Dino Patti Djalal is founder of the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia, a nonpartisan, nonprofit forum launched in 2014, and an Asia fellow at the Milken Institute Asia Center. Djalal, a career diplomat, is a former Indonesian deputy foreign minister, a former presidential spokesperson and speechwriter, a former ambassador to the United States and a 2014 presidential hopeful, as well as a youth advocate, academic and bestselling author. He chairs the Indonesian board of the World Resources Institute. His honors include Bintang Mahaputra, Indonesia's highest medal for meritorious and distinguished service, in 2014, and the Bintang Jasa Utama medal in 2010. Djalal holds bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from Carleton University and Simon Fraser University, respectively, and a doctorate from the London School of Economics.