PRESIDENT (2022)

Dr Natali Pearson is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, where she researches maritime heritage in Southeast Asia and is affiliated with the discipline of Archaeology. As Curriculum Coordinator at the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, Natali has coordinated and co-led 12 multidisciplinary field schools to Southeast Asia, including to Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Singapore and Thailand.

She is an Expert Member of the ICOMOS International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management, Councillor of the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology and host of the internationally syndicated SSEAC Stories podcast.

Natali is a proud alumna of the Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies (2000) and the Asialink Leaders Program (2009). She first visited Indonesia in 1997, when she participated in the Program Intensif Bahasa dan Budaya Indonesia in Salatiga. Her book, Belitung: The Afterlives of a Shipwreck, is published by University of Hawai‘i Press and NUS Press.

More about Natali on the University of Sydney website.

DEPUTY PRESIDENT

Dr Jeremy J. Kingsley is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean (International) at the Western Sydney University School of Law. He is a transnational law scholar and anthropologist. His academic work is published in both public affairs and academic journals. His book, Religious Authority and Local Governance in Eastern Indonesia, was recently published by Melbourne University Press. He is currently working on a research project on ‘Inter-Asian Legalities’, funded by the Social Science Research Council (US) and the National University of Singapore, and is a member of the InterAsia Partnership (Arab Council for the Social Sciences, Secretariat). Kingsley is also foundation editor of the Asia Law and Society Series, Melbourne University Press. He is a Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on contract enforcement in Indonesia.

More about Jeremy.

TREASURER

Dr Elly (Ellen) Kent is a lecturer in Indonesian studies at the Australian National University. She has worked as researcher, writer, translator, artist, educator and intercultural professional in Indonesia and Australia.

Elly is the author of Artists and the People: Ideologies of Indonesian Art (2022) NUS Press, and co-editor (with Virginia Hooker and Caroline Turner) of Living Art: Indonesian Artists Engage Politics, Society and History (2023) ANU Press.

Elly’s research focuses on contemporary and historical art, design and cultural practices in Southeast Asia, and especially in Indonesia. She is interested in the intersection between social change, politics and art practice.

More about Elly.

INCORPORATION ADVISER

Dan is a passionate young leader in the Australia-Indonesia relationship. As a lawyer and company director, Dan has expertise in law and business operations. Dan is a national director of the Australia-Indonesia Youth Association and company secretary of the ASEAN-Australia Strategic Youth Partnership. He also co-chairs the ANU Alumni Sydney Network.

PRESIDENT 2015-2022

Lecturer in Southeast Asian Politics
Asia Research Centre Fellow

School of Business and Governance
Murdoch University

VICE PRESIDENT 2015-2022

Lecturer in Asian Studies and Indonesian Language

School of the Humanities
University of Tasmania

PRESIDENT 2010-2015

Senior Lecturer in Faculty of Law

Associate at the Centre for Law, Islam and Society
Monash University

PRESIDENT 2005-2010

Professor of Southeast Asian Studies

The University of Sydney

PRESIDENT 2002-2005

Professor of Asian History

The Australian National University

FOUNDING PRESIDENT 2000-2002

Adjunct Appointment, Monash Intercultural Lab.

Monash University