Hayley Channer

Hayley Channer has been the senior policy fellow at the Perth USAsia Centre since January 2021. She produces analysis on foreign and defence policy in the Indo-Pacific, engages with key Australian Government agencies and other policy stakeholders, and builds and sustains the centre’s domestic and international network.

Ms Channer led a diverse career across government, thinktanks and the not-for-profit sector. She had worked for the Department of Defence producing strategic policy guidance on defence capabilities and international engagement with the US and Japan.

Ms Channer has also published strategic policy analysis on Northeast Asia and US policy in the Indo-Pacific for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, and a Visiting Fellow with the East West Centre in Washington DC.

She has also spent time as an assistant advisor to former Minister for Defence and led government relations for Australia’s largest non-profit organisation, World Vision.

Ms Channer is active across the Canberra community having co-founded the Women in Defence and Security Network (WDSN), contributed to the Australia-Japan Youth Dialogue, and volunteered with the RSPCA ACT.

In 2019, Ms Channer was selected to participate in the US State Department’s prestigious International Visitor Leadership Program. She is an Australia-America Young Leadership Dialogue Alumni and is under consideration for a 2021/22 Fulbright Scholarship.

Ms Channer holds a Master of International Relations from the University of Queensland, and a Certificate in Public Policy from the London School of Economics.