Prospective PhD students

Please note I am not accepting new PhD students to start in 2026 or 2027. APS employees interested in the Sir Roland Wilson Fellowship may reach out to discuss if their topic relates to economic security, broadly defined. 

Biography

I research and teach in the field of international relations, at the intersection of international political economy, international security and global governance. My major research interests focus on geoeconomics and economic security (including economic coercion and technology competition), grand strategy in the context of power transitions and international order, and the Indo-Pacific region.

Specific topics covered by my research include:

• Economic security and geoeconomics, including patterns and methods of economic coercion, economic statecraft and industrial policy
• Sino-US technology competition, including the logic (and costs) of decoupling/derisking
• 'Illiberal hegemony', the logic of a China-led international order
• Australia's 'China debate' and conceptualising and measuring power in Australian foreign policy
• How East and South Asian states navigate relations between the US and China through hedging strategies
• China’s “institutional statecraft” and its creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

As of June 2024, topics I’m currently working on include all aspects of the emerging "economic security" agenda, including technology competiiton, industrial policy, supply chain resilience, economic coercion and the future of the rules-based order.

I also host a podcast called Australia in the World. 

I commenced at the ANU in June 2015, having received my PhD from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Initially trained in law and economics, I previously worked as Associate to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, a corporate lawyer, and researcher at International Crisis Group.

You can find a full list of academic publications on Google Scholar or a focused list on ORCiD.

PhD (Princeton); MPA (Princeton); B.Ec (Hons I), LLB (Hons I) (Monash)

• Geoeconomics and economic sescurity
• International order and global goverance
• Technology competition
• Australian foreign policy
• International political economy
• International security
• Qualitative research methods

NOTE: I am not accepting new PhD students to start in 2026 or 2027. Austrlaian public servants looking to apply for the Sir Roland Wilson Fellowship may still reach out.