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Professor Reginald Austin
"Professor Reginald Austin is a lawyer and elections administrator. After more than a decade teaching public law at University College, London, he was Professor of Public Law and Dean of the Law Faculty at the University of Zimbabwe from 1982 to 1992. He subsequently served as Chief Electoral Officer of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC); as Director of the Electroal Component, United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa (UNOMSA); as Director of Legal and Constitutional Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London; as a Director of the Electoral Unit at International IDEA in Stockholm; and served as Chief Electoral Adviser for Afghanistan's 2004 presidential election.
Professor Austin was with the APCD during January and February, 2008. |
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Ms Jenelle Bonnor
Jenelle Bonnor is an independent consultant specialising in international, trade and defence policy development. Since 2001 she has convened the Australia-India Security Roundtable. She previously served as Chief General Manager of the National Office for the Information Economy and as Chief of Staff to the Minister for Trade, and has also served as Asia Liaison Officer of the Australian National University. She is currently writing on aspects of Australia-Indonesia relations.
Ms Bonnor was a Visiting Fellow with the APCD from January to December 2006. |
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Mr Phil C. W. Chan
Mr Phil C. W. Chan is a legal scholar specialising in human rights, international law and constitutional law. Since graduating from the University of Hong Kong with his law degree with honours and Rowdget W. Young Medal in Law in 2002 at the age of 19 and from the University of Durham with his Master of Laws in 2004, Phil has been pursuing independent academic research and has written almost twenty articles published or forthcoming in refereed international journals including the Chinese Journal of International Law , the Harvard Asia Pacific Review , the King's College Law Journal , the Nottingham Law Journal , the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies , the European Business Law Review , the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice , Criminal Law Forum , the International Journal of Punishment and Sentencing , and the International Journal of Human Rights . He is Guest Editor of the International Journal of Human Rights ' Special Double Issues on Equality in Asia-Pacific: Reality or a Contradiction in Terms? (Vol.11 Nos.1/2 March 2007) and Protection of Sexual Minorities since Stonewall: Progress and Stalemate in Developed and Developing Countries (Vol.12 Nos.3/4 September 2008), both of which will also be published as books by Routledge with Forewords by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He is Member of the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Human Rights and the Journal of Homosexuality .
Whilst at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, Mr Chan worked on human
rights and trade in China's relations with the European Union and its
Members States; democracy under international law in the recognition of
statehood; and the approaches of African, Central and South American, and
African countries and the Pacific Islands to the Taiwan question. |
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Dr Rajshree Jetley
Rajshree Jetely has a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the Australian National University, Canberra. Her earlier degrees include an M.Phil in South Asian Studies from the Jawaharlal Nehru University and a Masters and Bachelors in History from Delhi University. Her publications have appeared in reputed journals including Pacific Review and Asian Ethnicity. Prior to taking up the research fellow position at the Institute of South Asian Studies, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore from 2001 to
2003 where, in addition to her research, she co-taught two modules on South Asia.
Dr Jetely was a visiting fellow in the College during March 2008. |
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Mr Shahriman Lockman
Mr Shahriman Lockman is a Researcher for the Bureau of Foreign Policy and Security Studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia . His primary focus areas are Southeast Asian politics and East Asian regionalism. He is also a member of the Malaysian Member Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP), a collaborative effort by the region's leading think-tanks that feeds policy recommendations to the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF).
During his stay with the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, Shahriman
conducted research into
Australia's engagement with Asia since the first
East Asia Summit. |
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Dr David Lovell
Dr David W. Lovell, who held a Visiting Fellow in the College from July-December 2005, is Professor of Politics at the University College of the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He was born and raised in Adelaide, where he completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees; he came to Canberra in 1981 to write his PhD under the supervision of Prof Eugene Kamenka in the History of Ideas Unit at ANU. He has taught at the University of New South Wales since 1983. During the early 1990s, he edited The Political Theory Newsletter , and was managing editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science . In 1992, he was the Australian Parliamentary Political Science Fellow, and since 1993 he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, and is on the editorial board of its journal, The European Legacy . He was a participant in the China-Australia Joint Seminar on Civil Society in Beijing in 1999, and was a member of the Australian government delegation to the Second Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, held in The Hague, May 2001. He is a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP). He was Head of the School of Politics at at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy from 2001-2003, and was Presiding Member of the Research Committee, 2003-2004, before acting as Rector of University College in 2004. He spent the first half of 2005 as a Visiting Fellow at the ANU's National Europe Centre. |
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Professor Wang Shi-Ming
Professor. Wang Shi Ming has a long held interest in the field of international affairs, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.
