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• Biography/ Background

  Joanne Wallis is Professor of International Security in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Adelaide.

  Joanne is the author or editor of seven books, including Constitution making during State building (CUP 2014) and Pacific Power? Australia’s Strategy in the Pacific Islands (MUP 2017).

  Joanne is the chief investigator of the Regional Perspectives Project with researchers based in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. It is funded under a collaborative research agreement with the Australian Defence, Science and Technology Group.

  She is also the chief investigator of a Defence Strategic Policy Grant analysing the potential of a networked security architecture in the Pacific Islands, and of another Defence Strategic Policy Grant analysing how tools of statecraft are used in the Pacific Islands region.

  Finally, she is chief investigator of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project analysing the operation of the Australia-New Zealand alliance in the Pacific Islands. 

  Joanne is on the editorial boards of the , , and , and the international editorial board of . She was previously on the editorial advisory committee of . Between 2019 and 2021 she was an Associate Editor of Peacebuilding.

  Joanne is Research Program Director of the Security in the Pacific Islands program at the Stretton Institute for Public Policy. She is a member of the Advisory Group of (the Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy, and Defence Dialogue). She has been a visiting scholar at the Australian Civil Military Centre and regularly briefs government agencies, appears before parliamentary committees, and participates in international strategic dialogues. 

  Joanne completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge as a Poynton Cambridge Australia scholar. Joanne then spent more than eight years in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. She has also completed Masters degrees in Arts and Law at the University of Melbourne and prior to that was a lawyer at Allens Arthur Robinson (now Allens Linklaters). She is admitted as a barrister and solicitor in the Supreme Court of Victoria and High Court of Australia. 

  Joanne has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Walker Institute of International and Area Studies at the University of South Carolina; a Visiting Scholar at the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project at the Australian National University; an Honorary Fellow of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne; and a Visiting Scholar the East-West Center in Honolulu.

  Joanne has also taught on Australia’s strategic and foreign policy at the Australian War College, and in professional education programs for the Department of Defence, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Department of Home Affairs. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was awarded the ANU Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, and has received a National Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

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Entry last updated: Friday, 12 Aug 2022

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