Professor Ross Babbage is currently Managing Director of Strategy International and chair of The Kokoda Foundation. He has also formerly held the position as Head of Strategic Analysis in the Office of National Assessments

Office of National Assessments

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 and as advisor to various government ministers and departments

Babbage was educated at Barker College

Barker College

Barker College is an independent Anglican, day and boarding school, located in Hornsby, a North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded in 1890 by the Reverend Henry Plume at Kurrajong Heights, Barker is an all-boys school from Kindergarten to Year 9, and co-educational from...

 in Sydney. He subsequently completed Bachelor and Masters degrees in economics from the University of Sydney

University of Sydney

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 and a PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University

Australian National University

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.

In 2003 to 2004 he served as Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

Strategic and Defence Studies Centre

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at the Australian National University.

He has addressed Australia's future defence needs in a range of reports and papers and in February 2011 his study of Australia's defence needs in the future Australia's Strategic Edge in 2030 was released.

Publications

• A Coast Too Long: Defending Australia Beyond the 1990s (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1990)
• Rethinking Australia’s Defence (University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1980)
• Preparing Australia’s Defence for 2020 – Transformation or Reform? (Kokoda Foundation, Canberra, 2005)
• Australia’s Future Underwater Operations and System Requirements (Kokoda Foundation, Canberra, 2007)
• Firepower to Win: Australian Defence Force Joint Fires in 2020 (Kokoda Paper, October 2007)
• Strategic Decision-Making: Optimising Australia’s National Security Planning and Coordination for 2015 (Kokoda Paper, May 2008)

External links

• http://www.strategyinternational.com.au/managing_director.htm Biographical Details