AEI-ASEM Summer School 2021

YBhg. Datin Noorazah Omar is the Undersecretary of International Relations Division in the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Malaysia. She joined the public service in 1996 and has served in various Ministries and government agencies. Among them include the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) in Perlis, the Implementation and Coordination Unit (ICU) in Penang and Kedah, Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage, Ministry of Communications and Multimedia, Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development and Istana Budaya. She graduated from Universiti Malaya with a Bachelor in Microbiology/ Biochemistry in 1994 and from Universiti Utara Malaysia in Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in 2004. Throughout her service, YBhg. Datin Noorazah Omar has actively participated in various international conferences where she represented the Government of Malaysia in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World in Geneva, Switzerland in 2011; World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates in 2012; Regional Conference on the Social Impact of Climate Change on Women and Children in ASEAN in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Special Senior Officials Meeting for ASEAN Social Welfare Development (SOMSWD) in Vung Tau, Viet Nam and Young Ladies Conference organized by Education Malaysia in Washington D.C., the U.S. in 2015; Management of Social Transformation Programme (MOST), UNESCO in Paris, France and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Meeting in the United Nations Headquarters, New York, the U.S. in 2016.

Ms Nadia Reynders is the Coordinator of ASEM Education Secretariat Belgium. She works since 2013 as a policy advisor and project coordinator at the Flemish Ministry of Education and Training in the field of lifelong learning. Before 2013 she has been managing different educational progammes in the sector of development cooperation, mainly in Teacher Training. In these programmes she worked closely with Ministries of Education in South-East Asia (Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam). Currently, she is coordinating the ASEM Education Secretariat, as a representative from the Flemish Ministry of Education, together with her colleague Emilie Degueldre (French Community representative). In this position, she is responsible for supporting and following up the ASEM Education Process which consists of activities, programs and projects to stimulate Europe-Asia collaboration and exchange in the field of Higher Education and Lifelong Learning.

Dr. Peter Schoof studied political science and history at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . After the state examination in 1980, he worked there as a research assistant and received his doctorate in 1983. phil. He then began his diplomatic career as a consultant at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR) in Geneva and in Islamabad in Pakistan . In 1988 he switched to the German diplomatic service and completed the preparatory service in the Foreign Office . From 1990 to 1992 he worked at the German embassy in Damascus , and from 1992 to 1994 as a personnel officer for the higher service in the Foreign Office. This was followed by positions as political advisor at the permanent representation to the international organizations in Geneva, as deputy head of unit for transatlantic relations in the Foreign Office, as press spokesman for the permanent representation to the European Union in Brussels, as head of unit for fundamental questions of the European Union in the foreign office ( 2006–2011) and as a representative for bilateral relations with the EU member states (2011–2014). From 2014 to 2017, Schoof was the German ambassador to Greece. In 2018 he was accredited as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Indonesia. On March 1, 2019, he handed over his second accreditation to East Timor's President Francisco Guterres .

Dr Rahul Mishra is a Senior Lecturer and Coordinator (European Studies) at the Asia-Europe Institute, Universiti Malaya. Before this, he was a Consultant at the Foreign Service Institute, Ministry of External Affairs, India. He has also worked with the Indian Council of World Affairs and Institute for Defence Studies & Analyses for four years each. Recipient of the Asia Fellowship of the East-West Center in Washington D.C., Korean and Australian government fellowships, he was earlier affiliated with the RSIS (Nanyang Technological University) and National University of Singapore as well. Dr Mishra specialises on politico-security affairs of Southeast Asia, role of major & middle powers in the Indo-Pacific region, IR theory and the ASEAN-EU regionalism. His latest publications include Asia and Europe in the 21st Century New Anxieties, New Opportunities (co-edited, Routledge, 2021) and India’s Eastward Engagement from Antiquity to Act East Policy (co-authored, SAGE Publications, 2019).

Nurliana Kamaruddin is Deputy Executive Director of Academic Affairs at the Asia-Europe Institute, Universiti Malaya. She obtained her PhD in International Studies specialising in Development Cooperation from Ewha Womans University. Her area of research includes international politics and development with a focus on ASEAN and East Asian relations.

Arfin Sudirman is Head of Department and Associate Professor in Department of International Relations, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung since 2018.

Jürgen Rüland is professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Freiburg, Germany. His research interests include the study of Southeast Asian regionalism, the democratization of international organizations, interregionalism with a particular focus on Asia-Europe relations and connectivity in Asia. His latest books are The Indonesian Way. ASEAN, Europeanization and Foreign Policy Debates in a New Democracy, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018, and Religious Actors and Conflict Transformation in Southeast Asia. Indonesia and the Philippines, London: Routledge, 2019 (with C. von Lübke and M.M. Baumann).

