Anne-Marie Brady
Anne-Marie Sharon Brady FRSNZ (born 1966) is a New Zealand academic and Professor of Political Science at the University of Canterbury.[1] She specialises in Chinese domestic and foreign politics,[2][3] Antarctic and Arctic politics, Pacific politics, and New Zealand Foreign Policy.[4]
Anne-Marie Brady
1966 (age 57–58)
New Zealand
Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Chinese politics
Antarctic politics
New Zealand Foreign policy
Pacific politics
Brady is the first female political scientist to be elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of New Zealand, Te ApÄrangi.[5]
Her research on Antarctic politics, China's polar interests, and the Chinese Communist Party's domestic and foreign policy, in particular, foreign interference activities, has been a catalyst contributing to policy adjustments by governments of the US, to New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Canada, and the EU.[6]
Education[edit]
Brady earned her Bachelor's of Arts (B.A.) in Chinese and Political Studies from the University of Auckland in 1989.[7] She then earned her Masters of Asian Studies; Chinese and Political Studies with First Class Honours at the University of Auckland in 1994.[7] She earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in East Asian Studies: International Relations at the Australian National University in 2000[7] with a thesis titled Making the foreign serve China: managing foreigners in the People's Republic of China. In 2009, Brady earned a Post-Graduate Certificate in Antarctic Studies with Distinction at the University of Canterbury. Brady is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.[7]
Views and positions[edit]
New Zealand's trade with China[edit]
In early July 2021, Brady urged New Zealand to diversify its foreign and trade policies at the 55th University of Otago Foreign Policy School in Dunedin. Brady expressed concern about the country's trade dependence on China, stating that "New Zealand is strategically dependent on China and its imports for 530 categories of goods and 144 have applications in critical national infrastructure." She urged the New Zealand Government to use the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to diversify its international trade.[46]
Personal life[edit]
Brady grew up in a not well off West Auckland family in the 1970s. She said she did not put much effort into school.[48]
Brady met her husband when at a Beijing university in the mid-1990s; he was a member of the avant-guard Yuanmingyuan artists' colony which was eventually razed to the ground. They have three children.[48]