ANU experts on the Iran-Israel conflict

The Australian National University (ANU) has experts who can comment on a range of topics surrounding the conflict in the Middle East. 

You can contact our experts via the details listed below. Alternatively, please reach out to the ANU Media team on our hotline +61 2 6125 7979 or by emailing media@anu.edu.au.

Dr Alam Saleh
ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
Expertise: Iran, Israel, Palestine, the Middle East
E: Alam.Saleh@anu.edu.au

Ian Parmeter
ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
Expertise: Israel and Iran, Israel and Palestine, Russia and the Middle East, US and the Middle East, Australian policy towards the Middle East 
E: Ian.Parmeter@anu.edu.au

Dr Anas Iqtait
ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
Expertise: Arab–Israeli conflict, Palestine and Israel, geoeconomics and Middle Eastern economies, development and post-conflict reconstruction, Islamic economics and finance
E: Anas.Iqtait@anu.edu.au

Dr Jessie Moritz
ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
Expertise: Arabian Peninsula and Gulf politics, security, economies, energy security
E: Jessie.Moritz@anu.edu.au

Professor Karima Laachir
Director, ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
Expertise: Middle East, the Arab world, North Africa 
E: Karima.Laachir@anu.edu.au

Dr Andrew Hammond
ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
Expertise: Islamic history, Islamic movements (political Islam, Saudi Salafism/Wahhabism, Yemen’s Houthis, Muslim Brotherhood, Turkish pol Islam), religious reform movements
E: Andrew.Hammond@anu.edu.au 

George Lawson
ANU School of Politics and International Relations
Expertise: Regional and global order, protest movements, great power competition and conflict
E: George.Lawson@anu.edu.au

David Leaney
ANU Research School of Management
Expertise: International supply chain management, international trade, tariffs, fuel, oil, natural gas, fertiliser, rising price of goods as a result of the war 
E: David.Leaney@anu.edu.au and david.leaney@live.com.au

Honorary Associate Professor Tony Irwin
ANU Department of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Applications
Expertise: Nuclear reactors and the nuclear fuel cycle, including enrichment technologies used in Iran
E: tonyirwin@bigpond.com

Dr Kaitlin Cook    
ANU Department of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Applications
Expertise: Nuclear science, radiation
E: Kaitlin.Cook@anu.edu.au

Jennifer Parker  
Expert Associate at ANU National Security College
Adjunct Fellow in Naval Studies at UNSW Canberra
Expertise: More than two decades in the ADF, including multiple deployments to the Middle East embedded in US Central Command
E: jennifer.a.paker@unsw.edu.au

Associate Professor Michael Cohen
ANU National Security College
Expertise: Nuclear proliferation, nuclear proliferation as a motive behind Iranian and Israeli foreign policies, the Iran-Israel conflict
E: Mike.Cohen@anu.edu.au

Charles Miller
ANU School of Politics and International Relations
Expertise: US intervention, US strategy, regime change operations, modern warfare, especially involving amphibious landings
E: Charles.Miller@anu.edu.au

David Andrews
ANU National Security College
Expertise: Australian and US politics, strategy, defence, and foreign policies, global order and international security dimensions of the US-Israel-Iran war, including what the conflict means for wider alliance strategy and posture
E: David.Andrews@anu.edu.au

Professor Donald Rothwell
ANU Law School
Expertise: All aspects of international law related to the Iran-Israel conflict, Law of the Sea, Maritime Law, Use of Force
E: Donald.Rothwell@anu.edu.au

Professor Wesley Widmaier
ANU School of Politics and International Relations
Expertise: US response to the Iran-Israel conflict, US foreign policy, US politics, stagflation
E: Wesley.Widmaier@anu.edu.au