Appendix 4 - Roundtable participants
Dr Alison Broinowski is a Visiting Fellow at the
Centre for Asian Societies and Histories at the Australian National University.
She received her doctorate for a study of representations of Australia in ten
Asian countries. Formerly an Australian diplomat, Dr Broinowski's assignments
included cultural attache in Tokyo and director of the Australia–Japan
Foundation. She has worked for over twenty years on mutual images of Australia
and Asian countries. Her monographs include The Yellow Lady: Australian
Impressions of Asia (OUP 1992, 1996) and About Face: Asian Accounts of Australia
(Scribe 2003). Dr Broinowski is the editor of Understanding ASEAN (Macmillan
1982), Australia, Asia, and the Media (Griffith University 1982), ASEAN into
the 1990s (Macmillan 1990), and Double Vision: Asian Accounts of Australia
(Pandanus 2004). She co-authored with James Wilkinson The Third Try: Can the UN
Work? (Scribe 2005), and her latest book is Allied and Addicted (Scribe 2007).
Professor Naren Chitty is
Head of the Department of International Communication and Foundation Chair in
International Communication at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the Deputy
Dean of the Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy. Professor Chitty
has a Master's degree in International Communications (1988) and a PhD in
International Relations (1992), both from American University. Professor Chitty
introduced an MA in International Communication at Macquarie University in 1991
and founded the Journal of International Communication in 1994. He has taught
for Macquarie University in Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong and for the University
of South Australia in Singapore and Malaysia. Professor Chitty has also been a
Visiting Professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris (2004), Michigan State
University and American University (1995).
Mr Chris Freeman was directly involved in Australia’s
international public diplomacy and advocacy programs for a period of 35 years
(1970–2005). He joined the Department of Immigration’s overseas information
network in 1970 and in January 1974 was transferred to the Australian
Information Service (renamed Promotion Australia in the mid-1980s). In 1987,
when responsibility for international public diplomacy was transferred to the
then Department of Foreign Affairs, Mr Freeman was 'integrated' into DFA,
together with Promotion Australia’s other 140 staff. In 1996, when DFAT
abolished its specialist public diplomacy unit, he was one of only 11 public
affairs specialists out of more than 50 who remained in the department. In
1997, Mr Freeman served as director of DFAT’s International Media Centre in
advance of the Sydney Olympic Games. In 2000, he established a Commonwealth
issues/crisis management unit in the lead-up to and during the Games. From 1999
to 2005, he was responsible for oversighting the department's website, its
media visitor program and production of public affairs material. Mr Freeman was
also responsible for oversighting public diplomacy programs in all DFAT posts.
This involved setting of policy guidelines and providing advice and guidance to
Australian and locally-engaged staff on how to conduct effective public
diplomacy and advocacy campaigns.
He was editor of the two major departmental Public Diplomacy
Handbooks in 2003 and 2005. In 2001, Mr Freeman was closely involved in tender
and selection process for the establishment of an Asia Pacific regional
broadcasting service.
Dr Alan Hawke is the Chancellor of the Australian National
University. He had a distinguished 22 year career with the Commonwealth Public
Service which included senior posts in the Department of Community Services and
Health and as Secretary of the Department of Defence, the Department of
Veterans' Affairs and the Department of Transport and Regional Services. He
completed his public service to Australia as High Commissioner to New Zealand
with accreditation to the Cook Islands and responsibilities for Niue, the Pitcairn
Islands and the Tokelau Islands. The Australian Financial Review's 'Boss' Magazine,
named Dr Hawke one of Australia's top 30 true leaders in its inaugural list in
2001. He is currently a member of the Foreign Affairs Council and the National
Security Advisory Council.
Dr Pauline Kerr is Fellow and Director of Studies at
the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy (APCD). She teaches two courses in the
APCD's Master of Diplomacy degree: Contemporary Challenges in Diplomacy and
Negotiation and Conflict Management. Dr Kerr's research interests include
diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific, peace making negotiations in internal conflicts
in Southeast Asia and the Pacific and traditional and human security
developments in the Asia-Pacific. Her recent publications include ‘The
Contemporary Asia-Pacific Security Situation: Challenges for Diplomacy in the Push
for Peace', in Peter Greener (ed.) Push for Peace and 'Trends and Options in
Transnational Policy: A Conference Report', Australian Journal of International
Affairs, vol. 59, no.1, March 2005. Before joining the College, Dr Kerr served
as academic coordinator for the Diploma of Foreign Affairs and Trade, organised
through DFAT.
Mr Trevor Wilson graduated in Asian Studies from the Australian
National University and was an Australian diplomat from 1967–2003. He was
posted to the Australian Embassy in Tokyo three times, the last as Deputy Head
of Mission from 1996–2000. He served as Australian Ambassador to Myanmar from
2000–2003, before retirement. He holds positions at the ANU as a Visiting
Fellow on Myanmar in the Department of Political and Social Change and Project
Manager at the Australia-Japan Research Centre. He comments and writes on Myanmar
and has been convener of the Myanmar/Burma Update Conference for the ANU in
2004 and 2006. He edited the proceedings of the 2004 Update Conference as Myanmar’s
Long Road to National Reconciliation (2006).
Dr Yusaku Horiuchi is a Senior Lecturer in the
Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University.
He gained an MA in international and development economics from Yale University
in 1995 and a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 2001. Dr Horiuchi recently organised a conference on public
diplomacy in Japan and the Asia Pacific. Dr Horiuchi is the recipient of the
2006 J. G. Crawford Award for the best paper on Japan or Australia–Japan
relations.
Dr Horiuchi and Mr Wilson are currently working on a book on
public diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific region. The book will examine why the
state makes public diplomacy efforts and how their efforts changed over time.
The aim is to formulate a better theoretical framework to understand public
diplomacy in the context of today's global and dynamic international relations
and to pave the way for further development of studies on public diplomacy.
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