Fumitaka Furuoka is an Associate Professor at Asia-Europe Institute, Universiti Malaya. His research interests include labor economics and international economics.

Bambang Shergi Laksmono, full time professor and lecturer at the Department of Social Welfare , Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia. Teach in the undergraduate and post graduate program, in the general subject of local economy, social policy and development planning. Graduated from Universitas Indonesia and continued study at London School of Economics (1987) in M.Sc in Social Planning in Developing Countries and had his Doctoral degree in Sociology at Universitas Indonesia (19950 . Bambang was Dean (2008-2013) and his research have been focussed on development issues in Papua and development, social vulnerability at Indonesian international land border and youth issues.

Georg Cremer, born 1952, is adjunct professor of economics at the University of Freiburg, Germany. From 2000 to 2017, he was Secretary General of Caritas Germany

Azirah Hashim is Professor at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya. She was former Executive Director, Asia-Europe Institute (AEI) and Founding Director of the Centre for ASEAN Regionalism at the university. She was recently a FRIAS Senior Fellow and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg. She is project leader of an Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education project, 'Building research capacity in higher education institutions in Malaysia and Laos' (2017-2021) and also heads the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on ASEAN and the EU in Dialogue.

Laura Renner is a Post-Doctoral Researcher (equivalent to assistant professor) at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany. She holds a master degree in economics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and received her Ph.D, from the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany. Her work focuses on empirical economic research on migration, including a gendered perspective on migration and institutions such as marriage laws and practices and possible implications for the security and stability of countries.

Savitri Aditiany, is an associate professor at International Relation Department and Head of Internationalization Unit, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Padjadjaran (UNPAD), Indonesia. Graduated from Program Doctor International Relation, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Padjadjaran. Teaching experience in Gastro-Diplomacy, Public Diplomacy, International Relation in Europe and French Language.

Dr. Sameer has a PhD in Social Networking and is presently working as Associate Professor at Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya. He has over two decades of work experience in the industry and academia and also holds a PMP® (Project Management Professional) certification from PMI, USA. At Asia-Europe Institute (AEI) Dr. Sameer has taught courses at the Masters level on Information Technology K-Economy, Social and economic dimensions of Digital Economy, History of Southeast Asia and Research Methods . He has been the Program Co-ordinator for International Masters in Information Management (2014 - 2016) and is currently the Programme Co-ordinator for International Masters in ASEAN Studies program (2016 -). He is the founding Managing Editor of AEI Insights (an official AEI peer reviewed journal) since 2014. During 2015 he was the visiting scientist at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany. His current research and teaching interests are in the field of Social Networks, Data Analytics, Educational Technologies, Social informatics, Digital economy in Asia-Europe, and History of Southeast Asia. Dr. Sameer has successfully completed grant-based research projects (High Impact Research and UM Frontier Science Research) as Principal Investigator and a bilateral interational project (ETH- Switzerland funded). He has organised international workshops and events and has chaired panels in international foras. He is the life member of Computer Society of India and member of several national and international research centers and associations. He has several papers published in ISI-Web of Science indexed journals (publishers include Springer, Emerald, Wiley, McMillan Palgrave, Elsevier and others). He has regularly reviewed for top ISI journals including JMIR, PlosOne, JASIST, Scienometrics, and several others and supervises candidates at both Masters and PhD levels.

Ida Widianingsih is an Associate Professor at Public Administration Department and a Vice Dean for Learning, Students, and Research Affairs, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Padjadjaran (UNPAD). She serves as an Executive Director at the Center for Decentralization and Participatory Development Research, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, UNPAD. She is also an active member and Head of Policy & Governance Division of the Citarum Research Center UNPAD.

Lorena Bachmaier Winter is Full Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, in justice systems, human rights and procedure. She also teaches in the summer law school of Saint Louis University since 2002. She has written extensively in the area of her expertise, being the author or editor of 15 books and more than 150 scientific articles on fair trial rights, justice systems and procedure published in more than seven languages. Among the most recent ones there is the book on the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (2018), or the book on “Lawyer-client confidentiality in criminal proceedings” (2020). She has been visiting professor or researcher in foreign institutes and universities as, for example, the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) or the Universities of Berkeley, Harvard and Stanford (USA). Her present research is focused on comparative criminal procedure, rule of law and judicial independence, transitional democracies and security and the EU process of legal harmonization. She also cooperates regularly as an international legal expert for the Council of Europe and other international organizations in legal reforms in Eastern European countries and also in Central Asia and was appointed chair of the special committee on Transnational Organized Crime of the Council of Europe in 2013-2014.