ASSESSING AND STRENGTHENING AUSTRALIA ASIA ENGAGEMENT: WHAT MATTERS? WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE?
ASEAN Heads of Mission in a panel discussion on ASEAN Australia relations
Professor Hugh White, Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, ANU
Facilitated by Professor Anthony Milner, AM Basham Professor of Asian History Australian National University
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Welcome The aims of the retreat are to:
Challenge your perceptions of key themes and countries Provide access in Canberra to key people with knowledge, experience and responsibility for shaping and developing Australiaʼs relationships with Asia Extend your understanding of the way policy is made and relationships are formed and conducted between key players and countries
The program this year has been developed with a focus on three important areas of engagement for Australia. On Sunday evening we will be looking at an overview of our geo-strategic relations with the Asian region, while also beginning to look at how policy is formed. Monday will see the focus turn to our relationship with China, clearly one of the key relationships in a changing global economic, political and security environment. On Tuesday our partnership with Japan will come under the spotlight – a relationship that is historically strong, but has hit some speed bumps of late. Our engagement with ASEAN will be the center of our attention on Wednesday. Each day we will look at our engagement across economic, security and political spheres. The speakers have been drawn from diplomatic, government, academic and media circles. Each will be addressing a different component of our relationship with the Asian region. We trust that you will enjoy this time and be further encouraged to deepen your knowledge of Asia-Australia engagement.
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Our geo-strategic positioning and the making of policy Sunday 19 September Time 5.00pm 6.00pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 9.00pm
Topic Welcome and Cocktails Introduction
Dinner
Speaker Ms Julia Fraser, Director of Asialink Leaders Program
Venue Chifley始s
Professor Tony Milner AM Basham Professor of Asian History, ANU Professor Michael L始Estrange AO Director, National Security College, ANU
Chifley始s
Chifley始s
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Australiaʼs Engagement with CHINA Monday 20 September Time 7.00 8.30am 9.00am 9.30am Speakers 9.30 10.30am
Activity Breakfast
Speaker
Introducing the day
Prof Tony Milner AM
10.30 10.45am 10.45 11.45am
Morning tea
Michelle Grattan
Venue
Jacaranda Room
Political Editor, The Age
Harinder Sidhu
Jacaranda Room
Chief Advisor, International Division of the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
12.00 – 1.00pm
Emeritus Professor Peter Drysdale AM
Jacaranda Room
Professor of Economics and Visiting Fellow in the Crawford School of Economics and Government, ANU
1.00pm 2.00pm 2.00pm 3.00pm
Lunch
3.00pm 3.15pm 3.15 pm 5.30pm 6.15pm 6.30pm 7.00 9.00pm
Afternoon tea
Chifleyʼs Professor Hugh White
Jacaranda Room
Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre
Syndicate groups Meet in foyer Reception Dinner
Bill Farmer Former Ambassador to Indonesia
Old Parliament House
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Australia始s Engagement with Japan Tuesday 21 September Time 7.00am 8.30am
Activity Breakfast
Speaker
Venue
9.00am 9.30am
Setting the scene
Prof Tony Milner AM
Jacaranda room
Professor Bill Tow Department of International Relations, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies, ANU
Jacaranda room
Gerald Thomson Assistant Secretary of NE Asia Division, DFAT
Jacaranda room
Speakers 9.30am 10.30am
10.30am10.45am
Morning tea
10.45am 11.45am 12.15pm 1.15pm
Lunch
1.30pm 2.30pm
2.30 2.45pm
Afternoon tea
2.45 5.30pm
Syndicate Groups
6.15pm
Meet in foyer
6.30pm 9.00pm
Chifleys Professor Rikki Kersten Department of Political & Social Change, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies, ANU
