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Ms Julia Fraser Julia Fraser is the Director of Leadership and Community Programs, Asialink, is a member of Asialink's Executive and Co-Director of the secretariat of Asia-Australia Mental Health, a consortium of partners at the University of Melbourne and St. Vincent's Health.
Her expertise is in facilitating adult learning, large scale project management, developing training curriculum and programs for a wide variety of audiences in Australia and the region.
From 1999-2001, Ms Fraser managed the City of Melbourne's Millennium and Olympic Programs. This involved creating and managing community programs that involved over 750 000 people, and chairing and managing the Olympic Torch relay for Melbourne. Previously she was the National Manager of the Asia Education Foundation at the Asialink Centre, where she led a national team and managed a network of over 1000 Australian schools.
Ms Fraser's formal qualifications in Arts, Education and Management are from the University of Melbourne and RMIT.
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Dr Margaret Byrne has worked and consulted in China, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, the UK, New Zealand, France and Italy, as well as in four Pacific nations. She has a long-standing commitment to helping managers and leaders operate internationally. This includes supporting Westerners engage with an increasingly global market. For example, Margaret prepares each of Australia's Trade Commissioners before their departure to more than thirty different countries.
This commitment also involves assisting non-Westerners build productive relationships with their English-speaking colleagues and counterparts. Margaret has designed and delivered programs on negotiating with Westerners for the Chinese Government in Beijing. Her program 'Working with Australians' has now been delivered many times across the Asia-Pacific region.
From her study of other societies, Margaret brings a deep interest in challenging the assumptions and expectations that can limit our thinking. She brings this skill to the design delivery of the leadership component of the public programs conducted by Asialink, at the University of Melbourne, in partnership with the ANU and UTS.
Margaret is known for the way she balances intellectual rigour, with a passion for the practical outcomes that make a difference to leaders and their organisations.
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Professor Anthony (Tony) Milner, Basham Professor of Asian History at the Australia National University
Tony was previously Dean of Asian Studies, Australia National University and Director of the Australian-Asian Perceptions Project, Academy of the Social Sciences.
Tony has been a member of the Commonwealth Government's Foreign Affairs Council since 1997, and was, for four years, a Panel Member of the Australian Research Council. He was a member of Council at the Australian National University, 2000-2002. In 2005, Tony was appointed member of both the newly formed Australia Malaysia Institute and Australia Thailand Institute.
Tony is Co-Chair of the Australian Committee of the Council for the Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and of the Advisory Council of the AustralAsia Centre of The Asia Society.
In may 2001, he was Co-Convenor with Jenny McGregor (Asialink) of the Melbourne Roundtable, 'Australia's Future, Asia'. In 2002 and 2004, Tony has been a member of the organizing committee for the Asialink Conversations. Tony has also been a key contributor to the Asialink Leadership Program since its inception.
Tony was educated at Monash University, the University of Malaya and Cornell University and is also a member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1989-1990).
Tony's writings have been published extensively and he has written numerous opinion pieces for The Australian, the Australian Financial Review and other papers.
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Dr Grant Robertson holds an MBA and Master of Electronic Commerce, having initially completed a Bachelor of Social Science, as well as an Honours Degree in Psychology. Grant has submitted his doctoral thesis in leadership, focussing on the very topical issues of distributed leadership and followership.
Grant was born in South Africa, where he held a wide range of positions in the corporate, public and education sectors. In each, he envisioned, championed and led strategic projects that resulted in significant organisational change.
He is deeply interested in strategic thinking and strategic planning, and has consulted in this field to a range of organisations across all industry sectors.
Grant also has extensive experience in the design and delivery of development programs for executives and high potential leaders. He is known for his energetic and engaging presentation style.
He is an experienced executive coach, and has also coached elite athletes for peak performance.
His capacity to solve problems from a multi-disciplinary perspective, drawn from his diverse business experience, is a key strength that Grant brings to every client assignment.
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Professor Howard Dick is Professor in the Department of Management & Marketing, University of Melbourne and Conjoint Professor in the Faculty of Business & Law, University of Newcastle (NSW).
His research has focused on the economics and economic history of Indonesia with current emphasis on urbanisation and governance. Recent publications on Asia include (with Peter Rimmer), The City in Southeast Asia: Patterns, Processes and Policy, National University of Singapore Press (2009) and Cities, Transport and Communications: The Integration of Southeast Asia since 1850, Palgrave, London (2003); Surabaya, City of Work: A Twentieth Century Socioeconomic History, Ohio University Press (2002); (with others) The Emergence of a National Economy: An Economic History of Indonesia, 1800-2000, Allen & Unwin (2002); and (edited with Tim Lindsey), Corruption in Asia: Rethinking the Governance Paradigm, Federation Press (2002). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies and Editor of the Asian Studies Association of Australia’s Southeast Asia Publications Series with NUS Press, Singapore.
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Professor Adrian Vickers
Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Sydney.
Adrian Vickers has been carrying out research on Indonesia for almost thirty years, and in that period has observed the shifts in relations between Australia and Indonesia. Adrian’s disciplinary background is mainly in history, anthropology and cultural studies. As well as the Indonesian language, his research has involved drawing on sources in Balinese, Kawi (Old and Middle Javanese) and Dutch.
Research areas include Indonesian history and historiography, Indonesian art, Panji stories in Southeast Asia, labour and globalisation in the Asia-Pacific, and Australian-Indonesian relations. Current projects include the politics of Indonesian history since the fall of Suharto, Indonesian labour migration to northern Australia, the clothing industry in the Asia-Pacific, and the history of Balinese painting.
His publications include: A History of Modern Indonesia; Journeys of Desire: The Balinese Malat in Text and History; and Balinese Modern Art. Mementos, Diversions and Masterworks 1928-1942.
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Dr Milton Osborne has been associated with Southeast Asia for more than forty years since being posted to the Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh in 1959.
A graduate of Sydney and Cornell Universities, he has held academic positions in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Singapore.
In 1980 and 1981 he was a consultant to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees in relation to the Cambodian refugee problem, working along the Thai-Cambodian border. In 1982 he returned to government service as Head of the Asia Branch of the Office of National Assessments, also serving for a year as Head of Current Intelligence.
Since 1993 he has been an independent writer and consultant on Asian issues, based in Sydney, and has been an Adjunct Professor and visiting fellow in the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra.
He is the author of ten books and many articles on Asian subjects including: Southeast Asia: An Introductory History, now in its ninth edition; River Road to China: The Search for the Source of the Mekong (A New York Times "notable book"); and The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future.
Key recent publications:
- The Paramount Power: China and the Countries of Southeast Asia. Lowy Institute Paper 11.
- River at Risk: the Mekong and the Water Politics of China and Southeast Asia. Lowy Institute Paper 02.
- Phnom Penh: A Cultural And Literary History.
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Ms Farida Fleming has a background in teaching, research and evaluation. She spent over 10 years working on and managing development projects for AusAID, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. This work has taken her to Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
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