Non-Resident Fellow
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. He is also an Army Reserve Fellow at the Land Warfare Studies Centre. In the Army he had extensive service within the Parachute Battalion Group (PBG) and was a staff officer in the operations and planning fields. He served as a UN Military Observer in South Lebanon and Syria, as a battery commander with the PBG in East Timor in 1999, and as the Military Liaison Officer in Beirut during the evacuation of Australian and other foreign nationals from Lebanon in 2006. He was the Assistant Defence Attache in the Australian Embassy Riyadh in 2005 and the Defence Attache in Abu Dhabi in 2006/7.
Dr Shanahan has a BSc (Chemistry) from UNSW, a BA (Hons) from Macquarie University, MAs in International Relations and Middle East and Central Asian Studies from the ANU, a Masters in Defence Studies from the University of Canberra and a PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies from the University of Sydney.
