SPEAKERS
Professor Michael Wesley
Director of the Griffith Asia Institute
Griffith University
Professor Michael Wesley is the Director of the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University.
Prior to taking up this position in July 2004, he was the Assistant Director-General for Transnational Issues at the Office of National Assessments. Before he joined ONA, he was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales and a Research Fellow at the Asia-Australia Institute, also at UNSW.
Professor Wesley’s books include: Casualties of the New World Order: The Causes of Failure of UN Missions to Civil Wars (1997), Making Australian Foreign Policy (2003) (co-authored with Allan Gyngell), and the edited collections, Regional Organisations of the Asia-Pacific: Exploring Institutional Change (2003) and Energy Security in Asia (2006). His latest book is The Howard Paradox: Australian Diplomacy in Asia, 1996-2006.
Professor Wesley is the Research Convenor of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, a member of the Australian Member Committee of the Council for Security Co-operation in the Asia-Pacific (AUS-CSCAP), a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of International Affairs, a member of the National Executive of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts and a Trustee of the Queensland Art Gallery. He is married with two sons.
