Anne-Marie Brady is a specialist of Chinese politics (domestic politics and foreign policy), polar politics, China-Pacific politics, and New Zealand foreign policy, and is a professor at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She is the founding and executive editor of The Polar Journal, a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington, D.C., and a Senior Fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. She has published ten books and more than 50 scholarly papers.