Piers Gillespie
Futureye Associate
Piers has worked in Indonesia for many years providing strategic counsel and crisis management to many of the world’s largest multinationals and national governments. His work has been particularly useful for corporations, communities and governments alike within the vagaries of the high risk, high return Indonesian business environment. He has also worked with the highest levels of the Indonesian government on matters of high sensitivity, including leading the Indonesian government’s immediate crisis communications response to the Bali and Marriot bombings and other critical government issues.
Piers also assisted in the UN-led Humanitarian Pause in Aceh in 2000, and has been awarded in both New York and Hong Kong for the work he has done in Indonesia. He has significant experience working with clients in the fields of mining and natural resources, energy, banking, telecommunications, pulp and paper, and palm oil.
Skills
- Internationally accredited mediator and arbitrator
- Steraegic counsel at critical level during periods of corporate and government crises
- High-level strategic communications and media management skills
- Stakeholder engagement and community consultation
- Proactive risk analysis and issues preparation
Qualifications
- Current PhD candidate at ANU
- Masters degrees in International Law and International Politics
- Qualified trainer
- Qualified mediator
- Bachelor of Arts (Hons)
- Accredited translator of Bahasa Indonesia
Awards and Recognition
- Australian Research Council, PhD scholarship, Australian National University
- Australian representative, Australian Indonesia Exchange Program
- Indonesian government research scholarship
- Australia-Indonesia Governance Research Project Grant recipient
- University of Melbourne Award for Teaching Excellence, Faculty of Economics
- Winner, International Public Relations Award for crisis management, New York
- Winner, Asia Pacific Excellence in Public Relations Award, Hong Kong