Jacaranda Room
H.E. Mr Shigekazu Sato Japanese Ambassador
Ambassador始s residence, 114 Empire Circuit, Yarralumla
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Australiaʼs engagement with ASEAN Wednesday 22 September Time 7.00am 8.00am 8.15am 8.45am 8.45am 9.45am
Activity Breakfast
Speaker
Setting the scene
Prof Tony Milner AM Ms Gillian Bird
Jacaranda room
Deputy Secretary and Ambassador to ASEAN
9.45am 10.45am 10.45am 11.00am 11.00am 12.30pm
Venue
Mr Bill Paterson
Jacaranda room
Australian Ambassador for Counter-terrorism
Morning tea ASEAN Heads of Mission
Chifleyʼs
H.E Mr Albert Chua, High Commissioner of Singapore, currently Chair ASEAN Heads of Mission H.E. Mr Hoang Vinh Thanh, Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to Australia H.E. Ernesto Hernandez De Leon Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (AEP) of the Republic of the Philippines to Australia. H.E. Mr Adnan Jaafar, High Commissioner of Brunei H.E. Mr Sounry Chum, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Cambodia Minister Dupito Simamora, Minister Counsellor/Political, Republic of Indonesia H.E. Mr Rangsy Kongsaysy, Ambassador of the Lao Peopleʼs Democratic Republic H.E. Mr Dato Salman Ahmad, High Commissioner of Malaysia H.E. Mr Paw Lwin Sein, Ambassador of the Union of Myanmar H.E. Dr Kriangsak Kittichaisaree, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Thailand
12.30pm – 1.30pm 1.45pm 2.30pm 2.30pm – 3.00pm 3.00pm 5.30pm 6.30pm 6.50pm – 9.00pm
Lunch
ASEAN Heads of Mission
Chifleyʼs
Debrief with Tony Milner AM
Chifleyʼs
Afternoon Tea Syndicates Meet in foyer Dinner
Jacaranda room
H.E Mr ZHANG Junsai, Ambassador of China
Commonwealth Club, 25 Forster Cr
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Asia Policy Regional Café Workshop Thursday 23 September Time 7.00am 8.30am
Activity Breakfast and check out of rooms
Venue
9.00am – 9.15am
Introductory session
Jacaranda room
9.15am 10.30am
Regional Café Round 1
Jacaranda room
10.30am 10.45am
Morning tea
10.45am 12.00pm
Regional Café Round 2
Jacaranda room
12.00pm 12.45pm
Retreat summaries and posters presented
Jacaranda room
1.00pm 2.00pm
Lunch
Chifleyʼs
2.00pm
Retreat Finishes
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Speaker Biographies Program Convenor Professor Anthony (Tony) Milner AM, Basham Professor of Asian History, The Australian National University Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne Professor Milner was previously Dean of Asian Studies, Australian National University and Director of the Australian- Asian Perceptions Project of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He has been a member of the Commonwealth Governmentʟs Foreign Affairs Council since 1997, and was a Panel Member of the Australian Research Council and a member of Council of the Australian National University. In 2005, he was appointed to the Executive Committees of both the AustraliaMalaysia Institute and Australia-Thailand Institute, and is Co-Chair of the Australian Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific. At Asialink Professor Milner has been a member, from the outset, of the organising committee for the Asialink Conversations, a Track II Diplomacy initiative involving Australia and ASEAN countries. He has also been a key contributor to the Asialink Leaders Program since its inception. Professor Milner was educated at Monash University, the University of Malaya and Cornell University, and has since held visiting appointments at The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, The Research Institute for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (Tokyo), and Humboldt University (Berlin). In 2002 he was Raffles Visiting Professor of History at the National University of Singapore. He has published on Southeast Asian History, Australia-Asia relations and regional relations. His books include a three- volume series Australia in Asia (1996–2000) and The Malays (2008 & reprinted 2010).
