Lalu Ary Kurniawan Hardi is a lecturer in political science at Universitas Airlangga. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Universitas Airlangga and a master’s degree in international politics and diplomacy from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.

He is pursuing a Fulbright Doctoral Degree Scholarship in political science at Northern Illinois University, with a research interest in human rights and political development.