During a decorated political career, Mr. Natalegawa served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia (2009 -2014), Permanent Representative to the UN and Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Ireland, consistently championing the value of Indonesian diplomacy in high-level forums. Previously, he had held the position of Director General for ASEAN Cooperation, in which capacity he took part in an intensive effort to promote the idea of an ASEAN Community.

– US elections, its outcomes

– U.S. foreign policy towards Southeast Asia.

– U.S.-Indonesia Relations

– Indonesia’s presidential election has high stakes for the US and China and their rivalry.

– ASEAN: dialogue and diplomacy

– Foreign policy in the age of geopolitical competition: is being neutral enough?

– Perspectives on regional security issues in Southeast Asia and beyond

– The future of ASEAN

– APAC economy impacted by geopolitical affairs

– Multilateralism and global challenges 

– Analysis of contemporary global challenges and their implications

– Addressing current geopolitical issues

– Indonesia’s economy and development

Dr. R.M. Marty M. Natalegawa served as Foreign Minister of Indonesia (2009 – 2014). He is a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Advisory Board on Mediation.

He is also presently Asia Society Policy Institute Distinguished Fellow; a member of the International Academic Advisory Committee of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies; the Southeast Asia Advisory Board of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS – Washington, D.C.); International Crisis Group Board of Trustees; Global Advisory Committee of the Jeju Forum; University of Western Australia’s Public Policy Institute Advisory Board; the Board of Directors of the Global Centre for Pluralism, Ottawa and is a Prominent Research Scholar of the Bank of Indonesia Institute.

Dr. Natalegawa was Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the UN (2007-2009); Ambassador to the UK and also to Ireland (2005-2007); and 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”.

He is a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament and the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. He served in the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Global Response to Health Crises and as UN President of the General Assembly’s 72nd Session Team of External Advisors.

Does ASEAN Matter? A view from Within (2018)