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Speaker Biographies Sunday 19 September Professor Michael LʼEstrange, AO Director, National Security College Australian National University Professor LʼEstrange graduated with Honours from Sydney University in 1974, majoring in History. He was awarded the 1975 NSW Rhodes Scholarship and studied at Oxford University from 1976 to 1979. He graduated with First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and won two University Blues for cricket. In 1981, Professor LʼEstrange joined the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Among other appointments, he served in 1984-85 on the staff of Mr Justice Hopeʼs Royal Commission into Australiaʼs Security and Intelligence Agencies. In 1986, Professor LʼEstrange was awarded a Harkness Fellowship and spent two academic years under the auspices of the Fellowship studying at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC and at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. From 1989 to 1994, Professor LʼEstrange worked for several Leaders of the Opposition in a range of policy advisory positions. In 1995, he was appointed the inaugural Executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre in Canberra. In March 1996, Professor LʼEstrange was appointed by the Prime Minister as Secretary to Cabinet and Head of the Cabinet Policy Unit. He served in that capacity until July 2000 when he became Australiaʼs High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. Professor LʼEstrange returned from that posting in January 2005 to take up the position of Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra, a position he held until August 2009. In 2007, Professor LʼEstrange was appointed as an Officer in the Order of Australia ʻfor service to the development and implementation of public policy in Australia, particularly national security and foreign policy, and to international relations through fostering diplomatic, trade and cultural interests including strengthening Australiaʼs relationship with the United Kingdomʼ. Professor LʼEstrange was appointed Director of the National Security College at the Australian National University in December 2009. Professor LʼEstrange is married to Jane and has five sons.
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Speaker Biographies Monday - China Michelle Grattan Political Editor The Age Ms Grattan has had a long and esteemed journalistic career since her first appointment to The Age in 1970. During her term as Chief Political Correspondent for The Age from 1976 to 1993, she was awarded the Graham Perkin Award as Australian Journalist of the Year in 1988 for what the judges called "her tireless, tough and fair" coverage of politics. She became the first female editor of a metropolitan daily newspaper in Australian history when she was appointed Editor of the Canberra Times in 1993, before returning to The Age in 1995 as Political Editor. Ms Grattan joined The Australian Financial Review in 1996 as a columnist and senior writer. In 1999 she was appointed Chief Political Correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald. Ms Grattan returned to The Age as Political Columnist in August 2002, and is currently Political Editor. Recent publications include: "Managing Government" coauthor with Fred Gruen (1993); "Editorial Independence: An Outdated Concept?" monograph (1998); "Reconciliation" editor (2000); and "Australian Prime Ministers" editor (2000) www.theage.com.au
Harinder Sidhu Chief Adviser, International International Division of the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Harinder is responsible for the development and management of Australia始s international climate change policy, analysis, negotiation strategy and bilateral relationship development. Prior to joining the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Harinder held the position of Assistant Director-General in the Office of National Assessments and senior economic and defence adviser positions in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Harinder began her career as a diplomat with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, where she was posted to Cairo, Damascus and Moscow. She holds degrees in Economics and Law from the University of Sydney.
Peter Drysdale Emeritus Professor AM Australian National University Peter Drysdale is Emeritus Professor of Economics and a Visiting Fellow in the Crawford School of Economics and Government at The Australian National University. He is Head of Australia始s East Asia Forum. He is widely ecognized as the leading intellectual architect of APEC. He is the author of a number of books and papers on international trade and economic policy in East Asia and the Pacific, including his prize-winning book, International Economic Pluralism: Economic Policy
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in East Asia and the Pacific. He is recipient of the Asia Pacific Prize, the Weary Dunlop Award, the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays and Neck Ribbon, the Australian Centenary Medal and he is a member of the Order of Australia.
Hugh White Professor, Strategic Studies Australian National University Hugh White is Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. His work focuses primarily on Australian strategic and defence policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, and global strategic affairs especially as they influence Australia and the Asia-Pacific. He has served as an intelligence analyst with the Office of National Assessments, as a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald, as a senior adviser on the staffs of Defence Minister Kim Beazley and Prime Minister Bob Hawke, and as a senior official in the Department of Defence, where from 1995 to 2000 he was Deputy Secretary for Strategy and Intelligence, and as the first Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). In the 1970s he studied philosophy at Melbourne and Oxford Universities.
