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Cameron Mitchell has a career background in Defence Intelligence. He has worked on a range of Defence related strategic issues, and deployed to Iraq as a Senior Intelligence Officer working in the Combined Intelligence Operation Centre in 2007. He holds an honours degree in history from the University of Sydney, and graduated with a Masters degree by research from the University of New South Wales. His academic focus includes Russian and Chinese military modernisation and defence reform. He has been published in Strategic Comments, through the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Matthew G. Allen is a Fellow in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at The Australian National University.
Brian Kennett is currently Distinguished Professor of Seismology at the Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University and was Director from September 2006 to January 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Seismology from the University of Cambridge in 1973. He was a Lindemann Fellow at IGPP, University of California, San Diego and then a University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He moved to Australia in 1984, and was President of IASPEI from 1999-2003.
His research has covered a very wide range of topics in seismology, from reflection seismology to studies of the deep Earth and from theoretical to observational studies. He has received recognition through many medals and awards including the Gold Medal in Geophysics from the Royal Astronomical Society, the Gutenberg Medal from the European Geosciences Union, the Murchison Medal from the Geological Society of London, and the Jaeger and Flinders Medals from the Australian Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society (London).
Jack Corbett is Associate Professor in Politics at the University of Southampton; Honorary Associate Professor at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University; and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University. He is the author of Being Political: Leadership and Democracy in the Pacific Islands (2015), Australia’s Foreign Aid Dilemma: Humanitarian Aspirations Confront Democratic Legitimacy (2017), and co-editor with Brij V. Lal of Political Life Writing in the Pacific: Reflections on Practice (2015).
Keith Woodward was born in Ismailia, Egypt in 1930. He was educated at Probus School, Plymouth College and Keble College, Oxford, graduating in Modern History in 1951. In 1953 he joined the British National Service in the New Hebrides as office assistant, was promoted to be Assistant Secretary in 1957, and Administrative Officer, Class A in 1970. Woodward dealt with a wide variety of administrative matters during his twenty-five years at the British Residency, including Condominium Personnel, Agriculture, District Affairs, Land, Education, Health and Constitutional Development, holding the post of Secretary for Political Affairs from 1968, until his retirement (because of failing eyesight) in 1978. He had a major part in setting up the Port Vila Cultural Centre (1961–62), and was Hon. Secretary to the Board of Management for sixteen years. He was also much involved with the introduction of Scouting (under the aegis of the British Commonwealth Scouting Movement), serving from 1956 as secretary to the Scout Council and later as Chairman. Woodward was awarded the MBE in 1964, the OBE in 1976 and the Vanuatu Independence Medal in 1980. Keith lives in retirement in Bath.
Sheryn Lee is a doctoral candidate at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University, and a non-resident WSD Handa Fellow at Pacific Forum, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Honolulu. She holds an AM in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Benjamin Franklin Fellow and Mumford Fellow. Previously, she has been a researcher, tutor, and TB Millar scholar at the SDSC, and Robert O’Neill scholar at the International Institute of Strategic Studies-Asia in Singapore. She has previously published in Asian Security and Survival, and co-edited Insurgent Intellectual: Essays in Honour of Professor Desmond Ball (with Brendan Taylor and Nicholas Farrelly).
Yongjia Zhang is Fellow in the Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University. His publications include China in International Society since 1949—Alienation and beyond (1998) and 'System, empire and state in Chinese international relations', Review of International Studies (2001).
Greg Austin is Director of Research for the Brussels-based International Crisis Group. He has worked in other professional and academic posts in Canberra, Hong Kong and Washington. He is co-author of Japan and Greater China: Political economy and military power in the Asian century (with Stuart Harris, 2001); and Red Star East: The armed forces of Russia in Asia (with Alexey Muraviev, 2000); and author of China's Ocean Frontier: International law, military force and national development ( 1998).
Before entering academia, Alex was an officer within the Federal Treasury. He is the founder and co-editor of the Journal of Economic and Social Policy. He has written opinion pieces for the Australian media, most particularly The Canberra Times, the Australian Financial Review and The Age. During the 1990s he wrote a series of papers highlighting the alarming fall in student numbers enrolling in economic degrees within Australia. One of his research interests is the sociology of the Australian economics profession and the contribution the profession makes to society.
Alex’s other research interests include the economics of Joan Robinson, the history of Australian economic though as expressed through its fine tradition of applied economists and the role of economic ideas in steering public policy. In 2004 he completed his doctorate at The Australian National University on “The power of economic ideas: the rise of macroeconomic management in Australia 1929-1939″. He is the current President of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia (HETSA), member of the Editorial Board of Australian Universities Review and a council member of the Victorian Branch of the Economic Society of Australia. He is currently writing a biography of the Anglo-Australian economist Colin Clark.
Dr Richard Lucas spent 17 years as an IT professional in both the public and private sectors. He has been in the tertiary sector for the past 22 years. He is the Head of Discipline for Information Systems at the University of Canberra and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.