George Carter

About

George Carter is a Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Head of the Department of Pacific Affairs, at The Australian National University (ANU). He is also the Director of the ANU Pacific Institute - a network hub of over 200 scholars that are from or specialize on research, teaching and training on the Pacific - promoting Pacific Studies at the university. His research and teaching interests sits at the interplay and intersection of International Politics, Climate Change, Security and Aerospace. With a focus on small Powers, Small Islands Developing States, Pacific Island states and Peoples he explores is interested in their strategic agency in multilateralism (climate change negotiations) regionalism (Pacific regional and sub-regional) climate security, climate knowledge (traditional and indigenous), gender and education, foreign policymaking and geopolitical security interests, indigenous Oceanic diplomacy, non-Western theories and Pacific diaspora politics. He lectures postgraduate and undergraduate courses and supervises PhD and Masters research in international relations, politics, diplomatic studies, security, environment and climate change, policy, cross-cultural communication, and Pacific studies. Moreover he has led and designed executive courses for policy and military officials, leaders, training for climate negotiators, and co-learning with local and indigenous peoples in Australia. and across the Pacific region. He attained his PhD from ANU, having completed a Masters of Arts in International Relations with Honours, and a Masters of Diplomacy as an Australian Awards scholar. Subsequently he received the Prime Minister’s Australia Pacific Award and the SSGM/DPA Pacific Scholarship for his doctoral studies. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Pacific Studies from Victoria University of Wellington. Prior coming to Australia for studies, he was the Political Advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Apia. George’s research and teaching interests are informed by his education, work experience in the Pacific and upbringing through his proud Samoan Tuvaluan, i-Kiribati, Chinese, British ancestry. He serves his family and village in Samoa, where he holds the matai high chief title of Sala.