2023 Committee Members

Organising Executive

Dr. Daniel McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Director of the Master of International Relations program at the University of Melbourne. He was previously Fellow in Global Politics in the Department of Government, London School of Economics, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sussex, and Lecturer in Security Studies in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University.

Professor Robyn Eckersley

Robyn Eckersley is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor in the Discipline of Political Science, School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia since 2007. She has published widely in the fields of environmental politics, political theory and international relations with a special focus on the ethics, politics and governance of climate change.

Associate Professor Terry MacDonald

Terry Macdonald is an Associate Professor in International Relations. Her previous employment has included the positions of Junior Research Fellow and Lecturer at Merton College, Oxford University, and Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), ANU.

Dr. Sara Meger

Sara Meger is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences, where she teaches international security and gender in international relations. Previously, she held the position of Assistant Professor in Gender Studies at Central European University.

Dr. Carla Winston

Carla Winston is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at The University of Melbourne. She has previously taught at the University of Victoria (Canada) and the University of British Columbia.

Advisory Committee


Professor Michele Acuto

Director, Melbourne Centre for Cities

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne


Dr Dara Conduit

ARC DECRA Fellow

School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne


Professor Andrew Rosser

Deputy Director, Asia Institute

Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne


Associate Professor Maria Rost Rublee

School of Social Sciences, Monash University


Professor Nicola Phillips

Provost, University of Melbourne


Professor Michael Wesley

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International), University of Melbourne


Associate Professor Jasmine Kim-Westendorf

ARC DECRA Fellow

Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University


Mr Aron Whillans

Regional Business Bank Executive, NAB