Speaker_detail_I Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja - The 7th International Conference on Action with Women and Peace

Speaker Information

Opening Session, Panel Discussion 1

Congratulatory Remarks, Panelist

I Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja

Executive Director, ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (ASEAN-IPR)

I Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja is currently the Executive Director of the ASEAN Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (ASEAN-IPR).

Previously, he served as Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) (February 2016–June 2020). He was also ASEAN-SOM Leader for Indonesia and Director-General for ASEAN Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served on the High-Level Task Force for Indonesia on the ASEAN Community Post-2015 Vision (2012–2016). He was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Indonesia to the Republic of Austria and the Republic of Slovenia, concurrently serving as Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna (March 2010–2012). From 2006 to 2009, he served as Ambassador/Deputy Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the United Nations, World Trade Organization, and other International Organisations in Geneva.

In addition to these assignments, I Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja served as Vice Chairperson of the Conference of States Parties (CSP) to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in 2017–2018; Governor of Indonesia to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors in 2011–2012; Indonesian Sherpa for the Nuclear Security Summit 2012 (2010–2011); President of the Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); and a member of the Indonesian negotiating team for the Aceh Peace Agreement (2000–2005).

He has been granted, among others, the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau, conferred by the King of the Netherlands (June 2020); the Ksatria Bakti Husada Arutala medal by the Minister of Health (2011); the Bintang Jasa Utama Award (2010); and the Dharma Nusa Award (2006).

He is a graduate of Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and completed his postgraduate studies at the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA). He is married and has two children.