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Caroline Wang is a Climate Energy Finance China energy policy analyst. She visited Shanghai in June as part of the Empowering Emerging Leaders in Clean Energy (ELICE) exchange program funded by the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations (NFACR) and facilitated by the UNSW School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering in partnership with the Yangtze Institute for Solar Technology (YIST). 

Michael de Percy is a political scientist and political commentator at the University of Canberra. He is a graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon and a member of the Australian Nuclear Association. He was appointed to the College of Experts at the Australian Research Council in 2022.

Dr. Stephen Nagy is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the International Christian University, specializing in Indo-Pacific geopolitics and great power competition. He is serving as a Visiting Fellow for the Hungarian Institute for International Affairs (HIIA) June 13th, -August 30th, 2025. Concurrently, he holds strategic appointments as Senior Fellow at the MacDonald Laurier Institute, Research Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, and Visiting Fellow at the Japan Institute for International Affairs. His expertise is further recognized through affiliations with the Institute for Security and Development Policy, the East Asia Security Centre, and the Research Institute for Peace and Security. From 2017-2020, he served as Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation and is currently senior fellow. He serves as the director of policy studies for the Yokosuka Council of Asia Pacific Studies (YCAPS), spearheading their Indo-Pacific Policy Dialogue series. He is currently working on middle-power approaches to great-power competition in the Indo-Pacific. The tentative title for his forthcoming monograph is "Navigating U.S. China Strategic Competition: Japan as an International Adapter Middle Power." His latest publications include: Nagy, S.R. and Indu Saxena. 2024. Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific Construct. Nova Science Publishers; Nagy, Stephen and Thomas Murphy, 2024. “Middle Power Cyber Security Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific: An Analysis Through the Lens of Neo-Middle Power Diplomacy,” in The Journal of Intelligence, Conflict, and Warfare, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024), pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.21810/jicw.v7i1.6454 ISSN 2561-8229;  Nagy, Stephen and Nanae Balduff.  Reboot, Continuity, or Adaptation? Making Sense of Japan’s FOIP Vision Update in the Context of China and Taiwan. Chinese Political Science Review 78(2024/12), pp.77-121 (Collaboration) 2024/12; Nagy, Stephen R. and Linh Ha, 2024, "Indo-Pacific Connector? Japan’s Role in Bridging ASEAN and the Quad," in The Journal of East Asian Affairs. Institute for National Security Strategies (INSS), Vol. 37., Issue 1, Spring/ Summer. pp.125-160; Nagy, S.R. “Middle-Power Alignment in the Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Securing Agency through Neo-Middle-Power Diplomacy,” Asia Policy 17, no. 3, 2022; “US-China Strategic Competition and Converging Middle Power Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific,” Strategic Analysis 46, no. 3, 2022; “Sino-Japanese Reactive Diplomacy as Seen Through the Interplay of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision (FOIP),” China Report, 2021: 1–15.

John Menadue AO FAIIA is an Australian businessman and public commentator, and formerly a senior public servant and diplomat. In 2009, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Adelaide in recognition of his significant and lifelong contribution to Australian society as a Public Servant, Diplomat, Critical Thinker, Board Director, Advisor and Public Commentator. In 2018 he was recognised as a Fellow of AIIA.