Dr. Ann Marie Murphy Named Presidential Friend of Indonesia  

Dr. Ann Marie Murphy, Assistant Professor at the Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, was selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia and H.E. Sudjadnan Parnohadiningrat, the Indonesian Ambassador to the United States as the sole U.S. representative to the Presidential Friends of Indonesia Conference. The conference recognizes scholars from 30 countries for their work in disseminating information on Indonesia. The conference will take place 10-18 August, and its itinerary will include invitations to formal Indonesia Independence Day celebrations on 17 August, and a tour of Aceh, the site of the 2004 tsunami. The Conference will take place in Jakarta at Bogor Presidential Palace. 
 
Dr. Murphy's research interests include political development in Southeast Asia, international relations in Asia, and U.S. foreign policy toward the countries of Southeast Asia. She recently served as the Indonesia coordinator for a project on Muslim Professionals in Southeast Asia commissioned by the National Bureau of Asian Research. During the 2006-2007 academic year, Dr. Murphy briefed Congressional staffers on U.S.-Indonesian relations. She spoke at conferences organized by the Stanley Foundation, the Center for Global Counter-Terrorism Cooperation, the United States-Indonesia Society, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University, and the National Bureau of Asian Research.
 
Dr. Murphy monitored Indonesia's first direct presidential elections in July 2004 as a member of the Carter Center delegation. She was a member of the Freedom House 2005 ratings team and the Council on Foreign Relations Indonesia Commission. Dr. Murphy has lectured at the Foreign Service Institute and has been a visiting scholar at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta, and the Institute for Security and International Studies, Bangkok. Dr. Murphy received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 2002.