Australian Maritime Issues 2007 - Royal Australian Navy

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Contributors
Dr Sam Bateman
Dr Sam Bateman is a Senior Fellow and Adviser to the Maritime Security Program at
the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore. He retired from
full-time service in the Royal Australian Navy in 1993 and became the first Director of
the Centre for Maritime Policy (now the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources
and Security) at the University of Wollongong. His naval service as a surface warfare
officer included four ship commands (including a frigate and a destroyer), five years
in Papua New Guinea and several postings in the force development and strategic
policy areas of the Department of Defence in Canberra. He has written extensively on
defence and maritime issues in Australia, the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean, and was
awarded his PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2001. He is a Co-Chair
of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Study Group on
Facilitating Maritime Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific and Editor of the journal Maritime
Studies.
Commander Andrew Brown, RANR
Commander Andrew Brown was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy Reserve
in December 1981 into what is now known as the Maritime Trade Operations Branch
and has served in that branch for his entire career. He has served in a variety of trade
protection and staff postings. He is currently posted to Navy Headquarters in Canberra
where his role is to advise on merchant shipping and maritime trade issues, and to
assist the Sea Power Centre – Australia on the development of doctrine with respect
to maritime trade. In civilian life he is a lawyer and is the In-House Counsel to and a
Secretary of The Law Society of New South Wales.
Dr Christopher Chung
Dr Christopher Chung is Acting Assistant Secretary, Communications and International
Branch, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and Arts. Prior to this he
was Deputy-Director of Studies, Graduate Studies in Strategy and Defence, Strategic
and Defence Studies Centre, the Australian National University. His research interests
include Asia-Pacific maritime affairs, transnational security and the international
politics of Asia. Recent publications have appeared in the journal Ocean Development
and International Law (co-author) and a book chapter on how Australia’s traditional
security arrangements have adapted to address non-traditional security threats. He
holds a PhD in Politics from the University of New South Wales at the Australian
Defence Force Academy.