Dr Paul Monk was inducted as a Fellow of the London and New York-based Institute for Law and Strategy in 2022. Since 2019, he has been a Fellow of the Rationalist Society of Australia and an editorial board member of its online journal Rationale, in which his essays, on a wide range of topics, have appeared for the last half dozen years. After completing a First-Class Honours degree in European History (University of Melbourne) and a PhD in International Relations (Australian National University), Paul served as an intelligence analyst on East Asia for the Defence Intelligence Organisation, between 1990 and 1995. He headed the Japan and Koreas Desk by 1992 and the China desk from 1994. He spent several years teaching Chinese politics and strategic affairs in leading universities, before co-founding a consulting company in 2000, specialising in applied cognitive science and structured argumentation