Donald Greenlees is an award-winning journalist, author, and advisor on international political and business affairs. He has spent more than 20 years in East Asia working for international media and business consultancies and conducting academic and book research.

He has researched and written extensively about East Asian affairs for specialist business and public audiences from bases in Jakarta, Seoul and Hong Kong. His fields of expertise include the region’s political-economy, business environment, security and foreign policy. His journalism on the region was acknowledged with several awards including the leading Australian industry prize, the Walkley Award. He has worked as a staff correspondent in Asia for publications including The Australian, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.  

In Australia, he covered national politics in the 1980s and 1990s for media including The Australian Financial Review, The Australian and ABC’s Lateline. He also was a correspondent for the UK’s Independent Television News and SBS’s Dateline in South America in 1990-1991.

He is co-author of Deliverance: The Inside Story of East Timor’s Fight for Freedom, a ground-breaking work that examined the East Timor crisis from the angles of policy making in Jakarta, Canberra and New York and the implications for Indonesia’s process of democratization.

Since 2010, he has conducted academic research on Indonesian and regional foreign policy and worked as an advisor to multinational firms and high-net-worth individuals on a range of complex business, political and security challenges in Southeast Asia.