People
The Lowy Institute has a core of highly credentialed research staff and nonresident fellows. It also draws on external partners and invites leading international figures to participate in the Institute's activities.
Experts
Australian foreign policy; US politics and foreign policy; Asia and the Pacific; Global institutions
Expertise: Global governance; Indo-Pacific strategy; Southeast Asia; Myanmar; Data-driven analysis
Australian foreign policy news; long-form strategic, security, political and economic research publishing.
Aid and development policy in the Pacific; Refugee resettlement to Australia; Humanitarian and refugee challenges in Myanmar
Politics and economics in Asia and the Pacific; Aid and international development policy.
Disinformation, grey zone operations, machine learning, propaganda, soft power, information warfare, broadcast and social media.
Australian foreign policy and politics; Australia’s intelligence services; international relations in Asia
China’s state-society relations, Chinese civil society, NGOs, development, social policy, philanthropy, Overseas Chinese communities, Australia-China relations
China’s domestic politics; public opinion polling; human rights; Australian foreign policy; Taiwan; Indo-Pacific strategy
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
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.
Indo-Pacific strategy; Australian foreign policy; Southeast Asia.
Australian Foreign Policy, Foreign Aid and Development, Indian Foreign Policy, Indo-Pacific and the Quad.
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 national security policy; International rules and norms; US foreign policy; the Middle East
Australian foreign policy in the Pacific; Australia-PNG relations; geopolitics in the Pacific; Melanesia; conflict analysis and fragile states
Nonresident Fellows
Papua New Guinea; The Pacific Islands region; Australia's foreign correspondents
Political and strategic developments in East Asia; transnational security issues; intelligence; Australian national security and defence
Australian economic policy; monetary policy; international economics; banking
Dewi Fortuna Anwar straddles the world of academia, political activism and government. She is a Research Professor at the Research Center for Politics-Indonesian Institute of Sciences (P2P-LIPI) and was the Deputy Chairman for Social Sciences and Humanities-LIPI (IPSK-LIPI) from 2001 to 2010. Dewi is also the Chairman of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, The Habibie Center, a private think-tank based in Jakarta. From August 2017 to August 2018 she is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Between October 2010 and May 2015 Dewi served as Deputy Secretary for Political Affairs, and from May 2015 to February 2017 as Deputy for Government Policy Support to Vice President Boediono and Vice President M. Jusuf Kalla of the Republic of Indonesia respectively. In 1998-99 Dewi served as Assistant Minister of State Secretariat for Foreign Affairs during the Habibie Presidency. In 2015 Dewi was appointed a member of the Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI). She has written widely on Indonesia’s foreign policy, Indonesia’s democratization as well as on ASEAN and regional political and security issues. Dewi was a Visiting Fellow at CSEAS, Kyoto University in early 2010, a Visiting Professor at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University in 2007, and a Visiting Fellow at ISEAS, Singapore in 1989. Dewi sits and has sat in a number of national and international advisory boards. She is currently a member of the Governing Board of SIPRI and a Board Member of Shift, based in New York. She served as a member of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC) in 2004-2006, and a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters in 2008-2012. Dewi was an APSA Congressional Fellow at the U.S. Congress in 1990-1991. She obtained her PhD from Monash University, Melbourne in 1990, while her M.A. and B.A. (Hons) were from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in 1982 and 1981 respectively.
Japan's foreign policy; Australia-Japan relations; Japanese foreign aid
International security; defence and security; Chinese defence policy
International economic policy, economic and financial development, productivity growth, social policy and evaluation
Regional economic integration; Australia's economic relations with East Asia; international financial flows and the global financial architecture; financial sector development in East Asia
Pacific Islands politics; Pacific Islands economic and social development; governance; statebuilding
Geopolitics in the Asia-Pacific; the Australia-PNG relationship; development partnerships
International security policy; strategic policy; civil-military relations; Indonesian defense and security policy
Asia-Pacific/Indo-Pacific strategic order; India and the Indian Ocean; maritime security; nuclear arms control
Elina Noor is Associate Professor, College of Security Studies at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, United States.
A native of Malaysia, Elina studies security developments in Southeast Asia. Her research is focused on preventing/countering violent extremism as well as on the intersection of international security and international law with cyberspace. Previously, Elina was Director, Foreign Policy and Security Studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia, where she worked closely with the Malaysian and other governments on a range of strategic and regional issues. Prior to that, she was a member of the Brookings Institution’s Project on US Relations with the Islamic World in its formative years post 11 September 2001.
Elina serves on the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace and is a member of the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)’s roster of experts supporting the UN’s work in building member states’ cyber-related capacity. Elina read law at Oxford University, holds an LLM in Public International Law from London School of Economics and Political Science at University of London, and an MA in Security Studies from Georgetown University.
Pacific and PNG; international development assistance; international health challenges; global issues impacting on indigenous peoples
Middle East security issues; Political Islam; Shi’a Islam
China; Chinese foreign and domestic policy; Chinese development policy
Operations staff
Sarah Hipsley is Chief Operating Officer at the Lowy Institute for International Policy.
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.
Carmel Phillips is the Director of Finance and Accounting at the Lowy Institute for International Policy.
