About — Ed Cavanough

Mongolia's Tsaikhir Valley

On the set of Iron Winter.

With NSW Premier Minns, Sydney, NSW, 2023

Peter Hartcher launching Divided Isles in Sydney, 2023.

On assignment in Malaita, Solomon Islands. 2019.

Launching McKell Institute SA/NT, 2024.

On assignment in Maralinga, South Australia for The Science Channel. 2021.

In conversation with Ukrainian Ambassador to Australia, HE Vasyl Myroschnychenko

With Professor Joseph Stiglitz at a McKell Institute event, 2019.

Chiloe, Chile. 2014.

Explaining the risks of winding back JobKeeper, 2020.

On the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border, 2018.

Ishkashim, Afghanistan. 2018.

Atop Rosafa Castle, Schkoder, Albania. 2014,

Chief Executive Officer — The McKell Institute, an Australian think-tank.
Journalist — Reporting from Solomon Islands, Timor Leste, Somaliland, Mongolia, China, Vanuatu, Afghanistan, Cuba, Malaysia, Australia & more. By-lines in Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, ABC News, The Nation, NBC News, South China Morning Post, The Australian, 7 News, Sydney Morning Herald, The Saturday Paper & more.
Originator of Iron Winter, award-winning feature documentary film.
Author — Divided Isles: Solomon Islands & The China Switch, (Black Inc 2023, Manchester University Press, 2024).
Co-Founder — Archipelago Energy, a social enterprise accelerating clean energy investment in the South Pacific.

Contact: e.actoncavanough [at] gmail.com