Kieran O'Leary

Senior Director, Emergent Risk International

Kieran O’Leary joined ERI in 2020 and has previously worked in foreign policy, defense strategy and intelligence for the Australian government, focusing on the Indo-Pacific region and the Australia-US alliance, including postings to the Australian Embassy in Jakarta and US Pacific Command Headquarters in Hawaii.

Kieran has master's degrees in international relations and defense strategy, the latter from the Indonesian Defense University, where he was the first foreign student to graduate as valedictorian from an Indonesian military school.