ACITI spoke to Brendan Pearson, Australia's Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) until February 2025, about his time representing Australia at the OECD.

The discussion canvases what the OECD is and what it does, the OECD's contribution to policy making in Australia and globally and its role in enabling international economic cooperation.

It also touches on a recent OECD study - How Governments Back the Largest Manufacturing Firms - and its relevance to Trump Administration trade policies.

The discussion highlighted how much important work is going on at the OECD that too few people are aware of.

You can watch the video of the webinar HERE, or listen to it on the ACITI Webinar Podcast channel on Spotify and Apple Podcasts HERE.

More important, you can access OECD data and reports HERE. This includes a range of reports on Australia and the report mentioned in the webinar on industrial susbsidies - How Government's Back the Largest Manufacturing Firms.