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James Weiner »
James F. Weiner is a visiting fellow with the Crawford School of Public Policy and a consultant anthropologist based in Canberra, Australia. He has spent over three years in Papua New Guinea with the Foi people of the Southern Highlands Province, whose language he speaks. He has written four books on the Foi, including The Empty Place (1991), a study of the cultural relationship of the Foi to their land and territory, and has edited and co-edited three others including Mountain Papuans and the volumes Emplaced Myth and Mining and Indigenous Lifeworlds in Australia and Papua New Guinea, both with Alan Rumsey. He is the co-editor with Katie Glaskin of Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives (ANU E Press, 2007).
Ann McCulloch »
Associate Professor Ann McCulloch, PhD, teaches Literary studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Her most recent book was Dance of the Nomad: A Study of the Selected Notebooks of A. D. Hope. She is the director and writer of a documentary series on Hope and many articles on his life and work. Ann McCulloch’s book on the works of Patrick White and Nietzsche heralded her original interest in tragedy and theory. She has written and produced twelve theatrical productions including two plays The Odyssey Enflamed and Let Gypsies Lie. Ann McCulloch is Executive Editor of the online journal Double Dialogues and co-convener of associated international conferences. As Coordinator of ‘Creative Discursive Strategies Net-work’ her current interests focus on how the Arts serve as ‘problem solvers’ in relation to social issues and has published widely on ‘Depression and its Expression’ and environmental issues. Ann McCulloch is currently working on four books with Ron Goodrich, John Forrest and Paul Monaghan respectively: ‘Nietzsche and Australian Writers’; ‘The Writing Workshops of Christina Stead’; ‘Poetry and Painting: The interface between Text and Images’ and ‘The Anatomy of Poetics’.
Evert A. Lindquist »
Dr Evert A. Lindquist is Professor and Director of the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada and Editor of Canadian Public Administration.
Sam Vincent »
Sam Vincent is commissioning editor at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
Yung Chul Park »
Yung Chul Park is a professor of economics at Korea University. He is also a member of the National Economic Advisory Council. He was an ambassador for International Economy and Trade for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade from 2001 to 2002 and also chairman of the board, the Korea Exchange Bank in Seoul, 1999-2001. He previously served as the chief economic adviser to President Doo Hwan Chun of Korea, as president of the Korea Development Institute, as president of the Korea Institute Finance, and as a member of the Bank of Korea's Monetary Board. He was director of the Institute of Economic Research at Korea University, taught at Harvard University and Boston University as a visiting professor and worked for the International Monetary Fund. After completing undergraduate work at Seoul National University, he received his PhD from the University of Minnesota. From June to December of 1998, he managed the merger of Korea's two largest commercial banks as chairman of the CBK-Hanil Bank Merger Committee.
Takatoshi Ito »
Takatoshi Ito is a professor at the Graduate School of Economics at the University of Tokyo. He has taught at Hitotsubashi University, University of Minnesota and Harvard University. He also held the position of Senior Advisor in the Research Department, International Monetary Fund from 1994 to 1997 and Deputy Vice Minister for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance, Japan from 1999 to 2001). He is an author of many books including The Japanese Economy (MIT Press, 1992), The Political Economy of the Japanese Monetary Policy and Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan (both with T. Cargill and M. Hutchison).
George Nelson »
George Nelson is an Aboriginal Elder of both Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung Nations and has been a keeper of his family stories for seventy-three years. George had a broken education as a child and finally had the opportunity of returning to study at the age of fifty-six, completing a degree in Aboriginal Administration in Adelaide. George also commenced a postgraduate thesis, and took a special interest in further researching the life of his Grampa Thomas Shadrach James, an Indian from Mauritius who was responsible for educating both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people on Maloga and Cummeragunga missions over a period of forty-one years. George himself has a highly successful professional running career, on the Australian Professional athletics circuit.
Robynne Nelson »
Robynne Nelson has extensive experience working in Aboriginal communities around Australia, and has managed her own consultancy company Healing the Spirit Pty Ltd, working around Victoria and into New South Wales, supporting Aboriginal organisations and communities in community development, policy development, and cultural competency training across various communities and organisations. She also provides alternative and traditional healing therapies to those in need. Her business had been put on the backburner for seven years whilst completing her father’s research into Grampa Thomas Shadrach James and his family history in Australia, Mauritius and India, writing Dharmalan Dana on behalf of her father, and the completion of the amazing body of work with her father.
Trevor Wilson »
Trevor Wilson retired in August 2003 after more than thirty-six years as a member of the Australian foreign service, the last fifteen as a member of the Senior Executive Service, after serving as Australian Ambassador to Myanmar (2000-03). Since October 2003 he has been a Visiting Fellow on Myanmar/Burma at the Department of Political and Social Change, School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, The Australian National University.
Since 2004, Trevor Wilson has been co-convener of the Myanmar/Burma Update conference series at ANU. He has (co)-edited four volumes of the conference papers, Myanmar’s Long Road to National Reconciliation (ISEAS 2006); and, with Monique Skidmore, Myanmar: the state, community and the environment (Asia Pacific Press, 2007); and Dictatorship, disorder and decline in Myanmar (ANU Press, 2008); and with Monique Skidmore and Nick Cheesman, Ruling Myanmar From Cyclone Nargis to National Elections (ISEAS 2010) based on the 2009 Myanmar/Burma Update. With David Kinley, he co-authored a case study of Australia’s human rights training in Myanmar ‘Engaging a pariah: Human rights training in Burma/Myanmar’ (Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 29 No. 2, May 2007). He has written numerous opinion pieces and given many interviews about the situation in Myanmar/Burma.
Peter Baume »
Peter Baume is a physician and was a Liberal senator for New South Wales from 1974 to 1991, during which time he served as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Minister for Health and Minister for Education. Upon retiring from parliament he has been Professor of Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Chancellor of The Australian National University and Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission and Foundation Chair at the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.