Bridi Rice is CEO of the Development Intelligence Lab. She is an international development specialist and firmly believes that great development cooperation in the Indo-Pacific comes from unusual collaborations, inspired leadership, good natured debate and cracking analysis. In 2021 she was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship for Not for Profit Leadership.

Bridi has worked in international development and foreign policy since 2008, including as Director at the Australian Council for International Development, Senior Manager at Ernst & Young, Co-founding Convenor of the Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy & Defence Dialogue and as a senior public servant for over 8 years at the Attorney-General’s Department.

She is also a Senior Associate with the Project on Fragility and Mobility and the Project on Prosperity and Development at Washington-based Centre for Strategic International Studies (CSIS), a member of the Asia-Pacific Development, Diplomacy & Defence Dialogue advisory board and a non-resident visitor at ANU’s Regnet.

Bridi holds a Master of Politics (Research) from LaTrobe University, Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from Monash University and a Bachelor of Arts (Double Major: Cultural Anthropology and Literature) from Monash University.