Author: Ann Wigglesworth

Dr Ann Wigglesworth has 25 year experience working in international development including with Oxfam, Save the Children and International Women”s Development Agency as well as Caritas Australia where she started her involvement in East Timor in 1997. In 2005, she undertook a Ph D at Victoria University focussing on development in the early years of independent Timor-Leste. This was later used as the basis of a book, “Activism and Aid: Young citizens” experiences of development and democracy in Timor-Leste” published by Monash University Publishing in 2016. She has been a committee member of Friends of Suai/Covalima since 2004 and is an Honorary Fellow at the College of Arts and Education, Victoria University.