The speakers were Sir Neville Jordan (chair of the New Zealand-Indonesia Council and chancellor of VUW), Jenny McGregor (general manager trade strategy, Global Stakeholder Affairs, Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd), Catherine Beard (executive director, Manufacturing & Export NZ), Simon Watt (partner of Bell Gully), HE Maris Sangiampongsa (ambassador of Thailand and chair of ASEAN Heads of Mission in Wellington), Ben King (deputy secretary of foreign affairs and trade), Simon Murdoch
CNZM (deputy chair, Asia New Zealand Foundation), Prof Ian O.
Prof Roger Stewart Morris
CNZM (retired professor of animal health, Massey University), 'From Influenza and SARS to Ebola and Foot and Mouth: New Zealand's Contribution to Controlling the International Spread of Infectious Diseases'.
On 19 November Rob Robinson
CNZM, former commissioner of police, addressed the branch on 'International Police Plan to Combat One of the World's Biggest Killers'.