Bridi Rice is CEO of the Development Intelligence Lab and co-founder of the Asia Pacific Development, Diplomacy and Defence Dialogue. Bridi spent eight years as a senior public servant for the Attorney-General’s Department, including three years posted to Papua New Guinea. She is the former Director of Policy at the Australian Council for International Development and 2021 national awardee of the Fulbright Scholarship in Not-for-Profit Leadership. Bridi is a National Security College Expert Associate and a Senior Associate with the Project on Fragility and Mobility and the Project on Prosperity and Development at the Centre for Strategic & International Studies.