Presenter Bios

Professor Harry Scheiber is Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History; Director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute; and Director of the Sho Sato Program in Japanese and U.S. Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Formerly a Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer in Australia, Prof Scheiber has conducted numerous projects on aspects of environmental law, especially Law of the Sea and ocean resources policy. His other research has been in the fields of modern judicial reform, Japanese-U.S. relations and ocean policy, and Japanese fisheries law and development.

Associate Professor Marcus Haward is currently Head, School of Government at the University of Tasmania, and is Program Leader, Policy Program, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre University of Tasmania, Hobart. Marcus Haward’s research interests include fisheries management and marine and oceans policy and governance. He has authored, co-authored or edited 7 books and over 75 papers and book chapters. He has been a member of Australian delegations to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources and to APEC Fisheries and Marine Resource Conservation Working Groups.

Gregory Rose is an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Law at the University of Wollongong where he is a member of the Centre for Maritime Policy. He is also currently also member of the National Oceans Advisory Group to the Commonwealth Minister for Environment and Heritage and has advised the National Oceans Office on legal matters related to the development of its South East Regional Marine Plan. Gregory holds Bachelors degrees in Arts and Laws and a Master of Laws degree from Monash University and is admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor (ACT, Vic & High Courts). His research specialises in international law relating to the environment, the marine environment and to terrorism. He has substantial practical experience in international lawyer, as Head of the Trade, Environment and Nuclear Law Unit in the Legal Office of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; and previously as Director of the Marine Resources Program at the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development (FIELD) at the University of London.

Derek McDougall is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne. McDougall’s research interests focus upon Australia’s role in the international politics of the Asia-Pacific, with particular reference to humanitarian intervention, regionalism, and regional security issues. He was educated at the University of Melbourne (BA Honours, MA) and Duke University, USA (PhD). He is the author of numerous articles in his area of expertise, and his recent books include the Historical Dictionary of International Organizations in Asia and the Pacific (2002), and Australian Foreign Relations: Contemporary Perspectives (1998).

Richard Herr is Associate Professor in the School of Government, University of Tasmania. Richard is one of Australia’s leading experts on the South Pacific. He has a particular interest in oceans management and Pacific regionalism, having published extensively on environmental issues such as sea fisheries regulation and Pacific Islands’ economies and foreign policies. He has also worked as an expert advisor performing quality assurance functions for the Australian Agency for International Development. He is also an authority on Antarctica and legal regimes designed to protect natural resources in the southern oceans.

Christian Hirst is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland's School of Political Science and International Studies. His doctoral thesis is concerned with assessing change and stability in Australian strategic policy since 11 September 2001. He recently completed a four-month internship with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Canberra.

Dr Sam Bateman retired from full-time service in the Royal Australian Navy with the rank of Commodore in 1993 and became the first Director of the Centre for Maritime Policy at the University of Wollongong. His naval service as a surface warfare officer included several postings in the force development and strategic policy areas of the Department of Defence. His current research interests include regional maritime security, the strategic and political implications of the Law of the Sea, and maritime cooperation and confidence-building. He is Co-Chair of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Working Group on Maritime Cooperation and a member of the International Sea Lines of Communication (SLOC) Study Group, as well as a member of the National Oceans Advisory Group (NOAG) established by the Australian Government to advise on the implementation of Australia 's Oceans Policy.

Dr Chris Flaherty is Network Administrator for the Research Network for a Secure Australia (RNSA), administered by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of Melbourne. His main areas of research interest include counterterrorism, national security strategies, and special forces strategy. Within the RNSA Dr Flaherty is also the leading researcher and convener of the Counterterrorism (CT) Research Unit. He is the author of numerous articles and papers (for publications such as the Defence Force Journal and the Journal of Australian Studies) on topics such as the weaponisation of buildings, the role of command and influence in Australian Multidimensional Maneuver theory, the concept of Homeland Security, and Australian and US pre-emption theory and practice.

