Biography

Dr Michael Fullilove is the Director of the Global Issues Program at the Lowy Institute for International Policy and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.

Previously, Michael worked as a lawyer, an adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating, and a consultant to Frank Lowy AC on the establishment of the Lowy Institute. Michael graduated in international relations and law from the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales, with dual university medals. He also studied as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he took a master's degree in international relations and wrote his doctorate on Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy. His dissertation was awarded the annual prize for the best international history thesis in Britain.

Michael has published well over one hundred articles in publications including The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, Slate, The Daily Beast, the Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, the Australian Financial Review, The National Interest and Foreign Affairs. Michael has been quoted in publications such as the Yomiuri Shimbun, the South China Morning Post, The Observer, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Newsweek and The Economist, and he is a frequent commentator for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Michael's first book, 'Men and Women of Australia!' Our Greatest Modern Speeches, was published by Vintage. His next book, on the Second World War, will be published by The Penguin Press.

Research interests:

Australian foreign policy; US foreign policy; diasporas and the international system; the United Nations; state-building; international law; human rights; speech-making.

Key recent publications:

Send the envoy: Obama's diplomatic posse. Foreignaffairs.com, 12 March 2009.

President of the world. Australian Literary Review, 4 February 2009, p. 10

Obama's biggest speech yet. Foreignpolicy.com, January 2009.

Mr. Obama's first trip. The New York Times, 15 December 2008, p. 35.

Hope or glory? The presidential election, US foreign policy and Australia. Lowy Institute Analysis, October 2008.

Il neonazionalismo della diaspora. Aspenia, Number 41, 2008, pp. 125-129.

World wide webs: Diasporas and the international system. Lowy Institute Paper 22.

Angel or dragon? China and the United Nations. The National Interest, Number 85, September/October 2006, pp. 67-71.

'Men and Women of Australia!' Our Greatest Modern Speeches. Vintage, 2005.

All the presidents' men: The role of special envoys in U.S. foreign policy. Foreign Affairs, Volume 84, Number 2, March/April 2005, pp. 13-18.

Diaspora: The world wide web of Australians. Lowy Institute Paper 04.