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Dr Naoise McDonagh is the Director, Master of Business Administration (MBA). Naoise publishes original research on international business and trade issues, including how domestic regulation, international trade agreements and geopolitics impact the international business environment. In addition, he teaches courses on international business at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in ECU's School of Business and Law. Before joining Edith Cowan University, Naoise was a Lecturer in international political economy for three years at the Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide. He also served one year as President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, South Australia (2021-2022).

Dr Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He currently lectures at RMIT University. You can reach him via email at bkampmark@gmail.com

Dr Stephen Kirchner is program director, International Economy, at the United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney.

Dr Bruno Arpi is a Senior Lecturer at the Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide, Australia. His teaching and research focus on public international law, the law of the sea, climate change law, and Antarctic law.  

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.