Dr. Greg Brown

Dr. Greg Brown is a Senior Fellow and Director of Regional Cooperation and Coordination at ASPI USA. His prime areas of interest include Indo-Pacific geopolitics, regional perspectives of Australian and US foreign policy, and transnational and emerging security issues across the greater Pacific region.

Greg joined ASPI USA after nearly two decades of supporting research, analysis, and outreach programs for the US national security community, including developing research projects, conducting wargames and exercises, and running regional and functional boards of experts for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Intelligence Council, the Federal Foresight Community of Interest, and several divisions and mission centers for other national security community agencies.

As a subject matter expert in political demography, comparative foreign policy, and Indo-Pacific politics, Greg also has served as Adjunct Professor at the Center for Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific Studies (CANZPS) in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University since 2005. He teaches undergraduate- and graduate-level courses on strategic competition in the Pacific, migration and conflict, national identity formation and change, and comparative foreign policy. Greg also regularly serves as faculty advisor for undergraduate and Master’s capstone projects; moderates discussions for the annual Marino Family Workshop for incoming freshmen; and assists as a faculty reviewer for Truman, Marshall, and Rhodes Scholarship candidates.

Greg has served as a contracted instructor for the State Department/Foreign Service Institute’s course on Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, as a consultant for Freedom House, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (Berlin/Vienna), the Centre for East European and International Studies (Berlin), and the UN Millennium Project’s Global Challenges Program on Transnational Organized Crime; as a RICE Fellow at the East-West Center and a Research Fellow at the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne; and as an Australian National University Parliamentary Fellow in the Office of the Shadow Minister for Immigration and Multiculturalism in Canberra. His work and insights in political demography, Indo-Pacific security affairs, and comparative foreign policy have been highlighted in outlets such as the Economist, the Australian, Radio Free Asia, Breaking Defense, Voice of America, Nikkei Asia, the South China Morning Post, the Mainichi Shimbun, and the New Zealand Herald, and have been published in outlets such as the Strategist, the National Interest, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Political Science, and the Australian journal of demography People and Place.

In years past, Greg held other teaching and research appointments at Southwestern University and the University of Texas at Austin where he was an Outstanding Graduate Instructor Finalist and received his Ph.D. in Government in 2004. His family ties stretch from Manila, Melbourne, and Tokyo to Portland, Palo Alto, and Philadelphia to Copenhagen, Cape Town, and Zurich. A proud product of the American West, he is the only member of his immediate family to avoid acquiring dual citizenship.