Meredith Thatcher, BA, MA(Hons.) (Waikato)
Publications Manager and Information Officer, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

Email: meredith.thatcher@anu.edu.au

Meredith is the Publications Manager and Series Editor for the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre's Publication Program (Canberra Papers in Strategy and Defence, and SDSC Working Papers). She is also the Centre's Research Assistant/Information Officer and Librarian.

Educated in New Zealand, Meredith received her BA and MA(Hons.) from Waikato University, where she studied languages, politics and military history. The focus of her two research papers were diplomatic and trade relations between New Zealand and Singapore; and the importance of cryptography to the Allied victory in the War in the Pacific.

She then gained a range of in-house and external certificates working in a variety of roles within New Zealand legal firms (including word processing, human resource, marketing, executive assistant, and management), before moving to Canberra in 2002 and joining the team at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.

A member of the Canberra Society of Editors with her own editing business, Meredith is currently studying towards two diplomas, one in publishing and the other in freelance journalism.

She is the coeditor (with Dr Coral Bell) of Remembering Hedley (ANU E Press, The Australian National University, Canberra, August 2008); coeditor (with Ron Huisken) of History as Policy: Framing the debate on the future of Australia's defence policy (ANU E Press, The Australian National University, Canberra, December 2007); and coeditor (with Desmond Ball) of Essays Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) (Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra, August 2006). In addition, she is a contributor (with Desmond Ball and Cliff Lord) to Invaluable Service: New Zealand's Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) activities during the Second World War, to be published in 2009.