Mr. Bambang Harymurti is Corporate Editor-in-Chief
of the news magazine Tempo Weekly
and the newspaper Tempo Daily. He is also CEO of PT Tempo Inti Media
and member of the Press Council in Indonesia. He has worked as a deputy
chief editor of Tempo Weekly, the executive editor of Media Indonesia
Daily,
and an editor of the Sunday Edition of Media Indonesia. He graduated
from the Institut Teknologi Bandung in Indonesia, majoring in Electrical
Engineering (1984), and from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University (1991).
In addition
to
receiving the Knight International Press Fellowship Award, he is a winner
of the Mason Program’s Vernon Award and
the Excellence in Journalism Award given by the daily Indonesian Observer.
His publications include, “Indonesia, Challenges
of Change” in Journal of Democracy.
Mr. Kavi Chongkittavorn is Assistant Group
Editor of Nation Multimedia Group, responsible for
The Nation, Krungthep Turakit, and Kom Chat Luek, as well as the
Nation TV Channel. He has been a journalist for more than two decades,
covering Thailand and regional
affairs. He was bureau chief in Phnom Penh (1986-88) and Hanoi (1989-91).
From 1993-94, he served as a special assistant to the ASEAN Secretary General.
In
1993, he was a Reuters Fellow at Oxford University, and he was a Nieman
Fellow at Harvard University in 2001. He was named the Human Rights Journalist
of 1998 to commemorate
the 50th Anniversary of UNDHR by Amnesty International, Thailand. From 1999-2003,
he was the president of the Thai Journalists Association. He has also chaired
the Bangkok-based regional free media advocacy group, Southeast Asian Press
Alliance.
Ms. Yuli Ismartono
is Executive Editor of the English edition of Tempo, Indonesia’s largest
circulating weekly news magazine, and concurrently Managing Editor of AsiaViews,
a regional online publication, a collaboration between Tempo and four
other Southeast Asian news publications funded by the Tokyo-based Sasakawa
Peace Foundation. She is also a senior advisor at APCO Jakarta,
a media relations consulting agency. Ms. Ismartono has been in media and
communications since 1970, following her undergraduate studies at the University
of India where she studied political science and where she met and befriended
Burmese opposition leader
Aung San Suu Kyi. She did her graduate studies at the Newhouse School of
Journalism at Syracuse University. As Tempo’s
Bangkok-based Asia bureau chief from 1983 to 1993, Ms Ismartono reported
on issues and events ranging from Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam to the
Sri Lankan civil war and the first Gulf War. She returned to Jakarta in 1993,
only
to have Suharto close down
Tempo in June 1994. Ms. Ismartono rejoined Tempo when it re-launched
in 2002, after a stint in public affairs and corporate communications.
Professor David Steinberg is Distinguished Professor of Asian
Studies, Georgetown University. He was previously a representative of the
Asia Foundation in Korea, a distinguished professor of Korea Studies at
Georgetown University and the president of the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs.
Earlier, as a member of the Senior Foreign Service in the U.S. Agency for
International Development, he was
Director for Technical Assistance in Asia and the Middle East, and Director for
Philippines, Thailand, and Burma Affairs. He spent three years in Thailand
with the USAID Regional Development Office. Professor
Steinberg was educated at Dartmouth College, Lingnan University (Canton, China),
Harvard University, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University
of London. He is the author of thirteen books
and monographs, including: Turmoil in Burma: Contested Legitimacies in Myanmar;
Burma: The State of Myanmar; Stone Mirror: Reflections on Contemporary
Korea;
and The Republic of Korea: Economic
Transformation and Social Change. He has authored numerous articles, book
chapters, and op-eds.
To state the obvious, Barack Obama is the first President of the United States with deep ties to Southeast
Asia. But what might that mean for U.S. relations with ASEAN and its member states? This panel will
discuss three general topics: the potential for American cooperation with Indonesia, the world’s largest
Muslim-majority state, and how that can serve to address America’s problems in the Islamic world; how
the U.S. and ASEAN can address issues in the region relating to Burma, China, and India; and the
changed perceptions and expectations of the U.S. under the Obama administration.
