Louise Williams - JPP Project Officer
Louise Williams is former foreign correspondent, columnist, and foreign editor for the Sydney Morning Herald. She now lectures in journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney, is a contributing Leader writer for the Sydney Morning Herald, and works as an international communications consultant, with a special interest in Asia and new media. She spent more than a decade as a foreign correspondent for Fairfax newspapers (the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Melbourne) based in Manila, Bangkok and Jakarta, and continues to travel regularly in the region. Louise has written or contributed to a number of books on regional issues and was the recipient of an Australia Council Asia Pacific Writers' Fellowship. Louise won a Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism and the Citibank Pan Asia Journalism Award (in conjunction with Columbia University) for her work as a foreign correspondent. She returned to Jakarta this year as Project Officer for JPP 2008, and will continue to run the program for 2009.
 Professional experience
Current:
- Project coordinator, Jakarta Professional Practicum, Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies, based at Murdoch University, Perth
- Consultant, International Communication, University of NSW
- Lecturer, Journalism program, University of Technology, Sydney
- Contributing Leader writer, Sydney Morning Herald
- Consulting writer, Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria
2007: Editorial and feature writer, Sydney Morning Herald
Project coordinator, Jakarta Professional Practicum, Australian (universities) Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies, based at Murdoch University, Perth
Consulting writer, Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria
Lecturer, Faculty of Communication, University of Technology, Sydney, teaching journalism and feature writing. She also designed and ran a media business course for senior Chinese newspaper editors.
2006: Editorial and feature writer, Sydney Morning Herald,
Lecturer, Faculty of Communication, University of Technology, Sydney, teaching journalism and feature writing. Plus business course for senior Chinese newspaper editors.
1999-2005: Leader writer and columnist, Sydney Morning Herald.
Responsible for analysis and editorial comment on a wide range of issues plus a regular column published in the foreign pages. Reporting assignments including Europe and the EU, NZ and India.
1996-1999: Indonesian correspondent, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Melbourne. Regular guest on the BBC. Major stories: the fall of the Soeharto regime, independence in East Timor, East Asian economic crisis.
1995: Asia Pacific Writer’s Fellowship, Literature Board, Australia Council. Publications editor, Research Institute of Asia and the Pacific, University of Sydney.
1992-1994: Asia Editor, then Foreign Editor, Sydney Morning Herald.
1988-1991: Regional correspondent, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Melbourne, based in Bangkok covering South-East Asia and the Indian sub continent. Numerous major stories such as the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the crushing of pro-democracy movement in Burma, Vietnam’s withdrawal from Cambodia, the end of military rule in Thailand, the rise of the jihad forces in Afghanistan, the fall of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan.
1986-1988: Philippines-based correspondent, the Sydney Morning Herald. Regular contributor to The Observer, London and The Independent, London. Major stories: Cory Aquino’s "people's power" victory in the Philippines, the end of military rule in South Korea, political crackdowns in Malaysia and Singapore.
1984-1986: Sydney-based journalist, Sydney Morning Herald covering NSW politics and the law.
1981-1984: Trainee, then journalist at Australian Associated Press.
Books
Losing Control, Freedom of the Press in Asia, 2000, co-editor with Roland Rich, Asia Pacific Press. ISBN 0 7315 3626 6
Indonesia After Soeharto, 1999, New Zealand Asia Institute, contributor, ISBN 0 908689 63 2
Wives, Mistresses and Matriarchs, Asian Women Today, 1998, author, Phoenix, a division of Orion Books, London, ISBN 0 75380 710 6 and Allen and Unwin, Sydney, ISBN 1 86448 914 6
Hotel Asia, an anthology of literary travelling to the East, 1995, contributor, Penguin Books, Australia, ISBN 0 14 024542 1
On the Wire, on the frontline in Asia, 1992, author, Simon and Schuster, Australia, ISBN 0 7318 0213 6
Major Awards
Walkley Award, coverage of the Asia Pacific region, winner, 1999
Citibank Pan Asia Journalism Award, in conjunction with Columbia University, winner, 1994
Walkley Award, feature writing, finalist, 1994
John S. Knight Fellowship, Stanford University, offer, 1991-1992. Unable to take up fellowship due to maternity leave
ASEAN-DFAT Scholarship, 1986
The Educator’s Prize for best published work by a journalism student, 1982
Academic and teaching
Bachelor Arts (Communications), University of Technology, Sydney, awarded 1984. Please note this was then a pass/fail degree
Masters of Arts (Government), University of Sydney, commenced 1985, deferred due to overseas posting in 1986
Lecturer, International Communications, 1999, University of Technology, Sydney
Guest Lecturer, International Communications, 2000-2004, Macquarie University
Lecturer, Advanced Feature writing (post-grad course), Journalism 2, University of Technology, current
Languages
French, conversational Indonesian
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