Chairman of med-tech company 61medical, Former state minister for Science, IT, Innovation and the Arts

Vicky Xu is a writer, journalist, researcher, and comedian.

Previously she was with Australian Broadcasting Corp, the New York Times, and later the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. In 2020, she published report Uyghurs for Sale, a collaboration with the Washington Post.

Xu is currently taking a media and social media break to write her memoir, You’re So Brave, to be published by Allen & Unwin in Australia. She has voluntarily deactivated her Twitter account in an attempt to stay focused on writing.

I am a political economist with diverse research interests, traversing the fields of security, development and aid, governance, political geography and international relations. I am particularly interested in understanding the evolving nature of statehood and political agency under conditions of globalisation. My work focuses on Asia and the Pacific.

I have written extensively on rising powers (specifically China), security governance, statebuilding, non-traditional security, risk and risk management, regional governance and Australian development and security policy. I was recently awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2021-25) to examine emerging competition over international development financing projects in Asia and the Pacific.

My latest book, co-authored with Dr Lee Jones, is Fractured China: How State Transformation is Shaping China's Rise, out in 2021 with Cambridge University Press. My other books include International Intervention and Local Politics (Cambridge University, 2017), Governing Borderless Threats: Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and Regulating Statehood (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

I am also co-editor of the all-new fourth edition of The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Uneven Development Under Hyper Globalisation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). I received my PhD from the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University in 2009. I tweet @ShaharHameiri.

Sarah Percy arrived at UQ from the University of Western Australia in 2016. Prior to her appointment at UWA, Sarah was University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford (Merton College). At Oxford, Sarah was on the steering committee of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War. Sarah did her M.Phil and D.Phil as a Commonwealth Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford.

Sarah has three main research areas. She has had a long-standing interest in unconventional combatants, and has published widely on mercenaries, private military companies, and pirates. Sarah is interested in issues of maritime security generally, including piracy and counter-piracy, maritime crime, and the role of navies as security actors. She also conducts research at the nexus between international relations and international law, and is interested in how and why the use of force is regulated, and the relationship between norms and international law.

Partnerships Director at China Policy

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