Trissia Wijaya

University of Melbourne

Based in

Australia
Europe

Trissia Wijaya is a McKenzie Research Fellow at the Asia Institute. She is the author of The Political Economy of Japanese and Chinese Infrastructure Financing Governance: Organizing Alliances, Institutions, and Ideology (Bristol University Press forthcoming). She enrolled in a PhD in Politics at Murdoch University and subsequently worked at the Asian Development Bank, the UNDP Indonesia, and Ritsumeikan University, cultivating a sustained interest in the political economy of development, evidence-informed policy making, and the dynamics of social policy. Her current research focuses sit at the intersection of geopolitical economy and responses to it in East Asia, encompassing green infrastructure financing, industrial policy, and critical mineral development. She has conducted intensive fieldwork across Indonesia, Japan, and China, distilled in a number of high-impact journals. She was awarded the 2023 Herb Feith Centre Fellow from Monash University and the 2024-2025 Australian National University Indonesia Project Visiting Fellowship. Trissia is an ECR Representative of the Asia Institute and serves as a member of the Environmental Politics and Policy Research executive committee of Australian Political Studies Association.