Cleo Paskal

Cleo Paskal is a Senior Fellow for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council. Her work focuses on Chinese Communist Party strategy in the Indo-Pacific (including U.S. territories), and ways to counter its illegal, coersive aggressive and deceptive activities.

Ms. Paskal has testified before the U.S. Congress, U.K House of Lords and Canadian Parliament on issues ranging from strategic competition in the Pacific Islands to the role of Chinese influence operations around Diego Garcia.

Paskal has contributed to, among others, Naval War College Review, Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs (U.S. Air Force), The Diplomat, The Economist, The World Today, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Times, Washington Examiner and the Sunday Times. She has hosted BBC radio shows, was a long time columnist for the National Post and contributed chapters to peer-reviewed academic books. She won more than a dozen writing awards and is currently a The Sunday Guardian (India) columnist.

Paskal is also a Research Fellow at the Future Security Initiative, Arizona State University, and Senior Fellow at Usanas Foundation (India). She is on the International Board of Advisors of the Kalinga Institute of Indo-Pacific Studies and the Global Counter-Terrorism Council. 

Previously, Paskal was an Associate Fellow at Chatham House (a.k.a. Royal Institute of International Affairs), Senior Fellow with Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a Visiting Fellow at Centre d'études et de recherches internationales de l'Université de Montréal (CÉRIUM) as well as Gateway House (India).