Editors and Contributors
Editors
Anthony Milner [homepage]Anthony Milner has been appointed as Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, with an attachment to Asialink. He is currently Basham Professor of Asian History at the Australian National University, preceding this appointment with a decade as Dean of Asian Studies. Other positions have included Director of The Academy of the Social Sciences’ major project on Australian-Asian Perceptions and visiting appointments at The Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), Humboldt University, The Research Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (Tokyo), the National University of Singapore (Raffles Visiting Professor of History).
Professor Milner’s work with the Commonwealth Government includes membership of the Foreign Affairs Council (1997-), the foundation committees of the Australia Thailand Institute (2005-) and the Australia Malaysia Institute (2005-), and Australian Research Council panels on ‘Asia’ and ‘Humanities’.
Jennifer Conley [homepage]
Jennifer Conley, principal of Conley Willox Communications, has more than 20 years’ experience in media and communications in Australia and Asia. She was a senior journalist, features writer and editor at The Age newspaper in Melbourne, before establishing her own communications consultancy in 1999. Clients have ranged across sectors from banking and general business services to education, public policy, humanitarian assistance and the arts.
Contributors
Ann Capling [homepage]
Anne Capling is Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests focus on trade policy, the multilateral trade system, and global economic governance. Her recent books include Governments, Non-State Actors and Trade Policy-Making: Negotiating Preferentially or Multilaterally? (in press), co-edited with Patrick Low and All the Way with the USA: Australia, the US and Free Trade (2005). In 2007 she was a member of the Warwick Commission on The Future of the Multilateral Trade System.
Rowan Callick is the Asia-Pacific Editor for The Australian and was the newspaper’s Beijing-based China correspondent from 2006–2008. Callick was a senior writer and editor at The Australian Financial Review for almost two decades, including China correspondent from 1996–2000. He is winner of the Graham Perkin award for Australian Journalist of the Year (1995) and a twice Walkley winner for coverage of the Asia-Pacific region (1997 and 2007). His book Comrades & Capitalists: Hong Kong since the handover was published by UNSW Press in 1998.
Alison Carroll, Former Arts Director, Asialink.
Alison Carroll has been an academic, critic, writer, curator and administrator of art exhibitions and artist exchanges with Asia for over 20 years. She was appointed to the National Advisory Committee for the Queensland Art Gallery's first (and following two) Asia Pacific Triennials of Contemporary Asian Art in 1991. She has served on the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council, Arts Victoria's Arts Development and International Advisory Committees, the Advisory Committees for Arts Management at The University of Melbourne and The University of South Australia, the Boards of the Art Museums Association of Australia, the Australia-Indonesia Institute and the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board. She established and was Director of the Arts Program at Asialink, for 20 years. This is now the leading program for arts exchange between Asia and Australia for visual arts, performing arts, literature and arts management practice.
Tan Seng Chye [homepage]
Ambassador Tan Seng Chye is Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS). He is a Vice Chairman of the International Relations Committee of the Singapore Business Federation since August 2006. Tan was a career Foreign Service Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore, (1967-2005).
Ross Cottrill [homepage]
Ross Cottrill is currently Visiting Fellow at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, ANU. He is a former head of Strategic and International Policy in Defence, who has served on a panel convened by the East West Centre Hawaii to produce annual surveys of security in the Asia-Pacific region.
Howard Dick [homepage]
Howard Dick is Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Conjoint Professor in Business and Law at the University of Newcastle. 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 (2009); Surabaya, City of Work: A Twentieth Century Socioeconomic History (2002); and (edited with Tim Lindsey), Corruption in Asia: Rethinking the Governance Paradigm (2002).
Tejpavan (Pavan) Gandhok [homepage]
Entrepreneur and private equity investor Tejpavan Gandhok is an Indian-born Australian citizen who has worked in business development roles for leading international consultancy firms, and as a project engineer and research scientist. He earned a BE Chem. Eng (Honours) from The University of Melbourne, and MBA from the University of California Los Angeles (with a place on the Dean’s list).