Professor Wang, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Anhui University and Northeast Normal University . He has taught at Auhui University and Suzhou Railway Teachers' College and has had advanced training from Nanjin University .
He continued his study at Nanjin University , where he received his PhD and it was at Fudan University where Professor Wang continued his post-doctoral studies.
He is currently a Professor at the University of Suzhou Science and Technology. He has published several books and articles and has received numerous honors in academic fields from China
Whilst at the APCD, Dr Wang will be undertaking further research in Australia-China relations and ANZUS.
Professor Wang was a Visiting Fellow with the APCD from November 2006 to May 2007. |
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Dr Stuart Murray
Stuart joined the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy as a Visiting Fellow from Bond University, where he is an Assistant Professor in the International Relations and Diplomacy Department.
He recently received his PhD for his thesis entitled, "Re-ordering Diplomatic Theory for the Twenty-First Century: A Tripartite Approach". In this thesis, Dr Murray evidenced and constructed three different types of diplomatic theory - Traditional, Nascent and Innovative - with a view to using these consensuses’ to make the complex modern diplomatic environment more intelligible.
During his stay at the APCD, Stuart worked on the publication of a book on
diplomacy and theory, as well as a review article for peer-reviewed journal
publication and assisted in establishing some of the College's short courses. |
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Shankari Sundararaman
Shankari Sundararaman is an Associate Professor at the Centre for South, Central, Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies of the School of International Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University , where she teaches Southeast Asian studies. Her research interests pertain to politics and security in the Asia-Pacific region with a special emphasis on Southeast Asia, particularly on Indonesia and Cambodia . Her research also focuses on the Evolution of India's Look East Policy and its expansion to cover regions of the South Pacific. She participated in the Fourth India-Australia Security Roundtable held at Canberra in April 2005, a track II initiative between these two countries.
Dr Sundararaman has also worked as a member of the research faculty of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and has several publications to her credit, including Cambodia : The Lost Decades (2000) . She is the recipient of the ASIA Fellows Award for 2005-06 and as part of this, is expected to be based at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta as a Visiting Fellow later this year.
As a Visiting Fellow at the College from May-July 2005, Dr Sundararaman conducted research on relations between India, Indonesia and Australia. |
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Professor Varun Sahni
Professor Varun Sahni is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jammu.
Prior to taking up this appointment, Professor Sahni was Professor in
International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehur University (JNU), New Delhi.
He is also the editor of South Asian Survey. Before joining JNU in 1995, he
was Junior Research Fellow in Politics and Junior Dean at Lincoln College,
Oxford; Resident Fellow of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary
Studies, New Delhi and Reader in Latin American Politics at Goa University.
He has held visiting fellowships/professorships at Sandia National
Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (1997); CIDE, Mexico City
(1997-1999); National Defense University, Washington, DC (2003). Professor
Sahni was a visiting fellow at the APCD from October to November 2008. |
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Ms Maaike Okano-Heijmans
Ms Maaike Okano-Heijmans is research fellow for Asia Studies in the
Clingendael Diplomatic Studies Programme (CDSP), Netherlands Institute of
International Relations 'Clingendael', The Hague. She holds a double M.A. in
political science and international relations from the University of
Amsterdam and Waseda University in Tokyo. Her present research focuses on
the political economy of the East Asian region and Japan's economic
diplomacy in North East Asia, against the background of the country's recent
history and its (non-official) diplomatic relations. She also has an
interest in consular affairs and trends in contemporary diplomacy. While at
APCD, Ms Okano-Heijmans continued her research on Japan's relations with
North Korea, from both a bilateral and multilateral (Six-Party Talks)
perspective. She can be contacted at : mokano-heijmans@clingendael.nl |
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