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44Participants’ ProfilesTHE ASIA THINK TANK DIALOGUE REPORTRebuilding Confidence, Restoring LivelihoodsDr. Aris Ananta is an economist-demographer with an interdisciplinaryresearch interest. Indonesia is his regional expertise and his long-run researchagenda is on “Migration, Ageing, and Development in Southeast Asia”.He is currently preparing a conference on “Poverty, Food, and GlobalRecession in Southeast Asia”, to be conducted on 25-26 March 2009 at ISEAS. He willedit the revised papers and put them into an edited book. His upcoming publication isan edited book Older Persons in Southeast Asia: An Emerging Asset, co-edited with EviNurvidya Arifin, to be launched in Singapore around August 2009. He and Evi NurvidyaArifin edited International Migration in Southeast Asia, published in 2004.DR. ARIS ANANTASenior Research FellowInstitute of SoutheastAsian Studies, SingaporeHe also published books on politics, such as Emerging Democracy in Indonesia,co-authored with Evi Nurvidya Arifin and Leo Suryadinata, in 2005. He and Lee PohOnn edited Aceh: A New Dawn, in 2007. He has also published book chapterssuch as “Chinese Indonesians in Indonesia and the Province of Riau Archipelago:a Demographic Analysis”, co-authored with Evi Nurvidya Arifin, in Ethnic Chinese inContemporary Indonesia, edited by Leo Suryadinata in 2008; journal articles such as“Migration and Violent Conflicts in Some Southeast Asian Regions” Population Review,Vol. 45, No 1, 2006; newspaper articles such as “The Lure, Temptation to Sell Our Rice”The Jakarta Post, 11 April 2008. He participated in various seminars/ conferences inSingapore, Indonesia, and other countries. He is often interviewed by mass media onvarious Indonesian economic and political issues, as well as sharing his views to visitorsto ISEAS.He is an Indonesian citizen, born and growing up in a small town of Klaten, Indonesia.He did his undergraduate study in economics in the University of Indonesia, Jakarta,earned his Master degree in Socio-economic statistics, specializing in populationstatistics from George Washington University, the US, and obtained his PhD ineconomics, specializing in population economics, from Duke University, the US, in 1983.Since then he returned to University of Indonesia to teach, conduct research, manageacademic institutions, and disseminate research results to policy makers, businesspersons, and NGOs. He was inaugurated as Professor in Economics in 1995. He joinedthe Department of Economics, National University of Singapore in 1999-2000 beforejoining ISEAS since 2001.