Professor Anne-Marie Brady FRSNZ is a specialist on Chinese Communist Party politics, polar politics, and New Zealand foreign policy. A fluent Mandarin speaker, she is founding and executive editor of The Polar Journal (Taylor & Francis). She has published ten books and more than fifty sole-authored scholarly papers, along with over sixty op-eds for newspapers including the New York Times, The Guardian, The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, Financial Times, and The Diplomat.
In addition to her role at the University of Canterbury, Professor Brady holds several honorary positions. She was a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, from 2014 to 2025, and in 2014 was appointed to a two-year term on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Arctic. She also serves as an advisor to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC).