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Associate ProfessorJake.Blight@anu.edu.au |
Jake Blight joined the ANU National Security College in January 2022 as an Associate Professor. He has been working in the field of National Security Law for over 20 years. In that time, Jake has worked in a range of roles including in the Australian Government Solicitor, as a General Counsel and as the Deputy and Acting Inspector-General of Intelligence... read more |
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ProfessorGeorge.Brandis@anu.edu.au |
George Brandis joined ANU in June 2022 as a Professor in the Practice of National Security, Policy and Law, in a joint appointment with the National Security College and the ANU College of Law. Professor Brandis is a graduate of the University of Queensland and the University of Oxford. He is a barrister by profession, specialising in commercial... read more |
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Senior Fellow +61 413 021 218 dhbrewster@bigpond.com |
My work as a Senior Research Fellow focuses on security in India and the Indian Ocean region, and Indo-Pacific maritime affairs.My books include India as an Asia Pacific power, about India’s strategic role in the Asia Pacific, and India’s Ocean: the story of India’s bid for regional leadership, which examines India’s strategic ambitions in the Indian... read more |
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Senior Lecturer +61 2 6125 5452 mike.cohen@anu.edu.au |
Dr. Michael Cohen was Partners Across the Globe Fellow at NATO Defence College, Rome from September 2022 through January 2023 and was, from December 2019 through December 2023, convenor of the NSC’s PhD program. He has expertise in International Security with an empirical focus on the Indo-Pacific. His more specific research interests include the... read more |
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Senior Lecturerdominique.dalla-pozza@anu.edu.au |
Dr Dominique Dalla-Pozza is a Senior Lecturer with the ANU National Security College and ANU College of Law. Dominique was instrumental in building the National Security Law course (which she will convene in Semester 2, 2024), in the Masters of National Security Policy and Graduate Certificate of National Security Policy. She is also involved in NSC’s... read more |
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Senior Research Fellowfrederic.grare@anu.edu.au |
Dr Frédéric Grare is a Senior Research Fellow joined NSC in 2023 as part of an expert program sponsored by the government of France. |
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Associate Professordanielle.ireland-piper@anu.edu.au |
Dr. Danielle Ireland-Piper is Associate Professor at the ANU National Security College. She has a PhD from the University of Queensland and an LLM from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Chevening and Pegasus Scholar. Her teaching and research expertise includes national security, constitutional law, comparative law, and international law (... read more |
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ProfessorDuncan.Lewis@anu.edu.au |
Major General Duncan Lewis AO, DSC, CSC was appointed to the position of Professor in the Practice of National Security at the ANU National Security College in June 2021. He recently completed his five-year term as Director General of Security and Head of the Australian Security intelligence Service (ASIO). This was the last appointment in a 47... read more |
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Senior FellowKatherine.Mansted@anu.edu.au |
Katherine Mansted is a Senior Fellow in the Practice of National Security at the ANU National Security College. She is also the Executive Director of Cyber Intelligence at CyberCX, Australia and New Zealand’s largest cyber security services company. Katherine regularly briefs government officials, business leaders and public audiences on national... read more |
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Professor +61 2 6125 7507 EA.Head.NSC@anu.edu.au |
Professor Rory Medcalf AM FAIIA has been Head of the National Security College (NSC) at the Australian National University since 2015. He has led the expansion of the College into policy impact, futures analysis, parliamentary engagement, international dialogue and capacity-building, in addition to its core activity in executive development, academic... read more |
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Lecturerjames.mortensen@anu.edu.au |
Dr. James Mortensen is a Lecturer and the HDR Program Coordinator at the ANU National Security College. He has three main research streams; the history and philosophy of political security, the use of technology in social control, and the security implications of climate change on Eastern Australia. Prior to his appointment at the NSC, James held the... read more |
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Lecturerdavid.schaefer@anu.edu.au |
Dr David Schaefer is a Lecturer at the ANU National Security College. David has expertise in, among other things, intelligence studies. He is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of War Studies in King’s College London, where he received his PhD, and worked as Postdoctoral Fellow and coordinator of the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence (... read more |
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ProfessorHeather.Smith@anu.edu.au |
Dr Heather Smith PSM was appointed as a Professor at the ANU National Security College in June 2021. Before this Dr Smith served as Secretary of the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science from September 2017-January 2020. As CEO, Heather led a department of over 2,300 staff, a portfolio of around 10,000 staff, and was a key contributor to... read more |
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Associate Professorsue.thompson@anu.edu.au |
Dr Sue Thompson has extensive experience in academia, government, the media and the non-government sector. Her research specialisation examines the history of regional cooperation in Southeast Asia during the Cold War with a focus on foreign and defence policy influences in the post-war evolution of Southeast Asian regionalism. Dr Thompson has conducted... read more |
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Research Fellowdirk.vanderkley@anu.edu.au |
Dirk van der Kley is a Research Fellow at the National Security College who specialises on technology competition and innovation between the US and China, with a particular interest in biological technologies. Prior to joining ANU, Dirk was the Program Director for Policy Research at China Matters. He previously worked at the Lowy Institute for... read more |
