Andrea Haefner

Andrea Haefner is a Lecturer at the Griffith Asia Institute with a focus on Global Work Integrated Learning programs. Andrea has over 10 years of experience working with academia, government and international organisations. She brings to the role academic expertise in non-traditional security issues focusing on environmental security and water governance combined with practical experience in water resource management and climate change working across government, academic, international and local NGO stakeholder networks in Southeast Asia, most recently in the Mekong region where she spent four years working and living in Laos. She completed her PhD at Griffith University in 2015 focusing on transboundary river basins in Latin America, Europe and Southeast Asia.