Australian expatriate Clinton Dines has been at the heart of China's transition from a politically isolated agricultural state to an industrial powerhouse. How? As a leading executive working in China on behalf of global companies Clinton witnessed this change first hand and was an active participant in the spectacular commercial development that resulted.
In 1979, as a Griffith student, he travelled to China on a postgraduate program--and there he's been thriving since. With senior roles at the Jardine Mattheson Group, the Santa Fe Transoort and with BHP Billiton, he also served as Attache to the Australian Olympic Team during the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Clinton's Griffith degree in Asian Studies concentrated on Asian economics, which , when you reflect on what the world was like in the mid 1970's-- was an interest that proved visionary.
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