Combined Bios for Print Final as Sent1

Indonesia-Australia Dialogue
Hotel Intercontinental, Sydney, 117 Macquarie St, Sydney
Sunday 3 March and Monday 4 March 2013
Biographical Information
Senator The Hon Bob Carr
Minister for Foreign Affairs
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Minister for Foreign Affairs from March 2012
Senator for New South Wales
Former Premier of New South Wales (1995-2005)
Has served in a number of ministerial appointments
in New South Wales, including Minister for
Citizenship and Minister for Ethnic Affairs\\

The Hon Julie Bishop MP
Deputy Leader of the Opposition
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Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia
Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade
Elected to the House of Representatives for Curtin,
Western Australia
Former Minister for Education, Science and Training
(2006-2007)

Dr Hassan Wirajuda
Dewan Pertimbangan Presiden
(The President Advisory
Council)

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Ambassador Nadjib Riphat
Kesoema
Indonesian Ambassador to
Australia

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Former Foreign Minister (2001 – 2009)
Former Director-General of Political Affairs
(2000-01) and former Director of International

Organizations (1993–97) at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
Former Ambassador and Permanent
Representative to the United Nations (1998-2000)
Former Ambassador to Egypt (1997-98)
PhD in Juridical Science in International Law
from the University of Virginia (1987)

Indonesian Ambassador to Australia and the
Republic of Vanuatu.
Deputy for Foreign Affairs, Coordinating Ministry
for Political, Legal and Security Affairs of the
Republic of Indonesia (2011-12)
Head of Centre for Education and Training, MFA
(2002-06)
Minister Counsellor (Political) - Indonesian Embassy
Canberra (1999-2002)

Australian Dialogue Participants

John McCarthy AO
National President, Australian
Institute of International Affairs

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Waleed Aly
Lecturer, Monash University

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Chris Barnes
Managing Director, Braehead
Advisory

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Former Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, Mexico,
Thailand, the United States of America, Indonesia
and Japan as well as High Commissioner to India
National President of the Australian Institute of
International Affairs

Chairman of the Australia-India Council
Barrister of Law
Qualifications: Bachelor of Laws, MA at Cambridge
University

Lecturer in Politics, Political and Social Enquiry at
Monash University
Former Head of Public Affairs of the Executive
Committee of the Islamic Council of Victoria
Former solicitor for Maddocks Lawyers until 2007
Explored the mistaken thinking behind ideas of
difference in his 2007 book People Like Us
Host of the Big Ideas show for the ABC and the
Drive program on ABC Radio National

National Vice President, Immediate Past President,
Australia Indonesia Business Council
Advisor, Indonesian Growth Strategy, Commonwealth
Bank of Australia Ltd
Former Director, International Chamber of Commerce

(Australia)
Member of the Business Partnership Group advising
the Australian and Indonesian Governments on the
Indonesia Australia Comprehensive Partnership
Agreement (IA- CEPA)

Rodney Bloom
Executive Director Development,
CSIRO

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Larissa Brown
Founder, Centre for
Sustainability Leadership

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Melissa Conley Tyler
National Executive Director,
Australian Institute of
International Affairs

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Appointed to the CSIRO Executive in November
2012
Responsible for growth, international and
development activities at CSIRO
Former Managing Director of Deloitte Innovation

Academy

Currently researching climate change
communications as part of a double Masters at the
London School of Economics and Cambridge
University
Has lectured in sustainability leadership at a number
of Australian universities.
Recipient of a number of awards, including the
Young Environmentalist of the Year in 2008 and
Young Australian of the Year in 2010 (VIC)

Lawyer
Specialist in conflict resolution, including mediation
negotiation, and peace education
Former Program Manager of the International
Conflict Resolution Centre at the University of
Melbourne, Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School

Allaster Cox

Assistant Secretary, Indonesia
and Timor Leste, Department of
Foreign Affairs and Trade

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Stephen Creese
EGM Corporate Affairs,
Newcrest Mining Limited

