Dr. R.M. Marty M. Natalegawa, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Indonesia gives The Centre for Democratic Institutions annual address at The Australian National University on Wednesday 14 March.
Dr. R.M. Marty M. Natalegawa was appointed as the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Indonesia on 22 October 2009. Prior to his appointment as Foreign Minister, he served as the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations in New York (2007 -- 2009).
Among his recent responsibilities as the Permanent Representative of Indonesia was as the President of the Security Council in November 2007 and Chairman of the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee on the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2007--2008 (Indonesia served as an elected member of the Security Council in 2007--2008); Chairman of the Asia Group in October 2008; Co-Facilitator of the President of the General Assembly for the Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights in December 2008; and Chairman of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization (C-24) for 2008 and 2009. He also led Indonesia's delegation at various multilateral negotiations and participated actively at various academic fora on the subject of the United Nations.
Dr. Natalegawa obtained a Doctor of Philosophy at the ANU in 1993; a Master of Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge in 1985; and a BSc (Hons) at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1984. He also attended the Ellesmere College and Concord College in the UK between 1976-1981.
The Centre for Democratic Institutions is located within the Crawford School of Economics and Government, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.
