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The Australia–Japan Youth Dialogue is made up of a broad range of Delegates, Speakers and our volunteer team, bringing emerging Australian and Japanese leaders together to learn, share and contribute to the strong relationship that exists between the two countries.

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D'Arcy Butler
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AJYD Alumni Officer

D’Arcy was a founding member of the AJYD Committee in 2016 and at different times has occupied recruitment, logistics and alumni engagement positions for the 2017, 2019 and 2021 dialogues. D’Arcy...
Joshua Cabaj
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Joshua Cabaj »

AJYD Sponsorships Officer

Joshua is a Business Development Manager (Investment Analyst) at the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) based in Osaka, Japan. Austrade’s Osaka post operates the...
Claudia Chan
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Claudia Chan »

AJYD Partnerships Officer

Claudia is a partnerships team officer for Australia-Japan Youth Dialogue who is currently based in Sydney. Furthermore, Claudia is a professional qualified Chartered Accountant specialising in...
Alexi Heazle
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Alexi Heazle »

AJYD Partnerships Officer

Alexi Heazle is a Partnerships Officer with the Australia-Japan Youth Dialogue. He is also a Master of Strategic Studies student with the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, a sub-editor at...
Iain Johnson
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Iain Johnson »

AJYD Partnerships Officer

Iain Johnson is a Monbukagakusho (文部科学省奨学金) researcher at Waseda University’s Graduate School of Political Science (早稲田大学大学院政治学研究科) in Tokyo. Iain's research centres around the application of...
Matthew Khoo
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Matthew Khoo »

AJYD Alumni Officer

Matthew joined the Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) as a Defence Scientist in 2006. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics) and Bachelor of Computer Science (with Honours) from...
Erin McCullagh
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Erin McCullagh »

AJYD Co-Chair

Erin currently works for a communications company in Canberra. Erin has worked on new business development and regional revitalisation for Pasona Group, a Japan-based human resources company. The...
Sakura Miyamoto
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Sakura Miyamoto »

AJYD Projects Officer

Sakura is a systems engineer at wpd, working in the offshore wind industry to promote decarbonisation of the electricity generation. Working in the renewable energy sector and part of the mymizu...
Matthias Muehlbauer
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Matthias Muehlbauer »

AJYD Executive Committee Chair

Matthias is an entrepreneur with a global background in both corporate and early-stage startup environments, having worked in Management Consulting at PwC in both Australia and Japan working with...
Kanako Murase
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Kanako Murase »

AJYD Alumni Officer

Kana is a specialist in developing successful international collaboration in the higher education sector. She has extensive experience in facilitating high-level international engagement at Monash...
Dr Yuma Osaki
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Dr Yuma Osaki »

AJYD Partnerships Officer

Yuma joined the Australia-Japan Youth Dialogue in 2019 and has served in logistics, partnerships, and programme officer positions. Yuma is a Kyoto-based scholar working on International...
Kei Sakurai
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Kei Sakurai »

AJYD Translator and Content Support

Kei is a student majoring Environmental Sciences at the University of Tokyo. While striving to find environmentally and economically optimal solutions for household electronics, she also loves to...
Tommy Silver
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Tommy Silver »

AJYD Web Developer

Tommy has a background in design and web development and is the current AJYD web developer. Tommy lived in Osaka for more than three years, working for Apple in a customer-facing role and involved...
Nanumi Starke
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Nanumi Starke »

AJYD Communications Officer

Nanumi joined AJYD in 2021. She has played a key role in the strategic development of the 2021 communications plan, as well as social media and website content for the Dialogue. Nanumi is a...
Raymart Walker
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Raymart Walker »

AJYD Communications Officer

Raymart is a Higher Education professional working as the International Liaison Officer at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), where he oversees the University's short-term outbound student...
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