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Dr John Edwards

Reserve Bank of Australia

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Former Australian Ambassador to Vietnam
Former Australian High Commissioner in Brunei
Darussalam (2001-2004)
Former Australian Counselor in Jakarta (1992-1996)
Former Assistant Secretary, Global Issues Branch in
the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Appointed Newcrest General Counsel and Company
Secretary in November 2009
Former General Counsel of Rio Tinto Limited (19952008) and former Managing Director of Rio Tinto
Australia
Independent Chair of the National Employment
Services Association (NESA) and a part time
member of the Australian Takeovers Panel

Member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of
Australia
Adjunct Professor, John Curtin Institute of Public
Policy, Curtin Business School, Curtin University
Adjunct Professor, University of Sydney School of
Business
Visiting Fellow, Lowy Institute for International
Policy
Member, Australian Workforce and Productivity
Agency

Samah Hadid
Human Rights Activist

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Australian Director of the Global Poverty Project
2010 Australian Youth Representative to the United
Nations
NSW State Finalist, Young Australian of the Year
2011
Fellow with the United Nations Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights

Ed Husic MP
Federal Member for Chifley
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Dr Leonie Lethbridge
Chief Operating Officer, ANZ
Indonesia

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Elected to the House of Representatives for Chifley,
New South Wales, 2010
Former National President of the Communications,
Electrical and Plumbing Union
Worked for Integral Energy as Communications
Director

Has held a number of roles within ANZ, in Australia
and across Asia Pacific over the last 10 years
Vice President of the Indonesia Australia Business
Council
Prior to joining ANZ, she was a management
consultant, advising clients in the Financial Services,
Manufacturing, and Telecommunications sectors
Her career also includes senior executive roles in the
manufacturing industry, based in both Australia and
Asia

Professor Tim Lindsey
Malcolm Smith Professor of
Asian Law, University of
Melbourne

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Professor Andrew MacIntyre
Dean, ANU College of Asia and
the Pacific

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Dr Dave McRae
Research Fellow, Lowy Institute

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Chair of the Australia-Indonesia Institute (AII)
Director, Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and
Society, The University of Melbourne
Lawyer
Books include Islam, Law and the State in Southeast
Asia , Law and Society in Indonesia and The
Constitution of Indonesia

Chair of the Board of the ANU Indonesia Project
Founder of the former Australia-Indonesia
Governance Research Partnership
An active member of the Australian American
Leadership Dialogue
A member of the Board of Directors of the Asia
Foundation - Australia, and a member of the Board
of the ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
Research projects include a multi-author study of
Asian regional institutions and an assessment of the
trajectory for democracy in Southeast Asia

Research fellow covering Indonesia and Southeast
Asia at the Lowy Institute for International Policy
Lead Researcher for the World Bank’s Conflict and
Development Team in Indonesia between 2008 and
2010
Worked for the Jakarta office of the International
Crisis Group between 2004 and 2006
Wrote his Ph.D. on post-authoritarian inter-religious
violence in Indonesia

George Megalogenis
Former Senior Feature Writer for
The Australian

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Bruce Munro
Managing Director, Thiess
Mining Ltd

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Former senior feature writer for The Australian
Spent over a decade in the Canberra Press Gallery
Has written a number of books, among them
Faultlines: race, work and the politics of changing
Australia ; The Longest Decade; and The Australian
Moment

36 years’ experience in construction and mining,
involving projects in Australia and Asia
Joined Thiess in 1986 and in 1999 was appointed
President Director of PT Thiess Contractors
Indonesia, a role he fulfilled for eight years during
which time it underwent major growth and won
major mining/construction contracts.
Qualifications: Faculty of Civil Engineering,
University of NSW, Sydney
Non-Executive Director of Sedgman, a leading
provider of minerals processing and associated
infrastructure to the global resources industry
Board member of the Minerals Council of Australia
and Australian Constructors Association and
Queensland Chair of the Australia Indonesia
Business Council

