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After
being educated at Melbourne University and obtaining degrees in Commerce
(Accountancy and Economics) and Arts (English and Russian Language and
Literature), Reg Little joined the Australian diplomatic service in 1963.
During his 25 years in that service he worked as Deputy or Head of Mission in
five of his nine overseas posts. This work took him to Japan, Laos,
Bangladesh, United Nations New York, Ireland, Hong Kong, China, and Jamaica.
From in-country training he gained high level qualifications in Japanese and
Chinese. He served in Canberra as Director of North Asia, International
Economic Organizations, Policy Planning and the Australia-China Council.
He has
participated by invitation regularly in conferences in Asia on cultural
tradition and economic development since 1987 and has been a Director of the
Beijing based International Confucian Association since its foundation in
1994. He has co-authored two previous books — The Confucian Renaissance
(1989, published several times in both Japanese and Chinese) and The Tyranny
of Fortune: Australia’s Asian Destiny (1997) — and has recently authored A
Confucian-Daoist Millennium? (2006).
Since
leaving the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade he has pursued
a variety of private sector activities including political and economic
commentary, property investment and development and education, tourism and
export consultancy. He has also been employed by the Queensland Government in
international business, employment creation, community development, industry
training reform and coordinating state and national training policy.
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