Professor Caitlin Byrne

Professor Caitlin Byrne is Pro Vice Chancellor (Business), Griffith University, Australia, and Faculty Fellow of the University of Southern California's Centre for Public Diplomacy (CPD).

Caitlin spent the past five years leading the University's research and engagement agenda related to strategic developments in Asia and the Pacific as Director of the Griffith Asia Institute. She began her professional career as a diplomat with the Australian Government, and has worked across senior leadership roles in government, industry and community to become recognised as one of Australia's leading academic-practitioners with a focus on international policy and diplomatic practice. She contribute to international policy development, and delivers executive education and training in diplomacy through Australia's Diplomatic Academy and other global forums. As a champion for gender equity and empowerment, she currently leads Australia's civil society delegation to the W20, sits on the Queensland Fulbright Scholarships Committee, and on the international advisory council for the International Relations Institute of Cambodia. She is an editorial board member for the Hague Journal of Diplomacy, East Asia Policy, and co-editor of Palgrave Macmillan's Global Series on Public Diplomacy. In 2020, she was made Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (FAIIA).