Dr Carl Ungerer was the Foreign Affairs and National Security Advisor to the Leader of the Federal Opposition. He has worked previously in Australia and overseas with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. From 1999-2002, he was a senior Strategic Analyst in the Office of National Assessments. Dr. Ungerer has lectured and tutored at the University of Queensland and Griffith University. He has published widely on foreign policy and national security issues, including a recent journal article on terrorist threats to Australia for the U.S. journal, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Dr Ungerer teaches a range of undergraduate and post-graduate courses on foreign policy, terrorism and arms control.

Dr Rod Lyon teaches International Relations at the School of Political and International Studies at the University of Queensland. A former Head of Strategic Threat Assessments at the Office of National Assessments (ONA), Dr Lyon’s research specialises in strategic studies and alliances in the Asia-Pacific, especially the United States and Australia. Dr Lyon was a Fulbright Fellow at Georgetown University in 2004. His recent publications include an Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) policy document on the future of the ANZUS partnership.

Prof. Bill Tow is Professor of Asia-Pacific Security at the Department of International Relations, ANU. He was previously Professor of International Relations both at the University of Queensland and at Griffith University. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University and a Visiting Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. His articles have appeared in the IISS Adelphi Papers, Survival, Security Studies, China Quarterly, Pacific Review, and International Affairs. He is the editor of the Australian Journal of International Affairs. Tow has served on the Department of Foreign Affairs Foreign Affairs Council and on the National Board of Directors of the Australian Fulbright Commission. His research interests focus on alliance politics, US security policy in the Asia- Pacific, security politics in the Asia-Pacific and Australian security policies.

Dr. Robert Ayson is Director of Studies, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) at the ANU. He is an expert on New Zealand and Australian perspectives on security, including maritime issues in South Asia and the South Pacific, strategic theory, nuclear proliferation and disarmament, and regional stability. He previously worked for the New Zealand government as a specialist adviser to the Department of Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee, and as an Intelligence Officer for the New Zealand External Assessments Bureau.

In October of 2001, Professor Douglas T. Stuart became the first holder of the J. William and Helen D. Stuart Chair in International Studies at Dickinson College. Between 1993 and 2001 he held the Robert Blaine Weaver Chair in Political Science. Between 1998 and 2003 Professor Stuart served as Director of The Clarke Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Contemporary Issues. Since 2001 he also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the U.S. Army War College. Professor Stuart is the author or editor of seven books, four monographs, and over 30 published articles dealing with international affairs. His areas of research specialization include U.S. foreign policy formulation, U.S.-European security relations, Asian security. He is a member of the editorial board of Westview Press (Dilemmas in World Politics series), a Councillor with the Atlantic Council (Washington, D.C.), and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS, London). Dr. Stuart is a former NATO Fellow, and a regular lecturer at the U.S. Army War College and other U.S. military institutions. He has been a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. (1989-90), the IISS in London (1994) and the George Washington University (1997-98). Professor Stuart received Dickinson’s Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching in 1992, and its Distinguished Teaching Prize in 1996. He is the recipient of Dickinson research support grants for 1989-90, 1996-97 and 2004-5. Professor Stuart received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Southern California in 1979. Prior to coming to Dickinson, Professor Stuart taught for the Johns Hopkins (SAIS) Graduate Program in Bologna, Italy.

Dr Remy Davison is an expert on international political economy and international relations. His particular research interests include corruption and organised crime, piracy and intellectual copyright issues, and the government and international politics of Europe and the Asia-Pacific. He is the co-author of The New Global Politics of the Asia-Pacific (Routledge, 2004), and numerous journal articles and book chapters within his area of expertise.

Matthew Sussex is Lecturer in Government at the University of Tasmania. He specialises in international security and international relations, and has published widely on these issues in journals such as the Australian Journal of International Affairs, for which he has also acted as Associate Editor. His book publications include European Security After 9/11 (Ashgate, 2004), and Power, Interests and Identity in Russian Foreign Policy (Ashgate, 2005). Dr Sussex is a founding member of the Australian Council for Strategic Studies, and Secretary of the Australian Institute for International Affairs (AIIA).

