Dr Cynthia Banham is based in the Centre for International Governance and Justice at the Regulatory Institutions Network (Regnet) at the Australian National University. She has worked as a lawyer and a journalist, and has more than a decade's experience as a senior journalist working in the Canberra press gallery, covering foreign policy and defence issues for The Sydney Morning Herald. She was also a Visiting Fellow/Journalist in Residence in the ANU International Relations Department.