Members
The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) has over one hundred members from eighteen countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders. APLN aims to inform and energize public opinion, especially high-level policymakers, to take seriously the very real threats posed by nuclear weapons, and to do everything possible to achieve a world in which they are contained, diminished and eventually eliminated.
Dewi Fortuna ANWAR
Research Professor at the Research Centre for Politics-National Research and Innovation Agency (PRP-BRIN)
Dewi Fortuna Anwar is Chairman and Board of Directors at the Habibie Center, an academician at Social Science Commission-Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI), and Co-Founder of the Foreign Policy Committee of Indonesia.
Dewi Fortuna Anwar straddles the world of academia, political activism and government. She is a Research Professor at the Research Centre for Politics-National Research and Innovation Agency (PRP-BRIN), formerly known as the Research Centre for Politics-Indonesian Institute of Sciences (P2P-LIPI). She has written widely on Indonesia’s foreign policy, Indonesia’s democratization as well as on ASEAN and regional political and security issues. She is an Academician of the Social Science Commission-Indonesian Academy of Sciences (KIS-AIPI), Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Habibie Center (THC), and co-founder of the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia (FPCI). She served as the Deputy Chairman for Social Sciences and Humanities- Indonesian Institute of Sciences (IPSK-LIPI) from 2001 to 2010. From October 2010 to February 2017 Dewi first served as Deputy Secretary for Political Affairs and then Deputy for Government Policy Support to the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia.
Dewi was the Kippenberger Visiting Chair at Victoria University, Wellington in Oct.-Nov. 2018, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the RSIS, Nanyang Technological University Singapore in Aug. 2017- Aug. 2018, a Visiting Fellow at CSEAS, Kyoto University in early 2010, and a Visiting Professor at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University in 2007.
Dewi sits and has sat in a number of national and international advisory boards. She is currently a member of the Foundation Board of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD) based in Geneva, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, an Advisory Board member of the UWA Public Policy Institute, University of Western Australia and a board member of the Centre for Policy Development (CPD) in Australia. She was a Governing Board member of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in 2010-2020 and a Board Member of Shift Project based in New York in 2014-2020. She served as a member of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC) in 2004-2008, and a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters in 2008-2012.
Dewi obtained her PhD from Monash University, Melbourne in 1990, while her M.A. and B.A. (Hons) were from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in 1982 and 1981 respectively. She is married with two children.