Lowy Lecture Series: The year ahead - Michael Fullilove, Anthony Bubalo, Linda Jakobson and Mark Thirlwell
On 13 February, you are invited to the first Lowy Lecture for 2013. Lowy Institute scholars Anthony Bubalo, Linda Jakobson and Mark Thirlwell will speak on the year ahead in the Middle East and China, and the outlook for the global economy. Lowy Institute Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove will moderate the panel.
Dr Michael Fullilove is the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy.
Dr Fullilove has been associated with the Lowy Institute since its establishment. He wrote the feasibility study for the Institute in 2002 and has served as Director of its Global Issues Program since 2003. He has also worked as a Visiting Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, an adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating, and a lawyer. He remains a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings.
He writes widely on Australian foreign policy, US foreign policy and global issues in publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, The Washington Quarterly, The National Interest and Foreign Affairs, as well as the Australian press. He is a sought-after media commentator and speaker both in Australia and abroad. His new book, Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World, will be published by The Penguin Press in the United States and Australia in July 2013.
Anthony Bubalo is the Research Director at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He is also the Director of the West Asia Program covering the Middle East, Central and Southwest Asia. His research focuses on Australian policy towards West Asia and the linkages between West Asia and East Asia.
He has produced research on Islamism, democratisation, and energy security, with a particular focus on Egypt, Israel and the countries of the Gulf. He comments regularly on Middle Eastern politics for the Australian and international media outlets. He has written for The Australian, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, the Financial Times, Ha'aretz and Asahi Shimbun newspapers as well as The American Interest and ForeignPolicy.com.
Linda Jakobson is the East Asia Program Director at the Lowy Institute. Before moving to Sydney in 2011 she lived and worked in China for 20 years and published six books about China and East Asian society. A Mandarin speaker, she has published extensively on China’s foreign and security policy, the Taiwan Strait, China’s energy security, and climate change and science and technology polices.
Prior to joining the Lowy Institute, Linda served as Director of the China and Global Security Programme and Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). From 1998 to 2009 she worked for the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.
Mark Thirlwell is one of Australia’s leading commentators on the international economy. Mark has been tracking global economic trends since he joined the Bank of England’s International Divisions in 1990 where he worked as part of the Whitehall Economists Subgroup, coordinating the forecasting of major emerging markets across the Bank, Treasury, the FCO and other stakeholders. Mark subsequently joined J P Morgan as a Vice President in Economic Research with responsibility for Central Europe. Before joining Lowy, he served as Senior Economist at Australia’s Export Finance and Insurance Corporation, working on sovereign risk with a particular focus on East Asia.
