2018 SWF Live and Local Speakers April 18, 2018

Name Bio Recent works Alec Luhn is the Russia correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and has previously written for Time, Politico, The New York Times and The Guardian , among others. He covered the Russian protest Alec Luhn movement, the Sochi Olympics, the annexation of Crimea and the revolution and war in Ukraine. He is working on a book related to the Russian interference in the 2016 US election. Alexis Okeowo is a magazine writer and screenwriter, and a former fellow at New America. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine , the Financial Times , The Best American Travel Writing , and The Best American Sports Writing . The daughter of immigrant parents, Okeowo grew Alexis A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women up in Alabama and attended Princeton University. She was based in Lagos, Nigeria, from 2012 to 2015, Okeowo and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa and now lives in Brooklyn. Her first book, A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism In Africa , is a vivid narrative of Africans who are courageously resisting their continent’s wave of fundamentalism. Aminatou Sow is founder of Tech LadyMafia, a group that increases opportunities for women in Tech and the co-host of Call Your Girlfriend , a podcast that tackles the intricacies of pop culture and the latest in Aminatou politics every single week. A digital strategist and writer, she was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Sow Tech. She is also a member of the Sundance Institute Director's Advisory Group and previously led Social Impact Marketing at Google. She lives in Brooklyn. Amy Goldstein has been a staff writer for thirty years at The Washington Post , where much of her work has focused on social policy. Among her awards, Goldstein was part of a team of Washington Post reporters awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for the newspaper’s coverage of 9/11 and Amy the government’s response to the attacks. She was also a 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist for national reporting Janesville: An American Story Goldstein for an investigative series she co-wrote on the medical treatment of immigrants detained by the U.S. government. She has been a fellow at Harvard University at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Janesville: An American Story is her first book and the 2017 winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award. She lives in Washington, DC. Angela Saini is a British writer and science journalist, who presents science programmes on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service. She has a Masters in Engineering from Oxford University, and a second Masters in Science and Security from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Between 2012 and 2013 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US. Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong Her second book, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the

Angela Saini Story, takes readers on a journey to uncover science’s failure to understand women, she finds that we’re Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking still living with the legacy of an establishment that’s just beginning to recover from centuries of Over the World entrenched exclusion and prejudice. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian , Observer, The Times, Prospect, New Scientist , Wallpaper, Vogue, Marie Claire , Science, and the Economist among others. She has won a number of national and international journalism awards. Her first book, Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World , was published in 2011 and became a bestseller in India. Anna Broinowski is a filmmaker and author who documents the illicit, subversive and bizzarre. Her films Please Explain: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again include Pauline Hanson: Please Explain , Aim High in Creation! , Forbidden Lie$ , and Helen’s War . She is the Anna of Pauline Hanson recipent of three AFI/AACTAs. Anna’s book about North Korea's propaganda filmmakers, The Director is Broinowski the Commander , was shortlisted for a Dobbie and won the NIB Alex Buzo shortlist prize. Her latest book is The Director is the Commander Please Explain: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Pauline Hanson . is one of Australia's most beloved journalists. She is a writer and broadcaster for the ABC, Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of writes a weekly opinion column for Fairfax, is the author of the bestselling book {The Wife Drought} and is Annabel a sought-after speaker and presenter. As host of the ABC's enormously popular series Kitchen Cabinet ,

