Southeast Asia Forum
The Southeast Asia Forum connects students, researchers, and professionals to foster deeper understanding of Southeast Asia, build bridges between academia and policy, and facilitate networking for career development.
The Forum provides Southeast Asia programming to colleges and universities and connects students, faculty and young professionals with Southeast Asia policy experts in close partnership with the DC Asia Policy Network.
Background: Originally housed within the Stimson Center, the Forum today is driven by a steering committee consisting of young to mid career professionals in Washington, DC. The committee is supported by Ambassador Robert Blake, Jr and Bill Wise who lead the forum's Advisory Council.
Past events and resources related to the forum can be found in the Stimson Center archive here.
Steering Committee
Abbigail Hull, Program Manager, East-West Center
Alden Hartopo, Government Affairs & Public Policy, Google
Andreyka Natalegawa, Associate Fellow, Southeast Asia Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS).
Courtney Weatherby, Deputy Director, Southeast Asia Program, Stimson Center
Danielle Fallin, Program Officer, Asia Division, International Republican Institute (IRI)
John Lichtefeld, Managing Director for Southeast Asia, The Asia Group
Advisory Council
Chairman and Founder, Southeast Asia Forum
Former Associate Director, Southeast Asia Studies Program, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Senior Managing Director for Southeast Asia, McLarty Associates.
Former US Ambassador to Indonesia
Alice Ba, Professor, Department of Political Science & International Relations, University of Delaware
Piper Campbell, Director of the ASEAN Studies Initiative and Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer, School of International Service, American University; former Head of U.S. Mission to ASEAN and U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia
Joseph R. Donovan, Jr., Former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia
Cinnamon Dornsife, Senior Advisor to the Dean and Director, Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins – SAIS; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank
Christina Fink, Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Hank Hendrickson, Executive Director, US-Philippines Society
Henry Howard, Founding Member of the Board of Directors, US-Philippines Society and President, US Education Finance Corp.
Satu Limaye, Vice President, East-West Center and Director, EWC in Washington
Scot Marciel, Senior Advisor, BowerGroupAsia and Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University; former U.S. Ambassador to Burma/Myanmar, Indonesia and ASEAN
David Merrill, President, US-Indonesia Society
Meredith Miller, Principal, Albright-Stonebridge Group
Erin Murphy, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Economics Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
JJ Ong, Vice President, Federal Government Relations & International Affairs, Freeport McMoRan Inc.
Ted Osius, President and CEO, US-ASEAN Business Council, Inc.; former U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam
Janet Steele, Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs, Director, Institute for Public Diplomacy & Global Communication, George Washington University
Meredith Weiss, Professor, Chair of Political Science, Director of Semester in Washington, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York at Albany