Jenny Hayward-Jones

Nonresident Fellow
Areas of expertise

Pacific Islands politics; Pacific Islands economic and social development; governance; statebuilding

Jenny Hayward-Jones
Biography
Publications

Jenny Hayward-Jones is a Lowy Institute Nonresident Fellow and former Director of the Melanesia Program at the Lowy Institute. Prior to joining the Lowy Institute Jenny was an officer in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for thirteen years, serving in the Australian missions in Vanuatu and Turkey. She worked as Policy Adviser to the Special Coordinator of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands from its inception in July 2003 and in 2004. Jenny holds a BA (Hons) in political science from Macquarie University; her Masters thesis for Monash University focused on governance and political change in Vanuatu. Jenny’s interests focus on Australian policy in the Pacific Islands region, political and social change in Melanesia, and the strategic and economic challenges facing Pacific Islands in the Asian century. She is the author of two Policy Briefs on Fiji and several reports from major conferences on regional issues, on PNG and on Solomon Islands that she has convened in Australia, New Zealand and Solomon Islands.

Peter O’Neill’s refugee gamble
Commentary
Peter O’Neill’s refugee gamble
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill either played a blinder or sowed the seeds for social turmoil when he signed off on the Regional Resettlement Arrangement with…
China is no threat to our dominance in the Pacific Islands
Commentary
China is no threat to our dominance in the Pacific Islands
Jenny Hayward-Jones writes in an opinion piece for ABC's The Drum that just because Chinese companies are engaged in economic competition in the Pacific Islands does not…
China no rival in the battle for island influence
Commentary
China no rival in the battle for island influence
In an opinion piece in The Australian, Jenny Hayward-Jones writes that instead of speculating on the hidden intentions of China’s growing engagement with the Pacific Islands…
Big enough for all of us: geo-strategic competition in the Pacific Islands
Analyses
Big enough for all of us: geo-strategic competition in the Pacific Islands
China's growing engagement in the Pacific Islands has fueled talk of great-power competition in the region.  But viewing China's activities in the region in geo…
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