Grace Stanhope
Research Associate, Southeast Asia Aid Map
Areas of expertise
Foreign aid, global development finance
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
The local debates are only just starting about responding to dramatic global shifts.
The Philippines walks a tightrope with Chinese aid
Pragmatism, not ideology, is driving development finance decisions.
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
Starmer’s announcement is another demonstration of a narrowing perception of global security.
Commentary
Would it actually be the worst thing if China filled gaps left by US foreign aid?
Originally published in The Canberra Times
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
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
The detail is starting to emerge for the government’s big ticket spending initiatives in the region.
Channel News Asia
09 April 2025
The Canberra Times
24 February 2025
Al Jazeera (English) 3 August 2011
14 February 2025
South China Morning Post
10 February 2025
