Australia’s role in the emerging geostrategic order
was an independent advisor on Asian Affairs.

Urs Schöttli was a columnist for Die Neue Zürcher Zeitung, a Swiss newspaper, and also an independent advisor on Asian affairs. Prior to that, he had served as the paper’s correspondent in Delhi, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo.
From 1990 to 1995 he was Iberia Representative of the German Friedrich-Naumann Foundation for Freedom, and from 1978 to 1991 he was secretary general and vice president of Liberal International in London.
He published several books, the latest being “Die neuen Asiaten,” which deals with generational change in contemporary Asia. He lived in Tokyo and Mumbai.