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Dr Kathleen Turner is currently Manager Strategy at the Griffith Asia Institute (GAI), Griffith University where she leads the Institute's national and international program of strategic engagement. She is also President of the Australia Indonesia Business Council (AIBC) in Queensland and national Vice-President of the United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA). Dr Turner is an experienced business executive having worked for many years in the private sector, including with global companies AECOM and URS Corporation leading sustainability initiatives for major oil and gas infrastructure and mining projects throughout the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. She has been Director of the Islam and Civil Society Program at The Asia Foundation, designing and running human rights and democracy-related programs with Muslim groups in Indonesia and worked as a former Expert Panellist for the Diversity Council Australia. Dr Turner has a PhD in Politics and International Studies from Murdoch University with a focus on militant Islam in Southeast Asia. She is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an alumni of the national Asia Leaders Program. Dr Turner is fluent in Indonesian and has worked and travelled extensively around the Asia Pacific region.