From 2018 to 2019, Mr Maude was Deputy Secretary, Indo-Pacific Group, in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Australia’s senior official to the East Asia Summit.

In 2017, Mr Maude was head of the whole-of-government taskforce which supported the preparation of the Australian Government’s 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper.

Mr Maude was Director-General of the Office of National Assessments from May 2013 until November 2016.  Before taking up this position, Mr Maude was the senior adviser on foreign policy and national security issues to Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

He has served overseas in Malaysia, where he was Deputy High Commissioner, Singapore and as the Liaison Officer for the Office of National Assessments in the Australian Embassy in Washington DC.

Mr Maude is a member of the Futures Council of the National Security College at the Australian National University and Director of the ANU Crawford Leadership Forum.

Natalie holds a BA (Asian Studies) (Hons) from the University of Western Australia, a MA (International Relations) and Master of Diplomacy from the Australian National University, and a PhD from the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, the Australian National University on the Indonesian military’s history.

Since 2022, Natalie has worked as an academic with Deakin University, convening modules for the Australian War College’s Defence and Strategic Studies Course (DSSC) and Australian Command and Staff Course (ACSC). She has previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre, as an Analyst and Managing Editor of ASPI’s blog, The Strategist, at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), the Australian Department of Defence, University of Canberra and for the academic journal Asian-Pacific Economic Literature. In May 2014 and in January 2016, Natalie was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) in Washington, DC.

Natalie has been a guest lecturer and presenter at the Australian National University, Australian National Security College, Australian War College, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Indonesian National Resilience Institute (LEMHANNAS), Indonesian Defense University, Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Canadian Department of National Defence and several international think tanks and universities. Her writing has appeared in the National Bureau of Asian Research, Security Challenges journal, South China Morning Post, War On The Rocks, The Diplomat, The Interpreter and The National Interest.

Natalie has previously been involved with the Australian Institute of International Affairs ACT; the US-based Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC) and was a founding member of ASPI’s Women in Defence and Security Network (WDSN). Follow her on Twitter @securityscholar.

She has published extensively in Nikkei Asia, The Straits Times, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), The Diplomat, and elsewhere.

Prior to joining ASPI, Dominique worked in the field of atrocity prevention in Geneva, where she lobbied governments to incorporate an atrocity prevention lens into their human rights work and undertook research into risk factors for atrocity crimes.

Dominique completed a Master in International Affairs at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, following a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in International Relations, from which she graduated as Valedictorian of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Queensland.

In 2022, she was named a Young Woman to Watch by Young Australians in International Affairs.

She is also a 2023 CSIS Pacific Young Leader, an Australia-China Emerging Leader, an Australia-Vietnam Young Leader, and a 2023 Yenching Global Scholar. In 2023, Genevieve was shortlisted by the Young Australians in International Affairs as one of the Young Women to Watch in International Affairs.

Genevieve holds an MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) and a Diploma of Languages from the University of Melbourne. She has held positions as the 2022 Young Australians in International Affairs Climate Fellow as well as at the Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, South Korea.

Additionally, Genevieve is a member of the Indo-Pacific Circle, an associate of the Indo-Pacific Studies Center, and a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals.

Prior to joining the Asia Society Australia, Bates held a number of research and academic leadership positions in the Indo-Pacific, Europe and United States.  Most recently, he was Executive Director of Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis (2022-2024), professor and chair of the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University (2017-2022), and the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence with the Asia Society Australia (2020-2022).  In other previous roles, he served as director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), as the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and as founding director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.

Among his other professional affiliations, Bates is a Senior Associate Fellow with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London and serves on the Board of Governors of the Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and on the Board of Advisors of the National Bureau of Asian Research.

The author or editor of 12 books on China- and Asia-related topics, his most recent book, Daring to Struggle: China’s Global Ambitions under Xi Jinping was published in 2022 by Oxford University Press.  He has more than 200 other publications and conducted research-related travel to more than 50 countries.  Bates has consulted for corporations, government agencies, and philanthropic organizations, lectured widely and provided U.S. Congressional and other parliamentary testimony related to Asian and global affairs, and made more than 700 appearances in print, broadcast and digital media.

He received his Ph.D. in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia, lived and worked in China for two years, and has made more than 60 working visits to the country.  Bates received the Royal Order of the Commander of the Polar Star, the highest award bestowed up foreigners by the Swedish monarch, for his contributions to Swedish interests.

Muyi is a Senior Researcher at Ember, a UK-based global climate and energy think tank. Additionally, he holds positions as an Adjunct Fellow at the Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) in the University of Technology Sydney and as a Senior Researcher at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). Dr. Yang also serves as the Secretary of the International Society for Energy Transition Studies (ISETS).

With extensive experience in teaching, research, and consulting, Dr. Yang specialises in energy policy across China, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. His areas of focus include electricity market reform, clean energy finance, coal power phase-down, transport electrification, energy governance, and political economy.

Courtney studies how rising powers address the norms and provisions for global governance and international security, with a primary focus on China.

Courtney was previously an associate professor with tenure at the University of Hong Kong and a post-doctoral fellow with the Columbia-Harvard China in the World Program. She has a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University, and will be a Fulbright scholar at Georgetown University in spring 2024 through the DFAT-funded Professional Scholarship in Australian-American Alliance Studies.

Greg has thirty-four years of experience researching Islam and social movements in Indonesia and broader Southeast Asia.  From 2007 to 2015 he was the Herb Feith Professor for the Study of Indonesia at Monash.  He taught at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu from 2006 to 2007, and at Deakin University from 1992 to 2006.  He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Strategic and Global Studies (SKSG), University of Indonesia, and a Senior Fellow with the UAE-based Hedayah Center in Abu Dhabi working on CVE. 

Over the past three decades he has undertaken extensive research on Indonesia politics and society, especially of the role of Islam as both a constructive and a disruptive force.  He also has a strong general interest in security, international relations and comparative international politics.  The central axis of his research interests is the way in which religious thought, individual believers and religious communities respond to modernity and to the modern nation state.

His most recent book (co-edited and written with Matteo Vergani) is Countering Violent and Hateful Extremism in Indonesia: Islam, Gender and Civil Society (Palgrave 2022).  He is currently working on an ARC Linkage project on Appropriate International Development Intervention Responses to Address Violent and Hateful Extremism in Asia, researching hateful and violent extremism in Indonesia, the Philippines, Mozambique and Kenya; an ARC DP project on Religious Populism, Emotions and Political Mobilisation in Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan; and concluding work on another ARC DP project on Religious diversity in Australia: Strategies to maintain social cohesion.

He has been a very active global speaker in the discussions concerning global climate issues and energy security.

Before joining IEEJ, he supported the then Minister Yasutoshi NISHIMURA as the Senior Advisor of the Cabinet Office between January and June 2021 to assist the Government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the formulation of the Growth Strategy including the Japanese “Green New Deal”.

Earlier, he served at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan where he held leading positions including the Vice-Minister for International Affairs. In this role, he assisted the then Prime Minister Shinzo ABE, participating in many of the meetings with the leaders of the world. He also played a crucial role in the coordination for the 2019 G20 Osaka Summit.

Through September 2011 to December 2012, he served as the Executive Secretary to the then Prime Minister Yoshihiko NODA. During this period, he assisted the Prime Minister on the Government’s multiple challenges to deal with the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
He has been the Senior Specially Appointed Professor at the Tokyo University of Science, teaching international negotiations since January 2020. He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo’s Faculty of Law. He also studied at Harvard University in the United States, where he earned MBA in 1990. He was born in January 1961 in Osaka, Japan.