ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM REGISTER OF EXPERTS/EMINENT PERSONS (EEPs) February 2019 ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM REGISTER OF EXPERTS / EMINENT PERSONS Table of Contents Australia ……………………………………………………………………... 1 Brunei Darussalam …………………………………………………………... 5 Cambodia ……………………………………………………………………. 10 Canada …………………………………………………………………….…. 16 China ………………………………………………………………………… 33 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea…………………………………….. 36 European Union…………………………………………………………….. 37 India ……………………………………………………………………….. 39 Indonesia……………………………………………………………………. 42 Japan …………………………………….…………………………………. 45 Lao PDR……….. …………………………………………………………… 50 Malaysia…………………………………………………………………….. 58 Mongolia……………………………………………………………………... 60 Myanmar…………………………………………………………………….. 66 New Zealand……………………………………………………………….. 72 Pakistan……………………………………………………………………… 75 Papua New Guinea…………………………………………………………. 83 The Philippines…… …………………………………………………………. 84 Republic of Korea……………………………………………………………. 85 Russia ………………………………………………………………………... 91 Singapore …………………………………………………………………….. 96 Sri Lanka …………………………………………………………………….. 97 Thailand ……………………………………………………………………… 98 United States ………………………………………………………………… 104 Viet Nam…………………………………………………………………… 105 Updated as of 25 February 2019 ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM REGISTER OF EXPERTS / EMINENT PERSONS AUSTRALIA __________________________________________________________________ 1. Professor Robin Warner Professor Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security University of Wollongong Dr Robin Warner is a Professor at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security. She was formerly the Assistant Secretary of the International Crime Branch of the Criminal Justice Division in the Commonwealth Attorney General’s Department from 2002 to 2006. During that period she led twelve Australian delegations to bilateral and multilateral delegations on transnational crime and criminal justice cooperation issues. Previously she served with the Royal Australian Navy as a legal officer. During her Defence Force legal career, Captain Warner occupied a wide range of positions including Director of International Law for the Australian Defence Force and Deputy Director of Naval Legal Services. She graduated as a PhD from the University of Sydney in November 2006. Her doctoral research concerned the international law framework for protection of the marine environment and conservation of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction. She is the author of Protecting the Oceans Beyond National Jurisdiction: Strengthening the International Law Framework (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, 2009), editor (with Simon Marsden) of Transboundary Environmental Governance: Inland, Marine and Coastal Perspectives (Ashgate Publishers, Farnham, Surrey, 2012), editor (with Clive Schofield) of Climate Change and the Oceans: Gauging the Legal and Policy Currents in the Asia Pacific and Beyond (Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham, UK, 2012) and editor (with Stuart Kaye) of the Routledge Handbook of Maritime Regulation and Enforcement (routledge, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, 2015). She has published numerous articles in international peer reviewed journals and chapters in books on international law and policy. 2. William (Bill) Paterson Mr Paterson has held senior positions in the Australian Government with responsibility for counter-terrorism, international strategic and security policy, politico-military affairs, intelligence and regional issues, particularly in Asia and the Middle East. He is currently Senior United States analyst in the Office of National Assessments (ONA), and Australian senior official for MIKTA. From 2013 to 2016, he was Ambassador to the Republic of Korea (ROK), dually accredited to North Korea and Mongolia. Mr Paterson was Australia's representative on the United Nations Command (UNC) for Korea and worked closely with US forces Korea (USFK), positioning Australia as a key security partner to both the US and ROK. He led the campaign to deliver the Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement in 2013, and worked 1 Updated as of 25 February 2019 closely on resources trade issues. From 2008-13, he was Australian Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism and Head of the International Security Division in Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), undertaking frequent missions in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, the US and Europe, and working closely with Australian agencies and the federal-state national CT committee. Mr Paterson was earlier Australian Ambassador to Thailand (2004-08), and led Australia's disaster response to the 2004 Asian tsunami. Before that, he was Head of the Southeast Asia Division in DFAT in 2003-04. He has led DFAT's International Security Division for three separate periods. Following the events of September 11, 2001, Mr Paterson was appointed Head of the Australian Government's Anti-Terrorism Task Force. He subsequently became Head of the Government's Iraq Task Force (2002-03). He served as Chief of Staff and Principal Adviser to the Foreign Minister in 2000. Mr Paterson was Assistant Secretary (Asia) in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in 1998-99, during both the Asian financial crisis and East Timor crisis, advising the Prime Minister on APEC, trade policy and regional issues. He has worked on global intelligence issues for the Office of National Assessments and was for four years ONA's representative to the US intelligence community in Washington. Mr Paterson has had long-term postings in Dhaka, Baghdad, Vienna, Washington, Tokyo, Bangkok and Seoul. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University (ANU), a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is an adviser to the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre. He has been a member of the Fulbright Commission, and the Board of the Global Terrorism Research Centre at Monash University. He is currently on the executive of the Australia-Korea Business Council (AKBC). In 2003, he was awarded the Public Service Medal and in 2005 the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal. 3. Professor Michael Wesley Director Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs Australian National University Michael Wesley is Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University. His career has spanned academia, with various appointments at the University of New South Wales, Griffith University, the University of Hong Kong, Sun Yat-sen University and the University of Sydney; government, where he worked as Assistant Director General for Transnational Issues at the Office of National Assessments; and think tanks, in which he was Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Professor Wesley has also served as the Editor in Chief of the Australian Journal of International Affairs. He is a Non-Executive Member of the Senior Leadership Group 2 Updated as of 25 February 2019 of the Australian Federal Police and a Member of the NSW/ACT Advisory Board for CEDA. His book, There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the Rise of Asia, won the 2011 John Button Prize for the best writing on Australian public policy. His most recent book is Restless Continent: Wealth, Power and Asia’s New Geopolitics. 4. Professor Rory Medcalf Head of College National Security College Australian National University Professor Rory Medcalf has been Head of the National Security College at the Australian National University since January 2015. He has led the expansion of the College into policy engagement as well as education, executive development and research. His professional background involves more than two decades of experience across diplomacy, intelligence analysis, think tanks and journalism including a formative role as Director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute. In government, Professor Medcalf worked as a senior strategic analyst with the Office of National Assessments, Canberra’s peak intelligence analysis agency. He was also an Australian diplomat, with wide experience including a posting to New Delhi, a secondment to the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, truce monitoring after the civil conflict in Bougainville and policy development on Asian security institutions. He has contributed to three landmark reports on nuclear arms control: the 1996 Canberra Commission, 1999 Tokyo Forum and 2009 International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament. His earlier work in journalism was commended in Australia’s leading media awards, the Walkleys. Professor Medcalf has been prominent in developing Australia’s relations with India. He has been Associate Director of the Australia-India Institute and Senior Research Fellow in Indian Strategic Affairs at the University of New South Wales. He is the founding convener and co-chair of the Australia-India Policy Forum, an influential informal dialogue between the two countries. Professor Medcalf was a member of the expert panel providing independent advice on the Australian Government’s 2016 Defence White Paper. His research areas include Australia’s security challenges, the further development of an Indo-Pacific concept of the Asian strategic environment, China-India relations, and prospects for maritime and nuclear stability in Indo-Pacific Asia, on which he has led projects funded by the MacArthur Foundation. Professor Medcalf is a member of editorial boards of Asia Policy