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Genevieve Donnellon-May

Genevieve Donnellon-May

Research Analyst

Genevieve Donnellon-May is a geopolitical and global strategy advisor focused on regional resource governance (land, energy, water) and environmental conflict in Asia. She serves as the Asia-Pacific analyst at The Red Line and is a researcher at the Oxford Global Society. Genevieve is currently a Vasey Fellow at the Pacific Forum in the United States, a non-resident fellow at the Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies (YCAPS) in Japan, and a non-resident fellow at the Indo-Pacific Studies Center in Australia. She is also an associated fellow at the Institute for Security Development Policy in Sweden.


She has been recognised as a CSIS Pacific Young Leader, an Australia-China Emerging Leader, and an Australia-Vietnam Young Leader. Genevieve is a 2023 Yenching Scholar and was shortlisted by Young Australians in International Affairs as one of the 2023 Young Women to Watch. Genevieve is a regular delegate in Track 1.5 and Track 2 dialogues on regional security and resource governance.

Genevieve frequently contributes to leading newspapers, journals, and other media on regional resource governance in Asia. Her work has appeared in outlets including AsiaGlobal Online, Asia Sentinel, Asia Times, ASPI Strategist, Australian Outlook, the Australian Institute of International Affairs, CSIS Maritime Index, East Asia Forum, Eurasia Review, Indian Strategic Studies, New Straits Times, RSIS Commentaries, South China Morning Post, The Straits Times, The Diplomat, The Interpreter, ThePrint India, ThinkChina, Today Online, and the Wilson Center’s New Security Beat. She has also been interviewed by or quoted in major international media, including BBC, CNBC, Financial TimesLe MondeSouth China Morning Post, ReutersThe New York TimesThe Times, and The Wire China

Genevieve holds an MSc in Water Science, Policy and Management from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) and a Diploma of Languages from the University of Melbourne. She has previously served as the 2022 Young Australians in International Affairs Climate Fellow and has held research positions at the Asia Society Policy Institute, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in South Korea. 

She is also a member of the ASEAN-Australia Strategic Youth Partnership, Asia-Pacific Leadership Network – Women Experts, Australians in International Affairs, Asia Society Australia’s Gen A programme, Indo-Pacific Circle, the United States Studies Centre Women in the Alliance programme, and Women in Security Studies Australia.  

Areas of interest

  • Regional resource conflict
  • Environment governance
  • Water policy