National Research Advisory Council Scholarship and completed a doctorate of economics at Oxford University. During his time at Oxford he was elected onto the Governing Body of Wolfson College.
George continues to advise a wide range of public- and private-sector clients on regulatory, public policy, microeconomic, financial management and corporate strategy issues. He has testified in the Asia Pacific Region before Australian, Korean, Canadian and New Zealand and in European agencies on market design, regulatory policy, competition policy and intellectual property. Thus on the latter he provided the economic testimony in one of the two major Global cases on music piracy or illegal downloading in the KAZAA case.
So a very interesting Old Boy (with a huge resume that we could not do justice to in these few paragraphs) who has made the most of his Dilworth upbringing to be a leader of men. We are all looking forward to hear George speak at the Reunion Dinner.
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“who has made the most of his Dilworth upbringing to be a leader of men”. So who’s a leader of women then?