ANCORS Fellow

Sam Bateman
Professorial Fellow

Dr Sam Bateman retired from full-time service in the Royal Australian Navy with the rank of Commodore (one-star) in 1993 and became the first Director of the Centre for Maritime Policy at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales where he is now a Professorial Research Fellow. Concurrently, he is a Senior Fellow and Adviser to the Maritime Security Programme at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), Nanyang Technological University , Singapore.

His naval service as a surface warfare officer included four ship commands (including a frigate and a destroyer), five years in Papua New Guinea and several postings in the force development and strategic policy areas of the Department of Defence in Canberra.

Current research interests include regional maritime security, piracy and maritime terrorism, the strategic and political implications of the Law of the Sea, and maritime cooperation and confidence-building.

Sam Bateman completed his doctorate at the University of New South Wales in 2001. He has written extensively on defence and maritime issues in Australia , the Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean . He is Co-Chair of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Study Group on Capacity Building for Maritime Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific, and Editor of the journal Maritime Studies for the Australian Association of Maritime Affairs.