John HEMMINGS is Senior Advisor at the Pacific Forum and a Deputy Director for Geopolitics at the Council on Geostrategy. He specializes in alliances and strategic competition, with a particular focus on the Indo-Pacific, Japan, AUKUS, the FVEY, NATO, and other security groupings. Prior to assuming this role, Dr Hemmings worked at the US Department of Defense regional center, the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, where he led efforts on defense industry, lectured on geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region and on occasion provided briefings for Special Operations Command Pacific, US Pacific Fleet, and US Indo-Pacific Command. In the UK, he has given evidence to two separate Parliamentary UK Defence Committee inquiries on the Indo-Pacific and provided bespoke briefings across the UK government – to include the Cabinet office, the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office, and Ministry of Defence. His analysis and commentary have featured on various media, including the BBC, the Financial Times, Fox News, CNN, and the Telegraph newspaper. His research has been published by various policy and academic journals. He gained his PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics in 2017.
