Speaker
NATALEGAWA Marty
Affliation
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia
Session

Biography

DR. R.M. MARTY M. NATALEGAWA KCMG served as Foreign Minister of Indonesia (2009 – 2014).

He is the author of “Does ASEAN Matter? A view from Within” (ISEAS Publishing - 2018).

He, inter alia, is serving as a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Advisory Board on Mediation; ASPI Distinguished Fellow; the International Academic Advisory Committee of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies; the Southeast Asia Advisory Board of the CSIS, Washington, D.C.; International Crisis Group Board of Trustees; Prominent Research Scholar of the Bank of Indonesia Institute and Global Advisory Committee of the Jeju Forum.

He served in the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Global Response to Health Crises and UN President of the General Assembly’s Team of External Advisors.

He was Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the UN (2007-2009); Ambassador to the UK and also to Ireland (2005-2007); Indonesia’s Director General for ASEAN Cooperation.

He has been cited as “one of the most respected foreign policy and international security thinkers of his generation, both within Indonesia, in South-east Asia, and in the broader Asia-Pacific region”.

Dr. Natalegawa earned a D.Phil. from the ANU; an M.Phil. from University of Cambridge; and a BSc (Hons) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.