Genevieve Bridget May

Genevieve Donnellon-May is a geopolitical and global strategy advisor interested in regional resource conflict and environmental governance in Asia and Africa. At present, she is a researcher for the Oxford Global Society, a Research Associate at the Asia Society Policy Institute and an Analyst (Asia-Pacific) for the Red Line Podcast. She has held positions as the 2022 Young Australians in International Affairs Climate Fellow as well as at the Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and the Asian Institute for Policy Studies, South Korea. She is a recipient of the New Colombo Plan Scholarship (2018), the Melbourne Global Scholars Award (2017), and the Chinese Government Scholarship (2014).

Genevieve frequently contributes to leading newspapers, journals, and other media on transboundary water governance in Asia. These include AsiaGlobal Online, Asia Sentinel, Asia Times, ASPI Strategist, Australian Institute of International Affairs, Cambridge China Review, East Asia Forum, Indian Strategic Studies, New Straits Times, RSIS Commentary, South China Morning Post, Straits Times, The Diplomat, ThePrint India, ThinkChina, Today Online, and the Wilson Center’s New Security Beat.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Diploma in Languages (French) from the University of Melbourne as well as a Master of Science in Water Science, Policy and Management from the University of Oxford.