China-Advanced Leadership Program
The China Advanced Leadership Program (CALP) is a collaboration between the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) and the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
The program is designed for distinguished cadres and leaders in government and statutory authorities across China – Vice-Minister, Vice-Governor and Director General-level from both provincial and central government.
The program’s central theme is Strategic Human Resource Management (HRM), with a particular focus on learning and development.
Pilot Program
The inaugural China Advanced Leadership Program was delivered over three weeks in Melbourne, Wellington, Sydney and Canberra in October/November 2011.
ANZSOG was honoured to deliver a program that enabled participants to engage with the highest levels of government and business in both Australia and New Zealand.
The Organisation Department of the Communist Party of China chose an extremely high level delegation – the highest level Chinese delegation to have visited Australia and New Zealand (excluding visits by political leaders).
The importance that governments of Australia and New Zealand attached to the delegation was reflected in the high level engagement of both governments with the delegation. In particular, we were honoured that the Governor General of Australia, Ms Quentin Bryce, AC, held a reception for the delegates at her official residence, that the Acting Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Wayne Swan, delivered the concluding address and presented each delegate with a certificate to mark the completion of the program, and that the Foreign Minister, the Hon Kevin Rudd, met the delegation twice – first at an extended morning tea and then at the final dinner at Parliament House.
Executive Academic Director
Deirdre O'Neill is an Associate Professor in Public Sector Management at Monash University, Australia’s largest university, where she is the Director of Education in the Department of Management. She was the Academic Director of the Executive Master of Public Administration program at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government from 2004 to 2010. While at ANZSOG she also designed and delivered, as Academic Director, the Pacific Executive (PACE) Program, a major public sector capacity building program for the Pacific delivered by ANZSOG in partnership with AusAID. Prior to her academic career, she worked extensively in the Victorian public sector.
Associate Professor O’Neill’s current research focus includes public sector workforce planning and development. She is currently leading a funded research project exploring performance reporting across government in Australia, and in particular the use of performance reporting by community organisations.
Associate Professor O’Neill is a board member of the Australian Journal of Public Administration. She has numerous publications in her field, including an edited book The Contract State: Public management and the Kennett Government, 1994, book chapters and articles in Australian and international journals. She is the co-author (with Owen Hughes) of Business, Government and Globalization, Palgrave Macmillan 2008. Her PhD (Monash University 2000) researched the challenge of administrative reform in government.
Presenters to the inaugural China Advanced Leadership Program included:
Professor Allan Fels, AO, Dean, The Australia and New Zealand School of Government
Associate Professor Deirdre O’Neill, Professor of Public Sector Management, Monash University and Executive Academic Director, CALP
Professor Owen Hughes, Dean of Students, RMIT
Professor Robin Kramar, Professor of Human Resource Management, The Australian Catholic University
Philip Bullock, Chair, Skills Australia
Peter Wilson, AM, National President, Australian Human Resource Institute
Helen Silver, Secretary, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria
Bruce Hartnett, Chairman, State Services Authority of Victoria
John Allen, Principal, John Allen and Associates
Neil Waters, Managing Partner, Egon Zehnder International
Paul Kelly, Editor-at-large, The Australian
Professor Neal Ashkanasy, Professor of Management, The University of Queensland
Associate Professor Keith Macky, Associate Dean Undergraduate and Teaching & Learning; Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, Auckland University of Technology
Jonathan Ling, CEO, Fletcher Building
Professor Miriam Lips, Professor of e-Government, Victoria University of Wellington
David Smol, Chief Executive Officer, Ministry of Economic Development, New Zealand
Stephen Crombie, Deputy Chief Executive Knowledge, Information, Research and Technology, Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand
Roger Sutton, CEO, Canterbury Earthquake Authority
The Honourable Sir Roger Douglas, MP
Dr Graham Scott, Executive Chairman, Southern Cross Advisers LTD
John McKinnon, Secretary and Chief Executive, Ministry of Defence, New Zealand
Lain Jager, CEO, Zespri International
Iain Rennie, State Services Commissioner, State Services Commission, New Zealand
Maarten Wevers, Chief Executive, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, New Zealand
Gary Romano, Managing Director, Trade and Operations, Fonterra
John Allen, Chief Executive and Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, New Zealand
The Honourable Dr Wayne Mapp, MP
The Honourable Andrew Stoner, MP
Murray Green, Director, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) International
Dominique Schwartz, New Zealand Foreign Correspondent, ABC
Gaven Morris, Head of Continuous News, ABS
Steve Taylor, Executive Producer, Foreign Correspondent, ABC
Michael Carey, Executive Producer, 7.30 Program, ABC
Peter Thompson, Director, Centre for Leadership
Mark Scott, Managing Director, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Greg Hywood, CEO and Managing Director, Fairfax Media Limited
Eric Beecher, Publisher, Crikey
The Honourable John Howard, AC
Craig Dunn, CEO and Managing Director, AMP
Rob Milliner, Chief Executive Partner, Mallesons Stephen Jacques
Leona Murphy, Chief Strategy Officer, Insurance Australia Group
Gerry Tidd, Executive Vice President, BlueScope Steel
Lisa Paul, AO, PSM, Secretary, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Stephen Sedgwick, Commissioner, Australian Public Service Commission
Fiona Reed, Principal, Mercer
Robyn Kruk, AM, Chief Executive Officer, Mental Health Commission
Michael Stutchbury, Editor-in-chief, the Australian Financial Review
The Honourable Wayne Swan, MP
The China Advanced Leadership Program delegation was hosted by:
Minister-Counsellor XUE Bing, Charge d'Affaires, The Embassy of the People's Republic of China, Canberra
The Honourable Ted Baillieu, Premier of Victoria
His Excellency The Honourable Alex Chernov, AO, QC
Vice Chancellor Professor Ed Byrne, AO, Monash University
The National Australia Bank
The Victorian Policy Academy
Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PWC)
The ANZ Bank
His Excellency Ambassador Xu Jianguo, The Embassy of the People's Republic of China, New Zealand
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Business Council of Australia
Insurance Australia Group
The Honourable Kevin Rudd, MP
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
Her Excellency Quentin Bryce, AC, CVO, Governor General of Australia
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