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A page for journalists, editors and producers looking for Lowy Institute expertise.
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Shane McLeod is the Lowy Institute's Media and Communications Manager. Prior to this role, he was a Research Fellow for the Institute's Australia-PNG Network.
Before joining the Institute, he was a senior editor at ABC News in roles where he managed its Sydney newsroom and the flagship radio programs AM, The World Today, and PM. He is a former foreign correspondent with postings in Japan and Papua New Guinea, as well as reporting assignments throughout the Asia-Pacific region. He has also worked as a journalist in regional Queensland, Melbourne, Sydney, and Canberra.
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Australian foreign policy in the Pacific; Australia-PNG relations; geopolitics in the Pacific; Melanesia; conflict analysis and fragile states
Aid and development policy in the Pacific; Refugee resettlement to Australia; Humanitarian and refugee challenges in Myanmar
International economic policy; Asia Pacific economies; macroeconomics; economic development; aid and development finance; globalisation; geo-economics.
Disinformation, grey zone operations, machine learning, propaganda, soft power, information warfare, broadcast and social media.
Indo-Pacific strategy; Australian foreign policy; Southeast Asia.
Australian foreign policy news; long-form strategic, security, political and economic research publishing.
China’s state-society relations, Chinese civil society, NGOs, development, social policy, philanthropy, Overseas Chinese communities, Australia-China relations
China’s political system and the workings and structure of the communist party; China’s foreign relations, with an emphasis on ties with Japan, the two Koreas, and Southeast Asia; Australia’s relations with Asia.
Expertise: Global governance; Indo-Pacific strategy; Southeast Asia; Myanmar; Data-driven analysis
Australian Foreign Policy, Foreign Aid and Development, Indian Foreign Policy, Indo-Pacific and the Quad.
China’s domestic politics; public opinion polling; human rights; Australian foreign policy; Taiwan; Indo-Pacific strategy
Politics and economics in Asia and the Pacific; Aid and international development policy.
Australian foreign policy and politics; Australia’s intelligence services; international relations in Asia
Australian foreign and defence policy, China’s military forces, US defence and foreign policy, drones and other military technology. Also, trends in global democracy.
Terrorism and violent extremism; digital technology; disinformation; authoritarianism; national security; emergency management and countering violent extremism; crisis and natural disasters; radicalisation; counterterrorism; policy; Middle East; US national security
Australian foreign policy; US politics and foreign policy; Asia and the Pacific; Global institutions
