Rod Lyon

Dr Rod Lyon is the Program Director, Strategy and International, with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

"Rod was most recently a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Queensland where he taught courses on conflict, international security, and civil-military relations. His research interests focus on a range of problems associated with global security, nuclear strategy and Australian security. He previously worked in the Strategic Analysis Branch of the Office of National Assessments between 1985 and 1996. As a Fulbright scholar in 2004, he was a visiting research fellow at Georgetown University in Washington DC, researching a project on the future of security partnerships in the post-September 11 environment. He was appointed to the National Consultative Committee on International Security Issues in April 2005. He also authored ASPI STRATEGY report Alliance Unleashed: Australia and the US in a new strategic age which was released in June 2005."