Executive Director of China Dialogue. Associate Fellow at Chatham House.

Anne-Marie is a researcher and social entrepreneur with a passion for helping to bring about systemic change. She is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), and lives in Wellington, New Zealand. She has degrees in Psychology and Economics and a Masters of Public Affairs from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, which she attended on a Fulbright scholarship. She has significant work experience as an economist, including at the OECD, and in various public policy roles. She and her colleagues at HRMI believe wholeheartedly that "what gets measured gets improved", and their vision is a world where everyone can see what’s going on through a human rights lens, so we can work more effectively together to improve the lives of people.

Yasmin Afina joined Chatham House as research assistant for the International Security programme in April 2019. Her research at Chatham House covers projects related to nuclear weapons systems, strategic weapons systems, emerging technologies including cyber and artificial intelligence, and international law. Yasmin is also a PhD Candidate at the University of Essex, examining the International Humanitarian Law considerations for the development of AI for military targeting operations. Yasmin has been awarded with the University's Humanities Doctoral Scholarship to cover her research in the 2019-2022 period. Yasmin formerly worked for the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)’s Security and Technology Programme, and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA). In her previous capacities, Her research included international, regional and national cybersecurity policies, the international security implications of quantum computing, and algorithmic bias in autonomous technologies and law enforcement operations. Yasmin holds an LL.M. from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, an LL.B. from the University of Essex, and a French Bachelor of Laws and Postgraduate degree (Maîtrise) in International Law from the Université Toulouse I Capitole. Yasmin holds Indonesian citizenship, and speaks fluent French, English and Indonesian.

I am Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sydney. My area of research is global distributive justice and global ethics in general. My first book, Global Poverty, Injustice, and Resistance was published recently by Cambridge University Press. My work has appeared in journals such as International Affairs, Politics, International Theory, Human Rights Quarterly, among others. I have written for popular publications like Aeon and The Conversation.