Peter Draper
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Areas of Expertise: Regions Africa South Asia & Oceania WTO and Globalisation EU Trade Agreements

Peter Draper is Senior Fellow at ECIPE, Professor and Executive Director of the Institute for International Trade in the School of Economics and Public Policy, The University of Adelaide, Australia. He holds a Jean Monnet Chair in Trade and Environment and directs the Jean Monnet Centre on Trade and Environment. He is a board member of the Australian Services Roundtable. He is also a Director of the Board of Trustees of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Research Foundation; non-resident senior fellow of the Brussels-based European Centre for International Political Economy; and Associated Researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability.
Peter has extensive international trade and investment policy research experience, traversing a wide variety of global, regional, and national contexts from the WTO, through various regional economic integration groupings, to country-focused projects. He has also worked on many different aspects of global supply chains, particularly their governance and immersion in trade cooperation arrangements, including the political economy of evolving governance arrangements. He has consulted to many international organizations, including the OECD, the World Bank, the WTO; the United Nations including UNESCAP; the EU, the African Union, and the Southern African Development Community. He has also worked for G7 governments on a bilateral basis, and key developing countries, notably the BRICS, in the G20 context. For ten years he was closely involved in the World Economic Forum’s Global Trade and Investment Council, including as Chair, Co-Chair, and Vice-Chair. He has published widely on trade policy, arrangements, and negotiations, and has extensive experience in the think tank world. His expertise lies in international political economy, or the practical study of why states pursue particular forms of integration into the global economy and their approaches to negotiating their terms of engagement (or trade policy settings). He has led and participated in many consulting projects related to these themes.
ECIPE Occasional Papers
Mega-regional Trade Agreements: Implications for the African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries
In the wake of the ninth WTO ministerial conference in Bali, in December 2013, there is renewed optimism that the WTO can deliver something. The time is therefore right for member states to strategically reappraise their positions in the context of their overarching domestic and regional trade strategies. Central to any appraisal is the new geopolitical reality represented by the free trade agreements (FTAs) being negotiated by the major industrial powers. Led by...
Jan Tumlir Policy Essays
EU-Africa Trade Relations: The Political Economy of Economic Partnership Agreements
For the last five years the European Union has been negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) states. These negotiations, aiming for Free Trade Agreements, are fraught with substantive problems. There is also a looming crisis. In the New Year the WTO waiver for the current shape of EU-ACP preferential trade accords will expire. The EPAs are intended to replace the current trade order, but the negotiations...
Media Mention
Trade Update
Peter Draper and Razeen Sally comment on international trade issues for South Africa's Classic FM.
Media Mention
Europe, Africa and partnership agreements: in search of a developmental agenda
Peter Draper on EU-Africa trade negotiations in the Vox
Media Mention
Trade agenda for Africa relies on governance ability
Peter Draper in FDI Magazine on EPAs
Media Mention
China-bashing no basis for policy
ECIPE Fellow Peter Draper writes in Business Day about China and taking advantage of the opportunities the Chinese manufacturing industry presents.
Article
South Africa and the “Currency Wars”
Peter Draper takes stock in Business Day of the China’s currency peg and China-South Africa economic relations
Article
After the “Seoul Consensus”: Ways to help sub-Saharan Africa return to pre-crisis economic performance
Peter Draper, Andreas Freytag, Matthias Bauer 16 April 2011 in VOX
Article
The “Seoul Consensus” on development: Substantial progress for sub-Saharan Africa or paperwork again?
Peter Draper, Andreas Freytag, Matthias Bauer 15 April 2011 in VOX
Article
What Future for Monetary Policy in Zimbabwe?
Peter Draper and Andreas Freytag on Zimbabwe currency reforms in Vox EU
Book or Paper
The Shifting Geography of Global Value Chains
Global Agenda Council on the Global Trading System, July 2012
Book or Paper
Towards a Framework of Principles for the G20
Report for the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
Book or Paper
South Africa’s Current Account Deficit: Are Proposed Cures Worse than the Disease?
Trade Policy Report by Peter Draper and Andreas Freytag published by CEPR
Book or Paper
Global Financial Crisis, Protectionism, and Current Account Deficits: South Africa on the Brink?
University Jena Working Papers on Global Financial Markets Nr 8
Speech or Presentation
Mega-regional Trade Agreements and Outsiders, Particularly Africa
Presentation by Peter Draper at the ECIPE Seminar: TTIP, TPP and the Rise of Mega-Regionals - Consequences for Africa