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The Hon Dr.Craig Emerson MP
Craig Emerson has been the
Member for Rankin QLD since 1998.After the 2010 federal election he was
appointed the Minister for Trade. Prior to that, he had portfolio responsibility
for small business, competition policy, consumer affairs and deregulation.
Craig holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) Degree from the University of
Sydney, a Master of Economics Degree from the University of Sydney and a PhD in
Economics from The Australian National University.
He has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at The Australian National University and has
17 publications to his name, including a book setting out a vision and plan for
Australia's future. Since becoming a parliamentarian Craig has had more than 70
opinion pieces published in national newspapers.
Professionally, he has been Secretary of a Queensland Government Department, CEO
of a Queensland Statutory Authority, Assistant Secretary in the Department of
the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Economic Analyst at the United Nations.Craig
was a senior policy adviser to former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, former Premier
Wayne Goss and earlier to Finance Minister Peter Walsh.
In addition to his more than 25 years of public policy work, Craig has
successfully run his own small business.Craig's other interests include Rugby
Union and Rugby League and he still plays a few games for the Parliamentary
Rugby Union Team.
