Profile

Professor Turner has extensive research experience in many countries of the Asia-Pacific particularly the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.

Mark has recently been appointed to the United Nations Development Programme's Governance Advisory Panel for Asia-Pacific. He was invited by the UN as a 'distinguished expert' on governance in Asia-Pacific along with a select group of other distinguished politicians, civil  society leaders and academics from the region. The purpose of the Panel is to provide strategic direction to UNDP's programs in the region.

Mark has also been invited to join the 'Eminent Scholar's Study Group on Decentralizing  Governance' at the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. The Group has been convened to examine the state of the art of democratic governance and is comprised of about 15 scholars from the USA and abroad. The Group will produce a book to be launched at the UN's 7th Global Forum on Reinventing Government.

Programs

Professor Turner is the Academic Director for the The Australia-Indonesia Leadership and Management Program (AILMP)