Dr Susan Harris Rimmer is the Director of Studies at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University. She is also a Research Associate at the Development Policy Centre in the Crawford School. Susan is the author of Gender and Transitional Justice: The Women of East Timor (Routledge 2010), and was chosen as the winner of the Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on the Human Rights of Women for 2006. She has been a board member of UN Women National Committee Australia and president of the voluntary non-governmental organisation Australian Lawyers for Human Rights. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of Academics Stand Against Poverty (Australasia), and in October 2013 was appointed to the national board of the Refugee Council of Australia.