16th International Conference on The Future of Asia

Born on November 15, 1937

He is Co-founder and Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees and Senior Fellow of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta, as well as Chairman of the Indonesian National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (INCPEC), Co-chair of the Council for Security and Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Indonesia, concurrently member of the Standing Committee of PECC, and member of the Steering Committee of CSCAP.

He is also President Director of the publishing company of The Jakarta Post Daily as well as Chairman of the Board of the Prasetiya Mulya Graduate School of Management, and Chairman of the Foundation of Panca Bhakti University in Pontianak, West Kalimantan.

A lawyer by training, Mr. Wanandi was assistant professor of law at the University of Indonesia, and has served in various national and international organizations in the course of his career. He was appointed as Secretary of the Indonesian Supreme Advisory Council; Secretary General of the National Education Council; and as four-term representative in the People's Consultative Assembly. He was active in the Golkar Party between 1979 until 1988 as a member of the Central Board in various capacities.

He has written extensively in national and international magazines and newspapers and has edited a number of books on political and security developments in the Asia Pacific region.