Morten B. Pedersen is senior lecturer in international and political studies at the University of New South Wales/Canberra (Australian Defence Force Academy) and a former senior analyst for the International Crisis Group. He has spent seven of the last fifteen years in Myanmar, and has worked at different times as a policy adviser on Myanmar politics and development affairs for the United Nations, the World Bank, the European Commission, the Australian government, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari.