Laura Brisbane

Laura is an international lawyer and foreign policy adviser at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, specializing in global peace and security issues. She served overseas at Australia’s Permanent Mission to the African Union in Addis Ababa, with accreditation to Ethiopia, South Sudan and Djibouti. More recently, she was a civilian policy advisor at NATO’s Resolute Support military mission in Afghanistan, supporting NATO’s engagement on the Afghan peace process. She also has extensive experience working on regional and maritime security challenges in the Indo-Pacific including the South China Sea. Ms Brisbane currently works on human rights and gender issues as First Secretary at Australia’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York.