Guest Speaker:
Professor Dewi Fortuna Anwar
Sir Howard Kippenberger Visiting Chair in Strategic Studies, VUW
Event Date: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Event Time: 5:30 pm-7:00 pm
Event Location:
Bell Gully
Level 21, HP Tower, 171 Featherston Street, Wellington, 6011.
Please note no building access after 6pm.
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Professor Anwar is one of Indonesia’s leading foreign policy intellectuals and strategic analysts. She is a Research Professor at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and was the Deputy Chairman for Social Sciences and Humanities from 2001–10. She was Deputy Secretary for Political Affairs from 2010-2015 and from 2015 to 2017 as Deputy for Government Policy Support to the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia. She is also the Chair of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights at the Habibie Center, and a member of the Board of Advisors, the Institute for Peace and Democracy, the Bali Democracy Forum. Anwar was a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters (2008–12), a member of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC), based in Stockholm, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, ANU, Australia.
As the 2018 Sir Howard Kippenberger Visiting Chair in Strategic Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, Professor Anwar will spend two months in New Zealand, in October and November.