Geoffrey Garrett [homepage]
Geoffrey Garrett is founding CEO, United States Studies Centre, and Professor of Political Science, University of Sydney. Professor Garrett was previously President of the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles, and before that Dean of the UCLA International Institute. Garrett is a frequent commentator on all aspects of US politics, economics and foreign policy in Australian media.
Dennis Haskell [homepage]
Dennis Haskell is Professor of English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia, and Chair of the Literature Board, Australia Council
for the Arts. Professor Haskell’s 17 books include poetry and literary critical works concerned with Australia and Asia. He is also the External Examiner of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Hong Kong.
Colin Heseltine [homepage]
Colin Heseltine was Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat in Singapore during Australia’s year as host of APEC in 2007. He was also Australian ambassador to South Korea from 2001-2005, head of the Australian Commerce and Industry Office (Australia’s unofficial mission in Taiwan) from 1992-1997 and deputy head of mission in the Australian Embassy in Beijing from 1982–85 and 1988–1992, as well as holding senior positions in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra.
Stephen Howes [homepage]
Stephen Howes is Professor of Economics at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University. In 2008, he worked on the Garnaut Climate Change Review. Prior to that he was Chief Economist with the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). From 1994–2005 he was with the World Bank, including as Lead Economist for India, based in Delhi. Professor Howes has a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics, and has conducted extensive research over the last 20 years into the economies of the Asia-Pacific region.
Ron Huisken [homepage]
Ron Huisken is a senior fellow with the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University. His interests include American and Chinese security policies, multilateral security processes in East Asia and nuclear arms control/non-proliferation.
Professor Tim Lindsey [homepage]
Professor Tim Lindsey is an ARC Federation Fellow and Director of the Asian Law Centre at the University of Melbourne, which he joined in 1990. He is also Director of the Centre for Islamic Law and Society. He researches and teaches in Bahasa Indonesia and is a member of the Victorian Bar. Tim is also Chair of the Australia Indonesia Institute, was involved in the design of AusAID’s Learning Assistance Program in Islamic Schools in Indonesia and was an adviser to its IALDF Indonesia legal facility.
Tim’s publications include Indonesia: Law & Society; Law Reform in Transitional and Developing States; Corruption in Asia (with Howard Dick); and The Romance of K’tut Tantri and Indonesia. He is now working on a three-volume series, Islam, Law and the State in Southeast Asia. He is a founding editor of the Australian Journal of Asian Law.
Zhu Liqun [homepage]
Dr. Zhu Liqun is currently Assistant President of China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU). As Secretary-General of China National Association for International Studies, and the board member of Guiding Committee of History Teaching of the Ministry of Education in China, China-EU studies Association, she is actively engaged in international studies in China.
John McCarthy AO [homepage]
John McCarthy AO is one of Australia’s most distinguished diplomats. He served as Australia’s Ambassador to the United States, Mexico, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, and as High Commissioner to India. McCarthy was educated at Cambridge University where he received a Master of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws degree.
He is a barrister-at-law and practised in London from 1965 to 1966. He worked with the New York Law Firm of Shearman & Sterling from 1966 to 1967 and joined the then-Australian Foreign Service in 1968. He is now President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs and chair of the Australia-India Council.
Hamish McDonald [homepage]
Hamish McDonald is Asia-Pacific Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald and has spent 20 of his 35 years in journalism based in Asia – in Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, India and China, where he was most recently Fairfax correspondent in Beijing. He has been foreign editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and political editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. His books are: Suharto’s Indonesia (1980); The Polyester Prince (1998) and (with Desmond Ball) Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra (2001).
