On 15 May, the Perth USAsia Centre hosted a foreign policy roundtable discussion on navigating cyberspace in a fractured world, featuring guest speaker Dr Chris Bronk, Fulbright Distinguished Chair.
Participants engaged in a dynamic conversation on the shifting landscape of information operations, and explored how Australia can strengthen its resilience and expand its strategic influence in an increasingly contested digital environment.
Guest speaker
Dr Chris Bronk is an associate professor with tenure, at the University of Houston Hobby School of Public Affairs. Recipient of the University of Adelaide Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cyber Information Influence, he has directed UH’s graduate cybersecurity program and is a researcher at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Bronk publishes interdisciplinary research at the intersection of technology and policy. He engages in scholarship on information power, computer security, public diplomacy, organizational information technology, and critical infrastructure protection. He previously served as both a Foreign Service Officer and Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State.
Discussion moderator
Professor Gordon Flake
Chief Executive Officer, Perth USAsia Centre
Having spent twenty-five years in the US foreign policy community focused on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia and now ten years in Australia’s Indian Ocean capital he is an expert on key strategic relationships in the broader Indo-Pacific. He has authored many scholarly and policy studies on security developments in the region, and their policy implications for the US and its regional partners. Since establishing the Centre in 2014, Professor Flake has worked to build stronger international relationships between Australia, the US and the broader Indo-Pacific. He has led the growth of several major international conferences in Australia and the region; and established a range of high-level diplomatic and policy dialogues on issues of shared concern for the Indo-Pacific.
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