Dr Marigold Black is a professional researcher, an intellectual historian, and a geopolitical strategist.
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 U.S. 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.
Dr Black was a specialist policy researcher with the RAND Corporation, where she conducted significant research work notably for the Australian Department of Defence, the Australian Department of Home Affairs, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Australian Army, and the Royal Australian Navy.
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 robotics, autonomous systems and artificial intelligence domain
- AUKUS Pillar Two as a scientific endeavour
Dr Black’s publications while at the RAND Corporation can be found here.
Dr Black is currently studying law in Australia.
Dr Black’s experience and skills provide clients with analytical and research expertise, historical and theoretical perspectives, and cross-discipline knowledge. Dr Black provides the conceptual and rational framework for understanding problems and different ways for clients to solve them.