Mr Ian Fry represents the Tuvalu Government in numerous international fora including the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Commission for Sustainable Development, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol, Convention on Biological Diversity, and United Nations General Assembly. He is the spokesperson for the Alliance of Small Island States on mitigation in the consideration of future climate change regimes and is currently undertaking a part-time doctorate through the Fenner School of Environment and Society (ANU) looking at land use change and forestry issues under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol. Recently Mr Fry gave a presentation outlining Tuvalu’s perspective on climate change negotiations.  The talk was hosted by the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program, College of Asia and the Pacific.