ANU Centre for European Studies Visiting Fellow Denise Fisher regularly contributes to commentary on France in the South Pacific. Her podcast 'Diving into the Indo-Pacific debate' was named the second most popular podcast in the Asia & the Pacific Policy Society Policy Forum's top 10 podcasts of 2018, together with the Australian National University's Rory Medcalf and David Brewster.

Read more on the APPS Policy Forum's website.

Denise was an Australian diplomat for thirty years, serving in Australian diplomatic missions as a political and economic policy analyst in Rangoon, Nairobi, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur and Washington DC before being appointed Australian High Commissioner in Harare (1998-2001), accredited to Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola and Malawi; then Australian Consul-General in Noumea, New Caledonia (2001-2004). She is the author of France in the South Pacific: Power and Politics (2013).