Denise Fisher is Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University's Centre for European Studies, and its Department of Pacific Affairs, where she writes on France in the Pacific and Indo- Pacific. She was an Australian diplomat for 30 years, serving as a political and economic policy analyst in Australian missions in Rangoon, Nairobi, New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, and Washington DC before being appointed Australian High Commissioner in Harare, accredited to Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Angola, and Malawi. As Australian Consul- General in Noumea, New Caledonia, from 2001 to 2004, she represented Australia in all of France's Pacific territories, and at the Secretariat for the Pacific Community headquartered in Noumea. She is the author of France in the South Pacific: Power and Politics (2013). She holds a Master of Philosophy from the Australian National University and a Master's in International Public Policy from John Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies Washington DC. She is a Chevalier in the French National Order of Merit.