Grace Stanhope

Research Associate, Southeast Asia Aid Map

Areas of expertise

Foreign aid; global development finance

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Biography

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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.

Signal failure for China’s railway diplomacy in Southeast Asia

As Indonesia renegotiates railway debt with China, other Southeast Asian nations face a cautionary tale about mega-projects.

Podcast

Development Futures: The 2025 Southeast Asia Aid Map and global aid cuts

Commentary

Why Australia should worry about who's helping our neighbours

Originally published in The Canberra Times

Climate disasters drain Southeast Asia’s shrinking aid budgets

The 2025 Lowy Institute Southeast Asia Aid Map reveals relief spending has soared while prevention investment stagnates, forcing hard choices for development partners.

Interactive

Southeast Asia Aid Map 2025

Third edition of the Southeast Asia Aid Map, encompassing the period from 2015 to 2023, including data on more than 130,000 projects carried out by 109 development partners,…