Crabb Annabel has broken bread with Australia's most influential political leaders and shared her magnificent Special Delivery: Favourite Recipes to Make desserts in kitchens around the country. She broadcasts a top-rating podcast ( Chat10 Looks3 ) with friend and Take and colleague and her latest book is Special Delivery , a cookbook with Wendy Sharpe. Ben Doherty is Immigration and Asia-Pacific Correspondent for The Guardian . He was formerly Southeast Asia Correspondent for The Guardian , and South Asia correspondent for The Morning Herald and . He is a three-time Walkley Award-winner, and was 2008 Young Australian Print Journalist of the Ben Doherty Nagaland Year. He holds a Master of International Law and International Relations from the University of New South Wales, and in 2015 was a Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Nagaland. Ben Taub joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2017. He has written for the magazine about jihadi recruitment in Europe, war crimes in Syria, battlefield medicine, converging crises in the Sahel, and human trafficking along the trans-Saharan migration routes from Nigeria to Italy. In 2014, he received a B.A. in philosophy from Princeton; the next year, he completed an M.A. in politics at Columbia’s Graduate School Ben Taub of Journalism. In 2017, Taub’s work on Syria, which was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, was short-listed for a National Magazine Award and won the Livingston Award for International Reporting, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for International Print reporting, and the Overseas Press Club Award for Investigative Reporting. Taub also received the ASME Next Award for Journalists Under 30, and was named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media. Claire Nichols is the host of T he Book Hub on ABC RN, a weekly radio program that features in-depth author interviews as well as news and analysis from the publishing world. She has spent a decade at the Claire Nichols ABC, with roles in news, current affairs, local radio and at RN. She is the proud recipient of consecutive WA Media Awards for arts reporting. When she’s not reading, Claire is likely to be found at a dance class, or in a theatre somewhere. Deb Verhoeven is Associate Dean of Engagement and Innovation at University of Technology Sydney Deb (UTS). An agitator, commentator and critic, Verhoeven is the author of more than 100 journal articles and Jane Campion Verhoeven book chapters as well as a book on Jane Campion published by Routledge in 2009. 2018 SWF Live and Local Speakers April 18, 2018

American Journeys Don Watson is the author of various award winning books and essays on subjects including politics, language, history, birds, racehorses, the United States and the Bush. His latest book is There It Is Again , a Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Don Watson collection of his writing from the last fifteen years. He lives in and writes regularly for The Language Monthly. There It Is Again: Selected Non-Fiction Professor Elanor Huntington is the Dean at ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science. She was appointed the Dean 2014, and is the first female Dean of Engineering at National Elanor University. Professor Huntington is has committed to growing the profile of Science and Technology in the Huntington community and is passionate about attracting more young women to take up careers in STEM related fields. Emily Wilson is the first woman to translate the Odyssey into English and is a Professor in the Department of Classical Studies, and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania. She grew up in Oxford, England, and got her B.A. and M.Phil. at Oxford, before moving to the United States to do a Ph.D. in Classical Studies and Comparative Literature at Yale. Her research interests include the intersections between classical and later literature, the relationship of literature to philosophy, Greek and Roman tragedy, and the theory and practice of poetry in translation. Emily Wilson Her first book was about “overliving” in the tragic tradition from Sophocles to Milton. Her second was The Odyssey about representations of the death of Socrates from Plato to the twentieth century. Her third was a study of the life and work of the Roman philosopher and political advisor, Seneca. She has published a verse translation of Seneca's tragedies, and verse translations of four tragedies by Euripides in The Greek Plays . Her widely-acclaimed verse translation of the Odyssey, appeared in 2017. She is currently at work on a volume of essays on ancient tragedy, a new verse translation of Oedipus Tyrannos , and a new translation of the Iliad. is the Chief Economics Correspondent at the ABC. Prior to taking up her latest role, Emma spent six years as the presenter of ABC TV’s evening news and analysis program, . Before that Emma was based in the UK as the ABC’s Europe Correspondent. She arrived in London just as Lehmann Bros was collapsing and as the world began questioning every accepted orthodoxy attaching to global Emma financial markets. For someone who had spent most of the previous two decades as a business and Alberici finance journalist, it was a case of right place, right time. Emma worked at the and did her cadetship at News Limited's Newspaper in Melbourne. Emma has been a finalist three times in the Walkley Awards for journalistic excellence. Emma is a prolific writer and has been widely published in the Sun Herald and ABC’s The Drum. She is the author of three editions of The Small Business Book . Gareth Evans was a Cabinet Minister in the Hawke-Keating governments for thirteen years, including as Foreign Minister from 1988-96. He led the Brussels-based International Crisis Group from 2000-09, and is Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir now Chancellor