Dr. Elsina Wainwright is a Senior Fellow in the Prevention Strategies Program at the Center on International Cooperation.  She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Centre for International Security Studies (CISS) at the University of Sydney, Australia.  Before moving to New York, she was a Visiting Fellow at the the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and a member of the Defence and National Security Advisory Council, which advises the Australian Defence Minister. 

From 2002 to 2006, she was the Strategy and International Program Director at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in Canberra.  Prior to joining ASPI, she was an associate with the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and a consultant political analyst for the International Crisis Group in Bosnia.  She studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where she completed both her Masters and Doctorate in International Relations. While at Oxford, she was a Stipendiary Lecturer in Politics at Oriel College.

Selected Publications:

• "Australia’s Solomon Islands Commitment: How is it Progressing?" The Sydney Papers, Vol. 18, No. 1, Summer 2006, pp. 181-191
• Precarious State: Afghanistan and the International and Australian Response, Australian Strategic Policy Institute Insight 23, Canberra, March 2006
• Asia: Analytical Report for the White Paper on Australia’s Aid Program (with co-author Ian Anderson), AusAID, Canberra, September 2005
• "Lektionen aus dem Sŭdpazifik" (with co-author Murray Harris), in Internationale Politik, September 2005, Nr.9, pp. 54-61
• "The South Pacific" (with co-author Benjamin Reilly), in Simon Chesterman, Michael Ignatieff and Ramesh Thakur (eds), Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance, United Nations University Press, Tokyo, 2005, pp. 122-142
• Strengthening our Neighbour: Australia and the Future of Papua New Guinea (with co-author Hugh White and contributors Ken Baxter, Rowan Callick, Andrea Cole), Australian Strategic Policy Institute Strategy Report, Canberra, December 2004
• "Responding to State Failure: The Case of Australia and Solomon Islands," Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 57, No. 3, November 2003, pp. 485-498
• New Neighbour, New Challenge: Australia and the Security of East Timor (with contributors Alan Dupont, James Fox, Ross Thomas, Hugh White), Australian Strategic Policy Institute Policy Report, Canberra, May 2002
• Bosnia: Reshaping the International Machinery (with Gareth Evans, Mark Thompson and Mark Wheeler), International Crisis Group Balkans Report No. 121, Sarajevo and Brussels, November 2001

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