Dr Elizabeth Buchanan is a senior fellow with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. She is an Australian polar geopolitics expert. Most recently she was Head of Research for the Royal Australian Navy’s Sea Power Centre (Department of Defence).

Dr Buchanan is co-director and co-founder of polar warfare studies at the Modern War Institute of the West Point Military Academy and an Expert Associate of the National Security College at the Australian National University. Before joining Defence, Dr Buchanan was Lecturer of Strategic Studies for the Defence and Strategic Studies Course at the Australian War College. Elizabeth holds a Ph.D. in Russian Arctic Strategy and completed her post-doctoral studies as a Maritime Fellow at the NATO Defense College in Rome. She has published widely on geopolitics most recently with Australian Foreign Affairs, International Affairs, The National Interest, War on the Rocks, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The Australian, The American Conservative.

Dr Buchanan has been a Visiting Scholar with The Brookings Institution and was an analyst with Royal Dutch Shell. Elizabeth has two published books: Russian Energy Strategy in Asia and Red Arctic: Russian Arctic Strategy under Putin. Books forthcoming are: How to Lose a Continent and Competitive Cooperation at the Ends of the Earth (with Yale University Press).