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Deputy for Government Policy Support in the Secretariat of the Vice President. Research Professor at the Research Center for Politics-Indonesian Institute of Sciences.
PhD (Arts)
"Professor Anwar has provided advice and guidance to Monash University's engagement in Indonesia. She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience with her and a genuine desire to engage and add value."
Producer, Presenter, Outer Sanctum Podcast, ABC
Bachelor of Arts
"The big question for me was how do I turn creativity into a career. An Arts degree was the perfect stepping stone. At Monash I was able to try the things I knew liked and also have a little go at the things I was curious about."
Director, The Social CliQ
Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Global Studies
"If my Commerce degree was the brains, my Arts degree was the heart. My Commerce degree gave me a lot of technical skills around data input and analysis, strategy development and financial management. My Arts degree taught me interpersonal skills, how to communicate and build relationships and deal with different situations."
Member, Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Former Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
"I wanted to know how to think and study and progress an argument,” Burke says of her reasons for choosing arts. “I just wanted to get a good degree that would help me probably crack a graduate job somewhere."
Founder, Just Be Nice Project
"Arts augmented what I was interested in and taught me how to think logically and laterally. And these were skills that were invaluable in setting up my own company."
Founder & Blogger, Typewriter Media
Master of Communications and Media Studies
"Critical and evaluative thinking are the two most important skills I learned in my Arts degree. In my Engineering degree, I was taught to understand the science behind things, the ‘how’ things get done. The critical thinking skills I learned in my Arts degree helped me ask the ‘why’ and ‘for whom’."
Board Member Reserve Bank of Australia
"Carol Schwartz AM is one of Australia's most dynamic business leaders with extensive experience in business, property, the arts and community organisations."
Director, Prevention of Violence against Women, Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria
"I think while grassroots advocacy is so important, it also needs systems and mechanisms to sit behind that to enable people, particularly young people, to have a seat at the table."
Policy Advisor for the Victorian Government
Bachelor of Global Studies
"My international experience really fuelled my interest in having an international career, and Monash helped cement that and gave me the practical skills to turn that dream into a reality."
Supreme Court Justice
"Justice Elizabeth Fullerton graduated from Monash in 1980 with an Arts degree, majoring in political science, before enrolling in graduate Law at the University of New South Wales, where she graduated in 1983."
Professor History, Yale
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) & PhD
"Monash graduate, Professor of History at Yale, Professor Ben Kiernan has over the past 30 years documented the crimes of the Khmer Rouge regime and worked to bring the perpetrators to justice in front of an international tribunal."
Corporate Partnerships Manager, The Royal Children's Hospital Foundation Melbourne
"Being bilingual has helped me enormously because I can speak to the Chinese market and the Australian market. I will always have my accent but that’s nothing to be embarrassed about – I am proud of my identity."
