Marigold Black
Biography
Dr Marigold Black is an intellectual historian with expertise in geopolitics, strategic level defence and national security issues. She was previously a Strategic Policy and Futures Research Fellow with the Australian Army Research Centre and the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, where she has undertaken extensive studies in sovereignty and the levers of national power, and worked with the Army to advance its intellectual strengths as part of the Joint Future Force. At RAND, her work has included addressing sovereign outcomes within the Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Enterprise, military deterrence signalling,
defence mobilisation planning, and human-machine interface (HMI)/workforce studies for Navy’s future use of RAS. She has also conducted research on insider threat to assist the practitioner community in building strategies for better detection, management and prevention; was involved in innovative research on countering online violent extremism; and has provided support to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in training development for countering foreign interference. Marigold has a PhD in history from the University of Sydney.
