Our team
Distinguished Professor Steven Ratuva
Pro-Vice Chancellor, Pacific as well as Distinguished Professor and Director of the Macmillan Brown Center for Pacific Studies
Steven Ratuva is Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and Chair of the International Political Science Association research committee on Climate Security and Planetary Politics. Steve is also member of a number of public boards including the Royal Society Te Apārangi, Climate Change Commission, Independent Accountability Group of the Human Rights Commission, and PBRF Sector Reference Group, to name a few.
Associate Professor of Practice Jose Sousa-Santos
Convenor and Lead of Pacific Regional Security Hub
José Sousa-Santos is an Associate Professor of Practice and head of the Pacific Regional Security Hub located within the Macmillan Brown Pacific Studies Centre at the University of Canterbury. He specialises in security and defence issues in the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asian regions including transnational crime, non-state security actors, state-condoned illicit disruptors, and irregular warfare. He is also a research scholar with Massey University and a senior fellow with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. In 2021 Sousa-Santos was appointed to the Global Initiative against Transnational Crime panel of experts and consults with the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. He has previously held positions as Senior Lecturer and Senior Fellow with the Australian Pacific Security College at the Australian National University where he focussed on transnational crime and regional security; served as a senior subject matter expert and member of the educational cadre on the transnational crime and terrorism nexus in Asia-Pacific with the United States Indo-Pacific Command / Special Operations Command Pacific; and was a lead analyst with the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste Joint Mission Analysis Cell. He has been nominated for the United Nations Sergio Vieira de Mello Human Rights Award for achievements in the area of conflict mediation and dispute resolution during the Timor-Leste 2006 crisis and received numerous commendations from the United Nations Police for investigative work on transnational crime (human and drug trafficking).
Wensislaus Fatubun
Research Assistant
Wensislaus Fatubun is a West Papuan. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Canterbury with focusing on media, security, conflict resolution, economic development, and Pacific studies. In 2022, he was part of the UN panel at the UN Business and Human Rights Forum in Geneva, Swiss.
Holly Neave
Office and Project Administrator
Holly Neave is Office and Project Administrator for the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury.