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Professor Hugh White is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Australian National University and a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. His work focuses primarily on Australian strategic and defense policy, Asia-Pacific strategic issues, and global strategic affairs as they affect Australia. He has worked on these issues for almost thirty years, as an intelligence analyst with the Office of National Assessments, as a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald, as a personal adviser to Defense Minister Kim Beazley and Prime Minister Bob Hawke, as a senior public servant, and as a policy scholar and academic. From 1995 to 2000 he was Deputy Secretary for Strategy and Intelligence in the Department of Defense, and was the principal author of the 2000 Defense White Paper. From 2001-2004 he was the first Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI). In the 1970s he studied philosophy at Melbourne and Oxford Universities. His email address: Hugh.white@anu.edu.au |
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