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Biographies
Bruce Wolpe is a Senior Fellow (non-resident) at the United States Studies Centre. Bruce is a regular contributor on US politics across media platforms in Australia. In recent years, Bruce has worked with the Democrats in Congress during President Barack Obama's first term, and on the staff of Prime Minister Julia Gillard. He has also served as the former PM's chief of staff. From 1998-2009, Bruce was a senior executive at Fairfax Media in Sydney.
Bruce is author of Trump's Australia, an examination of Donald Trump's possible return to the presidency and the issues presented to Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2023), The Committee, a study of President Obama's legislative agenda in Congress (University of Michigan Press, 2018, 2d Edition September 2021) and Lobbying Congress: How The System Works (Congressional Quarterly Books, 1990, 1996).
Geraldine Doogue AO is a renowned Australian journalist and broadcaster with a long career in print, television and radio. She is now a co-presenter, with Hamish Macdonald, of the podcast and RN program Global Roaming, which focusses each week on international developments that influence Australia’s place in the world.
Doogue presented RN’s Saturday Extra for 18 years, which specialised in foreign policy and regional issues. She has worked for The West Australian, The Australian, 2UE, Channel Ten News and covered the Gulf War for ABC News in 1991, receiving a United Nations Media Peace Price and two Penguin awards. She set up the influential social affairs programme Life Matters on Radio National in 1993, hosted ABC TV’s Nationwide in the 1980s and presented Australia’s long-standing religious affairs programme Compass on ABC TV for almost 20 years until 2019. Doogue was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for social and cultural reporting in 2000, co-authored “Tomorrow’s Islam: Uniting Age-Old Beliefs and A Modern World" (2005), and released “The Climb: Conversations with Australian Women In Power” in 2014.
She has received several Honorary Doctorates of Letters from various Australian universities and was awarded an Officer in the Order of Australia awards for distinguished service on ethics, values, religion and social change. She was admitted to the Australian Media Hall of Fame in 2018.
Ava Kalinauskas is a Research Associate at the United States Studies Centre, where she focuses on US domestic politics and elections. She is also an Emerging Associate at the National Security College at the Australian National University.
Ava’s analysis has been published across media outlets including The Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Conversation, The Diplomat, SBS, and the ABC. She is representing Australia as a delegate to the 2025 Youth G20 Summit held in South Africa. Ava also co-leads the USSC’s Women in the Alliance initiative.
Ava previously sat on the Youth Advisory Council to US Consul General Christine Elder from 2022-24 and was a Program Assistant at Women in International Security Global. She was a 2024 delegate to the 'Rising Quad Think Tank Opinion Leaders' exchange held in Bali and the University of Western Australia’s US-Australia Alliance Emerging Leaders’ Workshop, both sponsored by the US State Department. Ava holds a Bachelor of Arts Dual Degree from Sciences Po Paris and the University of Sydney. She graduated from Sciences Po with Cum Laude Honours and, at the University of Sydney, she was a Dalyell Scholar and a recipient of the IPAA NSW GC Remington award.
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