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Wesley Morgan
Senior Researcher at the Climate CouncilDr Wesley Morgan is a senior researcher at the Climate Council, created by former members of the Climate Commission after it was abolished by the Abbott government in 2013. He is also a research fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute. He has a PhD in international relations from the University of Melbourne, and has written widely on multilateral cooperation on climate change.
He has over a decade’s experience in the Pacific islands, where he worked as Pacific Policy Advisor with Oxfam and taught postgraduate courses in diplomacy at the University of the South Pacific. At the Climate Council, his research considers the impacts of climate change on Australia and our region and the international context for Australian climate policy. His research considers the ways countries work together at the UN to tackle climate change and integrate climate change into their foreign policy and national security strategies. He describes Australia as a global climate laggard, in contrast to the Pacific global climate leadership.