Bill Farmer Former Ambassador to Indonesia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Bill Farmer joined the Australian Foreign Service in 1969 after graduating from the University of Sydney and the London School of Economics, where he earned a Master of Science in Economics. He served in the Australian diplomatic missions in Cairo 1969-71 and London 1972-75, and he was Deputy High Commissioner in Fiji from 1979 to 1982. From 1984 to 1987 he was Minister in the Australian Mission to the United Nations in New York (from 1985 to 1986, Deputy Representative of Australia on the Security Council). He was Ambassador to Mexico, the Central American republics and Cuba from 1987 to 1989. From 1993 to 1995, he was High Commissioner for Australia in Papua New Guinea, and in 1996-97 was High Commissioner in Malaysia. Mr Farmer has also had extensive service in the Canberra headquarters of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, most recently, in 1997-98, as Deputy Secretary of the Department. In 1998 he was appointed Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs and from 2001, he served concurrently as Secretary of the Department of Reconciliation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs. He was Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs from December 2001 to July 2005 when he was appointed Australian Ambassador to Indonesia. He was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2003 and was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2005.
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Speaker Biographies Tuesday 21 September Professor William T. Tow Department of International Relations, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies The Australian National University Previously Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland and at Griffith University, and an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California (USC). He has been a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, and a Visiting Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. With research interests in Alliance politics, US security policy in the Asia-Pacific, security politics in the Asia-Pacific, Australian security policies, Professor Tow is Codirector of ANU projects for the MacArthur Foundation's Asia Security Initiative and for the Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (2008–). He was also Editor of the Australian Journal of International Affairs (2001–2006); Served on the Foreign Affairs Council, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1998–2003) and the National Board of Directors, Australian Fulbright Commission (1992–1997); Recipient of an Australian Award for University Teaching in the Social Sciences Category for 2001. Professor Tow has edited, co-edited and co-authored several key publications including: Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional–Global Nexus? (Cambridge University Press, 2009); ASEAN–India–Australia: Towards Closer Engagement in a New Asia (ISEAS, 2009); Tangled Webs: Security Architectures in Asia (Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 2008); Asia-Pacific Security: US, Australia and Japan and the New Security Triangle (Routledge, 2007); Asia Pacific Strategic Relations: Seeking Convergent Security (Cambridge University Press, 2001); A US Strategy for the Asia-Pacific, Adelphi Paper 299 (IISS, 1995); Encountering the Dominant Player: US Extended Deterrence Strategy in the Asia-Pacific (Columbia University Press, 1991), and The Limits of Alliance: NATO Out-of-Area Problems Since 1949 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990).
Gerald Thomson Assistant Secretary North East Asia Branch Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Gerald Thomson commenced in his current position as Assistant Secretary, North East Asia Branch (covering Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Mongolia), DFAT, in April 2010. For the 16 months prior to that, he was Director, Korean Peninsula and Mongolia Section, DFAT. From April 2003 to December 2008, Mr Thomson worked on Australia - Papua New Guinea relations, including three years as Counsellor (Political and Economic), Australian High Commission, Port Moresby. During the period August 1999 to April 2003, Mr Thomson worked on APEC issues in DFAT and as Adviser (Trade) in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. From April 1995 to June 1999, Mr Thomson was posted to the Australian Embassy in
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Beijing as Third Secretary (Economic) and subsequently First Secretary (Agriculture and Resources). Mr Thomson joined DFAT in 1993. Prior to joining DFAT, he worked in the banking sector. He holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Western Australia (UWA), a Masters of Business Administration (UWA), and a Graduate Diploma in Foreign Affairs and Trade from the Australian National University.
