Mutiara is a research officer and a PhD scholar at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University (ANU), where she applies an interdisciplinary approach to investigating intellectual property and access to vaccines in the global south. Previously, she served at the ASEAN Secretariat’s External Relations Division 1 (ERD), which managed ASEAN bilateral relations with Japan and South Korea, and the Poverty Eradication and Gender Division (PEGD), which coordinated ASEAN cooperation in social welfare, women’s and children’s affairs, poverty reduction, and rural development matters. Mutiara has a Bachelor of Social Sciences majoring in Environment, Health, and Life Sciences from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (Japan) with the Ritsumeikan APU Scholarship and Honours Scholarship, and a Master of Arts in International Relations from Leiden University (the Netherlands) with the Nuffic Neso Scholarship. She is trained in qualitative and quantitative research methods in digital media studies at Uppsala University (Sweden). Mutiara speaks English, Italian, Indonesian, and Japanese.