Grace Stanhope

Research Associate, Southeast Asia Aid Map
Areas of expertise

Foreign aid, global development finance

Grace Stanhope
Biography
Publications
News and media

Grace Stanhope is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute’s Indo-Pacific Development Centre working on the Southeast Asia Aid Map, a tool that tracks and analyses foreign aid and development finance flows to Southeast Asia from 2015 onwards.

Grace joined the Lowy Institute from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in 2023 and previously worked as a sub-editor in the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery. She holds a Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics and a Bachelor of Development Studies from the Australian National University.

Australian aid budget 2025: Choices on hold
Australian aid budget 2025: Choices on hold
The local debates are only just starting about responding to dramatic global shifts.
The Philippines walks a tightrope with Chinese aid
The Philippines walks a tightrope with Chinese aid
Pragmatism, not ideology, is driving development finance decisions.
Hedging bets: Southeast Asia’s approach to China’s aid
Analyses
Hedging bets: Southeast Asia’s approach to China’s aid
Demand for development finance reflects both a country’s needs and its foreign policy agency — shaping approaches from constrained to opportunistic.
UK aid cut: Implications for an increasingly lonely Australia
UK aid cut: Implications for an increasingly lonely Australia
Starmer’s announcement is another demonstration of a narrowing perception of global security.
How Australia should respond to the implosion of US aid
How Australia should respond to the implosion of US aid
Australia’s interests won’t be served by letting vital multilateral anchors of the “rules-based order” wither, decay and collapse.
ASEAN’s new developmental divide
ASEAN’s new developmental divide
The admission of Timor-Leste will recall quarter-century-old unease about the development gap within the association.
Two steps up in Australia’s Southeast Asia engagement
Two steps up in Australia’s Southeast Asia engagement
The detail is starting to emerge for the government’s big ticket spending initiatives in the region.
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