Professor Rikki Kersten Department of Political & Social Change, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies Australian National University Professor Kersten has been educated in Wollongong, Adelaide and Oxford, with plenty of long stays in Japan at various tertiary institutions along the way, notably at the University of Tokyo's Institute of Social Science, and Keio University. She spent five years in the Australian Foreign Service, completing a posting in the Political Section of the Australian Embassy in Tokyo, before returning to academic life. Rikki has taught modern Japanese history at Sydney and Leiden Universities, and has served as Research Manager and subsequently Director of the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific at the University of Sydney. She joined the ANU in 2006 as Dean of the Faculty of Asian Studies. Attracted to the intangible realm of political thought, particularly the history of political ideas in modern Japan, she aspires to communicate and analyse Japanese political thought for non-Japanese audiences, and to integrate Japanese thinking into global scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. She works extensively with primary sources in the vernacular. Her main areas of research interest are: democracy and fascism; debates over war apologies and war guilt in Japan; contemporary Japanese politics and foreign policy; historical and philosophical revisionism. Winning the VICI large research grant from the Netherlands Scientific Research Organization with Prof Axel Schneider in 2004 to research Historical Consciousness and the Future in China and Japan; founding the Modern East Asian Research Centre with Axel Schneider at the University of Leiden in 2005; founding the Australia-Netherlands Research Collaboration focussing on the study of Southeast Asia in 2006; posting to the Australian Embassy in Tokyo 1988 – 1991. Professor Kerstenʼs key publications include ʻJapan', Oxford Handbook on Fascism (R. Bosworth ed.), Oxford: OUP, 2008 (forthcoming); The Left in the Shaping of Japanese Democracy (co-editor and contributor) (London: Routledge, 2006); Democracy in Postwar Japan (London: Routledge, 1996) and; 'Australia and Japan', in The National Interest in a Global Era (Cotton and Ravenhill eds) (Oxford: OUP, 2001)
H.E. Mr Shigekazu Sato Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Australia Born on September 23, 1949, Shigekazu Sato graduated from Tokyo University (Law Faculty) in March 1974. In April of the same year Shigekazu entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and became First Secretary, Embassy of Japan in the USA in August
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1984. In December of 1986, Shigekazu Sato accepted the role of First Secretary, Embassy of Japan in People's Republic of China before commencing in the role of Principal Deputy Director, Overseas Establishments Division, Minister's Secretariat in 1989. From February 1991 Shigekazu held many roles, ranging from Director, Aid Planning Division, Economic Cooperation Bureau, Director, Loan Aid Division, Economic Cooperation Bureau (1992), Counsellor, Embassy of Japan in the United States of America (1994), Director, China and Mongolia Division, Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau (1995), Director, Personnel Division, Minister's Secretariat (1998), and Deputy Director-General, Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau (2000), before becoming the Minister of the Embassy of Japan in Indonesia in September 2002. In addition, other roles have included a short-term role as Minister's Secretariat (September 2004), and Director-General, Economic Cooperation Bureau (October 2004) before commencing his most recent role as Consul-General and Ambassador, Consulate-General of Japan at Hong Kong (since August 2006).
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Speaker Biographies Wednesday 22 September Gillian Bird Deputy Secretary and Ambassador to ASEAN Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Ms Bird was appointed Deputy Secretary in December 2004, and as Australia始s first Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in September 2008. Before taking up her position as Deputy Secretary, Ms Bird served as First Assistant Secretary, International Division, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Prior to this appointment, she was Head, Foreign and Trade Policy White Paper Task Force (Advancing the National Interest), within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Ms Bird has occupied positions in the South and South-East Asia Division, International Organisations and Legal Division, Peace, Arms Control and Disarmament Branch, and Executive Branch, of the department. She has served overseas in New York, Harare and Paris. She has also worked with the Office of the Minister for Trade Negotiations. Ms Bird joined the department in 1980. Ms Bird holds a BA (First Class Hons), University of Sydney and is a graduate of French Ecole Nationale d'Administration. Bill Paterson Australian Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Mr Paterson was Australia始s Ambassador to Thailand from 2004-2008. He has extensive experience in international strategic and security policy, politico-military affairs, intelligence and regional issues as a senior government official, including as head of DFAT始s Anti-Terrorism Task Force immediately after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. In 2002-03 he was head of the Australian Government始s Iraq Task Force. He has also served as head of the International Security Division and the South-East Asia Division in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra. Mr Paterson served as Chief of Staff and Principal Adviser to the Foreign Minister (2000) and as Assistant Secretary for Asia, APEC and Trade policy in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (1998-99). Overseas, Mr Paterson has served in Dhaka, Baghdad, Vienna, Washington, Tokyo and Bangkok. Mr Paterson has a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours from the University of Melbourne. He was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2004 and the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal in 2005. He is married with three children.
