Dr Peter Grace has taught New Zealand Foreign Policy at the University of Otago for the past four years. His master’s dissertation covered Russian foreign policy from 2014 and the annexation of Crimea. His recently completed doctoral thesis looked at the ’Intel Intellectuals’, a history of how social scientists helped legitimise the early Central Intelligence Agency in the United States.

Peter serves as Co-Director of the Otago National Security School and as a committee member for the annual Otago Foreign Policy School.

Prior to entering academia, Peter worked for local and international advertising agencies, as an awarded creative director, and he ran his own marketing and communications agency for a period of 15 years.

He lives in Dunedin in a converted 1862 synagogue with his wife, Beth, and has five adult children.