Paul Ramadge
Professorial Fellow, Monash
University
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Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow, Monash
University
Former Chief Editor of The Age

Assoc. Prof. David Reeve
Deputy Director ACISIS,
University of New South Wales

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Andrew Ross
Consultant, Ministry of Tourism
and Creative Economy, Indonesia

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Mark Scott AO
Managing Director, ABC

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Greg Sheridan
Foreign Editor, The Australian

ACICIS Study Tour Coordinator
Founding lecturer in the Australian Studies program
at Universitas Indonesia in the 1980s
He has a long association with Indonesia as a
diplomat, historian and project manager

Consultant, Indonesian Performing Arts Market
Director of Brisbane Powerhouse 2004 – 2012 where
he was producer/presenter of numerous works by
Indonesian performing artists including Nan
Jombang Dance Company, Ubiet, Butet Kartaredjasa,
Kua Etnika and Teater Payung Hitam
Former Artistic Director of Black Swan Theatre,
Perth 1991-2003 where he was director of landmark
productions including Bran Nue Dae, The Merry Go
Round in the Sea, Tourmaline, Sistergirl, and
Corrugation Road
Australia-Indonesia Merdeka fellow
Managing Director of the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation (ABC) since July 2006, transforming the
ABC from a broadcast model into a digital media
network
He has inaugurated ABC News 24 and ABC3
children's television channels, and expanded radio
and mobile services and ABC Online
He has pursued an international policy of acquiring
new audiences for Radio Australia and Australia
Network, flagged an ambitious new strategy vision
and expanded its international project work through
partnerships with agencies such as AusAid
In 1985 he was appointed Beijing Correspondent at
The Australian. From 1986 to 1987 he was
Washington Correspondent for that paper. In 1988 he
became foreign affairs writer in Canberra. He has
been Foreign Editor of The Australian since 1992

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Lenore Taylor
Incoming Political Editor, The
Guardian Australian

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Professor Fiona Wood
Director, Burns Service of
Western Australia

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Ken Wyatt AM MP
Federal Member for Hasluck

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His work has appeared in newspapers around the
world, including The Sunday Times of London, The
Wall Street Journal, the Jakarta Post and the South
China Morning Post. He has written four books on
Asian politics as well as a book on Australia-U.S.
relations

Has covered federal politics for 23 years with both
Fairfax and News Corp newspapers
Currently National Affairs Correspondent for the
Sydney Morning Herald
Former foreign correspondent for The Australian
Financial Review
Awards include the Paul Lyneham award for
excellence in press gallery journalism in 2007 and
the Walkley Award for ‘best scoop of the year’ in
2010

Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Royal Perth Hospital
and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
Winthrop Professor in the School of Surgery at The
University of Western Australia
Cofounder and Director of AVITA Medical
(formally Clinical Cell Culture {C3})
Co‐founder/Chair, Fiona Wood Foundation
Australian of the Year 2005

Became the first Indigenous Australian to become a
member of the House of Representatives, winning
the seat of Hasluck for the Liberal Party at the 2010
federal election
A primary school teacher for 16 years before entering
the public sector
District Director of the Swan Education District and
Director of Aboriginal Health in Western Australia
and New South Wales

Indonesian Dialogue Participants
Dr Rizal Sukma
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Co-Convenor, Second
Indonesia Australia Dialogue
2013

Ms Rahimah Abdulrahim

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Ms Lina A. Alexandra

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Dr Anies Baswedan

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Executive Director CSIS

Executive Director, Habibie Center, Jakarta

Researcher, Department of Politics and
International Relations, CSIS

Rector, University of Paramadina, Jakarta
Founder, “Indonesia Mengajar”

Dr Bahtiar Effendy

Ms Ratu Silvy Gayatri

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Professor in Political Science, UIN Syarif
Hidayatullah

Secretary, Directorate-General for Asia-Pacific
and Africa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Dr Sandra Hamid