ASEAN HEADS OF MISSION Singapore (Chair) H.E Mr Albert Chua Singapore's High Commissioner to Australia Mr Chua joined the Administrative Service of the Singapore Civil Service and was appointed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in June 1992. He served as Deputy Trade Representative at the Singapore Trade Office in Taipei from March 1994 to February 1997. 21
He was Deputy Director of Policy Planning and Analysis Directorate II and later Senior Deputy Director of Directorate III from February to November 1997. Mr Chua was appointed Acting Director of Directorate III in December 1997 and became its Director on 1 July 1998. In June 1999, Mr Chua embarked on a Master in Public Administration programme at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Upon completion of studies in July 2000, he returned to Singapore and was appointed Director of Directorate III and the International Economics Directorate. He was appointed as Deputy Secretary (Policy) in August 2001. In March 2004 Mr Chua was appointed as the Principal Private Secretary to thenPrime Minister Goh Chok Tong and became the Principal Private Secretary to Senior Minister Goh from August 2004 to September 2007. From 1 October 2007 to 12 March 2008, Mr Chua assumed the appointment of Deputy Secretary (Special Duties) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His Excellency has served as Board Member of the National Heritage Board, Council Member of the National Arts Council and member of the Singapore Management University's Board of Trustees. Mr. Chua is married to Ms Patricia Lam. They have a daughter, Kiera Chua Yi Xin.
Vietnam H.E Mr Hoang Vinh Thanh Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to Australia Born in April 1954, in Tuyen Quang Province, His Excellency Mr Hoang Vinh Thanh completed his Postgraduate in International Law and Development (Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, the Netherlands), and in Development Economics (Victoria University, Manchester, UK). After joining the Vietnam People始s Army in 1972, His Excellency completed his education at the Diplomatic University of Vietnam. From 1980 to 1985 he joined the Institute of International Relations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an Officer. For three years from 1987, Mr Thanh took up the role as Third Secretary to the Permanent Mission of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the United Nations (New York, USA) prior to moving to a role as Desk Officer to the Department of Southeast Asia and South Pacific with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1993 he became Desk Officer with the Department of International Law and Treaties before accepting the role of Counselor to the Permanent Mission of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the United Nations Office and other International Organisations (Gen猫ve, Switzerland) until 2001 when he took on a role with the Department of International Law and Treaties with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2002 until 2007, His Excellency became Desk Officer to the then Deputy Director General, Deputy Chief of the Ministry始s Office, until accepting the role of Director General, Chief of the Ministry始s Office in November of 2007. In February of 2010, His Excellency became the Ambassador of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to Australia. His Excellency, Mr Hoang Vinh Thanh is married with two sons.
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Thailand H.E Mr Kriangsak Kittichaisaree LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Thailand After graduating in law from universities in the UK, the USA, and again in the UK, on a full scholarship from the Royal Thai Government, H.E. Mr KIttichaisaree joined the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs in October 1986 as a legal officer at the Division of Legal Affairs. From December 1994 to January 1999, his Excellency was Minister-Counsellor at the Royal Thai Embassy in Washington, D.C., overseeing economic, political and consular affairs. From February 1999 until March 2002, he was Director of the Division of Legal Affairs, and from March 2002 until November 2004, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Treaties and Legal Affairs in the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On 18 November 2004 he was Ambassador Attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, responsible for international legal issues, counter-international terrorism, and was the Chief Legal Counsel and Head of the Investment Chapter team of the Thai Delegation negotiating with New Zealand on the Closer Economic Partnership Agreement (2004) and with the Members of the Eurpoean Free Trade Area (EFTA, ie, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland) on the Thai-EFTA Free Trade Area Agreement (2005-2006). In this ambassadorial position, the Ambassador was the Coordinator of the International Legal Coorperation against Terrorism stream of the Legal Issues Working Group (LIWG) of the Bali Regional Ministerial Meeting on Counter-Terrorism (BRMCT). This is open to countries from Asia, North America, Europe and the Oceania and international organizations that participated in the BRMCT in February of 2004, and the LIWG Meeting in August 2004. This was created in response to the Bali Bombing of 12 October 2002 and subsequent terrorist activities in the AsiaPacific region and beyond. He has served as Director-General of the Department of International Organisations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand from 2006-2007, in charge of the law and constitution of international institutions, international human rights and the rule of law, transnational organized crimes, and the workings of global economic and political institutions in all aspects including arms control and disarmament, international security under the UN framework, and UN reform. His Excellency teaches part time as a Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales School of Law in Sydney and the National University of Singapore and has also taught at Duke University School of Law始s Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law.
