conversation about how to double the size of the American food industry to US$1.8 trillion and thereby create millions of new jobs under the slogan "Export Food, Not Jobs". At subsequent Global Food Forum dinners during 2017 in Los Angeles and Chicago, Pratt continued to advocate for increased U.S. food exports. In September 2013, Pratt was elected an executive member of the Australia-Japan Business Cooperation Committee, a group dedicated for more than 50 years to strengthening ties between the two countries. In October 2013, Prime Minister Tony Abbott invited Pratt on an official visit to Indonesia – the first overseas trip by the incoming leader. Later that month, Pratt announced that former advisor to President Obama and the outgoing US Ambassador to Australia, Jeffrey Bleich, would join the Pratt Group advisory board. In 2013, Pratt was awarded an honorary PhD by Monash University, for an "outstanding career of achievement and service to philanthropy, business and commerce." He is also a member of the Australian-American Leadership Dialogue, which seeks to strengthen and deepen the ties between Australian and American leaders. In November 2021, Pratt funded the establishment of The Australia Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) to further promote ties between the two countries. In 2017, Anthony Pratt attended Vice President Mike Pence's business roundtable at the Vice President's official residence in Washington D.C. Also in 2017, Anthony Pratt became a member of Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's private Florida club. In 2017, Pratt launched the Superfund Roundtable in partnership with the Australian Financial Review. The annual event attracts some of the nation's leading business executives and financiers and is aimed at increasing superfund lending to Australian businesses to drive economic growth and create jobs. The Australian treasurer Jim Chalmers was the guest speaker at the most recent roundtable in August 2022. Earlier that year, Pratt was made an honorary Kentucky Colonel by Gov Beshear. Then in October, Pratt gave the opening address at the inaugural New York Times New Climate Conference in San Francisco. He was founding sponsor of the event. That same year, Pratt also founded the inaugural Recycling Roundtable in partnership with the Sydney Morning Herald. Its goals are to halve Australian landfills by 2030 through increased recycling and thereby reduce pressure on natural resources. The second SMH Recycling Roundtable, held in February, 2023, attracted leaders of some of Australia’s biggest companies as well as the