and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Australian National University. He co-chaired Gareth Evans major international commissions on mass atrocity crimes and nuclear weapons, has won many national Inside the Hawke-Keating Government: A and international awards, and has written or edited thirteen books, most recently Inside the Hawke Cabinet Diary Keating Government: A Cabinet Diary and Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir . Glory Okon Edim is the founder of Well-Read Black Girl, an online book club turned literary festival that celebrates the uniqueness of Black literature and sisterhood. Well-Read Black Girl’s mission is to increase the visibility of Black women writers and initiate meaningful conversation with readers. {Brooklyn Magazine} and {Smart Girls} called Glory the “future of reading”. She has worked as a creative strategist Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Glory Edim for over 10 years at start-ups and cultural institutions, including Kickstarter, the New York Foundation for Discovering Ourselves the Arts and The Webby Awards. Her first book, {Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves} is an anthology of essays by high-profile black female writers, including Zinzi Clemmons, Morgan Jerkins, and Tayari Jones, and will be published in 2018. Henry Timms is executive director of the 92nd Street Y, a cultural and community center that creates programs and movements that foster learning and civic engagement. Under his leadership, the 144-year- old institution was named to Fast Company's "Most Innovative Companies" list. He is the co-founder of Henry Timms #GivingTuesday, a global philanthropic movement that engages people in close to 100 countries that has New Power generated hundreds of millions of dollars for good causes. He is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. With Jeremy Heimans he is the co-author of the book New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World - and How to Make it Work for You . Hugh Riminton has been a journalist and foreign correspondent for nearly 40 years, working chiefly for CNN and Australian television. He has received major journalism honours in Australia, the United States Hugh and Asia - including the Dupont-Columbia Award (US), two Asian TV Awards, two Walkley Awards, a Logie Minefields Riminton and honours from the Australian Human Rights Commission and the UN Association Peace Award. He has reported wars and conflicts on four continents and witnessed some of the largest humanitarian disasters in recorded history. His memoir Minefields: A Life In The News Game was published in October 2017. Jane Harper has worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK. Her Force of Nature bestselling novels, The Dry and Force of Nature have sold to over thirty territories, with film rights for The Jane Harper Dry sold to Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea. Jane lives in Melbourne with her husband and The Dry daughter. Jennifer Byrne has emerged from 11 years as host of The Book Club on ABC TV with her love for books intact, and an ongoing curiosity about and admiration for writers. Trained in print at The Age in Jennifer Melbourne, Jennifer has spent much of her career in broadcast media including radio host, pioneer Byrne reporter at Channel Nine's Sunday and twice working as a foreign correspondent, first with 60 Minutes and later the ABC. She is currently having a gap year. Jeremy Heimans is the co-founder and CEO of Purpose, an organization headquartered in New York that builds and supports social movements around the world. He is the co-founder of GetUp!, an Australian Jeremy political organization with more members than all of Australia's political parties combined. With Henry New Power Heimans Timms, Jeremy is co-author of the book New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World-- and How to Make It Work for You . 2018 SWF Live and Local Speakers April 18, 2018

Johann Hari is a New York Times bestselling author. His first book Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs has been translated into 15 languages and is currently being adapted into a major Hollywood film, and into a non-fiction documentary series. He is one of the most-viewed TED Lost Connections talkers of all time: his talk, ‘Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong’, has (along with the Johann Hari animation based on it) been viewed more than 20 million times. He has written over the past seven years Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days for some of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, the Los of the War on Drugs Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Spectator, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Politico. He was twice named National Newspaper Journalist of the Year by Amnesty International. Julia Zemiro is an acting graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts (1993). Arguably best known as the host of the long-running SBS hit TV program RocKwiz, Julia’s success continues in Julia Zemiro’s Home Julia Zemiro Delivery for the ABC, now in its sixth series, which she also co-produces. Her co-hosting of the Eurovision Song Contest (2008-2016) lead to an unprecedented success for SBS. Kerry O’Brien is one of Australia’s most distinguished and respected journalists