James Anthony
Jim Anthony earned his PhD at the Australian National University. He worked for then Senator Lionel Murphy as a member of his staff. When the second Whitlam government was elected in 1972 Jim Anthony was appointed Private and Press Secretary to John Wheeldon, Minister for Repatriation and National Compensation. From the mid 1970s Jim has, for the most part worked as an international consultant in Japan, Europe, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand and in the Pacific. From the mid 80’s until he retired in 2010 he was the CEO of a non-profit in Hawaii working on global climate change, potable water and ocean acidification. At 88 he is retired and lives in Hawaii.
Mari Pangestu
Mari Pangestu was formerly Indonesia’s Minister of Trade and is currently President Prabowo Subianto’s Special Advisor for International Trade and Multilateral Cooperation.
Sylvie Zhuang
Reporter, China Sylvie joined the Post as a reporter in 2023. She graduated from the University of Chicago and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Illinois. Previously, she worked as a researcher for multilateral international organisations, including the World Bank and ADB.
John C. Mitchell
Dr John C. Mitchell OAM is a farmer, investor and philanthropist who graduated from the Australian National University (ANU) with an economics degree, and went on to manage his family’s historic Towong Hill Station in northeast Victoria
Lawrence Ingvarson
Dr Lawrence Ingvarson, AM Formerly a Director of Research at the Australian Council for Educational Research, he began his career as a science and mathematics teacher, teaching in WA, Scotland and England before undertaking further studies in psychology at the University of London. He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators and a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Australian Science Teachers Association (2001). In 2014 he was awarded the James Darling Medal by the Australian College of Educators and was appointed as a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia in 2022.
Robert Hazell
Professor of British Politics and Government & Founder of the Constitution Unit, UCL Robert’s research interests cover the whole of the constitutional reform agenda. He has written widely on devolution in Scotland, Wales and the English regions; freedom of information; parliamentary reform and Lords reform; a British bill of rights; referendums; electoral reform; the Crown and royal prerogative; constitutional watchdogs; and the process of constitutional reform.
Laura Gail Miller
Laura Miller is an educator, curriculum designer, and doctoral candidate in Educational Organisational Learning and Leadership at Seattle University. She has over 16 years of teaching experience across K–12 and higher education, including roles as Rainey S. Taylor History Chair and Director of Global Studies at Columbus Academy. Her research explores generational dynamics, organisational culture, and engaging curriculum design, with publications and works in progress on civics education and current events pedagogy.
Don Scott-Kemmis
Don Scott-Kemmis is a consultant specialising in industry and innovation policy. Previously an Associate Professor at the Australian National University, where he led the Innovation Management and Policy Program, and a research fellow at the University of Sussex and University of Wollongong. He has been a consultant to many national and international organisations, including the FAO, ILO, UNESCO, EU and GIZ. He was a manager in research and innovation policy branches in the public sector in Australia and a Ministerial Adviser. He holds degrees from the University of Sydney and University of Sussex.
F.M. Shakil
F.M. Shakil is a Pakistani writer covering political, environmental, and economic issues, and is a regular contributor at Akhbar Al-Aan in Dubai and Asia Times in Hong Kong. He writes extensively about China-Pakistan strategic relations, particularly Beijing’s trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Sumitra Vignaendra
Sumitra Vignaendra is a research scientist and is undertaking a PHD in philosophy of science on the topic of Big Data. She has been a social activist for 40 years and has written about race, social class, sexuality, gender, higher education and the flawed criminal justice systems in Australia. Born in Malaysia of Tamil heritage, she immigrated to Australia with her family, aged 8.
Jeff Schubert
Jeff Schubert began his career as a junior manufacturing executive in Adelaide before moving to the Treasury in Canberra, and then Chief Economist of HSBC and a tax policy adviser in Sydney. He later became a business and foreign policy analyst in Russia and China.
My BIO: You can say that, amongst other things, I spent 3 years teaching high-tech business management to Chinese students in Russia!
My book “PUTIN and his Lieutenants: compared to Mao, Napoleon, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Ataturk” is now available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0DBGYB3RR
Kushneel Prakash
Kushneel Prakash is Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellow at the Melbourne Institute: Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne.
Murray Hunter
Murray Hunter is a former entrepreneur, academic and policy advisor, and is now an independent researcher. Murray has a regular column at My Sin Chew and Free Malaysia Today (FMT) in Malaysia, and regular commentator on RT. Murray has published several books and writes in his own Substack at murrayhunter.substack.com.
Joh-Janusz Ebel
John-Janusz Ebel is the son of Holocaust survivors. Soon after coming to Australia from Poland, Ebel chose to be a draft resister and activist against the Vietnam War; he also participated in Aboriginal struggles against continued oppression and genocide of Aboriginal people. Ebel has practised as a radical existentialist psychotherapist.
John-Janusz Ebel
John-Janusz Ebel is the son of Holocaust survivors. Soon after coming to Australia from Poland, Ebel chose to be a draft resister and activist against the Vietnam War; he also participated in Aboriginal struggles against continued oppression and genocide of Aboriginal people. Ebel has practised as a radical existentialist psychotherapist.
