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Our Alumni (old and new)


Alumni of the Department have held, and continue to hold, Chairs and Full Professorships at many of the world's major universities. Many other of their colleagues have built successful academic careers both overseas and in Australia. Outside academe many have held, and continue to hold, highly rewarding posts in the civil services of their respective countries, in a variety of international non-governmental organisations, and other vocations.

Here is a very small sample of some of our 'older' alumni:

  • J. David Armstrong, Professor of International Relations, Exeter University (United Kingdom).
  • David Campbell, Professor of Cultural & Political Geography, Department of Geography, Durham University.
  • Iftekhar Chowdhury, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.
  • Des Ball, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre ANU; Co-Chair, Council for Security Cooperation Asia Pacific.
  • Ian Clark, Professor, Department of International Politics, University of Wales (Aberystwyth).
  • Stephen Fitzgerald, Former Australian Ambassador to People's Republic of China; Head Australia-Asia Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
  • Martin Indyk, Director of Foreign Policy, Brookings Institute; former US Ambassador to Israel and Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs during the Clinton Administration.
  • Arthur Stockwin, Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies, St Antony's College, Oxford. Retired.
  • The late Professor John Vincent, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, The London School of Economics.
  • Nancy Viviani, Professor of International Relations, Griffith University. Retired.

Our more recent PhD alumni are also building successful academic, public service and non-governmental careers:

  • Andre Broome, Lecturer, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham.
  • Malcolm Cook, Asia-Pacific Program Director, Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney.
  • David Cooper, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction, National Defense University, Washington, DC.
  • Thuy Do, Course Convenor, Human Security, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University.
  • Nicole George, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland.
  • Sarah Graham, Senior Lecturer, Politics Programme, School of People, Environment & Planning, Massey University, New Zealand.
  • Beth Greener, Senior Lecturer, Politics Programme, School of People, Environment & Planning, Massey University, New Zealand.
  • Kimie Hara, Renison Research Professor in East Asian Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada.
  • Miwa Hirono, RCUK Fellow, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham.
  • Christopher Hobson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University.
  • Yang Jiang, Assistant Professor, Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School.
  • Pauline Kerr, Director of Studies, The Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, Australian National University.
  • Anthony Langlois, Associate Professor, School of Politics and International Studies, Flinders University of South Australia.
  • Alex Maroya, Assistant Director (Policy), Universities Australia, Canberra.
  • Katherine Morton, Fellow, Department of International Relations, Australian National University.
  • Gavin Mount, Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
  • Alex Munton, Research Analyst, Wood Mackenzie Ltd, Edinburgh.
  • Jacinta O'Hagan, Fellow, Department of International Relations, Australian National University.
  • Joel Quirk, RCUK Fellow, Department of Law, and Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull.
  • Shogo Suzuki, Lecturer, Politics, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester.
  • Reiko Take, AusAID, Canberra.
  • Fiona Terry, Red Cross/Red Crescent, Burma, formerly Director of Research, Medecins sans Frontieres, Geneva.