Bronte Munro

International Fellow

Bronte Munro is the International Fellow with Silicon Valley Defense Group (SVDG), an organization focused on aligning and connecting people, capital, and ideas to ensure allied democracies retain a durable techno-security advantage.

Bronte has previously worked for PsiQuantum—a company building the world’s first useful, fault tolerant, error-corrected quantum computer. In this capacity, she interfaced with the organization’s international efforts and supported the development and implementation of the company’s public-private partnership strategy.

Bronte is currently a Fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), and was a founding member of ASPI’s Washington DC Office, where she previously worked as an Analyst and Program Lead for the body of work related to the Defense Industry, Innovation, Technology and Trade. Her research areas included a focus on the private sectors role in the defense industrial base, public-private partnership models to support dual-use technology investment, and the impact of critical and emerging technologies on national security. A major body of work was leading the authorship and programming of ‘Australia’s semiconductor manufacturing moonshot: securing semiconductor talent,’ a report which made recommendations for creating a talent pipeline to support stepping up Australia’s semiconductor device fabrication R&D to industry-compatible prototyping.

Bronte’s analysis has been published in media outlets in the US and Australia, including Foreign Policy, The National Interest, National Defense Magazine, The Strategist, The Pacific Forum, and has been featured in interviews for ABC Radio, and as a panelist at Harvard’s Belfer Center and at SXSW. Bronte is also a member of the Pacific Forum’s Young Leaders Program.

Bronte holds a MA from Macquarie University in Cyber Security Analysis, where she received the Macquarie University Award for Academic Excellence and a BA from the University of Sydney in International and Global Studies, majoring in International Business.

She also holds a Certificate IV in Leadership and Management obtained during her social enterprise work in Cambodia and Timor-Leste with Project Everest Ventures.