Nichole Georgeou is Professor of Humanitarian and Development Studies at Western Sydney University. She is an internationally recognised scholar who specialises in civil society, volunteering, aid and development policy, food security in the Pacific and human security and governance in the Indo-Pacific. She is also the Founder and Co-Director of the Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI) at Western Sydney University. Nichole has extensive field experience as an aid practitioner, having worked with UNICEF and civil society organisations in Japan and Vietnam. Her research critically examines Australian aid policy, the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), and the intersection of security, development and humanitarian governance. Nichole serves on the editorial board of Development in Practice and the International Gramsci Journal and is Co-Chair of the Himalayan University Consortium, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (HUC-ICIMOD).