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 the 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 Southeast Asia, and the broader Asia-Pacific region”. Dr. Natalegawa earned a D.Phil. from the ANU; an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge; and a BSc (Hons) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.