Rotary Club Meeting - Monday 18 May 2026

Dear members

Our guest speaker for M onday 18 May 2026 is Professor Greg Fealy, emeritus professor of Indonesian politics in the Department of Political and Social Change at The Australian National University. 

He gained his PhD from Monash University in 1998 and has spent more than three decades specialising in the study of Indonesian politics and particularly Islamic parties and movements.  He has published extensively on these subjects, including four authored or co-authored books, six co-edited books and many scholarly and media articles. 

From 1997 to 1999 he was an Indonesia analyst at the Office of National Assessments.  He has been a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and the Indonesian International Islamic University (UIII) in Jakarta.  He was chair of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Australia-Indonesia Institute from 2017 to 2024. He received the Medal of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2022 for his services to Australia-Indonesia relations and higher education.

Ptofessor Fealy will be our guest at the Commonwealth Club  and can you please register by COB Thursday 14 May. If you can't register, then please send me an email if you would like to come to the meeting.

We need numbers by then as the Commonwealth Club arranges catering requirements for our Monday lunches on Friday.

Regards

Alison Russell-French OAM PH