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Dr Anna Hayes is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at James Cook University and an Honorary Research Fellow at the East Asia Security Centre. Anna has presented numerous papers in Beijing, on topics ranging from the situation in Xinjiang, how the Belt and Road Initiative has been viewed outside of China, as well as the Quad and the Indo-Pacific from the Australian perspective.

Minh Phuong Vu is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University, where her research focuses on Vietnamese foreign policy, territorial disputes, and Southeast Asian security. 

Her doctoral research examines the role of historical memory in shaping Vietnam’s foreign policy. She has published on maritime and non-traditional security issues, including environmental degradation and livelihood insecurity in the South China Sea. Her academic writing and policy commentary have appeared in The Pacific Review, East Asia Forum, Australian Outlook and the South China Morning Post. She has also contributed to government-funded research on gender equality at the ANU Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, informing her interest in the social dimensions of climate change and disaster resilience. Minh previously worked as an intern and a Multimedia and Communications Officer at the Australian Institute of International Affairs and is a member of the Indo-Pacific Cooperation Network, organised by the AIIA in partnership with the Japan Foundation. She is a Shangri-La Dialogue Young Leader.

She holds a Master of International Relations from the Australian National University and a Bachelor of International Studies from the University of Wollongong.

 

Adil Cader is the Founder of Talking Foreign Affairs, which has collaborated with the United Nations on celebrity diplomacy and advocacy initiatives supporting the Sustainable Development Goals, featuring figures such as Bindi Irwin and Josh Groban. He also hosts a foreign affairs podcast that has featured over forty heads of state, including five Australian Prime Ministers and a United Nations Secretary-General. He holds master’s degrees in International Relations and International Law from UWA.

Dr Ivana Damjanovic is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Canberra and Jean Monnet Research Fellow at the ANU Centre for European Studies.

 

Dr Kiriloi M. Ingram is a Lecturer in International Relations at the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland.

Jon Yuan Jiang is a PhD candidate at the Queensland University of Technology, a graduate from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and a Russian and Mandarin speaker. He is and a delegate of the Australia-based Australia China Youth Dialogue and a Young Leader of the US-based Pacific Forum. He has published in global media and think tanks and can be found at https://www.jonyuanjiang.com/

Daweena Tia Motwany has spent close to a decade working across criminal justice, housing and public health. She is also an Inaugural Fellow of the Indo-Pacific Cooperation Network and an elected Councillor with the Australian Institute of International Affairs – ACT. Daweena holds a Master of International Affairs from ANU.

Henry Strong has a Masters of International Law and Diplomacy from the Australian National University and a degree in European Studies from The Hague University of Applied Sciences, specialising in Politics in Practical Application.

Dr Teesta Prakash is a Research Fellow (Security and Geopolitics) at the Australia India Institute (University of Melbourne). Teesta is an expert on the strategic affairs of the Indo-Pacific, specialising in geoeconomics of India, Southeast Asia and the Quad. She was previously an analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute leading the Australia-India Cyber and Critical Technology Program between 2022 and 2023. Before that she was the inaugural Southeast Asia Research Associate at the Lowy Institute between 2021 and 2022. She completed her PhD in 2021 from Griffith University, the focus of her thesis was Australia-India strategic and economic relations during the Cold War.

Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa is a Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, designing a “Legislative Gender Index” to assess the gender-responsiveness of legislation. She is author of Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Women: Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and its Victims (2015) and more than twenty other peer-reviewed publications on law and gender issues, particularly trafficking. Prior to joining UTS, she worked for ActionAid International, the International Organisation for Migration, the Centre for Reproductive Rights and the International Center for Transitional Justice. She is also the winner of the 2022 Women in AI, Australia-New Zealand in the law category.