Damien Kingsbury
Deakin University’s Professor Emeritus Damien Kingsbury was leader of the Australian volunteer observer mission to East Timor’s 1999 ballot for independence and was advisor to the Free Aceh Movement’s 2005 successfully negotiated conclusion to its three-decade war with Indonesia, among other conflict resolution advisory roles. He has been visiting and writing on Timor-Leste for more than three decades.