Dr Brendan Taylor is a Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, Canberra. His research interests include US Foreign Policy, economic statecraft/sanctions, Northeast Asian Security and alliance politics. He lectures to a number of undergraduate and postgraduate classes at the ANU - where he coordinates a Masters-level course entitled 'The US and East Asian Security' - as well as to various Australian Defence Colleges and public fora. He is a frequent commentator in the Australian media. His recent publications include: (forthcoming) ed., Friendships in Flux? Australia as an Asia-Pacific Power, (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2007); "USChina relations after 11 September: a long engagement or marriage of convenience?", Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol.59, No.2, June 2005, pp.179-199; and [with Robert Ayson] "Attacking North Korea: Why War Might Be Preferred", Comparative Strategy, Vol.23, No.3, 2004, pp.263-279.

Dr Devinder Grewal is the Head of the Department of Maritime and Logistics Management at the Australian Maritime College. He has lived and worked in several countries, including Ireland, UK, India, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. Before moving to academia in 1997, he spent nearly 20 years in the international maritime industry. In 2004, he assisted the Office of Transport Security (OTS), Department of Transport and Regional Services (DOTARS) with the development of the maritime preventative security regime for implementation and auditing of the processes required by the ISPS code. In 2002, Dr Grewal worked with the Malaysian government, through Petronas, to write a master plan that would support the emerging needs of this nation’s maritime industry as part of the Vision 2020 project. Over the last 10 years, Dr Grewal has undertaken a large number of projects, nationally and internationally, for the corporate and public sector.

Jeremy Parkinson is Director, Maritime Security Policy, in the Commonwealth Department of Transport and Regional Services. In this role, Jeremy provides policy advice to the Australian Government on maritime security matters, and develops legislation to implement the Government's policy decisions. This entails working closely with a range of stakeholders in government and industry, both in Australia and internationally. Jeremy was recently a member of Australia's negotiating team for amendments to the SUA Convention (Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation), and is a member of the International Maritime Organization's Maritime Security Working Group.

Andrew Forbes is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for Maritime Policy at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of Protecting the National Interest: Naval Constabulary Operations in Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone and the editor of The Strategic Importance of Seaborne Trade and Shipping both published by the Sea Power Centre- Australia. He has also written articles for Maritime Studies, the Journal of the Australian Naval Institute (of which he is currently the editor), and presented papers or been a discussant at a number of international conferences. Andrew is a member of AUS-CSCAP and the Study Group on Maritime Capacity Building in the Asia-Pacific and is involved with the International SLOC Conference. His research interests include naval strategy, maritime strategy, maritime security, international shipping and the protection of trade, and he is an occasional lecturer on these topics.

Tony Mulder is Commander of the State Security Unit of Tasmania Police. An expert in counterterrorism, Mr Mulder has an extensive background in inter-agency cooperation for effective law enforcement and the prevention of threats to critical infrastructure. Under his direction, the State Security Unit facilitates the development of whole-of-government policies relating to counter-terrorism and enhances operational capabilities for prevention, response and recovery in relation to terrorist threats. It also liaises with the private sector, the Commonwealth and other jurisdictions in relation to counter-terrorism arrangements. Mr Mulder has been a key actor in the drafting of policies such as the Tasmanian Counter-Terrorism Plan and the Chemical, Biological and Radiological (CBR) Response Plan. The State Security Unit has also recently established a State Crisis Centre, and has enhanced arrangements for response to a terrorist incident across government, including establishing a full-time Special Operations Group and more flexible arrangements for the deployment of Search and Rescue teams.

Dr Chris Chung is Deputy-Director of Studies, Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University. Previously he held positions in a range of public and private sector organisations. Most recently, he worked for a decade in the Environment Directorate of the OECD. There he managed, inter alia, the Organisation’s Asia regional and China country programs of environmental co-operation and outreach. His research interests include Asia-Pacific maritime affairs and non-traditional security.

Prof. Bruce Mapstone has over 20 years research experience related to assessment and management of marine resources. He has chaired the Scientific Steering Committee advising on design and implementation of the Representative Areas Program of management for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and the Torres Strait (Fisheries) Scientific Advisory Committee, and has served as a member of the Queensland Coral Reef Finfish Fishery Management Advisory Committee, the Torres Strait Fisheries Management Advisory Committee and the Scientific Peer Review Panel for the Scientific Peer Review Panel for the development of the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas in Commonwealth Waters. He is currently CEO of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre.

