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About Tasman Asia Pacific Tasman Asia Pacific has developed a network of highly skilled professionals who provide expert policy experience, research and economic and financial analysis for a wide range of Projects. A small core team of staff in the Melbourne office is supported on projects through a wide network of professionals who provide specialist expertise as required. Our strategic alliances ensure we have a full range of professional staff from academic and business circles.
Coordination staff A small team of staff in Melbourne lead the projects and activities for Tasman Asia Pacific and Tasman Institute. Click on the names below to see more information about the staff member's background and expertise.
Michael Porter, Executive Chairman Affiliations Both Tasman Asia Pacific and Tasman Institute are affiliated institutions of the University of Melbourne. Our network A wide network of experts and professionals join us in our projects to provide specialist inputs. Some firms organizations and people we are currently working with include: Ministry of Settlement and Regional Infrastructure (KIMPRASWIL), Indonesia Deacons International Projects Asialink (University of Melbourne) Brighten Institute, Bogor, Indonesia Maunsell Hong Kong Monash International Independent Studies Michael Porter, Executive Chairman Dr Michael Porter is the Executive Chairman and founder of Tasman Asia Pacific and Tasman Institute. As an internationally acknowledged expert on private sector participation in infrastructure, he has extensive practical experience in designing and implementing institutional and regulatory reform to encourage private sector skills, capital and ownership structures to the roads, water, rail and power sectors. Most recently, Michael has completed a World Bank funded project on private sector participation in toll roads in Indonesia, and has worked with private clients on the water and wastewater sectors in Europe and Asia. Michael’s work in Asia spans Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, China and Vietnam, with projects undertaken for the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the Australian government. In Australia, Michael has worked for a number of government entities and private clients, having played a key role in the Victorian reforms of the early 1990s. Previously, Michael founded the Centre of Policy Studies at Monash University, which was the sole winner of an Australian Government Research Centre of Excellence Award in economics. He has worked for the International Monetary Fund, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Reserve Bank of Australia and has been a Professor of Economics at Universities including Monash, Yale and Stanford.
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