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Mr Ross Cottrill
Formerly Executive Director of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (1998-2004), Mr Cottrill was also Foundation Director of Studies at the Australian College of Defence and Strategic Studies (1994-96). He has extensive experience in managing high-level policy development for Government. He headed the Division of the Department of Defence responsible for strategic and international policy for many years and served as Special Adviser to the Secretary and to the Chief of the Defence Force with particular responsibility for forward planning on major policy issues.
Before joining the Defence organisation, he served in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet with responsibility for foreign affairs and defence. As a diplomat (1964-79), Mr Cottrill served in a series of Asian posts. He was head of the Department of Foreign Affairs policy planning unit 1975-76.
His current interests include the Australia-US alliance, regional security, China, and Australia's defence. |
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Dr Kaye Eldridge
Dr Kaye Eldridge was Foundation Executive Officer of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy from August 2003, and most recently served as its Project Officer. Shortly after graduating from Melbourne University with the degree of Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Economics and Thai language, she was awarded an Austrade fellowship to undertake market research in education in Thailand, where she remained living for the next ten years.
During her time in Thailand, Ms Eldridge worked in a variety of different capacities, mainly involved in education. These included work as marketing manager for a Thai international vocational college, and in-country project management of the Australian government's 'Study in Australia 2000' marketing campaign. Before joining the College, she worked with IDP Education Australia, where she was responsible for the management of IELTS testing and AusAID's Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development Program in Thailand. 'Dr Eldridge holds the degrees of Master of Education (International Education) from Monash University, and Doctor of Education from the University of Queensland. Her current research focuses on ethical issues in the marketing of international education. |
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Mr Tony Godfrey-Smith
Tony Godfrey-Smith is a career diplomat with 34 years of service in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade including diplomatic postings to Ghana, Taiwan, Malaysia and Samoa. He was Australian High Commissioner to Samoa 1984-88. Tony has BA in History and MA (International Relations) degrees from the Australian National University. In Canberra Tony's policy and related work assignments have included East Asia, the Pacific and strategic and security issues. He was the DFAT member of Directing Staff at the Australian Defence Force Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies 1999-2000. He now designs, manages and presents strategic-level training programs and projects for Government clients.
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Dr Klaus-Peter Klaiber, KCMG
Dr Klaus-Peter Klaiber, KCMG is Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy and the National Europe Centre at The Australian National University. He previously served as Ambassador to Australia of the Federal Republic of Germany; as European Union Special Representative in Afghanistan; and as Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs at NATO Headquarters in Brussels. He earlier served in diplomatic postings in Kinshasa, Washington, Nairobi and London, and holds a PhD in Law from the University of Mainz."
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Mr Robin Nair
Mr Robin Nair was born in Fiji . He studied at Otago University and at The Hague Academy of International Law under a UN Fellowship. He was attached to the United Nations Legal Office in New York . He served as First Secretary at the Fiji Mission to the United Nations in New York and concurrently in the Fiji High Commission to Canada for four years. He has worked for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations as the Regional Fisheries Law Adviser to the South China Sea countries and was based initially in Rome and then in Manila. In 1986, he joined the Australian Foreign Service. He has served at the Australian Embassy in Ankara in Turkey , Buenos Aires in Argentina (responsible for Argentina , Uruguay and Paraguay ) and as State Director, Tasmania Office.
Mr Nair is currently working on establishing a Centre for Regional and International Relations in Fiji. |
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Mr Mahmoud Saikal
Mr Mahmoud Saikal is an architect and diplomat. A graduate of both the University of Canberra and Sydney University, he served as a Project Architect and Senior Architect with Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan , Cox Architects & Planners , and Bligh Voller Nield Pty Ltd. In the sphere of diplomacy, he served in 1993-1994 as First Secretary and then Minister at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Tokyo; from 1994-2002 as Honorary Consul for Afghanistan in Australia, and from 2002-2005 as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Afghanistan to Australia and New Zealand. He went on to serve in 2005-2006 as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (International Cooperation and Development) of Afghanistan, and as President of the Commission for the Coordination of the Implementation of the Old Kabul City Plans. His current research interests lie in the enhancement in economic cooperation between Afghanistan and its neighbours.
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Dr. Susanne Schmeidl
Dr. Susanne Schmeidl is Afghanistan specialist and the project director of the Global Warning and Response Net (Global WARN) at swisspeace. Until the end of 2005 she worked for nearly four years as the country representative for swisspeace in Afghanistan . In this capacity she supported civil society development and peacebuilding through working mainly with two Afghan organizations that she helped set up: the Afghan Civil Society Forum and the Tribal Liaison Office. She also advised and supported other civil society organizations and served on the Board of Rights and Democracy, an organization funding women's project in Afghanistan . Previously she worked as senior research analyst for the FAST early warning unit at swisspeace where she was responsible for South Asia and special projects such as developing a conflict early warning and response mechanisms for the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in the Horn of Africa.
Dr. Schmeidl received her M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Ohio State University (1989 and 1995) and worked at the Centre for Refugee Studies (York University, Canada) as a postdoctoral researcher (1995-1996), coordinator of the Prevention/Early Warning Unit (1996-1997), coordinator of the interim secretariat of the Forum on Early Warning and Early Response (1996-1997), and technical consultant for the food and statistics unit of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1997). She has published in the areas of Afghanistan, civil society, refugee migration, conflict early warning and peacebuilding, and human security, including an edited volume with Howard Adelman Early Warning and Early Response (Columbia International Affairs Online, 1998) and Cirû Mwaûra Early Warning and Conflict Management in the Horn of Africa (Red Sea Press, 2002). |
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Dr Astri Suhrke
Astri Suhrke is Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen (Norway). Before moving to the Institute in 1992, she was a Professor of International Relations at the American University in Washington DC, and she has been an Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has written widely on peacebuilding, forced migration and the politics of humanitarian action. She is currently working on a book on international assistance to Afghanistan entitled The Limits of Statebuilding . Her most recent publications are Roads to Reconciliation (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005) (co-editor with Elin Skaar and Siri Gloppen); Conflictual Peacebuilding: Afghanistan Two Years After Bonn (Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute, 2004) (with Arne Strand and Kristian Berg Harpviken); and Eroding Local Capacity: International Humanitarian Action in Africa (Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute, 2003) (with Monica Kathina Juma).
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Mr Ronald A Walker
Ron has studied at Sophia University ( Tokyo ) Cambridge , and LSE. He was an Australian diplomat for 38 years with eight postings overseas (three at Ambassadorial level) and twelve different assignments in Canberra (six in the Senior Executive Service). His areas of specialisation were initially South East Asia but from 1974 to 96 international security (especially nuclear issues) and multilateral issues. He was Australia 's Permanent Representatives to the United Nations in Geneva and later Vienna where he was concurrently Ambassador to Austria , Slovenia , Croatia and Bosnia–Herzegovina and Chairman and of Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency 1993-94.
Since 1997 he has been lecturing at Monash University , in the Australian Foreign Service training program, at the Australian Defence Force Academy and for the UN. He has written several articles on nuclear arms control and Multilateral Conferences: purposeful international negotiation (Palgrave MacMillan,2004). His main academic interest is in the role of process in determining outcomes.
Ron's other interests include African and Aboriginal art and antique prints and maps, in which he also deals. |
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