Pop-up event: Recent developments in Myanmar

The Australian Institute for International Affairs Western Australia, in collaboration with Curtin University and the Sir Walter Murdoch School of Public Policy and International Affairs, is hosting a discussion on Recent Developments in Myanmar to be presented by Professor Ben Reilly and Elliot Brennan

This event is free but please register by clicking the 'Buy Tickets' button.

About the presenters:

Professor Benjamin Reilly

Professor Benjamin Reilly is Dean of the Sir Walter Murdoch School of Public Policy and International Affairs at Murdoch University. He is a political scientist specialising in democratisation, comparative politics and political development. Formerly Professor of Political Science, head of the Policy and Governance program and Director of the Centre for Democratic Institutions in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University (ANU), Professor Reilly has also worked with the Australian government, the United Nations and other international organisations, and held visiting appointments at Harvard, Oxford, and Johns Hopkins universities. He has authored or edited seven books and over 100 scholarly papers, and received financial support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the United States Institute of Peace, the East-West Centre, the National Endowment for Democracy and the Australian Research Council. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the ANU.

Elliot Brennan

Elliot Brennan is a non-resident research fellow with the Institute for Security and Development Policy (Sweden). He previously worked as the Southeast Asia Analyst for the Lowy Institute’s Interpreter (Australia), a contributor analyst at IHS Jane’s Intelligence, and as a non-resident WSD-Handa fellow with CSIS’ Pacific Forum (USA). In 2015 and 2016 he worked with the Ceasefire Negotiation and Implementation Program at the Myanmar Peace Center and with the Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee as Conflict Analyst and Early Warning Specialist, Myanmar. In recent years, Elliot has led policy planning workshops with the German Foreign Office, acted as advisor to the former prime minister of Somalia, lectured at SIPRI, Yangon University and Otago Foreign Policy School, and has been a panelist at conferences such as the German Marshal Fund’s India Trilateral Forum.

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