Kylie McKenna is acting Director of the Centre for Social Research at Madang's Divine Word University, while on leave from her position at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at University of Technology Sydney. Her expertise is in helping stakeholders identify, analyse and respond to challenges of social and environmental change, work which she has applied in an international development context especially in PNG for the past decade. Kylie has published widely on topics including post-colonialism, law, aid, revenue distribution, security and the environment. She was awarded a PhD in Sociology from ANU in 2012, and is the author of Corporate Social Responsibility and National Resource Conflict published in 2016.