Senior lecturer of the International Relations Department, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Indonesia (Dept. HI FISIP UI) and the Head of the Department from 2012 to 2016. She is co-founder of the University’s Master Program of European Studies as well as the ASEAN Study Center of FISIP UI. She is also the Indonesian Country Coordinator of the Network of East Asian Think-tanks (NEAT). She obtained her PhD from the Australian National University (ANU) in 2011 on Political Sciences and International Relations. She was educated and trained in international relations in Indonesia, the UK, and the USA, as well as in Japan, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Hungary. Over the last 25 years, she has involved in international collaborative research or projects and obtained more than 13 international awards or scholarships. Her research interests are Indonesian foreign policy, ASEAN, Asian regionalism, Indonesia-Australia relations, and Asia-Europe relations. Evi’s publications include Southeast Asians and the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM): State’s interests and institution’s longevity (ISEAS Singapore 2014), “The Trump Presidency and Indonesia” (Contemporary Southeast Asia, April 2017), “The Impact of the EU Crisis on EU-ASEAN Relations” (Geopolitics, History, and International Relations, 2014).