Indo-Pacific Roundtable 2025 | Panel 7: ‘Reassessing the Role of the UK in the Indo-Pacific’

The Indo-Pacific Roundtable has been the flagship event of our Indo-Pacific Strand since 2021, at the Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge. It has become the largest conference of its kind in Europe. The two-day event brings together academics, think tankers, and policy practitioners for focused discussions on a blend of economic and security issues, both within and across the panoply of states that make up this vast region spanning more than half the world. Panel 7 | Subject: ‘Reassessing the Role of the UK in the Indo-Pacific’ This discussion looks again at how the UK can best play an appropriate and constructive role in the world’s most dynamic and dangerous region. Speakers: Prof Winnie King – Senior Lecturer of Chinese International Political Economy, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol Dr Carl Hunter OBE – Director-General, The Durham Institute of Research, Development & Invention (DIRDI) Rear Admiral Mike Studeman – National Security Fellow, MITRE Corporation Moderators: Dr John Nilsson-Wright – Programme Head for the Japan and Koreas Programme, Centre for Geopolitics, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES), University of Cambridge Dr Alice Politi – Post-Doctoral Research Associate of the Indo-Pacific Strand, Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge