ANU Chancellor the Hon Julie Bishop meeting Henry Kissinger as Australian foreign minister. Photo: Andrew Kelly
ANU Chancellor the Hon Julie Bishop meeting Henry Kissinger as Australian foreign minister. Photo: Andrew Kelly - ANU Chancellor the Hon Julie Bishop has been named the 2021 Kissinger Fellow by the McCain Institute for International Leadership. Based at Arizona State University, the McCain Institute Kissinger Fellowship develops future foreign policy and national security leaders. As Fellow, Ms Bishop will draw on her vast foreign policy leadership to develop a program that makes the case for greater US engagement in the Indo-Pacific, as well as outline how a stronger alliance among the US, Australia and like-minded nations, can bolster security, commerce and human dignity. Ms Bishop, who served as Australia's first female foreign minister, said she was "honoured" to be offered the Kissinger Fellowship. "I had great respect for the late Senator McCain and met him on many occasions," she said. "Whenever I visited Washington, he was always available for a meeting and discussion on world affairs.
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