Anne-Marie Brady, BA, MA Auckland, PhD ANU is a specialist in Chinese and polar politics based at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. She is a fluent Mandarin speaker, who specializes in Chinese and polar politics.

She is a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and editor-in-chief of The Polar Journal, and has written nine books, including Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China, The Emerging Politics of Antarctica, and her latest, China as a Polar Great Power. She has wrriten over forty scholarly articles on topics ranging from China’s modern propaganda system, foreigner-management in China and competing foreign policy interests in Antarctica. Her latest monograph examines China’s polar policies.

Fun fact: In 2007, she wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about her husband’s rather eventful trip to buy a carton of cigarettes.