Dick Hildreth is Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Centre in the School of Law at the University of Oregon. He is the author of three casebooks and many other publications on ocean and coastal law. He has consulted frequently with federal and state coastal management agencies in the U.S. and Australia and with Pacific Island governments on environmental legal matters. Hildreth served as the University of Queensland Law Faculty’s 50th Anniversary Visiting Fellow. He has served on the National Research Councils Non-mature Oysters and Coastal Ocean Committees, the Pacific Northwest Regional Marine Research Board, and the editorial advisory boards of the journals Ocean and Coastal Management and Ocean Development and International Law.

Professor Aynsley Kellow is one of Australia’s leading experts on governance, public policy, and environmental politics. He has served as President of the Australasian Political Studies Association, is Tasmanian President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs and is the Academy of Social Sciences Australia's nominee to represent it on the National Academies Committee on Sustainability. Prof Kellow has made a significant contribution to our understanding of multilevel governance and the development of policy in both federal and international arenas. He currently holds an ARC Discovery grant investigating Federalism and International Risk Management. He has been awarded numerous competitive research grants and has published some eight books, thirty-two book chapters, and twenty-five refereed journal articles within his area of expertise.

Dr Rob Hall is Lecturer in Government at the University of Tasmania, where he coordinates the Police Studies program, and conducts research into international cooperation and law enforcement. His specific area of expertise is on international environmental regimes aimed at the protection of migratory sea birds in the Southern Oceans area. He has been advisor to state and federal agencies on environmental issues, and is a member of several key research centres on maritime policy, as well as providing expert advice to NGOs on agenda-setting in the development of environmental protocols.

Earl Irving is a Senior Foreign Service Officer, class of Counselor. He is a 22-year veteran diplomat whose career has alternated mainly between assignments in the Bureaus of African and Western Hemisphere Affairs. He recently completed an assignment as the Political Counselor for the U.S. Permanent Mission to the Organization of American States. Mr. Irving arrived on August 1, 2005 to take up his duties as U.S. Consul General in Melbourne. He has served at the U.S. Consulate General in Sao Paulo, Brazil; the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, then the capital of the U.S.S.R.; the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa; the U.S. Consulate in Recife, Brazil; the U.S. Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe; the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico; as well as at headquarters in Washington, D.C. He has been granted numerous awards for his service. Mr. Irving is married to the former Jeanne Johnston; the couple has two children. He speaks Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, in addition to his native English.

Professor Peter Boyce currently serving as Interim President and Principal of the Australian Maritime College. He is also Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Government, University of Tasmania. Peter is an internationally acknowledged expert in world politics, diplomatic theory and practice, and Australian foreign affairs, and has published widely in these fields. Prof Boyce has held senior positions at a variety of Australian institutions, including at the University of Queensland and the University of Tasmania, culminating before his retirement in his role as Vice Chancellor of Murdoch University, WA.

Assoc. Prof. Anthony Bergin is an expert on Australian foreign and security policy as well as Asia-Pacific maritime affairs. A former Director of the Australian Defence Studies Centre, A/Prof Bergin has written widely on Australian security policy in the region, and on the political and legal aspects of ocean affairs in the Asia Pacific. Dr Bergin is a member of the Australian Committee on Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) and is a member of its maritime working group. In addition to over 100 papers and book chapters on a wide range of defence and ocean policy issues, A/Prof Bergin is the author (with Dr Sam Bateman) of an influential 2005 Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) paper that makes key recommendations for the Australian government on issues relating to maritime security.

Dr Terry Narramore is a lecturer at the School of Government, University of Tasmania. His main areas of interest and research are the politics of China and Japan, Sino-Japanese relations, Japan’s security policy and security issues in Northeast Asia. He has also published critical accounts of Asia-Pacific regionalism. He is currently working on the post-cold war revision of Japan’s security policy.