Explainer Series

How does disinformation fit into strategic competition?

May 2025

Alana Ford
Senior Research and Program Fellow, Perth USAsia Centre

Alana leads the Centre’s work on critical and emerging issues, with a particular focus on cyber and tech policy. She brings to the role extensive experience working on these issues for the Commonwealth Government in Australia and internationally, as well as passion for driving social impact and policy change at the intersection of technology and society.

Prior to joining the Perth USAsia Centre, Alana served as the Attorney General Department’s representative to the United States in Washington D.C. In this role, she led the Australian Government’s efforts to address online harms and criminal exploitation of technology, as well as other high profile national security, law enforcement and criminal justice matters.