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About the authors
Michael Fullilove
Dr Michael Fullilove AM is the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute.
Stephen Grenville
Dr Grenville is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute.
Lydia Khalil
Lydia Khalil is Program Director of the Transnational Challenges Program at the Lowy Institute.
Alex Oliver
Alex Oliver was Director of Research at the Lowy Institute between 2018 and 2021.
Annmaree O’Keeffe
Annmaree O’Keeffe AM is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute.
Richard McGregor
Richard McGregor is Senior Fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute, and is a former Beijing and Washington bureau chief for the Financial Times and the author of numerous books on East Asia.
Bonnie S Glaser
Bonnie Glaser is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute.
Jonathan Pryke
Jonathan Pryke is a former Director of the Lowy Institute’s Pacific Islands Program.
Hervé Lemahieu
Hervé Lemahieu was a senior researcher at the Lowy Institute and served as Director of Research from 2021 to 2025.
Ben Bland
Ben Bland is the director of the Asia-Pacific program at Chatham House.
Roland Rajah
Roland Rajah is Lead Economist and Director of the Indo-Pacific Development Centre at the Lowy Institute, focusing on economic development challenges across Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and South Asia. His research spans macroeconomics, aid and development finance, geoeconomics, and regional integration.
Natasha Kassam
Natasha Kassam was Director of the Lowy Institute's Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program from 2019 to 2022, directing the annual Lowy Institute Poll and researching China’s politics, Taiwan, and Australia-China relations.

First published as a digital feature in April 2020, this Analysis features Lowy Institute experts' views on the impact the COVID-19 pandemic will have across a diverse range of countries as well as global and national interests. They examine the effects on the United States, China, the Pacific and Southeast Asia; US-China competition; the international economy; globalisation; the proliferation of misinformation and extremism; and the implications for Australia's diplomacy.
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