KEYNOTE WA State Manager, Defence Australia
Dr Kate O’Shaughnessy is the WA State Manager for the Australian Submarine Agency (ASA). Immediately prior to joining the ASA, she was Research Director at the Perth USAsia Centre, a foreign policy think tank based at the University of Western Australia. Kate is also a former Australian diplomat, serving as Australia’s High Commissioner to Mauritius during COVID (2020-2022) as well as deploying to Ghana, Nigeria, France and Lebanon over the course of her career. Her public sector experience spans foreign and national security policy, crisis response, aid development and delivery, and intelligence analysis.
