Fellows

Natasha Jha Bhaskar
2022 Indo-Pacific Fellow
Natasha is General Manager of Newland Global Group, a Sydney-based leading Australian corporate advisory firm specialising in the Australia-India trade and investment space.
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Derek Grossman
2022 Indo-Pacific Fellow
Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at RAND Corporation focused on a range of national security policy and Indo-Pacific security issues.
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Rainier Haryanto
2022 Indo-Pacific Fellow
Rainier Haryanto is the Advisor to the Minister of State-owned Enterprises and the Head of Strategic Delivery Unit of Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, Republic of Indonesia. Parallel to the role, he is also mandated as the independent commissioner of PT Pelabuhan Indonesia, the Indonesian State-owned Enterprise Port Company with a responsibility to oversee the corporate operation particularly in the area of Good Corporate Governance and Risk Management.
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Megumi Avigail Yoshitomi
2022 Indo-Pacific Fellow
Megumi Avigail Yoshitomi is an Analyst at Europe-based investment bank, covering cross-border merger and acquisition advisory. She is also the PR manager of the Japan Association for Cellular-Agriculture, hosted by the Center for Rule-making Strategies at Tama Universit. Megumi has been awarded the 30 Under 30 award by Forbes Japan.
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Ho Thai Binh
2022 Indo-Pacific Fellow
Binh is a social entrepreneur working in public health in Vietnam. In 2018, he founded Survival Skills Vietnam with the mission to reduce preventable deaths and injuries in Vietnam via first aid education to international standards. At the same time, he founded SiGen which develops and commercialises new rainfall catch basin technologies in solving mosquito-borne diseases and odour pollution problems in urban environments.
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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
Distinguished Fellow
Dr Yudhoyono was the Republic of Indonesia's sixth president and the country's first directly elected president - entering office in 2004 and serving two consecutive five-year terms. He left office in October 2014.
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The Honourable Kim Beazley AC
Distinguished Fellow
The Honourable Kim Beazley AC is the 33rd Governor of Western Australia. Prior to being installed as Governor on the 1st May 2018, Mr Beazley had dedicated almost three decades to a career in Federal Parliament, representing the WA seats of Brand and Swan.
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Professor Stephen Smith
Distinguished Fellow
Professor Stephen Smith has been a Professor of Public International Law at the University of Western Australia since 2014. He is currently the Chairman of archTIS, Chairman of the Advisory Board of Sapien Cyber, Chair of the Advisory Board of the UWA Public Policy Institute, a member of the Board of the Perth USAsia Centre and a Member of the Board of the LNG Marine Fuel Institute.
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Peter Varghese AO
Distinguished Fellow
Peter Varghese AO is Chancellor of The University of Queensland and a Distinguished Fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre. Prior to his appointment as Chancellor in 2016, Mr Varghese’s extensive career in public service and diplomacy spanned 38 years and included senior positions in foreign affairs, trade policy and intelligence.
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