Simon Lacey

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Simon Lacey

University of Adelaide’s Institute for International Trade

Senior Lecturer

Simon Lacey is currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide’s Institute for International Trade. In tis capacity, Simon teaches on several masters-level courses on international trade in highly regulated industries and sectors. Prior to joining the University of Adelaide, Simon held the position of Vice-President Trade Facilitation and Market Access at Huawei Technologies in Shenzhen China, where he was responsible for monitoring, managing and mitigating the biggest trade and investment risks facing the company across a dozen of its most important markets globally. Before joining Huawei, Simon worked in over 30 countries providing training and advice in the areas of trade and investment policy to both sovereigns and the private sector. It was in this capacity that Simon spent four years advising the Indonesian Ministry of Trade on a broad range of issues in connection with the country’s membership of ASEAN, the WTO, as well as a number of preferential trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties. Simon’s research and teaching interests encompass trade and investment in the innovation economy, trade and investment policies for development, and the impact of increased geopolitical tensions and disruptive new technologies on trade and investment policies. Simon obtained his bachelor’s in law (lic. Iur.) from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland in German and French. He later went on to complete a mid-career master’s in law (LLM) from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC. He is currently completing a PhD part-time on international trade rules and policy for the global digital economy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia.

CAREC FTA: Course 5B Financial Services and E-Commerce

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This 1-hour lecture delves into two distinct topics, the first being trade and financial services, and the second being trade-re...

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CAREC FTA: Course 1B Trade Related Legal Skills

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This forty-five minute lecture provides an overview of some of the most important legal skills and concepts trade negotiators ne...

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