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Dr Peter Hayes

Position	Professorial Fellow
School / Work Unit	RMIT / Nautilus
Contact Details	+(61 3) 9925 8362 peter.hayes@rmit.edu.au
Location	Building: 91 Level: 2 Room: 10 City Campus
Portfolio	Research & Innovation

Peter Hayes is Professor of International Relations, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Director, Nautilus Institute in San Francisco and of Nautilus@RMIT at RMIT's Research and Innovation Section.

He works at the nexus of security, environment and energy policy problems. Best known for innovative cooperative engagement strategies in North Korea, he has developed techniques at Nautilus Institute for seeking near-term solutions to global security and sustainability problems and applied them in East Asia, Australia, and South Asia.

Peter has worked for many international organizations including UN Development Programme, Asian Development Bank, and Global Environment Facility. He was founding director of the Environment Liaison Centre in Kenya in 1975. He has traveled, lived, and worked in Asia, North America, Europe and Africa. He has visited North Korea seven times. He was born in Melbourne Australia; today he is a dual national of Australia and the United States. He is married with two children. He currently runs the Nautilus branch office at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

A full CV is available at the Nautilus@RMIT site.

Qualifications

1980-1989: Doctorate awarded by Energy and Resources Group, University of California at Berkeley.
1978-1979: Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley, Master of Arts in Energy and Resources.
1971-l977: University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Arts.

Research Interests

In addition to on-going work on global security and sustainability issues in Asia-Pacific, Peter is developing practical ways to tackle the interrelationships between global problems.

Public Service

• Cited or interviewed on weekly basis by many mass media including: New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Korea Herald, Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Sydney Morning Herald, AP Wire Service, Reuters Wire Service, CBS Evening News, CSPAN, PBS News Hour, CNN, Fox News, National Public Radio, KQED, Kyodo News Service, BBC, Radio Free Asia, CBC Canada, MNBC Seoul, Asia Times, Asia-Pacific Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Australia; opeds in many papers and journals including Far Eastern Economic Review, San Francisco Chronicle, LA Times.
• Co-founder, Friends of the Earth Australia, 1973-75.
• First Director, Environmental Liaison Centre, Nairobi, Kenya, 1975-6.
• Co-founder, Nautilus Institute 1977-present.
• Launched Pegasus Project in San Francisco, 1992-2004, to continue in Melbourne with Operation New Start.
• Editorial Board member, Pacific Focus, a scholarly journal focusing on political and security in East Asia.

Awards and Recognition

• MacArthur Fellowship (2000) "for combining rigorous multidisciplinary training and technological knowledge with cultural sensitivity, policy acumen, and diplomatic skills...including non-governmental diplomacy of the highest order."
• Gleitsman Award (2001) for "exceptional achievement of people who have initiated social change."
• Global Korea Award (2001) "to recognize individuals or groups who have made significant contribution to cross-cultural understanding, global education, and well-being of Korean people around the world."
• Genius Edition Wave Magazine, July, 2003, profiled as "one of San Francisco's 10 smartest people."