Elena Collinson is Manager, Research Analysis at the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney (UTS:ACRI).
She is editor of UTS:ACRI's commentary series, Perspectives. Her work has been published in The National Interest, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, the South China Morning Post, The Diplomat, The Conversation, Australian Foreign Affairs, the Lowy Institute's Interpreter , the Australian Institute of International Affairs' Australian Outlook, and the Council on Foreign Relations' Asia Unbound amongst other outlets, and she has contributed chapters to edited volumes. She is a lawyer admitted to the Supreme Court of New South Wales and has previously held research and project positions in Australian departmental, ministerial and Senate offices, at state and federal levels.