Vedi Hadiz is Professor of Asian Studies and Director of the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Arts, where he holds the Redmond Barry Distinguished Professorship and serves as Assistant Deputy Vice-Chancellor International (Indonesia). He is also Co-Director and Lead Researcher at the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Contemporary Culture (ERCC) research group. His academic interests center on political sociology and political economy, particularly the contradictions of development in Indonesia and Southeast Asia more broadly, with recent extensions to the Middle East. Key publications include his monograph Islamic Populism in Indonesia and the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Localising Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia: A Southeast Asia Perspective (Stanford University Press, 2010), and the co-edited Between Dissent and Power: The Transformation of Islamic Politics in the Middle East and Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Other notable works are Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets (RoutledgeCurzon, 2004, co-authored with Richard Robison) and Workers and the State in New Order Indonesia (Routledge, 1997).

Professor Hadiz previously served as Professor of Asian Societies and Politics at Murdoch University’s Asia Research Centre, directing its Indonesia Research Programme as an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. Prior to that, he was Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. He has held visiting scholar positions at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in France, the International Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands, the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University, the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Indonesia, where he is Adjunct Professor. His scholarship has profoundly impacted studies of populism, oligarchy, and Islamic politics in post-authoritarian Asia.

Professional Email: vedi.hadiz@unimelb.edu.au