Henry Ivarature (PhD)
Henry Ivarature (PhD) is the Deputy Director, of the Pacific Security College, at the Australian National University. Dr Ivarature has worked and travelled extensively in the Pacific Islands for over 28 years as a researcher, author and public servant. He has worked at the National Research Institute and the at the Department of Prime Minister & NEC; as a regional civil servant with the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in Fiji and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance in Canberra. Dr Ivarature’s current areas of research are in understanding political instability, particularly, in the Western Pacific (PNG, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu) looking more closely at the executive stability. Dr Ivarature is from Papua New Guinea.