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Past Event
Seminar

Fiona Cunningham: Seizing the Initiative? China's Changing Approach to Military Cyber Force Posture

Open to the Public

Incoming Pre-Doctoral Fellow to the Cyber Security Project, Ms. Fiona Cunningham will discuss China's military cyber strategy in a moderated discussion with Dr. Michael Sulmeyer. 

This session is open to the public*, but will follow Chatham House Rule.

*Lunch and seating provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Note we are anticipating a full house, please arrive early.

Date: Time: - Location: Suite 470
Fiona Cunningham

About

Fiona Cunningham is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She will join the Cyber Security Project at the Belfer Center as a predoctoral fellow in 2017-8. Her dissertation project explains state choices of military strategy in the nuclear, space, and cyber domains, with an empirical focus on China. Her research on China's nuclear strategy has been published quarterly journal, International Security. In 2015-6 she was a dissertation research fellow in the School of International Studies at the Renmin University of China, Beijing. Fiona holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and International Relations from the University of New South Wales and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney, both with first class honors. Before commencing her doctoral studies, she was a research associate in nuclear policy at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney. She speaks Mandarin Chinese and French.