Cleo Paskal is a journalist and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Senior Fellow at the Usanas Foundation and on the International Board of Advisors of the Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies and the Global Counter-Terrorism Council. She has won more than a dozen awards for her journalism.

Biography

Paskal specializes in strategic issues in the

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. She has testified before

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multiple times. From 2006 to 2022, she was an Associate Fellow at ''

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), where she led the "Geostrategic outlook for the Indo-Pacific 2019-2024" and other projects. She led a multi-year research project based at the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de l'

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(CÉRIUM) looking at strategic shifts in the Indo-Pacific. She was a visiting fellow at Gateway House (Indian Council on Global Relations) in 2019. Paskal has contributed chapters to peer-reviewed academic books. She has also contributed to many publications, including ''Naval War College Review'', ''Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs'' (

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), ''

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, Pacific Island Times,'' ''The Diplomat'', ''

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'', '' The World Today'', '' Conde Nast Traveller,

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, The Farmer's Almanac,

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'', and the ''

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.'' She has hosted

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radio shows. She is a ''Sunday Guardian'' columnist and has written columns for the

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, ''

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'', and the ''

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''. At

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, she co-founded a satire magazine, ''The Red Herring''. She wrote the

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-winning TV series ''

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: Fire Within''.

References

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