Professor Benjamin Reilly

Professor Benjamin Reilly is a Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre and leads the Centre’s National Engagement on the Future of the Alliance (NEFA) project. He was formerly Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University (ANU), the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University, where he also held Dean and Director positions.

He has also worked for the United Nations and other international organisations, held visiting appointments at Harvard, Oxford, and Johns Hopkins-SAIS, and written and advised widely on issues of democracy, institutional design and Indo-Pacific politics.

His books include Democracy in Divided Societies (CUP, 2001) and Democracy and Diversity (OUP, 2006). He holds a PhD in Political Science from the ANU.