C. Raja Mohan [homepage]
C. Raja Mohan is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, a foreign affairs columnist for The Indian Express, and Adjunct Professor of South Asian Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, a foreign affairs columnist for The Indian Express, and Adjunct Professor of South Asian Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Maurice L Newman AC [homepage]
Maurice L Newman AC is currently Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He retired as Chairman of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX Limited) in September 2008. His career spans stockbroking and investment banking, including Executive Chairman of Deutsche Bank Group Australia from 1985 until 1999. Mr Newman has chaired a number of Asian business alliances, and has been adviser to Australian governments on several advisory panels and boards. He was Chancellor of Macquarie University from 2002 to February 2008. He is an adviser to the Marsh Group of Companies; Director, Queensland Investment Corporation; Honorary Chair, Macquarie University Foundation; Chairman, Australian Fathers’ Day Council; Chairman, Taronga Foundation; and Patron of CEDA.
Heather Ridout [homepage]
Heather Ridout is Chief Executive of the Australian Industry Group, the leading association representing businesses in manufacturing, construction, automotive, ICT, transport, defence and labour hire. She is a leading figure in Australian public policy debate, and is a member of a number of policy setting and consultative groups including Skills Australia, the Business Advisory Group on Workplace Relations, Infrastructure Australia and the Henry Review into Australia’s Taxation System.
Michael Smith OBE [homepage]
Michael Smith has been Chief Executive Officer of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) since October 2007. Until June 2007, Mr Smith was President and CEO, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited; Chairman, Hang Seng Bank Limited; Global Head of Commercial Banking for the HSBC Group and Chairman, HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad. Mr Smith was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2000 and a Chevalier de l’Ordre du Merite Agricole in 2007.
Greg Sheridan [homepage]
Greg Sheridan is foreign editor of The Australian, and one of Australia’s most influential foreign affairs commentators. He has been writing about Asia for 30 years and has produced five books on Asia and foreign policy. He has interviewed prime ministers and presidents all over Asia. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Land Warfare Studies Centre, a member of the board of the Australia Indonesia Institute and a founding member of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue. His work has been translated into many Asian languages and has appeared in newspapers and foreign policy journals around the world, including The Sunday Times of London, The Wall Street Journal, The Jakarta Post and The South China Morning Post.
Prapat Thepchatree
Dr. Prapat Thepchatree is the Director at Thammasat University Research and the Consultancy Institute and Associate Professor with the Faculty of Political Science at Thammasat University. Dr Prapat is also the Director of ASEAN Studies Project, Thammasat University.
Professor Nancy Viviani
From as early as 1973 - the year the White Australia Policy was finally abolished - and continuing today, Professor Nancy Viviani’s work has reflected an aspiration and an optimism that Australia will “beat history” and avoid the racial tensions and conflict endemic in other multi-racial societies. Read full Citation [pdf, 92 kb, 3 pages] delivered by Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, Professor Glyn Davis, at the Asialink Chairman's Dinner on 1 December 2009.
Trevor Wilson [homepage]
Trevor Wilson, Emeritus Professor of History, was appointed an Honorary Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2007 for his services to education through teaching, writing and historical research in the area of military history of Word War I. His revolutionary work The Myriad Faces of War (1986) examined in a new way, from a vast range of sources, not only the battle front but the impact of World War I on all aspects of the British nation. Professor Wilson's subsequent books, co-authored with Professor Robin Prior, include The Somme (2005), Passchendaele (1996), The First World War (1999), and Command on the Western Front 1914-1918 (1992).
Richard Woolcott AC [homepage]
Richard Woolcott AC is the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy appointed in 2008 to develop an Asia Pacific community concept. He was Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade from 1988 to 1992, after a distinguished diplomatic career in Malaysia, Singapore, Ghana, the Philippines, Indonesia, and as Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1982-1988). In 1989 he was closely involved with the establishment of the Asia Pacific Regional Economic Cooperation forum (APEC), as former Prime Minister Hawke’s Special Envoy. Mr Woolcott is the Founding Director of the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre, and a recipient of the Sir Edward “Weary” Dunlop Asia Medal.