Cleo Paskal is a Research Fellow at the Future Security Initiative, Arizona State University, Senior Fellow for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council and Senior Fellow at Usanas Foundation. She is on the International Board of Advisors of the Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies and the Global Counter-Terrorism Council. She has testified before the U.S. Congress, U.K House of Lords and Canadian Parliament.
From 2006 to 2022, Paskal was an Associate Fellow at Chatham House (a.k.a. Royal Institute of International Affairs) and she led a multi-year research project based at the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM) looking at strategic shifts in the Indo-Pacific.
Paskal won more than a dozen awards for her journalism and has contributed to, among others, Naval War College Review, Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs (U.S. Air Force), Washington Examiner, Pacific Island Times, The Diplomat, The Economist, The World Today, Conde Nast Traveller, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Times, Chicago Tribune, Australian Financial Review, New Zealand Herald, The Farmer’s Almanac, Lonely Planet, and the Sunday Times. She has hosted BBC radio shows, written columns for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Post, the Toronto Star and has contributed chapters to peer-reviewed academic books. She is currently a The Sunday Guardian (India) columnist.
Expertise
- Indo-Pacific
- India
- Pacific Islands
Selected Publications
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Cleo Paskal, “Indo-Pacific strategies, perceptions and partnerships: The view from seven countries,”(Chatham House, 2021).
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Cleo Paskal, “Oceania and Canada: Building Bridges in the Free and Open Indo-Pacific,”(Canadian Global Affairs Institute, 2021). In French.
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Cleo Paskal, “How the Pacific Islands Forum Fell Apart,” (The Diplomat, 2021).
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Cleo Paskal, “From Trump to Biden Monograph: India,” (Foundation for Defense of Democracies, 2021).
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Cleo Paskal, “Protection from China’s Comprehensive National Power Requires Comprehensive National Defence,”(Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies, 2020).
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