Hugh White

Hugh White is Professor of Strategic Studies in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. He studies Australian strategic and defence policy, and the regional and global security issues affecting Australia. He has been an intelligence analyst, a journalist, a senior staffer to Kim Beazley and Bob Hawke, a senior official in the Defence Department, and the first Director of ASPI, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. His recent publications include the Quarterly Essay Power Shift: Australia's future between Washington and Beijing and The China Choice: Why America should share power.Professor White was awarded Officer of the Order of Australia in June 2014 for distinguished service to international affairs, through strategic defence studies as an analyst, academic and adviser to government, and to public administration.