Dr Rodger Shanahan

Dr Rodger Shanahan was the Chief of Army Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy and is now a non-resident Fellow at the Institute, and an Army Reserve Fellow at the Land Warfare Studies Centre. In the Army he had extensive service within the Parachute Battalion Group (PBG) and served as a UN Military Observer in South Lebanon and Syria, as a battery commander with the PBG in East Timor in 1999, as the Military Liaison Officer in Beirut during evacuation operations from Lebanon in 2006, and deployed as an operational inquiry officer to Afghanistan twice during 2009. He also served in Australian embassies in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi.

Dr Shanahan has Masters degrees in International Relations and Middle East and Central Asian Studies from the ANU, and a PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies from the University of Sydney.

Dr Rodger Shanahan will be presenting the sessions Iran & the Region and Iran & the West as part of the course Iran: Opportunities & Threats.