Richard Manning

Richard Manning is a governance and community development expert and has worked in Indonesia for more than 22 years. He is currently the Senior Adviser on Decentralisation for AusAID, Indonesia. He served as district administrator of 3 districts in East Timor with responsibility for the overall management of local government and security services. Richard has extensive knowledge of Indonesian government structures, processes and access to a vast network of government officials at national, provincial and district levels.  He has extensive practical understanding of governance issues (e.g. management of local government, elections, management of security forces, etc) at all levels from communities to national government resulting from work with international NGOs and multilateral agencies.