Yose Rizal Damuri
Yose Rizal Damuri is Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic and Economic Studies (CSIS) Indonesia.
Ziyad Motala
Ziyad Motala is a Professor of law at Howard University School of Law and the former Director of the Comparative and International Law Program conducted at the University of Western Cape since 1995. He served as an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Western Cape School Of Law in South Africa. Prior to his teaching at Howard, he also taught at Northwestern Law School as an Adjunct Law Professor and a visiting Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Motala is a native of Durban, South Africa, and was active in the struggle for liberation in South Africa.
Xinlu Liang
Reporter, China Xinlu Liang joined the Post as a Graduate Trainee in 2021. Previously, she wrote obituaries for lives lost in California as a Covid-19 reporting intern at the Los Angeles Times and interned at Reuters Shenzhen Newsroom. She graduated with a Master’s in journalism from University of Southern California and a Bachelor’s in English from Sun Yat-sen University.
Alicia Vrajlal
Founder @drawyourbox . Editorial & Partnerships Lead @missingperspectives . Former Senior Culture Editor @refinery29au and Editor @huffpostau
Quinta Jurecic
Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare’s managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.
Andrew Dodd
Andrew has been a journalist for over twenty-five years, working in radio, TV, print and on-line. He has worked with ABC radio and television, Radio Netherlands and numerous other publications. He was a media and business writer with The Australian and a broadcaster with ABC Radio National, where he presented many of the network’s programs and founded the Media Report. He was also a media writer for crikey.com.au.
Ray McGovern
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. His 27 years as a CIA analyst included leading the Soviet Foreign Policy Branch and conducting the morning briefings of the President’s Daily Brief. In retirement he co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
Toan Nguyen
Toan Nguyen is Research Fellow at the Development Policy Centre, The Australian National University, and lecturer at the School of Business and Public Policy, The University of Papua New Guinea.
Owen Podger
Owen Podger is an Australian living in Indonesia. Since March 1998 when Soeharto was elected for the final time, he has concentrated on assisting Indonesian reforms , mainly in two areas: (1) policies to improve performance of government in Indonesia’s new democratic and decentralised system, and (2) sustainable urbanisation considering climate change and disasters.
Oliver Yates
Oliver Yates was the inaugural CEO of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (2012-2017) and is now the country head of Gaw Capital.
Ann Villiers
Dr Ann Villiers is a career coach and advocate for increasing the accuracy of skills language. Ann is a Life Member of the Career Development Association Australia (CDAA).
Terry O’Leary
Terry O’Leary worked at Garden Island Dockyard as Technical Officer Electronics & Communications in 1970s, then Hardware Engineer in IT industry and then Laboratory Manager. Served 6 years Army Reserve in 1970s & 1980s. Completed part time Applied Science Degree followed by Master of Applied Science.
Moved to Canberra in 1990 to work in Defence as an Analyst. Then worked as Senior Professional Officer for DSTO in Navy Office. Attended Joint Services Staff College and completed Master Degree at ADFA UNSW Campus in Management. Worked in Defence Project Managment and left Defence to teach at Canberra Institute of Technology till retirement.
Aditya Joshi
Dr. Aditya Joshi is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He specialises in foundational and applied natural language processing (NLP): the field of artificial intelligence that has given us large language models. His research has been published in leading AI/NLP research venues such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, WWW, etc. Since receiving his PhD in 2018, he has worked as a data scientist at SEEK, a machine learning engineer at Notiv and a postdoctoral fellow at CSIRO’s Data61.
Neryssa Azlan
Neryssa Azlan worked as a digital producer with ABC News Digital since 2018 and is currently a social media producer for ABC’s Q+A and ABC News. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and a Masters degree in International Relations. You can follow her on Twitter: @NeryssaAzlan
John Coulter
John Coulter has been active in a range of environmental causes and organisations since the mid-1950s. He was a medical research scientist for over 20 years, became a Democrat Senator for South Australia in 1987. He was leader of the Australian Democrats 1991-93.
Michael John Paton
Dr Michael Paton is an associate of the Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Sydney. He was previously the Teaching Quality Fellow in the Faculty of Economics and Business, co-founder of the research group Sustainable Management of Organisations Group (SMOG), and Vice President (Asia) of the Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science.
Gerard Gill
Gerard Gill is a postdoctoral researcher in Australia focusing on violent extremism, particularly the far right and conspiracism.
Winston Mok
Winston Mok, a private investor, was previously a private equity investor. He held senior regional positions with EMP Global and GE Capital, and was a McKinsey consultant and initiated its China practice. Winston obtained his bachelor and master degrees from MIT.
Ryan Edwards
Ryan Edwards is Deputy Director of the Development Policy Centre, The Australian National University.
Milad Haghani
Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
A/Prof Milad Haghani is a Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and the Geospatial Transport Planning Lead at the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration (CSDILA). He is a former Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow (2021-2024).
Mona Ali Khalil
Mona Ali Khalil is an internationally recognised public international lawyer with 30 years of UN and other experience, including as a former senior legal officer in the UN and the IAEA, with expertise in peacekeeping, peace enforcement, disarmament and counterterrorism. She holds a B.A. and an M.A. in international relations from Harvard University and a master’s in foreign service and a J.D. from Georgetown University.