Cleo Paskal is a non-resident senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, focusing on the Indo-Pacific region, in particular, the Pacific Islands and India.

She has testified before the U.S. Congress, regularly lectures and moderates for seminars for the U.S. military, and has taught at defense colleges in the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Canada, and Oman. From 2006 to 2022, she was an associate fellow at Chatham House, London.

She hosted and produced radio shows for the BBC, was a columnist with the National Post, won over a dozen journalism awards, wrote an Emmy-winning TV series, and did a brief but lucrative stint as an English voice-over actor for Japanese cartoons.

She is Canadian, but thinks like a normal American!

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