Aaron Magunna

Aaron Magunna is an Associate Research Fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre and a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland. He is also a Research Associate at the Second Cold War Observatory and an Associate Fellow at the University of Tokyo’s Economic Security Intelligence Lab. His research focuses primarily on how India and Japan respond to China–US competition by adapting their development financing and economic security policies. 

Aaron holds a Bachelor’s degree in American Studies and a Master’s in International Relations from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and worked in the think tank sector before re-entering academia.

His research has been published in outlets such as Third World Quarterly, the Australian Journal of International Affairs, the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, the Lowy Institute’s Interpreter, and the Australian National University’s East Asia Forum.