William Maley is Emeritus Professor of Diplomacy at The Australian National University, where he was Professor of Diplomacy from 2003-2021. He is a Member of the Order of Australia, a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. He was admitted as a Barrister of the High Court of Australia in 1982. In November 2003, he received the AUSTCARE Paul Cullen Humanitarian Award for services to refugees. He is author of Rescuing Afghanistan (London: Hurst & Co., 2006), What is a Refugee? (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), Transition in Afghanistan: Hope, Despair and the Limits of Statebuilding (New York: Routledge, 2018), The Afghanistan Wars (London: Red Globe/Macmillan, 2021), and Diplomacy, Communication, and Peace: Selected Essays (New York: Routledge, 2021). He is also co-author of Afghanistan: Politics and Economics in a Globalising State (New York: Routledge, 2020) (with Niamatullah Ibrahimi); and The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023) (with Ahmad Shuja Jamal), and edited Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban (New York: New York University Press, 1998).