Arsen Ostrovsky

Arsen Ostrovsky is a leading international human rights lawyer and Head of the Sydney Office of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC), the premier public affairs and advocacy organization of the Jewish community in Australia.

A globally recognized expert on international law and antisemitism, Arsen has spoken before the United Nations, the House of Lords and U.S. Congress, amongst other high-level venues, and is a frequent contributor and writer at publications such as Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph, Newsweek and media outlets across Australia. As an international lawyer, Arsen has also been intimately involved in defending Israel before lawfare campaigns on the international arena, including over alleged ‘war crimes’ and ‘genocide’ charges at the international courts in The Hague, and is currently also a Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem-based Misgav Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy.

In addition to his advocacy in the courtroom and public stage, Arsen is also a leading voice for Israel and the fight against antisemitism online, where his posts reach in the tens of millions of users each month.

Arsen has been recognized by The Algemeiner as one of the Top 100 People Most Positively Influencing Jewish Life, and last year the Jerusalem Post named him one the Top 50 Most Influential Jewish Leaders in the world, for his legal advocacy and human rights work.

Arsen is also a survivor of the Bondi terror attack last December, which he narrowly escaped after being shot in the head, and has become a leading voice for survivors and victims of the attack, as well as intimately involved in the Royal Commission on Antisemitism proceedings.

Director and Founder of the Centre for Independent Studies

Cancer researcher and clinical oncologist, with Genesis Care Newcastle

Director of China and Free Societies program, CIS

Australia’s Ambassador to China from 2007 to 2011, Chairman & CEO of Geoff Raby and Associates Ltd based in Beijing

Liberal Party Member for Berowra

Minister for Population, Cities and Urban Infrastructure

Diplomat, American Board of Pathology

UQ-CSIRO Chair in Personalised Nanodiagnostics, Professorial Research Fellow, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland

Professor of Economics at Stanford University; Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and Chair of the Working Group on Economic Policy, (US)

Executive Director, CIS

Head of Economic Research, Reserve Bank of Australia

Internationally acclaimed novelist and journalist, (US)

Senior Research Fellow and Director, Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society Program, CIS

Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne

Founder and President, Middle East Forum, publisher Middle East Quarterly Journal, (US)

Pro Vice-Chancellor Arts and Academic Culture, and Professor of History, Australian Catholic University

Professor of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University

 

Former Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives and Cabinet Minister

CEO and Founding Director, China Matters

Senior Research Fellow, Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society Program, CIS

Chinese Canadian human rights advocate

Programme Co-ordinator of the Masters of Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Western Australia

Research Director, CIS

Australian writer and columnist for the News Limited Press

Executive Director, The New Zealand Initiative (NZ)

Founder and CEO, Cognoscenti Group

Director and Founder, Academy of Ideas, London, (UK)

Health Director, Health and BioSecurity, CSIRO

Director, Free Market Foundation, (Hungary)

Sociologist, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney.
Author of The New Authoritarianism

Senior Research Scholar, Marron Institute of Urban Management, New York University, (US)