Brunei Darussalam H.E. Mr Adnan JAAFAR, High Commissioner Born in January of 1967, His Excellency completed his B.Sc (Hons.) in Physics with Medical Applications from the King始s College London, University of London. This
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same year he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Political Affairs (Regional Section) as a Research Officer. After moving into a role within the Policy Planning Section within the Department of Political Affairs in 1993, His Excellency was posted to the High Commission of Brunei Darussalam to the United Kingdom as Second / First Secretary three years later in 1996. From 1999, His Excellency moved back in to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Assistant Director, Department of International Organisations, prior to accepting a role as Acting Director in the Department of Politics II in 2002. In 2007, three years after accepting a role as Deputy Permanent Representative to the Permanent Mission of Brunei Darussalam to the United Nations in New York, His Excellency took on the role of Director, Department of International Organisations, within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Appointed as High Commissioner of Brunei Darussalam to Australia in November 2008, His Excellency has also been decorated with Meritorious Medals, (Pingat Indah Kerja Baik), P.I.K.B (October 2001) and The Most Blessed Order of Setia Negara Brunei (Fourth Class), P.S.B. in July 2006. His Excellency is Married with three daughters.
Burma (Myanmar) H.E. Mr Paw Lwin Sein Ambassador of the Union of Myanmar Born in Pyinmana in 1956, His Excellency completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1976 and Bachelor of Law at the Arts and Science University in Yangon in 1977. Commencing his career as Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General at the Ministry of Defence in 1978, His Excellency has held a number of roles, such as Assistant Director, Legal Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1990-1991), First Secretary, Myanmar Embassy, Washington D.C (1993-1997), Director of the Political Department MOFA (1998-2000), and Deputy Director-General of Training, Research and Foreign Languages at MOFA (2006-2007). In 2007, His Excellency accepted the role of Director-General, Training, Research and Foreign Languages, and in July of 2009, also accepted a role jointly serving as the Secretary of Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies (MISIS), which he held concurrently with the above role until July of 2010. His Excellency has also attended numerous Delegations and Conferences since 1991 and is married with two daughters.
Cambodia H.E. Mr. Sounry CHUM Ambassador H.E. Chum Sounry has had a distinguished career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After graduating with a Bachelor of Public Law, His Excellency was appointed to the press department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as First Secretary for the Royal Embassy of Cambodia to the USA, and then as the Deputy Director, America Department.
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From 2003 to 2010, His Excellency has held many esteemed positions, first serving as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Russian Federation, Republic of Latvia, Republic of Lithuania, and the Republic of Estonia with residence in Moscow. In October 2008, His Excellency became the Ambassador to the Commonwealth of Australia and to New Zealand. He speaks both English and French fluently, and has received the Medal of Labor, Gold, in 2002. H.E. Chum Sounry also received the Royal Order of Monisaraphorn, Chevalier, 2003 and the Royal Order of Monisaraphorn, Commander, 2007.
Laos H.E. Mr Rangsy Kongsaysy Ambassador of the Lao People始s Democratic Republic Born in Laos in 1945, His Excellency was educated in Law and Administration in Laos and Political Sciences in France. Starting his career in 1974 as Official of the Research Department, Office of the Prime Minister in Vientiane, Lao PDR, and accepting a role as Deputy Director of the Research Division, Cabinet of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1981, His Excellency then completed a posting in Burma as Deputy Head of Mission at the Lao Embassy, Rangoon (1982-1983), before accepting the role of Consul, Lao Embassy in Paris, France from 1984-1989. After several high profile roles from 1989 through to1998, His Excellency accepted the role of Director-General of the Department of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane in 1998 and held this position until 2008 when he accepted the role of Ambassador of the Lao People始s Democratic Republic to Australia.
