Jonathan Pryke
Pacific economic development; Australia-Melanesia relations; Australian foreign aid and the Pacific
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Jonathan Pryke is a former Director of the Lowy Institute’s Pacific Islands Program. Jonathan’s research is interested in all aspects of the Pacific Islands, including economic development in the Pacific Islands region, Australia’s relationship with the Pacific, the role of aid and the private sector in Pacific Islands development and Pacific labour mobility. Jonathan joined the Lowy Institute in 2015 from the Development Policy Centre at the Australian National University where he was a researcher, editor of the Development Policy Blog and a co-convener of the Australasian Aid Conference. Jonathan holds a Bachelor of Commerce from The University of Sydney, a Masters of Public Policy (Development Policy), Masters of Diplomacy and Graduate Diploma in International and Development Economics from the Australian National University.
![The case for a foreign aid tsar](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/29354906328_4e12965ba8_k-min.jpg?itok=07dyaKvW)
![Aid links: political change and adjustment, more](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/10663826915_82b5cc7665_o.jpg?itok=OLzYQjcV)
![China's Pacific push has helped us: it has forced us to lift our game](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2022-06/Lowy%20default.png?itok=88wn4Fy7)
![Shining more light on aid in the Pacific](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/samoa%20ute.jpg?itok=jsuFWy84)
![The new US–Japan–Australia infrastructure fund](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/28293527878_d7018c02b7_k-min.jpg?itok=F_OvhdDU)
![Submission to the inquiry into the strategic effectiveness and outcomes of Australia’s aid program in the Indo-Pacific](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2022-06/Lowy%20default.png?itok=88wn4Fy7)
![Australia must tread carefully in its Pacific contest with China](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2022-06/Lowy%20default.png?itok=88wn4Fy7)
![Australia's Seasonal Workers Program a win for Pacific Islanders, too](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/2022-06/Lowy%20default.png?itok=88wn4Fy7)
![Budget 2018: an aid increase by definition, not design](https://www.lowyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/styles/expert_publications/public/17024698145_98d5f824f9_kmini.jpg?itok=fxDgq4OP)