Aid and Trade webinar

Aid and Trade webinar

With the impacts of tariffs and USAID cuts across the globe - join us for a discussion about the intersection between aid and trade. With only 5 years until the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were set to be achieved- hear about SDG 17 on global partnerships and a discussion about what we can do collectively to advance sustainable, ethical and inclusive trade.

ECA has worked in international trade and business for more than 60 years. Over the past few decades, through ECA Edge, the team has also facilitated seminars, workshops, and trade missions that have focused on inclusive trade, supporting startups and entrepreneurs such as the Women Trading Globally (WTG) initiative and the Growing Indigenous Trade (GrIT) projects.  

Join us with incredible speakers for a virtual panel on aid and trade – as a follow-up from our session on inclusive trade, hear about sustainability and ethics in your business and international trade, and how this intersects with aid and development.  

Speakers: 

• Arnold Jorge - Chief Executive Officer of Export Council of Australia

  • Arnold is a former senior trade official, diplomat, and consultant with over 20 years of experience in international trade, aid, entrepreneurship, and marketing. He has held senior roles including Principal Adviser at the Center for International Private Enterprise (Washington D.C), Director of Aid for Trade at DFAT, and Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in Mexico City.

    Arnold has represented Australia in major global forums and trade negotiations, including the WTO, APEC, and TPP. Known for his strategic approach, he delivers results through innovation, collaboration, data-driven decision-making, and effective stakeholder engagement. He holds an MBA and brings expertise in lean start-up, agile methodologies, and aid-for-trade project design and delivery.

• Alexandre Dayant - senior economist and Deputy Director of the Indo-Pacific Development Centre at the Lowy Institute

  • The Centre at the Lowy Institute is committed to producing fresh policy insights and ideas on the most pressing economic development challenges facing the Indo-Pacific region — principally focusing on the emerging and developing economies of Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands and South Asia.

  • Alexandre directs both the Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map and the Lowy Institute Southeast Asia Aid Map projects, which provide the world’s most comprehensive data tracking of all official aid and other development finance flows to the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia.

  • His interests are in aid and development finance, and geoeconomics. He writes on Australian foreign policy, development issues, the Pacific Island countries and Europe. He has worked in Mexico and has a master’s degree in International and Development Economics from the Australian National University and a master’s degree in Econometrics from La Sorbonne, Paris.

Moderator: 

• Renata Zanetti - General Manager ECA Edge

  • Renata has a global development background and a focus on advancing education and health access.
    She has formerly worked with DFAT, AusAID, ACFID, UN bodies including UNICEF and UNESCO and with Philanthropy Australia.
    Renata has a degree of a Master in International Affairs from Geneva with a thesis focused on IP law and the Marrakesh Treaty and a Master in Public Administration degree from Harvard University, where she was also a Kennedy Fellow.
    She has been a mentor for start-ups and advanced inclusion in initiatives, including through global forums such as the World Urban Forum in Malaysia and United Nations Habitat III in Ecuador.

Date:

Wednesday, 11 June 2025

Time:

4.00 PM - 5.00 PM (AEDT)

Location:

Online

Price: