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Gordon John de Brouwer is a senior Australian public servant. He is currently Secretary of the Department of the Environment. ==Career== de Brouwer was appointed Secretary of the Department of the Environment in September 2013 and is responsible for environment policies, heritage, water and domestic climate change. Known climate change sceptic, Maurice Newman, backed de Brouwer's appointment. de Brouwer was previously the Associate Secretary in the Domestic Policy Group at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet under the Rudd Government. In this position, de Brouwer provided departmental and cross-government policy advice to the Prime Minister on domestic policy and G20 matters and was also the senior official representing Australia’s interests in the G20. Dr de Brouwer played a key role in the development of Australia's $42 billion economic stimulus package. Former secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Terry Moran, stated in his witness statement to the Home Insulation Royal Commission that de Brouwer was given primary responsibility for devising environmental initiatives and presenting them to Cabinet, including the Energy Efficient Homes Package that included the Home Insulation Program that resulted in the deaths of four insulation installers.〔http://www.homeinsulationroyalcommission.gov.au/Documentation/Documents/Statementsnotreferredtoinhearings/STA.001.071.0001.pdf〕 de Brouwer also led the Australian delegation to the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference. de Brouwer was appointed as Australia's G20 sherpa by Kevin Rudd. It was reported in Wikileaks cables that De Brouwer lamented to his contacts in the US Embassy that "PM&C foreign policy staff have been run ragged answering the PM's (Rudd's) queries and supporting his interaction with foreign officials.〔http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/us-condemns-rudd-20101207-18obr.html〕 In a series of articles in 2013 and 2014 in the Australian Financial Review, journalist Verona Burgess — citing unnamed sources — stated it was likely that de Brouwer would be appointed as Secretary to the Treasury as a replacement for Martin Parkinson. This did not occur. Before joining the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in July 2008, de Brouwer was Chief Advisor, Budget Policy Division at the Australian Department of the Treasury, where he assisted in preparing the first Budget for the Rudd Government. From February 2005 to November 2007, he was General Manager of the G20 and APEC Secretariat, set up to run policy development and logistics for the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors’ meeting in November 2006 and the APEC finance ministers’ meeting in August 2007. de Brouwer was chair of the APEC senior finance officials’ meetings in Australia’s host year and Australia’s G20 finance deputy in 2007. de Brouwer was Professor of Economics in the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University, from January 2000 to March 2004. This included a period as Executive Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre and Director of the School’s Research Committee. de Brouwer was also a member of the University’s research program on Japan’s Economy and Government and on Korea’s Economy and Government. de Brouwer remains an adjunct professor with the ANU.〔https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/de-brouwer-gj〕 Prior to joining the ANU, de Brouwer worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia, the University of Melbourne, Westpac Bank (Tokyo branch), and the Australian Treasury. de Brouwer has a doctorate in economics from the ANU and first-class honours bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from the University of Melbourne. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gordon de Brouwer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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