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Editors
Jennifer Conley
Anthony Milner

Contributors
Rowan Callick
Ross Cottrill
Howard Dick
Colin Heseltine
Stephen Howe
Ron Huisken
Hamish McDonald
Greg Sheridan
Richard Woolcott

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. Jennifer manages communications and media outreach for Asialink and the Asia Education Foundation.

Contributors

Rowan Callick [homepage]
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.

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).

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.

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).

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.

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.