Bridi Rice

CEO, Development Intelligence Lab

Bridi Rice is CEO of Australian think tank, the Development Intelligence Lab and co-founder of the Asia Pacific Development, Diplomacy and Defence Dialogue. Bridi’s career in development and foreign policy includes a three-year stint as Director at the Australian Council for International Development, eight years as a senior public servant for the Attorney-General’s Department and two years as a Senior Manager at global consulting firm Ernst & Young. Bridi was the 2021 national awardee of the Fulbright Scholarship in Not-for-Profit Leadership. Bridi is a National Security College Expert Associate and a Senior Associate with the Project on Fragility and Mobility and the Project on Prosperity and Development at the Centre for Strategic & International Studies.