John Hemmings is Senior Advisor at the Pacific Forum and a Deputy Director for Geopolitics at the Council on Geostrategy. He specializes in alliances and strategic competition, with a particular focus on the Indo-Pacific, Japan, AUKUS, the FVEY, NATO, and other security groupings. Prior to assuming this role, Dr Hemmings worked at the US Department of Defense regional center, the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, where he led efforts on defense industry, lectured on geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region and on occasion provided briefings for Special Operations Command Pacific, US Pacific Fleet, and US Indo-Pacific Command. In the UK, he has given evidence to two separate Parliamentary UK Defence Committee inquiries on the Indo-Pacific and provided bespoke briefings across the UK government – to include the Cabinet office, the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office, and Ministry of Defence. His analysis and commentary have featured on various media, including the BBC, the Financial Times, Fox News, CNN, and the Telegraph newspaper. His research has been published by various policy and academic journals. He gained his PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics in 2017.

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Dr Euan Graham joined ASPI as a Senior Analyst in July 2023. During his career, Euan has developed a deep knowledge of Australia’s regional security environment, working for think tanks in Australia, Singapore and the UK, where he previously worked for the British foreign office, including time on the ground in North Korea and Southeast Asia. Before joining ASPI, Euan was based in Singapore, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, where he was closely involved in organising the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual summit of defence ministers from across the Indo-Pacific region.

He has published extensively, on a broad range of defence and security topics, including as a regular contributor for The Strategist since 2013. He has published two solo-authored books: Japan’s Sea Lane Security 1940–2004: A Matter of Life and Death? (2005) and Australia’s Security in China’s Shadow (2023).

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Dr Ian Storey is Senior Fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore. He specializes in regional security issues with a focus on Southeast Asia’s relations with the major powers and maritime security, especially the South China Sea dispute. Since joining ISEAS in 2007 he has been the chief editor of the academic journal Contemporary Southeast Asia. Prior to ISEAS, Ian held academic positions at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Hawaii, and at Deakin University, Australia. Ian received his PhD from the City University of Hong Kong, his Masters degree from the International University of Japan and his BA (Hons) from the University of Hull, England. He is the author of Putin’s Russia and Southeast Asia: The Kremlin’s Pivot to Asia and the Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War (2025) and Southeast Asia and the Rise of China: The Search for Security (2011).

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Bill Hayton is an Associate Fellow with the Asia-Pacific programme at Chatham House and the editor of the academic journal ‘Asian Affairs’. He is the author of four books on Asia including The South China Sea: the struggle for power in Asia and The Invention of China. Bill worked for the BBC for 22 years until January 2021. He was the BBC’s reporter in Vietnam in 2006-7 and was seconded to the public broadcaster in Myanmar in 2013-14. In 2019 he received his PhD from the University of Cambridge for work on the history and development of the South China Sea disputes. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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