and the winner of six Walkley Awards for excellence in journalism. He has been a journalist for 50 years covering print, television and wire service, as a reporter, feature writer, columnist and foreign correspondent. For ABC TV, he presented The 7.30 Report for more than 15 years, Four Corners for five years and Lateline for six Kerry O'Brien years. He has interviewed many world leaders including Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Keating Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair, as well as many influential figures in the arts, science and business. For 20 years he was also the face of the ABC’s election night coverage. Kerry’s acclaimed four- part interview series with former Prime Minister Paul Keating was broadcast on the ABC in 2013, and his book expanding on those conversations was published in 2015. His memoir is due out in 2018. Leigh Sales is one of Australia's most respected journalists. She anchors the ABC's flagship current affairs On Doubt Leigh Sales program 7.30 and has won two Walkley awards for reporting. She also co-hosts a popular culture podcast called Chat 10, Looks 3 with Annabel Crabb. She is the author of Detainee 002 and On Doubt. Detainee 002 Linda Jaivin is the author of eleven books, a literary translator from Chinese specialising in film, and co- editor of the ANU's China Story Yearbook . She is also a prolific essayist, occasional playwright and first- The Empress Lover Linda Jaivin time curator. Her first book, the comic erotic Eat Me, was an international best-seller. Her China memoir The Monkey and the Dragon , and novels A Most Immoral Woman and The Empress Lover all explore Beijing aspects of the foreign experience of China. Louise Adler is the Chief Executive of Melbourne University Publishing,the President of the Australian Louise Adler Publishers Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Publishers Association. The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Masha Gessen is the author of nine books, most recently The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Reclaimed Russia , which was awarded the National Book Award in the United States in 2017. Masha's

other books include the international bestseller The Man Without a Face: the Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Masha The Tsarnaev Brothers: The Road to a Putin. Masha was born in Russia, emigrated to the United States as a teenager, returned to Moscow as a Gessen Modern Tragedy correspondent, and emigrated to the United States again in 2013, after the Kremlin launched its antigay

campaign. Masha now lives in New York City, works as a staff writer at The New Yorker , and teaches at The Man Without A Face: The Unlikely Rise Amherst College. of Vladimir Putin Michael Pembroke is a writer, historian, naturalist and author. His book Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy became a television documentary and was short-listed for the Prime Minister’s Literary Korea: Where the American Century Began Michael Awards and runner-up in the National Maritime Museum History Award. The research for Pembroke’s Pembroke latest book, Korea has taken him to Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang, Washington DC, Princeton and Arthur Phillip: Sailor, Mercenary, Governer, Cambridge. In 2016, he travelled through North Korea from the Yalu River to the Demilitarised Zone. He Spy has been a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales since 2010. Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award. A New York Times bestseller, Pachinko was a Top 10 Books of the Year for the New York Times , USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle , the BBC, CBC, the New York Public Library and the Chicago Public Library. Pachinko was on more than six Pachinko Min Jin Lee dozen best books of the year lists around the world, including NPR, PBS, CNN, History channel, Esquire, Financial Times, Amazon, Financial Review, New Statesman, Chicago Tribune, Whitcoulls 100, and The Free Food for Millionaires Irish Times. Min’s debut novel Free Food for Millionaires was a Top 10 Books of the Year for The Times, NPR’s Fresh Air and USA Today. Minglu Chen is a senior lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the Middle Class China University of Sydney. Her research concentrates on social and political change in China, especially the Minglu Chen interaction between entrepreneurs and the state. She is the editor and author of Middle Class China and Tiger Girls: Women and Enterprise in the Tiger Girls: Women and Enterprises in the People’s Republic of China . People's Republic of China Mohammed Al Samawi was born in Sana’a, Yemen and grew up as a practising Muslim. His memoir, The Fox Hunt, shares the moving story of love, war, and hope in which he recounts his harrowing personal Mohammed transformation from a traditionalist to an interfaith activist, and how he escaped the brutal civil war in The Fox Hunt Al Samawi Yemen with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of Facebook friends in the West. La La Land producer Marc Platt is currently developing the movie “The Fox Hunt,” based on Mohammed Al-Samawi’s autobiography. Peter Greste was born in Sydney and studied journalism at the Queensland University of Technology and is the author of First Casualty . His work as a foreign correspondent for Reuters, the BBC and Al Jazeera has taken him around the world, and he has lived in London, Belgrade, Africa, South America and Afghanistan. First Casualty He was awarded a Peabody Award in 2011 for his documentary on Somalia, and the Australian Human Peter Greste Rights Medal in 2015 for his work as an advocate of a free press. In 2013 he was arrested in Cairo, along Freeing Peter with his Al Jazeera colleagues, for reporting news that was ‘damaging to national security’. He was subsequently tried and convicted for seven years, but was released without explanation after 14 months in prison, an experience he and his family recounted in Freeing Peter . 2018 SWF Live and Local Speakers April 18, 2018

Richard Fidler is the author of Ghost Empire , and the co-author of Saga Land with Kári Gíslason, which tells the story of their journey into the sagas of Iceland: the true stories of the first Viking families who Saga Land Richard Fidler settled there in the Middle Ages. Richard is the presenter of Conversations with Richard Fidler on ABC Radio. The program attracts a large listening audience around the nation, and is the most popular podcast Ghost Empire in Australia. Richard Holden is Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School and academic co-lead of the UNSW Grand Challenge on Inequality. Prior to that he was on the faculty at the University of Chicago and the Richard Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a PhD from Harvard University. He has published in Holden leading economics journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review, and in popular outlets including the New York Times , New Republic and Australian Financial Review. Robert E. Kelly lives in South Korea, where he is a professor in the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Pusan National University. He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from Ohio State Robert E. University. Dr. Kelly comments frequently on North Korea and U.S. foreign policy for outlets including the Kelly BBC, CNN, the New York Times , and Foreign Affairs . He briefly became famous as “BBC Dad” when, in March, 2017, his children interrupted him live on BBC News. Sarah Ferguson is a Gold Walkley winner who began her career working for UK newspapers. Moving to Paris, she became a fixer for quite pretentious British arts programs being made in France. An interlude in current affairs changed everything. The arts producers said she would hate journalism as the people On Mother Sarah involved with it ‘had no manners.’ It was a perfect match! After working for European broadcasters she Ferguson moved to Washington DC and then Australia. Following stints at SBS and Channel 9, she later became a The Killing Season Uncut reporter for (and now the anchor of) ABC TV's Four Corners . She has won three Walkleys, four Logies and many other awards. Sarah Krasnostein was born in America, studied in Melbourne and has lived and worked in both countries. Sarah Earning her doctorate in criminal law, she is a law lecturer and researcher. She lives in Melbourne, and The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Krasnostein spends part of the year working in New York City. The Trauma Cleaner is her first book that won the 2017 Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster Victorian Prize for Literature. Susan Dodds is a Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW. Her research explores the intersections of ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology, feminist theory and public policy. She has published extensively on issues relating to bioethics, deliberative democracy, relational autonomy, health policy and regulation. Professor Dodds is Chief Investigator and Ethics, Policy Susan Dodds and Public Engagement Theme Leader on the Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES). She is President and Chair of the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Science and Humanities (DASSH), Chair of the Board of the Australasian Association of Philosophy and member of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Genetics and Genomics Working Committee (NS Chapter 3.5), of the Australian Health Ethics Committee (AHEC). Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, including Silver Sparrow , The Untelling , and Leaving Atlanta . An American Marriage is an Oprah Book Club selection and a New York Times bestseller. She is currently the An American Marriage Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Michael Chabon says, Tayari Jones “Tayari Jones is blessed with vision to see through to the surprising and devastating truths at the heart of Atlanta Noir ordinary lives, strength to wrest those truths free, and a gift of language to lay it all out, compelling and clear.” Xue Yiwei is the author of 18 acclaimed books in Chinese, including five novels, five collections of short stories and novellas, five literary essays. Ha Jin called him “a maverick in contemporary Chinese Dr. Bethune's Children Xue Yiwei literature”, and his works have been translated into English, French, Swedish, German and Italian. The English version of Dr. Bethune’s Children , a novel banned in China for more than 6 years, has drawn Shenzheners international attention since its English publication in 2017. Yiwei lives in Canada.