Malaysia H.E. Dato始 Salman bin L Ahmad High Commissioner of Malaysia to Australia After being appointed to the Administrative and Diplomatic Service of Malaysia as Assistant Secretary (Development) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1979 until May of 1982, His Excellency accepted a secondment to New Delhi, India as Second Secretary for the High Commission of Malaysia until being offered the role of First Secretary at the Embassy of Malaysia in Tokyo, Japan. In 1992, after a year serving as Principal Assistant Secretary (south East Asia I) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, His Excellency accepted the role of Cousellor at the Embassy of Malaysia, Bangkok, Thailand until December 1995, when he commenced his position as Consul General of Malaysia in Davao City, Phillipines. Having held several other roles, including Under Secretary (Information) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1998-2001), High Commissioner of Malaysia to Brunei Darussalam (2001-2003), and Ambassador of Malaysia to the Czech Republic (20052009), His Excellency commenced the role of High Commissioner for Malaysia to Australia in February 2009. His Excellency has a Bachelor of Social Science degree with honours from the
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Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Philippines H.E. Ernesto Hernandez De Leon Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (AEP) of the Republic of the Philippines to the Commonwealth of Australia. His Excellency is the 12th Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (AEP) of the Republic of the Philippines to the Commonwealth of Australia. Ambassador De Leon was formerly the Flag Officer In Command of the Philippine Navy. He served the Philippine Navy in various capacities. He was the Assistant Chief of Naval Staff for Plans, Director of the Naval Modernization Office, and Commander of the Naval Task Group for Anti-Piracy and Naval Task Force 21. He was also assigned as the Assistant Chief of Naval Staff for Operations, Commander of the Patrol Force, Chief of Naval Staff, and Commander of the Naval Forces in Mindanao. Before his appointment as the Flag Officer In Command of the Philippine Navy, he was the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Ambassador De Leon received several awards and commendations for effective combat performance, efficient administration and academic excellence. Among his awards are: five (5) Distinguished Service Stars; two (2) Presidential Legion of Honor; two (2) Outstanding Achievements Medals; two (2) Distinguished Navy Cross; thirteen (13) Military Merit Medals; the Navy Senior Command-at-Sea Badge; the AFP Combat ʻKagitinganʼ Badge; the French National Order of Legion dʼHonneur, Degree of Officer (from President Jacques Chirac); and the French National Order of Merit, Degree of Officer (from President Jacques Chirac). Ambassador De Leon attended various training courses in the Philippines and abroad. He finished his General Staff and Higher Joint Services Courses at the Ecole de Guerre (Joint Services War College) in Paris, France and Project Management Course with the Department of Defence of Australia. Ambassador De Leon obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the Philippine Military Academy in 1972. He graduated with a Master in National Security Administration at the National Defense College of the Philippines in 1998, and Master in International Affairs (with Merit) at the Australian National University in 2008. Ambassador De Leon is married to Emilie Angcaco De Leon of Cebu and blessed with two daughters, Claudia and Cristina, two sons, Arnaldo and Alfonso, and three grandsons, Erwin, Mylo and Ezequiel Rae.
H.E. Mr ZHANG Junsai Ambassador Peopleʼs Republic of China Born in October 1953 in Shanghai and graduating from Beijing Foreign Studies University, His Excellency has had a varied career, spanning several roles, from Attaché, Embassy of the Peopleʼs Republic of China in New Zealand from 19791983, and Attaché and Third Secretary, North American and Oceanian Affairs Dept, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), PRC from 1983-1988.
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Prior to, and during his term as Second Secretary, North American and Oceanian Affairs Dept, MFA from 1990-1991, His Excellency studied at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, (M.A.) Tufts University, USA from 1988 to1991. In 1991 (until 1995) he held the role of Consul, Chinese Consulate General in Sydney before then moving on to be First Secretary and Director, North American and Oceanian Affairs Dept, MFA (1995-1997) and Counsellor, Embassy of the People始s Republic of China in Australia (1997-2000). Between 2000 and 2007, His Excellency held the role of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of the Fiji Islands, and Deputy Director General, North American and Oceanian Affairs Dept, MFA, before commencing his current role as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Commonwealth of Australia His Excellency, Mr ZHANG Junsai is Married with one daughter.
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