Jake Read is a Projects Officer and supports research at the Asian Bureau of Economic Research (ABER) and the Australia-Japan Research Centre (AJRC) of the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy. He serves as liaison officer and acquisitions coordinator for East Asia Forum, an ABER initiative. Jake has been an IARU Scholar at Peking University and a New Colombo Plan visiting student at Yonsei University.

• Political and economic systems in the Asia Pacific
• International trade and economic integration
• Asian external relations and security