Thawley Scholarship in International Security recipients announced

The Lowy Institute is pleased to announce two new recipients of the Michael and Deborah Thawley Scholarship in International Security, Adelle Neary and Andrew Kwon.

Adelle currently serves as Second Secretary in the Political Section at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta. She joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 2010, after working as the International Business Support Lawyer to the central and eastern European offices of London-based law firm CMS Cameron McKenna LLP. Adelle graduated with honours in law from the University of Adelaide, where she also completed undergraduate degrees in International Studies and Science, as well as a semester exchange to Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Andrew is a master’s graduate from the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney. In 2013, Andrew was based in Washington DC, where he was a Research Intern at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) and Joseph S. Nye Jr. National Security Intern for the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. With a research focus on foreign relations and security issues in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific, his writing on these areas have been published on Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, The National Interest and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Global Public Square.

The scholarships will give Adelle and Andrew the opportunity to play a part in the work of two leading think tanks dedicated to generating policy ideas on global strategic affairs, the Lowy Institute, Sydney, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC. Adelle and Andrew will be attached to the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute before undertaking research placements at CSIS in 2014.