Dr. Marty Natalegawa

Dr. R.M. Marty M. Natalegawa KCMG served as Foreign Minister of Indonesia (2009-2014). He is the author of Does ASEAN Matter? A view from within (ISEAS Publishing, 2018). He is a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation.

He is also presently inter alia serving as Asia Society Policy Institute Distinguished Fellow; as a member of the International Academic Advisory Committee of the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies; the Southeast Asia Advisory Board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS–Washington, DC); International Crisis Group Board of Trustees; Global Advisory Committee of the Jeju Forum; University of Western Australia’s Public Policy Institute Advisory Board; and the Board of Directors of the Global Center for Pluralism, Ottawa. He is a Prominent Research Scholar of the Bank of Indonesia Institute of the Central Bank to support its research on the impact of geopolitical shifts on Indonesia’s economy. He also is a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament and the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Dr. Natalegawa is also involved in private sector boards.

He served in the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Global Response to Health Crises and UN President of the General Assembly’s 72nd Session Team of External Advisors.

Dr. Natalegawa has had extensive experience in multilateral diplomacy, including within the UN and ASEAN. He was a Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the UN (2007-2009), including as President of the UN Security Council; Ambassador to the UK and to Ireland (2005-2007); and Indonesia’s Director-General for ASEAN Cooperation.

He was awarded the Satyalancana Wira Karya medal from the Government of the Republic of Indonesia in 2011. On August 17, 2014, he was awarded the Bintang Mahaputra Adipradana medal. The medals are awarded to individuals for their service to the nation. In November 2012, he was made Honourary Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He has been cited as “one of the most respected foreign policy and international security thinkers of his generation, both within Indonesia, in South-east Asia, and in the broader Asia-Pacific region.”

Dr. Natalegawa earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the Australian National University, a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor of Science Honors from the London School of Economics and Political Science.