Marigold Black

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About Marigold Black

marigold@norfolkadvisory.au |+61 409 123 578 | Dr Marigold Black is a professional researcher, an intellectual historian, and a geopolitical strategist. ​ Dr Black is the co-director of Norfolk Advisory, an Australian strategic and legal advisory firm which works at the intersections of law, geopolitics, and security with a focus on sovereign resilience and governance in Australia and the near regions. Dr Black received her doctorate from the University of Sydney. Dr Black’s research focus was on conceptions of international law and sovereignty in the era of the American Declaration of Independence. This built upon Dr Black’s earlier research on the intellectual history of the US Department of State.​ Dr Black was a Research Fellow with the Laureate Research Program in International History at the University of Sydney. Dr Black’s major contribution there was in examining the history of how economics and politics intersected in the early nineteenth century to shape the modern world.​ Dr Black was a Future Strategies Research Fellow with the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. While there, Dr Black was seconded to the Australian Army Research Centre, where she worked amongst other things on the Future Force Concept. ​ More recently, Dr Black was a specialist policy researcher with the RAND Corporation. Dr Black’s academic and research work has traversed a wide range of themes and topics, including:​ - contemporary and historical concepts of sovereignty​ - freedom of the seas and the world economy​ - the dynamics of civil-military relations​ - sovereign capability​ - defence mobilisation​ - geopolitics and strategic position​ - Antarctic and space governance​ - countering foreign interference and violent extremism​ - innovation in human-machine teaming in the RAS-AI domain​ - AUKUS Pillar Two as a scientific endeavour​ Dr Black is currently studying law.​ Norfolk Advisory Pty Ltd | ABN 81-671-098-543 | Incorporated Legal Practice Disclaimer: Statements on LinkedIn express debating points or personal views. Nothing should be attributed to a client or another person. A 'like' of a comment or post simply acknowledges it. Nothing should be taken as legal advice.