Experts

Helen Toner
Director of Strategy, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Georgetown University

Stephen Smith
Former Australian Minister for Defence and Minister for Foreign Affairs

Françoise Nicolas
Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the French Institite for International Relations

Nirupama Rao
Former Indian Foreign Secretary; Former Indian Ambassador to Washington and Beijing

Darren Lim
Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University.

Aarshi Tirkey
Junior Fellow at Observer Research Foundation

Dr. Paul Scharre
Vice President, Center for a New American Security

Lisa Curtis
Director, Indo-Pacific Security Program,
Center for a New American Security

Natasha Kassam
Director, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program, Lowy Institute

Xiangning Wu
Assistant Professor, University of Macau

Sarah Teo
Research Fellow and Coordinator of the Regional Security Architecture Programme, RSIS

Vasabjit Banerjee
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Mississippi State University

Lesley Seebeck
Chief Executive Officer, Cyber Institute, Australian National University

Wesley Morgan
Adjunct Research Fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University

Jean-Marie Guéhenno
Distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution
Member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Mediation

Richard Yetsenga
Chief Economist and Head of Research
ANZ

James Mortensen
Research Fellow
ANU Cyber Institute

Prue Clarke
Senior Executive Officer
Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas

Elise Thomas
Researcher, International Cyber Policy Centre
Australian Strategic Policy Institute

Raihan Ismail
Senior Lecturer
Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, ANU

Chris Zappone
Digital Foreign Editor
The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

Ryan Young
Director
National Security College Futures Hub

Nicole Matejic
Doctoral Candidate
University of Southern Queensland

Mark Crosweller
Director
Ethical Intelligence

Yun Jiang
Co-Editor
China Neican

Jeffrey Wilson
Research Director
Perth USAsia Centre

Tom Nichols
Professor, National Security Affairs
US Naval War College

Ben Bland
Director, Southeast Asia Program
Lowy Institute