Prof Peter Draper
Executive Director, Institute of International Trade

Organisation unit

College of Business and Law School of Economics

Location

Adelaide University, Nexus 10, 5
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My skills

Geoeconomics, economic resilience
Trade negotiations
Trade policy
Value chains analysis

About me

Professor Peter Draper has extensive international trade and investment policy research experience. This traverses 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. Currently, he focuses on the complex interfaces between trade and sustainability, as well as geoeconomics, economic resilience, and economic security.

In addition to his University roles Peter is a board member of the Australian Services Roundtable; 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. He has decades of experience working in the trade policy and negotiations trenches traversing multiple geographies, institutions, and topics. His career has spanned academic institutions, government, think tanks, and consultancies.

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Last updated on 04/09/2026 by Peter Draper