Jennifer Parker

Jennifer Parker is an expert associate at the Australian National University’s National Security College and an adjunct fellow in naval studies with the University of New South Wales Canberra. She has served for more than 20 years with the Royal Australian Navy, during which she specialised as a Principal Warfare Officer and gained extensive operational experience from the Middle East to the Caribbean. Her last appointment in the RAN was as Director of Operations in Bahrain of the 38-nation Combined Maritime Forces coalition.