Full Name
Graham Fletcher
Job Title
Nonresident Fellow
Organisation
Lowy Institute
Speaker Bio
Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute and a former Australian Ambassador to China.
Graham is a former public servant who worked in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) from 1983 to 2019. His main focus was advising on policy towards China. During 2008-10 and 2015-19, he headed DFAT’s North Asia Division, covering greater China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula and Mongolia.
Graham was Australia’s ambassador to the PRC during 2019-2023, a period which saw serious political and trade difficulties, the Covid pandemic, and then a process of gradual improvement.
In 2014, Graham led the negotiating team which concluded Australia’s bilateral Free Trade Agreement with China.
Graham is a former public servant who worked in Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) from 1983 to 2019. His main focus was advising on policy towards China. During 2008-10 and 2015-19, he headed DFAT’s North Asia Division, covering greater China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula and Mongolia.
Graham was Australia’s ambassador to the PRC during 2019-2023, a period which saw serious political and trade difficulties, the Covid pandemic, and then a process of gradual improvement.
In 2014, Graham led the negotiating team which concluded Australia’s bilateral Free Trade Agreement with China.
