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Shane McLeod is the Lowy Institute's Director of Media and Communications.
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Australian foreign policy; US politics and foreign policy; Asia and the Pacific; Global institutions
Strategy and geopolitics; global governance; Australian foreign policy; Southeast Asia; Data analysis
Ahmed Albayrak is a Research Assistant in the Lowy Institute’s Indo-Pacific Development Centre. Prior to joining the Lowy Institute, he completed a Master of Environmental and Resource Economics degree at the Australian National University where he specialised in economic modelling. His research interests include structural transformation, energy transition and climate change policy. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne.
Australian foreign policy news; long-form research publishing on strategy, security, geopolitics and economics.
Aid to Pacific Islands, Pacific development policy; Pacific women’s development, Pacific Island politics, remittances.
Public finance, debt management and crisis, poverty and inequality, growth and emerging markets
Politics and economics in Asia and the Pacific; Aid and international development policy.
Pacific Islands aid and development; development finance
Australian foreign policy and politics; Australia’s intelligence services; international relations in Asia
Climate adaptation, foreign aid and finance, decarbonising development
China’s state-society relations, Chinese civil society, NGOs, development, social policy, philanthropy, Overseas Chinese communities, Australia-China relations
Pacific Islands development and security, resource management, human security and resilience.
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
Economics and politics in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific; trade policy; economic history
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.
Australian foreign policy and public opinion, climate change and sustainability, multilateral diplomacy, China and Hong Kong.
Indo-Pacific strategy; Australian foreign policy; Southeast Asia.
International economic policy; Asia Pacific economies; macroeconomics; economic development; aid and development finance; globalisation; geo-economics.
Australian foreign and defence policy, China’s military forces, US defence and foreign policy, drones and other military technology. Also, trends in global democracy.
Australian foreign policy in the Pacific; Australia-PNG relations; geopolitics in the Pacific; Melanesia; conflict analysis and fragile states
International economics and political economy, geoeconomics, growth and development, macroeconomics
