Fergus Hanson currently director of the international Cyber Policy Centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and the author of Internet Wars and has published widely on a range of cyber and foreign policy topics.
He was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Professional Fulbright Scholar based at Georgetown University working on the uptake of new technologies by the US government. He has worked for the UN, as a Program Director at the Lowy Institute and served as a diplomat at the Australian Embassy in The Hague. He was also a Fellow at Cambridge University’s Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law and the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Pacific Forum.