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Prof. Evi Fitriani was the co-founder of the ASEAN centre at FISIP UI, Indonesia’s country coordinator of the Network of East Asian Think Tanks (NEAT). She has been appointed the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Universitas Indonesia (2025–2029).
Prof. Fitriani helped established UI’s masters programme in European Studies and is part of the Australia-Indonesia Centre’s knowledge network. She was the organiser of the 2017, 2018 and 2019 academic class collaboration between FISIP UI and Faculty of Arts, UoM. Prof. Fitriani has published in numerous reputable journal on the issues of Indonesia’s foreign policy, ASEAN, Asian regionalism, Indonesia relations with Australia, Indonesia-Malaysia relations, precolonial Southeast Asia, border studies, European Union (EU) and EU-Asia relation.
Vedi Hadiz is Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the Asia Institute and an Assistant Deputy Vice-Chancellor International, University of Melbourne, where he is also a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor. He was previously Professor of Asian Societies and Politics at Murdoch University’s Asia Research Centre and Director of its Indonesia Research Programme. An Indonesian national, he was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in 2010-2014. Professor Hadiz received his PhD at Murdoch University in 1996 where he was Research Fellow until he went to the National University of Singapore in 2000. At NUS, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology until returning to Murdoch in 2010. His research interests revolve around political sociology and political economy issues, especially those related to the contradictions of development in Indonesia and Southeast Asia more broadly, and more recently, in the Middle East.
Dr. Arie Setiabudi Soesilo, M.Sc., is a leading sociologist and academic in Indonesia who plays an important role in the development of social science. He is a permanent lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP), University of Indonesia (UI). In addition, Dr. Arie is also known as the former Dean of FISIP UI for two periods, namely 2013-2017 and 2017-2021.
Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem is a professor of Political Science in the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of the Philippines Diliman and executive director of the Center for Integrative and Development Studies at the University of the Philippines. She is editor of Localizing and Transnationalizing Contentious Politics: Global Civil Society Movements in the Philippines and co-editor of Marxism in the Philippines: Continuing Engagements.
Prof. Bambang Permadi Soemantri Brodjonegoro is a leading Indonesian economist and currently serves as Dean and CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), a position he assumed in April 2025. Prof. Brodjonegoro has held numerous distinguished positions in Indonesian government, serving as Minister of Finance (2014-2016), Minister of National Development Planning/Head of Bappenas (2016-2019), and Minister of Research and Technology/Head of the National Research and Innovation Agency (2019-2021). Prior to his ministerial appointments, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business at Universitas Indonesia (2005-2009), becoming the university’s youngest dean at age 38, and as Director General of the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) at the Islamic Development Bank Group in Jeddah (2009-2010).