Anne-Marie Sharon Brady was born on 1966 and is a New Zealand academic and Professor of Political Science at the University of Canterbury.
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Anne-Marie Brady then earned her Masters of Asian Studies; Chinese and Political Studies with First Class Honours at the University of Auckland in 1994.
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In 2009, Anne-Marie Brady earned a Post-Graduate Certificate in Antarctic Studies with Distinction at the University of Canterbury.
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In 2001, Anne-Marie Brady joined the College of Arts, Department of Political Science and International Relations, at the University of Canterbury.
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Anne-Marie Brady later became a professor of Political Science at the same University.
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Anne-Marie Brady taught both undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as providing graduate supervision on: Chinese politics, East Asian politics, Polar politics, China and the South Pacific as well as New Zealand foreign policy.
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In 2019, Anne-Marie Brady was made a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Aparangi for her contribution towards the advancement of the humanities.
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Anne-Marie Brady is the first female political scientist elected a Fellow of Royal Society Te Aparangi.
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Anne-Marie Brady's research has been publicly praised by Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio.
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Anne-Marie Brady founded a groundbreaking journal of polar social sciences, which offers policy relevant research on the Arctic and Antarctic.
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Also in 2019, Anne-Marie Brady was awarded the New Zealand Women of Influence Global Influence Award, to mark her contribution towards placing the spotlight on the issue of Chinese influence in the South Pacific.
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Anne-Marie Brady's ground-breaking research into China's covert foreign influence strategy in New Zealand has had global reach and impact since its first publication in 2017.
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Anne-Marie Brady's research was cited in an expert submission to the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security in 2018, and in May this year she gave expert testimony before the New Zealand Justice Select Committee.
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The judges praised Anne-Marie Brady for putting the spotlight on the important geo-political issue of Chinese influence in the South Pacific.
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In September 2017, Anne-Marie Brady presented a conference paper Magic Weapons: China's political influence activities under Xi Jinping detailing the Chinese Communist Party's attempts to influence international opinion using New Zealand as a case study.
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Anne-Marie Brady's paper argued that the Chinese government was working with Chinese diaspora community organisations and ethnic Chinese media as part of a united front strategy to advance Chinese political and economic interests in New Zealand.
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In December 2018,303 academics, think-tankers, journalists, human-rights activists, politicians signed an open letter that was published on the Czech academic website Sinopsis condemning the harassment campaign against Anne-Marie Brady and urging the New Zealand Government to protect her so she could continue her research.
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On 8 March 2019, it was reported that Anne-Marie Brady had been blocked from submitting evidence to the New Zealand Parliament's justice select committee examining potential foreign influence in the New Zealand elections.
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Anne-Marie Brady claimed that the CCP targeted the Chinese diaspora since it feared that they could "nurture and support political change in China" and in order to influence foreign societies.
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The examiners observed that Anne-Marie Brady's work was based on a lengthy period of research and cited extensively from other sources.
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Anne-Marie Brady welcomed the dismissal of the complaints and called for the University of Canterbury to dismiss the "gagging order" against her.
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In early July 2021, Anne-Marie Brady urged New Zealand to diversify its foreign and trade policies at the 55th University of Otago Foreign Policy School in Dunedin.
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On 23 February 2025, Anne-Marie Brady said that Chinese naval exercises in the Tasman Sea showed that China intended to establish a permanent military presence in the Pacific.
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Anne-Marie Brady urged New Zealand to do more to defend itself and the Pacific.
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Anne-Marie Brady grew up in a not well off West Auckland family in the 1970s.
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Anne-Marie Brady said she did not put much effort into school.
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Anne-Marie Brady met her husband when at a Beijing university in the mid-1990s; he was a member of the avant-guard Yuanmingyuan artists' colony which was eventually razed to the ground.