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Country Representative, The Asia Foundation

Ms Zulfiani Lubis

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Chief Editor, ANTV

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Member of Indonesian Press Council

Dr Abdul Mu’ti

Mr John Riady

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Secretary, PP Muhammadiyah

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Director, Lippo Group

Prof. Djisman Simanjuntak 

Mr Kemal Stamboel

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Chairman, Prasetiya Mulya Foundation

DPR-RI, Commission XI (Finance, National
Development Planning, Banking and Non-Bank
Financial Institutions)
Independent Commissioner of PT Holcim
Indonesia, PT. Titan Kimia Nusantara Tbk and
PT Semen Cibinong Tbk.

Ms Eva Sundari

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Mr Meidyatama
Suryadiningrat

Mr Abdillah Toha

Membership in the Steering Committee of AseanInter Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIMPC),
Human Right Parliamentary Caucus as well as
other local women organization in Indonesia

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Chief Editor, The Jakarta Post

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Advisor to the Vice President

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Dr Zulkieflimansyah

DPR-RI, Commission III (Law, Human Rights
and Defence)

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Former Member of Commission I, DPR-RI 20042009
Former Chairman, Inter-parliamentary
Cooperation Body (Badan Kerjasama Antar
Parlemen/BKSAP)

Vice Chairman, Commission XI, DPR-RI
Chairman, DPP, Partai Keadilan Sejahtera

Dialogue Attendees
Bayu Dardias Kurniadi
PhD Candidate, Australian National
University

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Umbu Reku Raya
PhD Candidate, Australian National
University

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Eko Saputro
Student Competition Winner

Nicholas Mark
Student Competition Winner

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Lecturer Department of Politics and Government,
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Gadjah
Mada University, Indonesia
Editor of “Practicing Qualitative Research
Methods: Lessons from UGM” in 2011

Phd Candidate, Ardnt-Corden Department of
Economics, Australian National University
Completed Economics PhD coursework at Research
School of Economics, Australian National
University
Founded Pupukape in 2001, a self-supported project
to put youth from poor backgrounds in university

Deakin University
Head of ASEAN’s Partners Cooperation
Subdivision at Center for International Cooperation
Policy, Ministry of Finance (MoF), Indonesia,
(2008-2010)

University of Sydney
Australia-Indonesia Youth Association (AIYA)
NSW Chapter President (April 2012 – present)
Co-founder and editor of Heidelberg Media

Observers
Gary R.M. Jusuf, Consul-General of the Republic of Indonesia in Sydney
Nico Manoppo, Consul
Fahmi Jamaludin, Consul
Fajar Yusuf, Vice-Consul
Novaliana Tambunan, Vice-Consul
Arya Widyatmoko, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Bu Artauli Tobing, Assistant to Member of the Council of Presidential Advisors
Vivi Feriany, Assistant to Member of the Council of Presidential Advisors
Richard Rodgers, Director, Indonesia Economic and Timor-Leste Section, Department of
Foreign Affairs and Trade
Dana Robertson, Media Liaison Officer, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Pierre Grobler, Indonesia Economic and Timor-Leste Section, Department of Foreign Affairs
and Trade
Silai Zaki, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Robert Law, Office of National Assessments
Graeme Wedderburn, Senior Advisor, Office of Senator Bob Carr
Anne Witheford, Advisor, Office of Senator Bob Carr
Sam Riordan, Senior Foreign Affairs Adviser, Office of the Hon Julie Bishop MP
Clement Paligaru, Acting Head – Asia, ABC International
Dian Islamiati, Manager of Distribution Indonesia, ABC International
Alexander Kawilarang, News Editor, VIVAnews.com and Winner, Elizabeth O’Neill Journalism
Award
Mellani Eka Mahayana, International Editor, Rakyat Merdeka
Nava Nuraniyah, Australian Institute of International Affairs
Rosalie Pitt, Australian Institute of International Affairs
Jack Buckley, Australian Institute of International Affairs