Dr David Schaefer is a Lecturer at the ANU National Security College.

David has expertise in, among other things, intelligence studies. He is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of War Studies in King’s College London, where he received his PhD, and worked as Postdoctoral Fellow and coordinator of the King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI). He was previously a Junior Research Fellow at Ormond College in the University of Melbourne, and a Research Associate at Asialink Diplomacy, where he worked on security issues in Australian-Asian relations. He is co-author, with the late Michael Herman, of Intelligence Power in Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).