1. Ross Garnaut is the author of numerous academic publications on international economics, public finance and economic development, particularly in relation to East Asia and the Southwest Pacific.
22 Facts About Ross Garnaut
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On 30 April 2007 the state and territory governments of Australia, at the request of Kevin Rudd, then leader of the Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition, appointed Ross Garnaut to examine the impacts of climate change on the Australian economy and make relevant policy recommendations.
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Ross Garnaut concluded his role as climate change advisor for the Australian Government on 30 June 2011.
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Ross Garnaut attended Perth Modern School and then the Australian National University.
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Ross Garnaut attained a Bachelor of Arts in 1967 and a PhD in 1972 as a student of Peter Drysdale.
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Ross Garnaut was previously distinguished Professor of Economics at the Australian National University, Head of Economics Department at ANU and the Director of the ANU Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management.
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Ross Garnaut was First Assistant Secretary in Papua New Guinea's Department of Finance in the years straddling the country's independence in 1975.
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Ross Garnaut served as Principal Economic Adviser to Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 1983 to 1985.
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Ross Garnaut served as Australian Ambassador to China from 1985 to 1988.
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Ross Garnaut is the author of the 1989 report Australia and the Northeast Asian Ascendency.
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Ross Garnaut was Deputy Chairman and Member of the Australia-China Council from 1990 to 1994 and a member of the Advisory Council to the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 2002.
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Ross Garnaut was chairman of Bankwest from 1988 to 1995 and chairman of the Primary Industry Bank of Australia from 1989 to 1994, when it was purchased by Rabobank.
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Ross Garnaut was then chairman of Lihir Gold from 1995 until the company's merger with Newcrest in 2010.
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Ross Garnaut was the inaugural chairman of the Papua New Guinea Sustainable Development Program, serving from 2002 to 2012, but resigned after Prime Minister Peter O'Neill's government banned him from entering Papua New Guinea due to a dispute with BHP Billiton.
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Ross Garnaut resigned as chairman of Ok Tedi Mining due to this ban.
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Ross Garnaut was a trustee of the International Food Policy Research Institute from 2003 to 2010, including serving as chairman from 2006 to 2010.
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In September 2010, Professor Ross Garnaut was appointed as an independent expert advisor to the Multi-Party Climate Change Committee.
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In 2008, Ross Garnaut was of the opinion that nuclear was not obviously necessary in Australia's low carbon energy future.
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Ross Garnaut considers nuclear power to be a "low emissions" energy source, given its negligible emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere during plant operation.
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Ross Garnaut has publicly noted China's commitment to expanding its fleet of nuclear reactors, even in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
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Ross Garnaut commented after Cyclone Yasi affected Queensland in 2011 that the extensive body of climate science suggested that "cyclonic events will be more intense in a hotter world".
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Ross Garnaut further noted that if there were an intensification of extreme weather events with less than one degree of warming experienced and, if strong emissions growth was expected from many rapidly growing developing countries, then "you ain't seen nothing yet" in terms of the intensification of extreme weather events.