Dr Ross Babbage AM is CEO of Strategic Forum Ltd, a not-for-profit organisation committed to fostering high-level discussions on the security challenges confronting Australia and its allies. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington, DC.

Ross served for 16 years in the Australian Public Service holding several senior positions in the Department of Defence and the Office of National Assessments. He has also worked at senior levels of the corporate sector and as Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. In addition, he served on the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London for a maximum six-year term.

His latest book is The Next Major War: Can the US and Its Allies Win against China? (Cambria Press, New York, 2023).