Dr Michael Fullilove is Executive Director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy, an International policy think tank located in Sydney.
He is the author of Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World (2013), which won the 2014 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction. He is also the editor of a new revised edition of Men and Women of Australia! Our Greatest Modern Speeches (2014).
Fullilove writes widely on global issues and Australian foreign policy. His work has appeared in numerous publications and newspapers including The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, The New York Times, Slate, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
He also regularly appears as a guest on Australian and international television and radio, and in the past has appeared on programs such as Charlie Rose, ABC Radio National's RN Breakfast and ABC television's Lateline.
In 2015, he delivered the ABC Boyer Lectures.
Fullilove's high school education was at North Sydney Boys' High School in Crows Nest, Sydney.
Fullilove undertook undergraduate studies at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, where he received degrees in arts and law and was awarded dual university medals.
He studied as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he took a master's degree and a doctorate in international relations.
Fullilove is currently the executive director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy.
He wrote the feasibility study for the Lowy Institute in 2002, and served as the director of its global issues program for almost a decade. He was then appointed to the executive director position in August 2012.