David Dodwell

David Dodwell is CEO of the trade policy and international relations consultancy Strategic Access, focused on developments and challenges facing the Asia-Pacific over the past four decades.

David Dodwell is the executive director of the Hong Kong-APEC Trade Policy Study Group, a trade policy think tank.

Recent articles by David Dodwell

Troubled US could learn from its differences with China, rather than simply challenge them

Troubled US could learn from its differences with China, rather than simply challenge them

Difference is intrinsically good, a vital force behind creativity and innovation, and an essential ingredient for international competition. It becomes a negative force only when people or governments try to impose those differences on others, and this is not something China has done.

Efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss are inseparable as new mass extinction looms

Efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss are inseparable as new mass extinction looms

Recently, I had a catch-up conversation on climate change and November’s UN climate change conference (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh with one of Hong Kong’s most conscientious students of the subject.