Setting the scene for the Austrade story - Bruno Mascitelli The Australian trade and investment big picture over the past decades - Phil Ruthven The Australian Trade Commissioner Service - the impact of its ethos on its operation and its reputation - Richard Fletcher The Ministerial architect of Austrade: Extracts of an interview with John Dawkins Getting the Show on the Road: the MacAlister years 1986-90 - Geoff Spears and Bruno Mascitelli Austrade before and after the collapse of the USSR - Ian Wing The McKinsey Review of Austrade, 1990 - Terry Goss My years as Managing Director of Austrade: Interview with Ralph Evans Some reflections on the Charles Jamieson years: Interview with Peter Langhorne Leading from the front: Interview with Tim Fischer "Doubling the number of exporters" - Greg Joffe Austrade: Winning investment for Australia since 1987 - Peter Collens Austrade's "Special markets" - A perspective from Russia - Roger James Austrade and the media - Interview with Tim Harcourt Women in Austrade - Elizabeth Masamune and Pat Evans A view from an Austrade local employed manager in Prague, Czech Republic - Petr Vodvarka "Crossing the rainbow" - My decade long experiences as an OEE with Austrade China - Lucy Luo Performance Management in Austrade - Greg Dodds The architecture of trade promotion - Bruce Nicholls The future role of Austrade in a globalised trade market - Peter Wilton Austrade today and tomorrow: Interview with Bruce Gosper Austrade's greatest asset: Our people shine through - Laurie Smith Austrade seen from the outside: views from within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Mike Adams and Nicolas Brown Quo vadit Austrade? - Bruno Mascitelli *** Bruno Mascitelli is Associate Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. Between 1982 and 1997 Bruno was employed by Austrade as a local employed staff in the Milan (Italy) office. He joined academia in 2000 and has since then published widely in the area of international business, migration and the Italian diaspora.