Dr John Hemmings is a Senior Adviser to the Pacific Forum and an Adjunct Professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies, a US Department of Defense regional center in Honolulu. He has worked or been associated with various research organizations focused on Indo-Pacific security studies for nearly 18 years, including research positions, honorary positions, and directorships at the Henry Jackson Society, the Royal United Services Institute, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
His research focuses on security and defense in the Indo-Pacific, and includes US-China relations, Japan, the Korean Peninsula, maritime security and the defense industrial base. He has split his career between Hawaii and London, and as a consequence, works on cross-regional issues that tie the Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic. While working in Honolulu, he was called upon to provide briefings to the US Pacific Fleet, the US Department of State, and to Special Operations Command Pacific.
In his time working in London, he has been called upon to provide expert evidence to two Parliamentary inquiries on the Indo-Pacific, and has provided expert briefings to the Cabinet Office, a Five Eyes working group, and the Department of Business and Trade on the national security implications of authoritarian-sourced foreign direct investment into critical national infrastructure.
He holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE) and an MA from Kings College London. John has appeared on BBC, Sky News, Fox News and Al Jazeera. He has written on Asia for The Telegraph since 2018, and has been quoted in the Financial Times, The Times and CNN. He has provided guest lectures to the LSE, the Academy for Defense Intelligence, and Oxford University’s Changing Character of War Centre.
Areas of expertise: Indo-Pacific Geopolitics, US-PRC relations, maritime security, the defense industrial base