Professor Thomas Reuter is a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council at the University of Melbourne's Asia Institute. After completing his PhD at the Australian National University in 1997, he taught at Heidelberg University in Germany, and held post-doctoral and QE2 fellowships at Melbourne University and a senior research fellowship at Monash University in Australia. He has served as President of the Australian Anthropological Association (2002-2005) and Chair of the World Council of Anthropological Associations (2009-12), and is currently Senior Vice-President of IUAES and a member of the executive of the ISSC and other international organizations. His research focuses on religion, politics, environment, food security, globalization and social movements, primarily in Indonesia, but also globally. He has published over 80 articles and nine books.